Left Angle Cross of Incarnation

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 Incarnation. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (24/44 | 13/7). 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 Incarnation cross on the BodyGraph

The four Gates sit in three Centers: Gate 24 in the Ajna, Gate 44 in the Spleen, and Gates 13 and 7 together in the G Center. The conscious pair, 24 and 44, is also a pair in the Cross of The Four Ways, and the Design pair, 13 and 7, is also a pair in the Cross of The Sphinx.

Left Angle Cross of Incarnation at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Incarnation 1: 24/44 | 13/7, 24/44 13/7 or 24 44 13 7; Incarnation 2: 44/24 | 7/13, 44/24 7/13 or 44 24 7 13.

The two rotations of the Incarnation 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 Incarnation 1 (24/44 | 13/7)

With Rationalization as your conscious Sun, the mind leads: you go over what you meet until it makes sense, and Alertness, the conscious Earth, ties that thinking to what your instinct says right now. This Sun sits in the Initiation quarter, purpose through mind. The Listener and The Role of the Self in Interaction work on the Design side, shaping how you fit in before you notice.

The Incarnation 2 (44/24 | 7/13)

Here Alertness is the conscious theme: you sense who and what is arriving, and Rationalization, the conscious Earth, asks you to make sense of it afterward. This Sun sits in the Duality quarter, purpose through bonding. The Role of the Self in Interaction and The Listener run on the Design side, so others may feel your place in the group before you have named it.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 24: Rationalization

Gate 24, Rationalization, sits in the Ajna, the Center of concepts, opinions and certainty, and its hexagram is The Return. It completes Channel 24-61 with Gate 61 in the Head, keynoted as a design of a thinker. Its lines run from The sin of omission and Recognition through The Addict and The Hermit to Confession and The Gift Horse. In this cross it is on the conscious side in both rotations. The mind that circles back is one you can watch at work, and learn to trust.

Gate 44: Alertness

Gate 44, Alertness, sits in the Spleen, the Center of instinct that speaks once and in the present, and its hexagram is Coming to Meet. It is a Tribal Gate. Its Channel partner is Gate 26 in the Heart, together forming Channel 26-44, keynoted as a transmitter. Its lines run from Conditions and Management through Interference and Honesty to Manipulation and Aloofness. It is on the conscious side in both rotations, so you can notice the instinct as it happens, usually about who or what has just arrived.

Gate 13: The Listener

Gate 13, The Listener, sits in the G Center, the Center of identity, direction and love, and its hexagram is The Fellowship of Man. It completes Channel 13-33 with Gate 33 in the Throat, named The Prodigal and keynoted as a witness. Its lines run from Empathy and Bigotry through Pessimism and Fatigue to The Saviour and The Optimist. In this cross it sits on the Design side in both rotations, so the listening runs below awareness. People may feel heard around you before you know you listened.

Gate 7: The Role of the Self in Interaction

Gate 7, The Role of the Self in Interaction, also sits in the G Center, and its hexagram is The Army. It completes Channel 7-31 with Gate 31 in the Throat, named The Alpha and keynoted as leadership for good or bad. Its lines run from Authoritarian and The Democrat through The Anarchist and The Abdicator to The General and The Administrator. It is on the Design side in both rotations, a quiet sense of what part you play when people gather, which others often see before you do.

Identity and direction, both pointing at the Throat

Two of the four Gates, 13 and 7, are in the G Center. Both complete Channels that run from the G Center to the Throat: Channel 13-33, The Prodigal, and Channel 7-31, The Alpha. In both, the partner Gates, 33 and 31, are Throat Gates the cross does not hold.

So the part of the cross that deals with who you are and where you are going keeps reaching for a voice it does not own. It listens and takes a role, and then the words have to come from elsewhere in your chart or from the person across from you. That is the Left Angle at its plainest: the identity you carry is real, and it only gets spoken when someone else meets it. The Left Angle Cross of The Alpha holds Gate 31 and shares your Gates 24 and 44.

A cross with senses and a direction, but no motor

None of the four Gates is in a motor Center. The Ajna and the Spleen are awareness Centers, one mental and one instinctive, and the G Center is the center of identity and direction. That is a lot of sensing and steering and no built-in fuel.

The one motor that comes close is the Heart, through Channel 26-44. Gate 44 reaches for it, and if Gate 26 is in your chart or in a partner's, the instinct has willpower behind it. Without that, this cross is a good observer and a good guide, and its energy comes from the rest of your design. That is not a lack, just a reason to check how your Type works before you decide what the cross is asking of you.

One cross that touches every circuit

The Gates lead to Channels in all three circuits. Gates 7 and 13 lead to Collective Channels, one on the Understanding side and one on the Sensing side. Gate 24 leads to Channel 24-61 in the Individual circuit, on the Knowing side. Gate 44 leads to Channel 26-44 in the Tribal circuit, on the Ego side.

The cross therefore holds a bit of each way of connecting: a shared view, a private thought and a bond with a group. You may find it easy to move between different kinds of people, and hard to say which of them is most like you. The answer is not to pick one. It is to notice which circuit is speaking when you feel pulled in a direction.

Why the Incarnation 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 Incarnation that is close to the definition. You are here to take part in a story that other people are in, and what you learn comes from how they respond. 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. 24.5 means Gate 24, 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 Incarnation cross.

Living the Incarnation cross

At work

Incarnation people are often the ones who read a team well: who is overloaded, who is about to leave, who should talk to whom. Work goes best when that reading is welcome and you are not expected to push the plan through. Offer what you see once, plainly, and let the group decide what to do with it.

In relationships

In relationships this cross shows up as attention. You notice the moment someone arrives, and you listen for what they want to be. The risk is in managing people too closely once you see them. Check whether you are being asked for your read before you give it, and let the other person be the one who decides what it means.

In decisions

Incarnation gives your life a theme, not a rule for each choice. Your instinct speaks once and in the moment, and your mind wants to go over it again. Neither is the whole of your Authority. Use your Authority to decide, and use the cross to understand why the choice mattered to you.

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

When the Incarnation 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 24: What thought have you been returning to, and what has it not yet been allowed to say?
2. Gate 44: Who walked into your life recently, and what did your first instinct say?
3. Gate 13: Who needs to be listened to right now, and are you the right person to do it?
4. Gate 7: What part do you usually take when a group gathers, and did you choose it?