Left Angle Cross of Dedication

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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 Left Angle Cross of Dedication. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (23/43 | 30/29). Match them to the rotations below to see which of the two you carry. The chart symbols guide shows where the Sun and Earth sit in the two planet columns.

The Dedication cross on the BodyGraph

The four Gates sit in four Centers: the Ajna and the Throat in the upper column, the Solar Plexus on the right and the Sacral below. Gates 23 and 43 are the conscious pair that also appears in the Right Angle Cross of Explanation, and Gates 29 and 30 are the Design pair from the Right Angle Cross of Contagion.

Left Angle Cross of Dedication at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Dedication 1: 23/43 | 30/29, 23/43 30/29 or 23 43 30 29; Dedication 2: 43/23 | 29/30, 43/23 29/30 or 43 23 29 30.

The two rotations of the Dedication cross

Find the rotation whose first number matches your Personality Sun. The quarter it sits in gives the rotation its number, 1 or 2.

The Dedication 1 (23/43 | 30/29)

With Assimilation as your conscious Sun, the voice comes first: you know you are here to take in what you learn and say it in a form others can use, and Insight, the conscious Earth, supplies the thought behind it. On the Design side, Recognition of Feelings is the Sun and Saying Yes the Earth, so the feeling and the answering yes run below awareness.

The Dedication 2 (43/23 | 29/30)

With Insight as your conscious Sun, the breakthrough comes first: you are here to understand something and to stay with it until it makes sense. Assimilation, the conscious Earth, is the voice that gives it away. On the Design side, Saying Yes is the Sun and Recognition of Feelings the Earth, so your response and your mood shape how others receive you.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 23: Assimilation

Gate 23, Assimilation, is a Throat Gate, so it is a voice. Its hexagram is Splitting Apart. It completes Channel 23-43 with Gate 43, which is also in this cross, so the Channel is always defined. Its lines run from Proselytization and Self-defense through Individuality to Fragmentation, Assimilation and Fusion. As a Sun it makes your purpose the question of how you put what you know into words. As an Earth it steadies a different theme with the things you are ready to say aloud.

Gate 43: Insight

Gate 43, Insight, sits in the Ajna, the Center of concepts and certainty. Its hexagram is Breakthrough. It completes Channel 23-43 with Gate 23 in the Throat. Its lines run from Patience to Breakthrough, and the second line carries the title Dedication, the same word as this cross. As a Sun it makes your purpose the slow arrival of a knowing that is yours alone. As an Earth it keeps your speech tied to what you have actually understood.

Gate 30: Recognition of Feelings

Gate 30, Recognition of Feelings, sits in the Solar Plexus, the Center of emotions and waves. Its hexagram is The Clinging Fire. It completes Channel 30-41 with Gate 41 in the Root, the Channel of Recognition, keynoted as focused energy. Its lines run from Composure and Pragmatism through Resignation to Burnout, Irony and Enforcement. In this cross it sits on the Design side in both rotations, so the feeling behind your commitment is one others sense before you name it.

Gate 29: Saying Yes

Gate 29, Saying Yes, sits in the Sacral, the Center of life force and work. Its hexagram is The Abysmal. It completes Channel 29-46 with Gate 46 in the G Center, the Channel of Discovery, keynoted as succeeding where others fail. Its lines run from The Draftee and Assessment through Evaluation and Directness to Overreach and Confusion. It is on the Design side in both rotations: the yes is given by the body, and the lines warn how much it can cost.

A Channel that every Dedication chart has

Gates 23 and 43 are both in this cross, and together they make Channel 23-43, the Channel of Structuring. Every rotation carries all four Gates, so everyone with this cross has that Channel defined. The Ajna and the Throat are connected in every Dedication chart, and nobody with this cross is a Reflector.

The Channel's keynote is a design of individuality, running from genius to freak. In this cross it is not a mood that comes and goes. It is a fixed line from thought to voice. What you understand has a ready route to speech. The cross does not decide your Type or your Authority, because 23-43 is a Projected Channel with no motor in it, but it does decide that the mind has a way out.

Mind and voice you can see, motors you cannot

The conscious pair, 23 and 43, is the Ajna and the Throat: the mental awareness Center and the voice. The Design pair, 29 and 30, is the Sacral and the Solar Plexus: the two motors. So everything you can reach by thinking about it belongs to the mind and the voice, and everything you cannot belongs to energy and feeling.

That split explains a common experience of this cross. You can say clearly what you know, but your yes and your mood run underneath, and other people may sense them first. The two motors are not connected to your voice by this cross, so the answer to whether you are really committed often comes from the body and not from the words.

An Individual mind over Collective energy

The conscious half of this cross is Individual: Channel 23-43 belongs to the Individual circuit. The Design half is Collective. Gate 29 completes Channel 29-46 and Gate 30 completes Channel 30-41, and both are Collective Channels. What you understand is yours alone. What drives it is shared with many people.

That makes dedication here less about loyalty to one cause and more about the meeting of two things. You commit to your own insight and then discover that the energy to carry it comes from, and returns to, other people. Gate 46 and Gate 41 are the partners that can complete those Channels, and they have to come from outside the cross.

Why the Dedication is a Left Angle cross

A Left Angle cross is transpersonal: the purpose is worked out through other people, and your life tends to be shaped by who you meet. For Dedication that means your commitments are tested in company. A dedicated insight stays private until someone needs it, and the reason you stay with it is often another person. The Left Angle goes with four Profiles: 5/1, 5/2, 6/2, 6/3. With one of these, these four Gates make the Left Angle cross; with a 4/1 Profile the same Gates make a Juxtaposition cross instead.

Your Sun line: how the line colors this cross

Your Personality Sun has a line as well as a Gate: the number after the dot. 23.5 means Gate 23, Line 5. Open your rotation below and find your line. The line title comes from the Rave I Ching; the sentence after it is how that line tends to color the Dedication cross.

Living the Dedication cross

At work

People with this cross are often the one who really knows a subject and is asked to explain it. Work goes best when you are given time to understand before you are asked to present, and when someone else handles the parts that need your yes at a pace that is not yours. Watch for committing too early to something your gut has not agreed to.

In relationships

In relationships the cross shows up as steady attention to what you understand about the other person. You may be slow to say it, and then say it very plainly. Because your feelings and your answer to a request run underneath your words, it helps to tell people when you need more time rather than letting silence stand for no.

In decisions

Dedication gives your life a theme, not a rule for each choice. Your Channel is always defined, but it does not tell you what to decide. Let your Type and Authority do that, and treat the clear insight as something to share once the decision is made rather than a substitute for it.

Answer with your Type and your inner Authority, and let your commitments follow from choices that were truly yours. Your Strategy and Authority are how you get there; the cross is where it leads.

When the Dedication 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 23: What do you know well enough to explain, and who has asked you about it?
2. Gate 43: What insight have you been circling for a while, and what would it take for it to settle?
3. Gate 30: What feeling keeps showing up around the thing you are committed to, and have you named it?
4. Gate 29: What did you say yes to recently, and was it your body or your sense of duty that said it?