Left Angle Cross of Prevention

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 Prevention. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (15/10 | 17/18). 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 Prevention cross on the BodyGraph

Three Centers hold the four Gates: Gates 10 and 15 in the G Center, Gate 17 in the Ajna and Gate 18 in the Spleen. None is a motor, and two of the three, the Ajna and the Spleen, are awareness Centers. The conscious pair, 10 and 15, also appears in the Right Angle Cross of The Vessel of Love, and the Design pair, 17 and 18, in the Right Angle Cross of Service.

Left Angle Cross of Prevention at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Prevention 1: 15/10 | 17/18, 15/10 17/18 or 15 10 17 18; Prevention 2: 10/15 | 18/17, 10/15 18/17 or 10 15 18 17.

The two rotations of the Prevention 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 Prevention 1 (15/10 | 17/18)

With Extremes as your conscious Sun, the pull between too much and too little comes first, and The Behavior of the Self, the conscious Earth, is how you show it. Opinions and Correction work underneath on the Design side. This rotation sits in the Civilization quarter, purpose fulfilled through Form.

The Prevention 2 (10/15 | 18/17)

Here The Behavior of the Self is the conscious Sun: how you act around people is the first question, and Extremes, the conscious Earth, keeps you from tipping too far. On the Design side Correction leads and Opinions follows. This rotation sits in the Mutation quarter, purpose fulfilled through Transformation.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 15: Extremes

Gate 15, Extremes, sits in the G Center, the Center of identity, direction and love. Its hexagram is Modesty, which tells you what the Gate is trying to do with extremes. It completes Channel 5-15, Rhythm, with Gate 5 in the Sacral. Its lines run from Duty and Influence to Ego inflation, The Wallflower, Sensitivity and Self-defense. As a Sun it makes your purpose a matter of keeping to a middle course. As an Earth it grounds another theme in steadiness.

Gate 10: The Behavior of the Self

Gate 10, The Behavior of the Self, also sits in the G Center, and its hexagram is Treading. It can complete three Channels: 10-20, Awakening, with Gate 20 in the Throat, 10-34, Exploration, with Gate 34 in the Sacral, and 10-57, Perfected Form, with Gate 57 in the Spleen. Its lines run from Modesty and The Hermit to The Heretic and The Role Model. As a Sun it makes behavior your theme. As an Earth it grounds you in how you act.

Gate 17: Opinions

Gate 17, Opinions, sits in the Ajna, the Center of concepts and certainty. Its hexagram is Following. It completes Channel 17-62, Acceptance, with Gate 62 in the Throat. Its lines run from Openness and Discrimination to No human is an island and The Bodhisattva. It sits on the Design side in both rotations, so your opinions form below awareness, and other people may hear a view from you before you know you hold it.

Gate 18: Correction

Gate 18, Correction, sits in the Spleen, the Center of instinct that speaks once and in the present. Its hexagram is Work on What Has Been Spoilt. It completes Channel 18-58, Judgment, with Gate 58 in the Root. Its lines move from Conservatism and Terminal disease through The Zealot and The Incompetent to Therapy and Buddhahood. It is also on the Design side in both rotations, a quiet instinct for what needs repair that you may feel before you can name it.

Two awareness Centers and no motor

Not one of the four Gates sits in a motor Center. The G Center is about identity and direction, the Ajna is mental awareness, and the Spleen is the awareness Center of instinct. Two of the three Centers are built to notice, not to push.

That fits a cross called Prevention. Nothing in it starts a project on its own. The Gate partners that bring a motor are Gate 5 and Gate 34 in the Sacral, and Gate 58 in the Root, and they have to come from your chart or from other people. Until then the cross is a way of seeing what needs doing, and the energy to do it is something you borrow from the people around you.

One Gate that can join three Channels

Gate 10 is the only Gate in this cross with more than one partner. It can complete Channel 10-20 through the Throat, Channel 10-34 through the Sacral, or Channel 10-57 through the Spleen. All three are Individual circuit Channels, in the Integration or Centering sub-circuits.

So the conscious side of Prevention has three different outlets for behavior, and which one is available depends on who you meet. One person lets your conduct become speech, another lets it become drive, a third connects it to instinct. Gate 10 is the clearest case of this cross working through other people.

A Design side that forms views and spots what is broken

Gates 17 and 18 are the unconscious half of Prevention, and both belong to the Collective circuit in the Understanding sub-circuit. Gate 17 forms opinions. Gate 18 feels what is off and wants it put right. Together they are a habit of holding a view and sensing the flaw in it.

Because both work below awareness, other people may feel corrected before you meant anything. The Left Angle point is that the habit becomes useful when someone asks for it. A correction nobody wanted lands as criticism. The same correction, offered to someone who is listening, prevents the trouble it noticed.

Why the Prevention 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 Prevention that means what you see coming matters only when someone can use it. The cross is lived in the conversations where a quiet word changes what happens next. 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. 15.5 means Gate 15, 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 Prevention cross.

Living the Prevention cross

At work

Prevention people are often the ones who flag the problem early, the risk in the plan or the detail that will not hold. Work goes best where that is welcome. Say what you noticed once, plainly, and with a reason, then let the team decide. Repeating a warning nobody asked for turns a useful instinct into noise.

In relationships

In relationships the cross works through the other person, so how you act with them sets the tone for what you can say. A partner who trusts your conduct will listen to your corrections. Notice when you fix something that was not yours to fix; the line between caring for someone and managing them is the one this cross keeps testing.

In decisions

Prevention gives your life a theme, not a rule for each choice. Seeing the flaw in a plan is not the same as knowing you should stop it. You do not have to act on every warning you feel.

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

When the Prevention 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 15: Where are you pushing to one extreme right now, and what would the middle look like?
2. Gate 10: How did you carry yourself in your last difficult conversation, and what did it say about you?
3. Gate 17: What opinion do you hold today that you did not choose, and where did it come from?
4. Gate 18: What did you sense was off lately, and who could actually use what you noticed?