Juxtaposition Cross of Opposition

Find your Incarnation Cross on your free chart

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 Opposition. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (38/39 | 57/51). They match the four Gates below. The chart symbols guide shows where the Sun and Earth sit in the two planet columns.

The Opposition cross on the BodyGraph

Three Centers hold the four Gates: the Root, the Heart and the Spleen. Gates 38 and 39 are both in the Root, and they are the pair the Right Angle Cross of Tension carries. Gates 57 and 51, the Design pair, come from the Right Angle Cross of Penetration. All four Gates sit in the Individual circuit, and none forms a Channel with another.

Juxtaposition Cross of Opposition at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Opposition: 38/39 | 57/51, 38/39 57/51 or 38 39 57 51.

How the Opposition cross is placed

The Opposition (38/39 | 57/51)

The Fighter is your conscious Sun and Provocation your conscious Earth, so both Root Gates sit on the side you know. You feel the pressure to push and be pushed directly. Intuitive Clarity and Shock run on the Design side, an instinct and a jolt that others may see in you before you do.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 38: The Fighter

Gate 38, The Fighter, is the conscious Sun and sits in the Root, the pressure Center. Its hexagram is called Opposition. It belongs to the Individual circuit and completes Channel 28-38, Struggle, with Gate 28 in the Spleen, a Design of Stubbornness. Its lines run from Qualification to Misunderstanding. The fourth, Investigation, is fixed in every Opposition chart: the fight is for something, and it starts by looking closely at what is there.

Gate 39: Provocation

Gate 39, Provocation, is the conscious Earth and also sits in the Root. Its hexagram is Obstruction, and it belongs to the Individual circuit. It completes Channel 39-55, Emoting, with Gate 55 in the Solar Plexus, a Design of Moodiness. Its lines run from Disengagement to The Troubleshooter. The fourth, Temperance, is fixed here, so the provocation comes with a sense of measure: it presses, but it knows how far to go, and it grounds the cross in that restraint.

Gate 57: Intuitive Clarity

Gate 57, Intuitive Clarity, is the Design Sun and sits in the Spleen, the Center of instinct and fear. The Gate carries the hexagram The Gentle and sits in the Individual circuit. It can complete Channel 10-57, 20-57 or 34-57, with partners in the G Center, the Throat and the Sacral. Its first line, Confusion, is fixed here: below awareness the clarity does not arrive tidy. It begins in confusion and clears as it is lived.

Gate 51: Shock

Gate 51, Shock, is the Design Earth and sits in the Heart, the Center of willpower and worth. Its hexagram is The Arousing. Its Channel partner is Gate 25 in the G Center, forming 25-51, Initiation, which the canon describes as a Design of Needing to Be First. Its first line, Reference, is fixed here, so under the friction there is a need for something to refer back to, a point against which a jolt can be steadied.

Both conscious Gates in the Root

The Root is a pressure Center and a motor, the Center of adrenaline, stress and the push to begin. Gates 38 and 39 are both there, and both are on the Personality side. The pressure is something you know about from the inside.

The two Gates are opposite each other on the wheel, as every Sun and Earth pair is, and their names point the same way: one fights, the other provokes. What neither does is decide. They push; your Authority chooses what to do with the push.

All four Gates in one circuit

Every Gate of this cross belongs to the Individual circuit, and so does every Channel it can complete: 28-38, 39-55, 25-51 and the three Channels of Gate 57. The Channels its Gates complete all belong to one circuit.

Its Channels fall into the circuit's three groups: Knowing (28-38, 39-55 and 20-57), Centering (25-51) and Integration (10-57 and 34-57). The cross has a single way of working, and the variety comes from which partners your chart supplies.

Two motors and an instinct

Two of the three Centers are motors, the Root and the Heart, and the third is the Spleen, the awareness Center of instinct. The cross has plenty of drive and exactly one awareness Center, and it sits on the Design side, with Gate 57.

So the conscious side runs on pressure while the awareness is below the surface. In practice, the push is felt loudly and the instinct quietly, and it helps to learn to hear the second.

Why the Opposition is a Juxtaposition cross

Opposition keeps one position, and the position is a stance. The fighter, the provocation, the instinct and the shock all stay in place and so do their lines, so there is no gentler version of the cross to grow into. The work is to aim the opposition at things that deserve it. 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 Opposition 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 Opposition cross carries these four.

Living the Opposition cross

At work

Opposition suits work that needs someone to test an idea against resistance: auditing, debate, quality control, negotiation, competitive fields. The fighter looks closely before it pushes, and the provocation knows its limits. Choose battles where the disagreement improves the result, and leave the rest alone, however much the Root pressure asks you to engage.

In relationships

At home the cross can turn into friction for its own sake. A provocation that is measured at work can feel sharp to a partner. Notice the difference between testing an idea and testing a person, and tell people which one you are doing. The Design side adds a jolt that others may feel before you do.

In decisions

Pressure in the Root is not a signal to act. Both conscious Gates are there, so the urge to push is easy to mistake for a decision. Let it pass through, and bring the choice to your Type and your inner Authority.

Opposition supplies the push; your Type and Authority decide whether and when to use it. Your Strategy and Authority are how you get there; the cross is where it leads.

When the Opposition 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 38: What are you opposing right now, and have you looked closely at it?
2. Gate 39: When you press on someone, how do you know when to stop?
3. Gate 57: Which unclear feeling has been getting clearer the longer you live with it?
4. Gate 51: What do you refer back to when something jolts you?