Left Angle Cross of Spirit

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 Spirit. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (55/59 | 9/16). 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 Spirit cross on the BodyGraph

The Gates sit in three Centers: Gate 55 in the Solar Plexus, Gates 9 and 59 in the Sacral, and Gate 16 in the Throat. Your conscious pair, 55 and 59, is also a pair in the Right Angle Cross of The Sleeping Phoenix, and the Design pair, 9 and 16, is a pair in the Right Angle Cross of Planning.

Left Angle Cross of Spirit at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Spirit 1: 55/59 | 9/16, 55/59 9/16 or 55 59 9 16; Spirit 2: 59/55 | 16/9, 59/55 16/9 or 59 55 16 9.

The two rotations of the Spirit 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 Spirit 1 (55/59 | 9/16)

With Spirit as your conscious Sun, your mood and your sense of abundance come first, and Sexuality, the conscious Earth, is where it turns toward other people. Focus and Skills work on the Design side. This rotation sits in the Initiation quarter, purpose fulfilled through Mind.

The Spirit 2 (59/55 | 16/9)

Here Sexuality is the conscious Sun: closeness and attraction are the first question, and Spirit, the conscious Earth, colors it with feeling. On the Design side Skills leads and Focus follows. This rotation sits 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 55: Spirit

Gate 55, Spirit, sits in the Solar Plexus, the Center of emotions and waves, which is both a motor and an awareness Center. Its hexagram is Abundance, and this Gate gives the cross its name. It completes Channel 39-55, Emoting, with Gate 39 in the Root. Its lines run from Cooperation and Distrust to Growth and Selfishness. As a Sun it makes your purpose a matter of your inner climate. As an Earth it colors another theme with mood.

Gate 59: Sexuality

Gate 59, Sexuality, sits in the Sacral, the motor Center, and its hexagram is Dispersion. It completes Channel 6-59, Mating, with Gate 6 in the Solar Plexus, so the Sacral and the Solar Plexus are joined. Its lines run from The pre-emptive strike and Shyness to Brotherhood/Sisterhood and The one night stand. As a Sun it makes closeness your theme. As an Earth it grounds you in your connection to others.

Gate 9: Focus

Gate 9, Focus, sits in the Sacral, the motor Center, and its hexagram is The Taming Power of the Small. It completes Channel 9-52, Concentration, with Gate 52 in the Root. Its lines include Sensibility, Dedication, Faith and Gratitude. It sits on the Design side in both rotations, so your ability to concentrate on small things works below awareness. Others may see your stamina for detail before you do. As a Sun it makes sustained attention your theme. As an Earth it grounds another theme in patience.

Gate 16: Skills

Gate 16, Skills, sits in the Throat, where everything that leaves you passes through. Its hexagram is Enthusiasm. It completes Channel 16-48, The Wavelength, with Gate 48 in the Spleen. Its lines run from Delusion and The Cynic to The Leader, The Grinch and Gullibility. It is also on the Design side in both rotations, so your enthusiasm for a skill is something people hear before you plan to share it.

Two motors, one voice and a lot of partners

The Sacral and the Solar Plexus are both motors, and between them they hold three of the four Gates. Only Gate 16 is in the Throat, so there is plenty of drive here and only one place for it to be spoken. The Channels the cross can complete are heavy with motors: 9-52 touches the Sacral and the Root, 39-55 the Root and the Solar Plexus, and 6-59 the Sacral and the Solar Plexus.

Having a Gate in a motor Center is not the same as having the Center defined. Each Channel needs its partner, and those partners come from your chart or from other people. That is the Left Angle in practice: the energy of the cross is real, and other people supply what turns it on.

A cross named after its emotional Gate

The cross takes its name from Gate 55, Spirit, and that Gate lives in the Solar Plexus, the Center of emotions and waves. It is the only Gate of the four in an awareness Center that feels, and it is always on the conscious side, as Sun or as Earth.

That makes mood a visible part of how you meet people. You may feel abundant one week and short of everything the next, and the lines of Gate 55 run from Cooperation and Distrust to Growth and Selfishness, which is much the same range. The cross asks you to see the wave as a wave, to let it move through, and to choose your closest people while it is calm.

Focus and Skills as the unconscious craft

The Design pair is Gate 9, Focus, and Gate 16, Skills. Both belong to the Collective circuit, in the Understanding sub-circuit. In either rotation they fill the Design Sun and Design Earth, so the craft side of the cross runs on its own.

Read together, the names suggest a person who gets good at things by concentrating on small details for a long time. Others may see the result as natural talent. The emotional Gate on the conscious side then decides whether the craft gets shared, because skill without trust stays in the workshop.

Why the Spirit 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 Spirit, your inner climate is a gift to those close to you. The right people can make it a source of warmth, while the wrong ones turn it into a burden. 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. 55.5 means Gate 55, 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 Spirit cross.

Living the Spirit cross

At work

Spirit people often do their best work when the mood of the team is good, and they feel it when it is not. Work goes best where you have a craft you can return to, and colleagues you trust. Do not make big commitments at the top or bottom of a wave. Let the feeling settle, then decide.

In relationships

In relationships the cross works through the other person, so who you let close shapes how your feeling and attraction show up. A partner who can ride your waves with you draws out your best. Notice when closeness is carrying you faster than trust; the line between intensity and intimacy is the one this cross keeps testing.

In decisions

Spirit gives your life a theme, not a rule for each choice. A strong feeling can seem like a clear answer and still be a passing wave. You do not have to act while it is at its peak.

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

When the Spirit 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 55: What mood have you been in this week, and how much of it was really about today?
2. Gate 59: Who have you let close lately, and what did they do to earn it?
3. Gate 9: What small detail did you spend time on recently, and did it matter more than it looked?
4. Gate 16: What skill are you enthusiastic about right now, and who have you shown it to?