Juxtaposition Cross of Fantasy

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Enter your birth date, time and place to see your cross and its four Gate numbers.

Look for the line that reads Juxtaposition Cross of Fantasy. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (41/31 | 44/24). They match the four Gates below. The chart symbols guide shows where the Sun and Earth sit in the two planet columns.

The Fantasy cross on the BodyGraph

Four Centers hold the four Gates. Gate 41 is in the Root, Gate 31 in the Throat, Gate 44 in the Spleen and Gate 24 in the Ajna. The conscious pair, 41 and 31, comes from the Right Angle Cross of The Unexpected; the Design pair, 44 and 24, comes from the Right Angle Cross of The Four Ways.

Juxtaposition Cross of Fantasy at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Fantasy: 41/31 | 44/24, 41/31 44/24 or 41 31 44 24.

How the Fantasy cross is placed

The Fantasy (41/31 | 44/24)

Contraction is your conscious Sun and Influence your conscious Earth, so the Root and the Throat are on the side you know: the pressure to begin, and the voice to put it into the world. Alertness and Rationalization sit on the Design side. The instinct that notices and the mind that explains run underneath, often before you can say what they are.

The four Gates in plain language

Start with the Gate that holds your Personality Sun, then its Earth, then the Design pair.

Gate 41: Contraction

Gate 41, Contraction, is the conscious Sun and sits in the Root. Its hexagram is Decrease. It completes Channel 30-41, the Channel of Recognition, with Gate 30 in the Solar Plexus, a Collective Channel in the Sensing stream. As a Sun it is the starting pressure of the cross: the Root's push to begin, focused down to a single wish. Its fourth line, Correction, is the one every Fantasy chart carries here. The push is open to being adjusted, and does not have to be right the first time.

Gate 31: Influence

Gate 31, Influence, is the conscious Earth and the cross's only Throat Gate. Its hexagram is also Influence. It completes Channel 7-31, The Alpha, with Gate 7 in the G Center, a Collective Channel that reaches the Throat. As an Earth it grounds the cross in a voice that others may follow. The fourth line, Intent, is fixed here, so the voice is shaped by what you mean to do, and the value of what you say depends on the purpose behind it.

Gate 44: Alertness

Gate 44, Alertness, is the Design Sun and sits in the Spleen. Its hexagram is Coming to Meet. It completes Channel 26-44, the Channel of Surrender, with Gate 26 in the Heart, a Tribal Channel in the Ego group. Lived without thinking, it is an instinct that notices what is arriving before it is fully there. The Spleen speaks once, in the present. Its first line, Conditions, is fixed in this cross: the alertness begins by reading the circumstances.

Gate 24: Rationalization

Gate 24, Rationalization, is the Design Earth and sits in the Ajna. Its hexagram is The Return. It completes Channel 24-61, the Channel of Awareness, with Gate 61 in the Head, an Individual Channel in the Knowing stream. It grounds the cross in a mind that goes back over things and tries to explain them. Its first line, The sin of omission, is the one every chart with this cross carries: the habit is to notice what was left out and to start there.

Instinct and mind in the same cross

Two of the four Gates sit in awareness Centers: Gate 44 in the Spleen and Gate 24 in the Ajna. The Spleen is instinct and fear, in the present tense only. The Ajna is mental awareness, with concepts, opinions and certainty. In Fantasy, both are on the Design side.

The instinct reads what is arriving, and the mind explains what has been. Neither belongs to the conscious Sun and Earth, so you may notice their results before you notice the work they are doing.

The base and the voice, side by side

The conscious pair is Gate 41 in the Root and Gate 31 in the Throat. The Root is pressure and drive, the push to begin. The Throat is where everything that leaves you passes through. Together they describe an impulse and its way out.

But the canon is clear that the Root never touches the Throat directly. These two Gates complete separate Channels, 30-41 and 7-31, each with its own partner. The impulse and the voice need other Gates to connect, and the cross does not supply them.

Four Gates, four partners, no Channel of its own

None of the four Gates form a Channel with each other. Each one reaches outward: Gate 41 to Gate 30, Gate 31 to Gate 7, Gate 44 to Gate 26 and Gate 24 to Gate 61. So the cross does not define any Channel for everyone who carries it.

It also spans the Collective, Individual and Tribal circuits. Gates 41 and 31 lean to the Collective, Gate 24 to the Individual and Gate 44 to the Tribal. What the cross does with them depends on which partners show up in your own chart.

Why the Fantasy is a Juxtaposition cross

Fantasy has no alternate version. The four lines are the same for everyone who holds it, and with the 4/1 Profile there is no room for a different role. That gives the cross a particular stability: the impulse to imagine and begin is a fixed trait, and the work is to give it something real to build on. The Juxtaposition goes with one Profile, 4/1. With any other Profile the same four Gates make a Left Angle cross instead.

The four lines of the Fantasy cross

A Juxtaposition cross comes only with the 4/1 Profile: your Personality Sun sits in line 4 and your Design Sun in line 1, and each Earth shares the line of its Sun. So unlike every other cross, this one comes with its lines fixed. Everyone born with the Fantasy cross carries these four.

Living the Fantasy cross

At work

People with Fantasy often do well in roles that start with an idea and need a voice to carry it: design, product work, writing, teaching, pitching. The cross supplies the first spark and a way to explain it. It is less suited to routine upkeep. The risk is a pile of good starts, so it helps to pair the imaginative side with someone, or something, that finishes. Ask what is missing from a plan before you add to it.

In relationships

In close relationships the cross can look like someone who is always picturing how things could be. That can be warm and hopeful, and can also leave a partner feeling compared with a picture. It helps to tell the difference between a vision you are sharing and a standard you are holding. The Spleen reads the present, so it is often right about the room.

In decisions

Fantasy is rich in starts and thin on verdicts. The Root, the Throat, the Spleen and the Ajna can all supply an opinion, and none of them is your Authority by default. Take the decision to your Type's Strategy and your own Authority, then use the cross to see what the plan has left out.

Choose with your Strategy and your inner Authority, then bring the cross in to correct and refine what you chose. Your Strategy and Authority are how you get there; the cross is where it leads.

When the Fantasy cross is misread

Questions to sit with

One question for each Gate. Notice which one you answer quickly and which one you avoid.

1. Gate 41: What is the next thing you want to start, and what would correct it if you were wrong?
2. Gate 31: What do you actually intend to do with the influence you have?
3. Gate 44: What is arriving in your life right now that you can sense before it is here?
4. Gate 24: What was left out of your last plan, and does it change the plan?