Left Angle Cross of Individualism

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 Individualism. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (39/38 | 51/57). 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 Individualism cross on the BodyGraph

The Gates sit in three Centers: Gates 39 and 38 in the Root, Gate 51 in the Heart and Gate 57 in the Spleen. The conscious pair, Gates 38 and 39, is also a pair in the Cross of Tension, and the Design pair, Gates 51 and 57, is also a pair in the Cross of Penetration.

Left Angle Cross of Individualism at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Individualism 1: 39/38 | 51/57, 39/38 51/57 or 39 38 51 57; Individualism 2: 38/39 | 57/51, 38/39 57/51 or 38 39 57 51.

The two rotations of the Individualism 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 Individualism 1 (39/38 | 51/57)

With Provocation as your conscious Sun, you are here to stir things up on purpose: to test people and ideas by pushing on them. The Fighter, the conscious Earth, gives that push a spine. On the Design side, Shock and Intuitive Clarity work underneath, so the jolt and the quiet knowing arrive before you have explained them.

The Individualism 2 (38/39 | 57/51)

Here The Fighter is the conscious theme: you feel the drive to stand up for what you hold and to find out what is worth fighting for. Provocation, the conscious Earth, makes that fight more pointed. Underneath, Intuitive Clarity and Shock change places on the Design side, so your instinct may speak first and the jolt follow.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 39: Provocation

Gate 39, Provocation, sits in the Root, the Center of pressure and drive. Its hexagram is Obstruction. It completes Channel 39-55, Emoting, with Gate 55 in the Solar Plexus, in the Individual circuit. As a Sun it makes your purpose the art of stirring people so they show who they are. As an Earth it adds a spark of challenge to whatever else you are doing. Its lines run from Disengagement and Confrontation to Temperance and The Troubleshooter.

Gate 38: The Fighter

Gate 38, The Fighter, is the other Root Gate. Its hexagram is Opposition. It completes Channel 28-38, Struggle, with Gate 28 in the Spleen. As a Sun it makes your purpose finding something worth the fight and then fighting for it properly. As an Earth it gives the rest of the cross some backbone. Its lines begin with Qualification and Politeness and end with Alienation and Misunderstanding, so even a good fight can leave you feeling on your own.

Gate 51: Shock

Gate 51, Shock, sits in the Heart, the smallest motor in the chart, the Center of willpower and worth. Its hexagram is The Arousing. It completes Channel 25-51, Initiation, with Gate 25 in the G Center. As a Design Sun it is a jolt others feel before you do. As an Earth it adds a courage that arrives suddenly. Its lines run from Reference and Withdrawal to Symmetry and Separation.

Gate 57: Intuitive Clarity

Gate 57, Intuitive Clarity, sits in the Spleen, the Center of instinct, which speaks once and only in the present. Its hexagram is The Gentle. It has three partners: Gate 10 in the G Center, Gate 20 in the Throat and Gate 34 in the Sacral. As an Earth it is a quiet instinct under the whole cross. Its lines run from Confusion and Cleansing to The Director and Utilization.

Two motors and a pressure Center

Three of the four Gates sit in motor Centers. Gates 39 and 38 are in the Root, which is both a motor and a pressure Center, the push to begin. Gate 51 is in the Heart, the motor of willpower and worth. Only Gate 57, in the Spleen, is not a motor, and it is the one awareness Center in the cross.

That is a lot of drive for a purpose that is supposed to work through other people. The pressure and the will are strong, and the instinct is quiet and arrives once. The cross tends to teach the difference between pushing because you are pressed and acting because the moment is right.

Individual circuit all the way through

Every Channel these four Gates can complete belongs to the Individual circuit: Struggle, Emoting, Initiation, Perfected Form, The Brainwave and Power. No other circuit appears, so this is a cross with one sound.

It is also a pleasing tension. The Individual circuit is about being yourself, and the Left Angle is about working your life out through other people. The cross asks what it means to be unmistakably yourself in a way that other people can use, argue with and learn from.

Gate 57 and its three Channels

Gate 57 is the one Spleen Gate, and it can make three Channels. With Gate 10 it makes Perfected Form with the G Center. With Gate 20 it makes The Brainwave with the Throat. With Gate 34 it makes Power with the Sacral. The same quiet instinct can reach identity, voice or life force, depending on the partner.

Because this is a Left Angle cross, the partner often comes from someone else. A person who carries Gate 10, 20 or 34 can complete one of these Channels with you, and the instinct stops being a private hunch and becomes something you can share.

Why the Individualism 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 Individualism the point is a paradox: you only discover how individual you are by meeting people who are not like 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. 39.5 means Gate 39, 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 Individualism cross.

Living the Individualism cross

At work

People with Individualism often turn up in work as the one who tests the plan: the colleague who asks the hard question or defends an unpopular idea. It goes best when you are asked for that role. Pushing back with nobody invited tends to use up your energy and the goodwill of the room.

In relationships

In relationships the cross works through contrast. A partner or friend who is different from you shows you where you stand. Notice whether you are using disagreement to find out who you are or only to stay in motion. Not every difference needs a fight.

In decisions

Individualism gives your life a theme, not a rule for each choice. Strong pressure to act is not the same as a signal to act. Wait for your instinct to speak, since it will only speak once.

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

When the Individualism 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 39: Where did you last push back on someone, and did it bring out who they really are?
2. Gate 38: What is worth fighting for in your life right now, and what is only habit?
3. Gate 51: When did something last jolt you into action, and what did you do next?
4. Gate 57: What did your gut tell you quietly today, and how long did it take you to hear it?