Left Angle Cross of Dominion

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 Left Angle Cross of Dominion. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (63/64 | 26/45). 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 Dominion cross on the BodyGraph

The Gates sit in three Centers: Gates 63 and 64 in the Head, Gate 26 in the Heart and Gate 45 in the Throat. The conscious pair, Gates 63 and 64, is also a pair in the Cross of Consciousness, and the Design pair, Gates 26 and 45, is also a pair in the Cross of Rulership.

Left Angle Cross of Dominion at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Dominion 1: 63/64 | 26/45, 63/64 26/45 or 63 64 26 45; Dominion 2: 64/63 | 45/26, 64/63 45/26 or 64 63 45 26.

The two rotations of the Dominion 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 Dominion 1 (63/64 | 26/45)

With Doubt as your conscious Sun, the question comes first: you are here to ask what is not yet settled and to look for what is missing. Confusion, the conscious Earth, adds the muddle that comes before the clarity. On the Design side, the Egoist and the Gatherer work underneath, so your will and your voice move before you have decided.

The Dominion 2 (64/63 | 45/26)

Here Confusion is the conscious theme: you feel the open loop and the pressure to close it. Doubt, the conscious Earth, makes you check twice. Underneath, the Gatherer and the Egoist change places on the Design side, so others may hear your voice gathering them before you notice your own will behind it.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 63: Doubt

Gate 63, Doubt, sits in the Head, the Center of pressure to think: questions and wonder, with no way to resolve them. Its hexagram is After Completion. It completes Channel 4-63, Logic, with Gate 4 in the Ajna. As a Sun it makes your purpose the habit of questioning what seems finished. As an Earth it adds a doubt that keeps the rest honest. Its lines run from Composure and Structuring to Memory and Nostalgia.

Gate 64: Confusion

Gate 64, Confusion, is the second Head Gate. Its hexagram is Before Completion. It completes Channel 47-64, Abstraction, with Gate 47 in the Ajna. As a Sun it makes your purpose living with images and questions that have not yet come together. As an Earth it supplies a backdrop of unresolved ideas that the rest of the cross has to work around. It is a Collective Gate, like its twin Gate 63, so what it wonders about is meant to be shared. Its lines move from Conditions and Qualification to Conviction, Promise and Victory.

Gate 26: The Egoist

Gate 26, The Egoist, sits in the Heart, the smallest motor in the chart, the Center of willpower and worth. Its hexagram is The Taming Power of the Great, and it belongs to the Tribal circuit. It completes Channel 26-44, Surrender, with Gate 44 in the Spleen. As a Design Sun it is a will others sense before you voice it. As an Earth it adds a sense of what you can hold on to. Its lines run from A bird in the hand to Authority.

Gate 45: The Gatherer

Gate 45, The Gatherer, sits in the Throat itself, so it is the one voice in the cross. Its hexagram is Gathering Together. It completes Channel 21-45, the Money Line, with Gate 21 in the Heart, a manifesting Channel from a motor to the Throat. As a Design Sun it is a voice that gathers people without effort. As an Earth it gives the cross a way to speak. Its lines run from Canvassing and Consensus to Leadership and Reconsideration.

Doubt and Confusion, both in the Head

Gates 63 and 64 are both in the Head, the pressure Center. It holds questions and wonder with no way to resolve them. Every rotation of this cross puts that pair on the conscious side: doubt about what is done, confusion about what is not yet done.

The Head does not answer. It presses. That is what the conscious side feels like, a steady push to think things through without a finish line. Both Gates lead into the Ajna, Gate 63 through Logic and Gate 64 through Abstraction, so the questions have somewhere to go once a partner Gate is in place.

A Heart and a Throat on the Design side

The Design pair is Gate 26 in the Heart and Gate 45 in the Throat. They are opposites on the wheel, and between them they hold willpower and speech. One is a motor, the other a voice, and the Design side holds both without asking.

Gate 45 is the one Gate here in the Throat itself. Through Channel 21-45 it can join a motor to the Throat, which is a manifesting Channel. So the unconscious part of this cross is the part most ready to act and speak. The name Dominion asks where that readiness comes from, and what it is for.

Collective questions, Tribal will

Gates 63, 64 and the Channels they complete belong to the Collective circuit. Gates 26 and 45 belong to the Tribal circuit. The conscious side asks questions for the many, and the Design side holds the will and voice of a group that looks after its own.

That is an unusual mix: the part of you that wonders is not the part that commands. The Left Angle ties them together through other people. You doubt until someone gives you a reason to act, and then your will and voice carry further than you expected.

Why the Dominion 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 Dominion that means authority is not claimed alone. It is handed over, tested and checked by the people around you. 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. 63.5 means Gate 63, 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 Dominion cross.

Living the Dominion cross

At work

People with Dominion are often in work where they ask the questions that move a project forward and then find themselves put in charge of the answer. It goes best when you are given time to question before you lead. Being pushed to decide before the doubt has done its work tends to leave you leading with a hollow voice.

In relationships

In relationships the cross works through trust. Close people see both your doubts and your will. A partner who lets you question out loud helps you reach a decision you can stand behind. Notice when you are using confusion to avoid taking charge, or taking charge to avoid doubt.

In decisions

Dominion gives your life a theme, not a rule for each choice. Doubt is not a sign you are wrong, and certainty is not a sign you are right. Let the question stay open until your Authority gives you an answer.

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

When the Dominion 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 63: What have you been told is settled that you still have a question about?
2. Gate 64: Which unfinished idea has been circling your mind, and what would it take to close it?
3. Gate 26: What are you holding on to because it is yours, and what are you holding on to out of habit?
4. Gate 45: Who do you gather around you without trying, and what do they gather for?