Left Angle Cross of Demands

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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 Demands. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (52/58 | 21/48). 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 Demands cross on the BodyGraph

The Gates sit in three Centers: Gates 52 and 58 in the Root, Gate 21 in the Heart and Gate 48 in the Spleen. The conscious pair, Gates 52 and 58, is also a pair in the Cross of Service, and the Design pair, Gates 21 and 48, is also a pair in the Cross of Tension.

Left Angle Cross of Demands at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Demands 1: 52/58 | 21/48, 52/58 21/48 or 52 58 21 48; Demands 2: 58/52 | 48/21, 58/52 48/21 or 58 52 48 21.

The two rotations of the Demands 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 Demands 1 (52/58 | 21/48)

With Stillness as your conscious Sun, you are here to learn when to hold back: to think before you speak and to find peace without forcing it. Vitality, the conscious Earth, keeps that stillness alive. On the Design side, the Hunter/Huntress and Depth work underneath, so your sense of control and your depth show before you notice them.

The Demands 2 (58/52 | 48/21)

Here Vitality is the conscious theme: you feel the push of energy and the joy of using it. Stillness, the conscious Earth, gives that energy a place to rest. Underneath, Depth and the Hunter/Huntress change places on the Design side, so others may meet your depth before your drive.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 52: Stillness

Gate 52, Stillness, sits in the Root, the Center of pressure and drive. Its hexagram is Keeping Still. It completes Channel 9-52, Concentration, with Gate 9 in the Sacral, and the canon marks it as a format energy Channel. As a Sun it makes your purpose the discipline of holding still and thinking first. As an Earth it adds a calming weight to the rest of the cross. Its lines run from Think before you speak to Peacefulness.

Gate 58: Vitality

Gate 58, Vitality, is the second Root Gate. Its hexagram is The Joyous. It completes Channel 18-58, Judgment, with Gate 18 in the Spleen, in the Collective circuit. As a Sun it makes your purpose the pleasure of using your energy well. As an Earth it keeps the cross from becoming too serious. Its lines move from Love of life and Electricity to Defense and Carried away, so joy here can go too far.

Gate 21: The Hunter/Huntress

Gate 21, The Hunter/Huntress, sits in the Heart, the smallest motor in the chart, the Center of willpower and worth. Its hexagram is Biting Through, and it belongs to the Tribal circuit. It completes Channel 21-45, the Money Line, with Gate 45 in the Throat. As a Design Sun it is a quiet hunger for control. As an Earth it adds a need to take charge. Its lines run from Warning and Might is right to Objectivity and Chaos.

Gate 48: Depth

Gate 48, Depth, sits in the Spleen, the Center of instinct, which speaks once and only in the present. Its hexagram is The Well. It completes Channel 16-48, The Wavelength, with Gate 16 in the Throat. As a Design Sun it is a depth of knowing others do not see coming. As an Earth it asks the cross for more than the surface. Its lines run from Insignificance and Incommunicado to Restructuring and Self-fulfillment.

Both conscious Gates sit in the Root

Gates 52 and 58 are both in the Root, and they are opposites on the wheel: Stillness and Vitality. In both rotations the conscious pair is made of the one Center that is both a motor and a pressure Center, the push to begin. The cross is, on the surface, about managing that push.

One Gate says wait and the other says go. A person with this cross may feel pressure to do a great deal and also a strong pull to be still. The lines say what is at stake: Stillness ends in Peacefulness, Vitality in Carried away. The skill is knowing which one the moment calls for.

Control and depth underneath

The Design pair is Gate 21 in the Heart and Gate 48 in the Spleen: a motor of willpower and an awareness Center of instinct. Between them sits one Gate that wants to take charge and one that wants to know what lies beneath.

Both reach the Throat. Channel 21-45 is a manifesting Channel, a motor joined to the Throat, and Channel 16-48 runs from the Spleen to the Throat as well. So two of the four Gates have a direct path to speech, if the partner Gate comes from elsewhere. Others may hear your control and your depth before you do.

Collective and Tribal, with one format Gate

Gates 52, 58 and 48 are Collective and Gate 21 is Tribal. The Collective Gates belong to the circuit that shares with the many, and the Tribal Gate to a closer circle. A Left Angle cross asks you to answer both kinds of demand.

Gate 52 is the one Gate here in a format energy Channel, Concentration, which joins the Root to the Sacral. Format energy sets the pace and structure for the circuit around it, so Stillness is the Gate that most shapes how the others get done.

Why the Demands 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 Demands the name says it. Other people ask things of you, and your purpose is partly the way you answer. 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. 52.5 means Gate 52, 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 Demands cross.

Living the Demands cross

At work

People with Demands often find work asks a lot of them: more hours, more attention, more of the steady presence they are known for. Work goes best when the demands are agreed up front and you can pause between bursts. Without that, Vitality burns hot and Stillness gets pushed aside.

In relationships

In relationships, others bring their needs and you feel the pull to meet them. Notice whether you are answering from vitality or from pressure. A close person who respects your need to be still lets the cross work at its best, and one who only wants more of you wears it down.

In decisions

Demands gives your life a theme, not a rule for each choice. A request from someone else is not an order. Give yourself time to feel your own answer before you give theirs.

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

When the Demands 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 52: When did you last stop and think before you spoke, and what did that pause change?
2. Gate 58: What gives you energy for no reason other than the pleasure of it?
3. Gate 21: Where do you want more control than you currently have, and what would you do with it?
4. Gate 48: What is under the surface of something you have been handling lightly?