Juxtaposition Cross of Risks

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 Risks. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (28/27 | 33/19). They match the four Gates below. The chart symbols guide shows where the Sun and Earth sit in the two planet columns.

The Risks cross on the BodyGraph

The Gates are spread one each across the Spleen, the Sacral, the Throat and the Root. Gates 28 and 27, the conscious pair, are the pair the Right Angle Cross of The Unexpected carries. Gates 33 and 19, the Design pair, come from the Right Angle Cross of The Four Ways. No Channel is formed among the four Gates themselves.

Juxtaposition Cross of Risks at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Risks: 28/27 | 33/19, 28/27 33/19 or 28 27 33 19.

How the Risks cross is placed

The Risks (28/27 | 33/19)

The Game Player is your conscious Sun and Caring your conscious Earth, so the Spleen's sense of what is worth a gamble and the Sacral's care for others sit on the side you know. Privacy and Wanting run on the Design side: a Throat that holds back and a Root that needs, both of which others may notice first.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 28: The Game Player

Gate 28, The Game Player, is the conscious Sun and sits in the Spleen, the Center of instinct and fear. Its hexagram is Preponderance of the Great, and it belongs to the Individual circuit. It completes Channel 28-38, Struggle, with Gate 38 in the Root, a Design of Stubbornness. Its lines run from Preparation to Blaze of glory. The fourth, Holding on, is fixed in this cross: the risk is taken, and then it is hung onto.

Gate 27: Caring

Gate 27, Caring, is the conscious Earth and sits in the Sacral, the largest motor. Its hexagram is Nourishment, and it belongs to the Tribal circuit. It completes Channel 27-50, Preservation, with Gate 50 in the Spleen, a Design of Custodianship. It grounds the cross in looking after others. Its fourth line, Generosity, is fixed here, so the care goes out freely, which is also what makes the risk in the cross worth taking.

Gate 33: Privacy

Gate 33, Privacy, is the Design Sun and the cross's only Throat Gate, so it is the voice. Its hexagram is Retreat, and it belongs to the Collective circuit. It completes Channel 13-33, The Prodigal, with Gate 13 in the G Center, a Design of a Witness. Its first line, Avoidance, is fixed here: below awareness the voice withdraws from what it does not want to speak about, and others may read the silence before you do.

Gate 19: Wanting

Gate 19, Wanting, is the Design Earth and sits in the Root, the pressure Center. Its hexagram is Approach, and it belongs to the Tribal circuit. It completes Channel 19-49, Synthesis, with Gate 49 in the Solar Plexus, a Design of Sensitivity. Its first line, Interdependence, is fixed in this cross. Under the gamble and the care lies the plain fact of needing other people, and the cross is built to admit it.

Awareness and life force on the conscious side

Gate 28 is in the Spleen and Gate 27 is in the Sacral. The Spleen speaks in the present tense and only once; the Sacral is the largest motor and renews daily. Together they make the risk in this cross a bodily one: an instinct that says now, and an energy to act on it.

Neither is a decision on its own. They are what you feel before you decide, and they are on the Personality side, so you notice them. The cross's work begins after the chance is taken, with a line that holds on and a line that gives freely.

A need and a silence on the Design side

Gate 19 is in the Root, the pressure Center at the base of the chart, and Gate 33 is in the Throat. Both are on the Design side, so the need and the withdrawal run below awareness, and the people around you may see them first.

Channel 19-49 and Channel 13-33 connect these two to the Solar Plexus and the G Center. The Design side is therefore about wanting something and deciding how much to say about it, and both lines, Interdependence and Avoidance, are line 1: the foundation, not the finish.

Three circuits meet in one cross

Gates 27 and 19 are Tribal, Gate 28 is Individual and Gate 33 is Collective. The Channels they complete reach into all three circuits as well: Preservation and Synthesis, Struggle, and The Prodigal.

That spread means the cross has no single way of working. The conscious Sun is an individual's gamble, the Earth is a tribe's care, and the Design side holds a collective's privacy and a tribe's need. It reads best as a conversation between different ways of belonging.

Why the Risks is a Juxtaposition cross

Risks sits in its place for life. The gamble, the care, the retreat and the need do not swap, and their lines do not change. For a cross named after chances, the fixity is a kind of safety: whatever you risk, the four fixed lines are the same ground under your feet. 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 Risks 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 Risks cross carries these four.

Living the Risks cross

At work

Risks suits work where someone has to commit before everything is known, and then stand by it: starting something, taking a position, caring for a team through an uncertain stretch. The Spleen reads the moment and the Sacral supplies the energy. Be clear about what you are holding on to, and who is depending on you to do it.

In relationships

In close relationships the cross asks for honesty about need. You give freely, and you may be more reliant on people than you show. Gate 33's quiet can read as distance. Say what you need and what you would rather not discuss, instead of leaving others to guess which one the silence means.

In decisions

An instinct that says now is not a decision. The Spleen speaks once and the Sacral is ready to go, which makes a chance feel like a clear answer. Pause long enough to check it with your Type and your inner Authority.

Risks describes what you hold, give, withhold and need; your Type and Authority decide which chances to take. Your Strategy and Authority are how you get there; the cross is where it leads.

When the Risks 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 28: What chance have you taken that you are still holding onto?
2. Gate 27: Who do you look after without being asked?
3. Gate 33: What do you keep to yourself, and is that a choice or avoidance?
4. Gate 19: Who do you rely on more than you admit?