Juxtaposition Cross of Principles

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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 Principles. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (49/4 | 14/8). They match the four Gates below. The chart symbols guide shows where the Sun and Earth sit in the two planet columns.

The Principles cross on the BodyGraph

The four Gates sit in four Centers, and two of those Centers are motors. Gate 49 is in the Solar Plexus and Gate 4 in the Ajna, while on the Design side Gate 14 is in the Sacral and Gate 8 in the Throat. The conscious pair, 49 and 4, is the pair the Right Angle Cross of Explanation carries; the Design pair, 14 and 8, comes from the Right Angle Cross of Contagion.

Juxtaposition Cross of Principles at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Principles: 49/4 | 14/8, 49/4 14/8 or 49 4 14 8.

How the Principles cross is placed

The Principles (49/4 | 14/8)

Principles is your conscious Sun and Formulization your conscious Earth, so what you stand for and the answers you build to explain it are the part you know firsthand. Power Skills and Contribution run on the Design side, which means the skill and the voice you bring may be more obvious to others than to you.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 49: Principles

Gate 49, Principles, is the conscious Sun, and the cross carries its name. It sits in the Solar Plexus, a motor and an awareness Center, and its hexagram is Revolution. It completes Channel 19-49 with Gate 19 in the Root, the Channel of Synthesis, in the Tribal circuit. Its fourth line, Platform, is fixed in this cross, so your principles are most at home when they have a place to stand, a spot from which others can see them and rely on them.

Gate 4: Formulization

Gate 4, Formulization, is the conscious Earth. It sits in the Ajna and its hexagram is Youthful Folly. It completes Channel 4-63 with Gate 63 in the Head, the Channel of Logic, in the Collective circuit. It grounds the cross in building answers: a formula that explains why the principle holds. Its fourth line, The Liar, is the line every Principles chart carries. Read as a caution and not a character flaw, it reminds the mind how easily a neat formula can sound true before anyone has tested it.

Gate 14: Power Skills

Gate 14, Power Skills, is the Design Sun, lived without thinking. It sits in the Sacral and its hexagram is Possession in Great Measure. It completes Channel 2-14 with Gate 2 in the G Center, the Channel of The Beat, in the Individual circuit. Its first line, Money isn't everything, is fixed here, so the skill you carry is not measured by what it earns. The ability is real, and it usually shows up in what you can do for others more than in what you can get.

Gate 8: Contribution

Gate 8, Contribution, is the Design Earth and the cross's only Throat Gate. Its hexagram is Holding Together. It completes Channel 1-8 with Gate 1 in the G Center, the Channel of Inspiration, in the Individual circuit. It grounds the cross in having something to offer and saying so. Its first line, Honesty, is the line every Principles chart carries, so the contribution begins from telling it straight. That is the voice behind the principles, and it asks to be plain before it is persuasive.

Four Centers, four jobs

Each Gate of Principles sits in a different Center, and each Center has its own job. The Solar Plexus feels, the Ajna forms a concept, the Sacral does the work and the Throat says what has been done. A principle needs all four to travel from a feeling to something other people can use.

Two of the four are motors, the Solar Plexus and the Sacral, and two are awareness Centers, the Ajna and the Solar Plexus. The cross is neither a thinker's alone nor a doer's alone. It is built to carry a principle the whole way through the body.

A caution on one side, a promise on the other

The conscious Earth carries the line title The Liar, and the Design Earth carries Honesty. Read together, they describe the work of the cross: a formula can sound right before it is true, and the voice behind it has to be straight. The title is the canon name of a line, not a judgment of character.

Gate 4 builds the answer in the Ajna and Gate 8 delivers it from the Throat. If the formula has been tested before it is spoken, the contribution is honest. If it has not, the voice is only repeating a neat idea. The cross asks you to know which one you are doing.

Skills held without a price tag

Gate 49's fixed line is Platform and Gate 14's is Money isn't everything. One gives your principles somewhere to stand and the other keeps the skill from being valued by its price alone. Together they point away from personal gain and toward what a stance and a skill can do for other people.

That does not mean working for nothing. Gate 14 is the Power Skills Gate in the Sacral, and the ability is real. It means the cross works best when the reason for the work is clear before the rate is.

Why the Principles is a Juxtaposition cross

Principles stays where it is planted. The Solar Plexus Sun does not hand its place to another Gate, and the stance you take at one stage of life is recognizably the stance at the next. That is the fixed fate: a cross that earns trust by being the same cross, year after year, so that others can build on 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 Principles 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 Principles cross carries these four.

Living the Principles cross

At work

People with Principles tend to be the ones whose stand holds a team together: leaders of causes, policy and ethics work, teachers, builders of standards. The cross gets stronger when your skill is behind the position, so be good at the thing you argue for. Be clear about the principle before the fee, and test your formulas on someone who will push back.

In relationships

In close relationships your principles can be mistaken for rules you are applying to other people. Say what you stand for as your own position, not as a verdict on theirs. The Solar Plexus works in waves, so a principle that feels absolute on a high or a low day deserves one more look when you are level.

In decisions

A principle is not a decision. It tells you what you will not do, but not which of the remaining options is right for you.

Choose through your Type and your inner Authority, then let the cross keep the choice consistent with what you stand for. Your Strategy and Authority are how you get there; the cross is where it leads.

When the Principles 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 49: What do you stand for that you have not yet said in front of anyone?
2. Gate 4: Which of your tidy answers have you not tested against experience?
3. Gate 14: What can you do well that you have never thought of as a skill?
4. Gate 8: What would you say if you were sure it would be heard as honest?