Left Angle Cross of Upheaval

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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 Upheaval. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (17/18 | 38/39). 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 Upheaval cross on the BodyGraph

Look for three Centers. The Ajna, the upper Center of concepts, holds Gate 17, and the Spleen on the left holds Gate 18. The Root at the base holds both Design Gates, 38 and 39. Gates 17 and 18 are also a pair in the Right Angle Cross of Service, and Gates 38 and 39 are a pair in the Right Angle Cross of Tension.

Left Angle Cross of Upheaval at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Upheaval 1: 17/18 | 38/39, 17/18 38/39 or 17 18 38 39; Upheaval 2: 18/17 | 39/38, 18/17 39/38 or 18 17 39 38.

The two rotations of the Upheaval 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 Upheaval 1 (17/18 | 38/39)

With Opinions as your conscious Sun, the purpose starts with forming views, and Correction, the conscious Earth, grounds them in a sense that something needs fixing. On the Design side The Fighter leads and Provocation grounds it, so resistance sits beneath the thinking and others may feel it first. This rotation falls in the Initiation quarter, Purpose fulfilled through Mind.

The Upheaval 2 (18/17 | 39/38)

Here Correction is the conscious Sun: you notice what is spoilt and want to repair it, while Opinions, the conscious Earth, gives you something to say about it. On the Design side Provocation leads and The Fighter grounds it, so the urge to challenge arrives before the urge to oppose. This rotation falls 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 17: Opinions

Gate 17, Opinions, sits in the Ajna, the Center of concepts, opinions and certainty, and its hexagram is Following. Its lines run from Openness and Discrimination through Understanding to The Personnel Manager, No human is an island and The Bodhisattva. It completes Channel 17-62, Acceptance, with Gate 62 in the Throat, a design of an organizational being. As a Sun it makes your purpose a matter of forming views and judging which ones are worth following. As an Earth it keeps another theme anchored in a sense of how things should be arranged.

Gate 18: Correction

Gate 18, Correction, sits in the Spleen, and its hexagram is Work on What Has Been Spoilt. Its lines move from Conservatism and Terminal disease through The Zealot and The Incompetent to Therapy and Buddhahood, a wide range: the same Gate can protect what works or push hard to fix what does not. It completes Channel 18-58, Judgment, with Gate 58 in the Root, a design of insatiability. As a Sun it makes correcting what is broken the purpose. As an Earth it adds a steady eye for flaws beneath another theme.

Gate 38: The Fighter

Gate 38, The Fighter, sits in the Root, and its hexagram is Opposition. Its lines run from Qualification and Politeness through Alliance and Investigation to Alienation and Misunderstanding, so fighting here has a courteous side and a lonely one. It completes Channel 28-38, Struggle, with Gate 28 in the Spleen, a design of stubbornness. In this cross it is the Design Sun in rotation 1 and the Design Earth in rotation 2: the readiness to push back works below awareness, and others may meet it before you do.

Gate 39: Provocation

Gate 39, Provocation, also sits in the Root, and its hexagram is Obstruction. Its lines go from Disengagement and Confrontation through Responsibility and Temperance to Single-mindedness and The Troubleshooter. It completes Channel 39-55, Emoting, with Gate 55 in the Solar Plexus, a design of moodiness. Rotation 1 gives it the Design Earth, and rotation 2 makes it the Design Sun. Next to Gate 38 it forms a pair that both resists and provokes, and the Design side of this cross works through friction.

Collective on the surface, Individual underneath

The conscious pair and the Design pair belong to different circuits. Gates 17 and 18 complete Channels on the Collective circuit, and both Channels, 17-62 and 18-58, sit on its Understanding side. Gates 38 and 39 complete Channels on the Individual circuit, 28-38 and 39-55.

That is a clear split. What you consciously offer is shaped for the group: views to follow and repairs that serve many. What runs underneath is more personal, a built-in friction that belongs to you and not to the crowd. The Left Angle asks you to bring the two into the same room with other people, so that your own resistance does not get mistaken for the group's needs.

Two awareness Centers, one thought and one instinct

On the conscious side, Opinions sits in the Ajna and Correction sits in the Spleen. Those are two of the three awareness Centers: one takes in the world by concept and certainty, the other by instinct in the present moment. The first can argue; the second speaks once.

Together they make a pair that notices and judges. Instinct feels something is off, and thought builds a case for what to do about it. Trouble starts when the case runs ahead of the feeling, or the feeling is never put into words. The Throat has no Gate here, so the voice must come through a partner Gate, such as Gate 62, from your own chart or from another person.

Two Root Gates facing each other

The Fighter and Provocation are opposites on the wheel, and both sit in the Root, the pressure Center. The hexagrams are Opposition and Obstruction. One resists openly, the other draws a reaction out of you, and together they make a Design side built from friction.

Their lines also hold gentler tools: Politeness, Alliance, Temperance and Responsibility. The pressure of the Root is real, but the lines show that it can be used with manners. The Left Angle matters here, because friction without another person is only tension. With someone to push against and learn from, it turns into change.

Why the Upheaval 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. Upheaval is a name for what happens when a settled situation is disturbed, and that disturbance rarely happens alone. The views you form, the faults you see and the friction you cause only mean something in front of other people. 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. 17.5 means Gate 17, 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 Upheaval cross.

Living the Upheaval cross

At work

Upheaval often shows up as the person who spots what is broken in a process and forms a view on how to fix it. The cross works best in a role where you are asked for that view, not one where you give it unasked. Consider who you are speaking to before you correct them: the same observation can help a team that wants it and feel like an attack to a team that does not.

In relationships

Close relationships are where the friction of the Design pair shows up most. A partner may feel your resistance before you know you are feeling it. The cross asks you to name a disagreement early, and to separate fixing the situation from fixing the person. Both of you will probably change a little in the process, which is what the Left Angle is for.

In decisions

Seeing what is wrong does not mean you have to act on it. Let your Strategy and Authority tell you which problems are yours to take on, and which are simply information.

Decide with your Type and your inner Authority, and let your opinions and corrections serve people who have asked for them. Your Strategy and Authority are how you get there; the cross is where it leads.

When the Upheaval 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 17: Which opinion have you held so long that you have stopped checking it?
2. Gate 18: What are you trying to fix right now, and has anyone asked you to?
3. Gate 38: Where did you push back lately, and what were you protecting?
4. Gate 39: Whom could you challenge kindly this week to help them move?