Left Angle Cross of Endeavor

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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 Endeavor. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (21/48 | 54/53). 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 Endeavor cross on the BodyGraph

Look for three Centers. The Heart, the small motor on the right of the chart, holds Gate 21. The Spleen on the left holds Gate 48. The Root at the base holds both Design Gates, 53 and 54. Gates 21 and 48 are also a pair in the Right Angle Cross of Tension, and Gates 53 and 54 are a pair in the Right Angle Cross of Penetration.

Left Angle Cross of Endeavor at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Endeavor 1: 21/48 | 54/53, 21/48 54/53 or 21 48 54 53; Endeavor 2: 48/21 | 53/54, 48/21 53/54 or 48 21 53 54.

The two rotations of the Endeavor 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 Endeavor 1 (21/48 | 54/53)

With The Hunter/Huntress as your conscious Sun, the purpose leads with going after something, and Depth, the conscious Earth, asks whether there is enough underneath to keep going. On the Design side Ambition leads and Beginnings grounds it, so a quiet drive to climb sits beneath the chase. This rotation falls in the Initiation quarter, Purpose fulfilled through Mind.

The Endeavor 2 (48/21 | 53/54)

Here Depth is the conscious Sun: you are measuring how deep a thing goes before you commit, and The Hunter/Huntress, the conscious Earth, supplies the willingness to pursue it. On the Design side Beginnings leads and Ambition grounds it, so the instinct to start shows before the wish to rise. This rotation falls in the Duality quarter, Purpose fulfilled through Bonding.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 21: The Hunter/Huntress

Gate 21, The Hunter/Huntress, sits in the Heart, the Center of willpower and worth, and its hexagram is Biting Through. Its lines run from Warning and Might is right through Powerlessness and Strategy to Objectivity and Chaos. It completes Channel 21-45, Money Line, with Gate 45 in the Throat, a design of a materialist and the one manifesting Channel any of this cross's Gates can complete. As a Sun it makes your purpose the question of what you go after and how. As an Earth it adds a sense of what is worth pursuing beneath another theme.

Gate 48: Depth

Gate 48, Depth, sits in the Spleen, the Center of instinct that speaks once and in the present, and its hexagram is The Well. Its lines begin with Insignificance and Degeneracy and move through Incommunicado and Restructuring to Action and Self-fulfillment. It completes Channel 16-48, The Wavelength, with Gate 16 in the Throat, a design of talent. As a Sun it makes your purpose a matter of how deep you are willing to go before you act. As an Earth it brings an instinct about whether there is enough beneath the effort to sustain it.

Gate 54: Ambition

Gate 54, Ambition, sits in the Root, and its hexagram is The Marrying Maiden. Its lines go from Influence and Discretion through Covert interaction to Magnanimity and Selectivity. It completes Channel 32-54, Transformation, with Gate 32 in the Spleen, a design of being driven, on the Tribal circuit. It is the Design Sun in rotation 1 and the Design Earth in rotation 2. With Gate 53 beside it in the same Center, the Design side of this cross is all Root: the drive to begin and the drive to rise, both working before you decide.

Gate 53: Beginnings

Gate 53, Beginnings, also sits in the Root, and its hexagram is Development. Its lines run from Accumulation and Momentum to Assuredness and Phasing. It completes Channel 42-53, Maturation, with Gate 42 in the Sacral, a design of balanced development, and that Channel is one of the three format energy Channels. It is the Design Earth in rotation 1 and the Design Sun in rotation 2, so the push to start things runs below awareness, and others may see you begin before you have decided to.

Three Gates that push and one that goes deep

Three of the four Gates sit in motor Centers: Gate 21 in the Heart, Gates 53 and 54 in the Root. The Heart is willpower and worth, and the Root is pressure and drive. Only Gate 48 sits in an awareness Center, the Spleen, where instinct speaks once and in the present.

So the cross pushes hard and has one place to check itself. Depth is the Gate that asks whether the effort has enough water behind it, and it asks quietly, in the moment, without explanation. The cross invites you to weigh that one quiet signal against the louder pressure of the Root. The Left Angle adds the people around you, who can see whether the effort is deep or only busy.

A door to the Money Line, left open

Gate 21 can complete Channel 21-45, Money Line, with Gate 45 in the Throat. It is a manifesting Channel: a motor joined straight to the Throat. A motor joined to the Throat is what makes a Manifestor, or a Manifesting Generator when the Sacral is also defined.

The cross does not fix that. It gives you Gate 21 and not Gate 45, so the Channel is complete only if Gate 45 is in your own chart or arrives through someone else. Your Type and Authority come from the whole chart, not from this cross. When the Channel is there, a Heart that wants something can say so directly. When it is not, the pursuit often depends on a person who carries the missing Gate.

Two Root Gates that set the format

Beginnings and Ambition are an opposite pair, and both live in the Root. Beginnings is the steady accumulation that turns a start into momentum. Ambition is the selective climb that follows. Together they make the Design side of Endeavor one long arc, from the first small step to the last chosen rung.

Gate 53 sits in Channel 42-53, one of three format energy Channels. The canon says each one sets a format for the whole circuit it sits in, and this one belongs to the Collective circuit. Gate 42 has to be present for the Channel to work, so the format arrives through a partner. Gate 54 leads to the Spleen through Channel 32-54, which means both Root Gates reach for another Center before they reach the Throat.

Why the Endeavor 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. Endeavor is a word about effort, and here the effort is rarely solo. What you pursue, the depth you find and the ambition you carry all get tested and shaped by the people who share the work. 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. 21.5 means Gate 21, 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 Endeavor cross.

Living the Endeavor cross

At work

The name points to sustained effort, and this cross suits work that rewards staying power: a long project, a craft, a goal that others are also working toward. Check whether the work has enough depth for you, which is Gate 48, before the drive of the Root carries you through it. Working with other people is where the cross pays off, because they keep your effort pointed at something worth the cost.

In relationships

Two motors and a Spleen mean you can bring a lot of push and some quiet worry into close relationships. Partners often see the ambition first and the worry after. The Left Angle asks you to let people in on the effort: say what you are pushing for and what you are afraid of, so they can join the work instead of standing at its edge.

In decisions

Pressure to act is not a decision. The Root can make any moment feel urgent, and the Heart can make you want to prove something. Let your Strategy and Authority choose what to say yes to, and let the effort follow from there.

Decide with your Type and your inner Authority, and put your effort where they say it is yours to put. Your Strategy and Authority are how you get there; the cross is where it leads.

When the Endeavor 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 21: What are you going after right now, and would you still want it if nobody could see you get it?
2. Gate 48: Where in your life have you gone deep enough, and where are you still skimming?
3. Gate 54: Whom do you want to bring with you if you rise, and have you told them?
4. Gate 53: What is the smallest real beginning you could make this week?