Left Angle Cross of The Plane

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 The Plane. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (36/6 | 10/15). 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 Plane cross on the BodyGraph

Only two Centers hold these Gates: the Solar Plexus and the G Center. The conscious pair, Gates 36 and 6, is also a pair in the Cross of Eden, and the Design pair, Gates 10 and 15, is also a pair in the Cross of The Vessel of Love.

Left Angle Cross of The Plane at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Plane 1: 36/6 | 10/15, 36/6 10/15 or 36 6 10 15; Plane 2: 6/36 | 15/10, 6/36 15/10 or 6 36 15 10.

The two rotations of the Plane 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 Plane 1 (36/6 | 10/15)

With Crisis as your conscious Sun, the emotional wave is the first thing you notice: you are here to meet turbulence out in the open, and Friction, the conscious Earth, shows you where it turns into conflict between people. The Design side, Behavior of the Self and Extremes, shapes how you carry yourself through it before you decide to.

The Plane 2 (6/36 | 15/10)

Here Friction is the conscious theme: you feel where people rub against each other and what it takes to settle it. Crisis, the conscious Earth, gives that friction an emotional depth. Underneath, Extremes and the Behavior of the Self change places on the Design side, so others may read your manner before you do.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 36: Crisis

The Solar Plexus, the Center of emotions and waves, is home to Gate 36, Crisis. Its hexagram is The Darkening of the Light. It completes Channel 35-36 with Gate 35 in the Throat, called Transitoriness, and that is a manifesting Channel: a motor joined straight to the Throat. As a Sun it makes your purpose a matter of how you meet emotional turbulence in the open. As an Earth it grounds another theme in the fact that crisis is part of the road. Its lines run from Resistance to Justice.

Gate 6: Friction

Gate 6, Friction, is the other Solar Plexus Gate in this cross. Its hexagram is Conflict, and it belongs to the Tribal circuit. It completes Channel 6-59, Mating, with Gate 59 in the Sacral. As a Sun it makes friction between people the subject you are here to understand. As an Earth it adds an edge to whatever else you are working on. Its lines move from Retreat and The Guerilla to Arbitration and The Peacemaker, so the same Gate can start a fight or end one.

Gate 10: The Behavior of the Self

Gate 10, The Behavior of the Self, sits in the G Center, the Center of identity, direction and love. Its hexagram is Treading, the question of how you walk through the world. It is unusual in having three partners, so it can complete Channel 10-20 with the Throat, Channel 10-34 with the Sacral or Channel 10-57 with the Spleen. As a Sun it makes your manner your message. As an Earth it steadies the rest of the cross with a sense of how you carry yourself.

Gate 15: Extremes

Gate 15, Extremes, is the second G Center Gate. Its hexagram is Modesty, which seems an odd match for the name until you see that both are about range: how far a person goes and how far is enough. It completes Channel 5-15, Rhythm, with Gate 5 in the Sacral, a Collective Channel. As an Earth it keeps the cross honest about proportion. Its lines run from Duty through Sensitivity to Self-defense.

Feeling on one side, direction on the other

All four Gates sit in just two Centers. Gates 36 and 6 are in the Solar Plexus, which holds emotions and waves and is both a motor and an awareness Center. Gates 10 and 15 are in the G Center, which holds identity, direction and love, and the sense of being in the right place.

In both rotations the conscious pair is emotional and the Design pair is about the self. What you feel and what you are walking toward are the two halves of the cross. Because no Channel is formed by the cross's own four Gates, it does not fix your Type or Authority. Those come from the rest of your chart.

Gate 10 can reach three different Centers

Most Gates have one partner. Gate 10 has three. With Gate 20 it makes Channel 10-20, Awakening, to the Throat. With Gate 34 it makes Channel 10-34, Exploration, to the Sacral. With Gate 57 it makes Channel 10-57, Perfected Form, to the Spleen. All three belong to the Individual circuit.

For a Left Angle cross that matters. Which of these Channels forms depends on who you meet, since the partner Gate has to come from your own chart or from another person. The same Design-side Gate can show up as a voice, as energy or as instinct, depending on who is standing next to you.

Collective, Individual and Tribal in one cross

Gates 36 and 15 are Collective, Gate 10 is Individual and Gate 6 is Tribal. Three circuits in one cross suits a purpose worked out among others: the Collective Gates point at the group, Gate 10 at the self and Gate 6 at the family or clan.

The Channel that stands out is 35-36. Gate 36 is the only Gate here that can join a motor straight to the Throat, so the rawest part of the cross, the emotional wave, is also the part with a direct route to expression.

Why the Plane 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 The Plane that means crisis and friction are rarely private. They happen between you and someone else, and what you learn comes from how you stay in the room. 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. 36.5 means Gate 36, 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 Plane cross.

Living the Plane cross

At work

People with The Plane are often the ones a team turns to when tempers rise: the colleague who stays level in a tense meeting or who sits between two departments. Work goes best when that role is something you choose, with room to step out. Being the permanent referee wears down the very steadiness that made you useful.

In relationships

In relationships the cross shows up in how you handle disagreement. Close people bring out your emotional waves and your sense of how you want to behave. Notice whether you are keeping the peace or only avoiding the fight. The Peacemaker line and the Retreat line can look alike from the outside.

In decisions

The Plane gives your life a theme, not a rule for each choice. Do not decide in the middle of an emotional high or low. Let the wave pass and see what is still true.

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

When the Plane 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 36: What is the last crisis you stayed steady through, and who was standing next to you when you did?
2. Gate 6: Where is there friction in your life right now, and is it yours to settle or only yours to witness?
3. Gate 10: If someone watched how you behave for a day, what would they say you stand for?
4. Gate 15: Where have you taken something to an extreme lately, and what would enough look like?