Right Angle Cross of The Vessel of Love

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 Right Angle Cross of The Vessel of Love. The four numbers in brackets are the Gates of your Personality Sun and Earth, then your Design Sun and Earth, for example (25/46 | 10/15). Match them to the rotations below to see which of the four you carry. The chart symbols guide shows where the Sun and Earth sit in the two planet columns.

The Vessel of Love cross on the BodyGraph

All four Gates sit in the G Center, the diamond in the middle of the chart. Three of them have "of the Self" in their names: the Behavior, the Spirit and the Determination. The fourth, Extremes, is about how far the self swings. Nothing in this cross is a motor or an awareness Center.

Right Angle Cross of The Vessel of Love at a glance

Written three ways, as charts and searches write it: Vessel of Love 1: 25/46 | 10/15, 25/46 10/15 or 25 46 10 15; Vessel of Love 2: 15/10 | 25/46, 15/10 25/46 or 15 10 25 46; Vessel of Love 3: 46/25 | 15/10, 46/25 15/10 or 46 25 15 10; Vessel of Love 4: 10/15 | 46/25, 10/15 46/25 or 10 15 46 25.

The four rotations of the Vessel of Love cross

Find the rotation whose first number matches your Personality Sun. The quarter it sits in gives the rotation its number, 1 to 4.

The Vessel of Love 1 (25/46 | 10/15)

With the Spirit of the Self as your conscious Sun, love starts as an open, innocent way of meeting the world, and the Determination of the Self is your Earth. The Design side runs the Behavior of the Self and Extremes beneath you, so others may see your style and your swings before you do.

The Vessel of Love 2 (15/10 | 25/46)

Here Extremes is the conscious Sun and the Behavior of the Self the Earth. You know that you tend to go to the edge of things, and you watch how you carry yourself. The Spirit and the Determination of the Self run on the Design side, quietly shaping your loves.

The Vessel of Love 3 (46/25 | 15/10)

With the Determination of the Self as your Sun, love is something you push toward, a direction you pursue with effort. The Spirit of the Self is the Earth. Extremes and the Behavior of the Self on the Design side make your manner and your range feel natural to you.

The Vessel of Love 4 (10/15 | 46/25)

The Behavior of the Self leads in this version, with Extremes as the Earth. You live consciously as someone with a style, and you keep a check on excess. The Determination and Spirit of the Self run underneath, which can make your devotion look steady from the outside.

The four Gates in plain language

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

Gate 25: The Spirit of the Self

Gate 25, the Spirit of the Self, has the hexagram Innocence. It is the part of you that meets life without defenses, and it sits in the G Center. As a Sun, you live knowingly with a loving, open attitude toward whatever happens. As an Earth, it keeps your other themes honest by asking whether you are still open. Its lines run from Selflessness to Ignorance. Its Channel is Initiation (25-51), which links to Gate 51, Shock, in the Heart. That Channel carries a need to be first and to start things, and it gives the G Center a link to willpower.

Gate 46: The Determination of the Self

Gate 46, the Determination of the Self, has the hexagram Pushing Upward. It is the G Center's drive to make something of the self, and its lines, from Being discovered to Integrity, cover how a person is found and how they hold together. As a Sun, you live consciously as someone who pushes toward love and a place in the world. As an Earth, it adds persistence. Its Channel is Discovery (29-46), which links to Gate 29, Saying Yes, in the Sacral. That Channel is about succeeding where others fail.

Gate 10: The Behavior of the Self

Gate 10, the Behavior of the Self, has the hexagram Treading. It is the way you carry yourself, your manner, and its lines run from Modesty to The Role Model. It can complete more Channels than any other Gate in this cross. As a Sun, you live consciously with a particular style and set of convictions. As an Earth, it gives your other themes a shape that others can see. Its Channels run to Gate 20 in the Throat (Awakening), Gate 34 in the Sacral (Exploration) and Gate 57 in the Spleen (Perfected Form).

Gate 15: Extremes

Gate 15, Extremes, has the hexagram Modesty. It is the Gate of range: you may go from very active to very still, and from much feeling to little. Its lines run from Duty to Self-defense. As a Sun, you live consciously with your own rhythm and your own highs and lows. As an Earth, it gives your other themes breadth. Its Channel is Rhythm (5-15), which links to Gate 5, Fixed Rhythms, in the Sacral. That Channel is known as a design of being in the flow.

The identity-and-love half of the G Center

The G Center has eight Gates, and two Right Angle crosses split them. The Sphinx holds the other four, the ones that point direction. The Vessel of Love holds Gates 10, 15, 25 and 46, which are about who you are and how you love.

That shows in the names. Gates 10, 25 and 46 are the Behavior, the Spirit and the Determination of the Self: three different faces of identity, the way you act, the spirit you bring and the will behind it. Gate 15, Extremes, adds love as range, from reserved to intense. Together they ask what kind of vessel you are, and what you are willing to hold.

Four Gates, four Centers they reach for

The G Center is not a motor, so its Channels are how its Gates connect to the rest of the chart. Gate 10 reaches in three directions: the Throat, the Sacral and the Spleen. Gate 15 and Gate 46 each reach the Sacral, through Rhythm (5-15) and Discovery (29-46). Gate 25 reaches the Heart, through Initiation (25-51).

So a Vessel of Love person is shaped to connect. The cross gives you a strong sense of identity, but to put it to work you often need the other end of a Channel, which can be in your own chart or in another person's. That is one reason relationships feel so central here: other people can light up the doors that your cross opens.

Individual and Collective: being yourself and being with others

Gates 10 and 25 complete Channels in the Individual circuit: Awakening, Exploration, Perfected Form and Initiation. That circuit carries mutation, what is new arriving through one person, and it is why this cross can seem so personal. Gates 15 and 46 complete Channels in the Collective circuit: Rhythm and Discovery. That circuit is about sharing experience so it can benefit others.

So the cross carries a tension that is also a gift. One half is private conviction, a manner that is yours alone. The other half is shared experience, a rhythm and a way of finding things that others can use. Your rotation decides which half you live consciously.

Why the Vessel of Love is a Right Angle cross

A Right Angle cross is a personal destiny: the purpose works out through your own experience, and other people are not the point. For The Vessel of Love that matters, because a cross called love can sound as if it exists for those you love. It does not. You come to know love first by living as yourself, and others are touched by that. The Right Angle goes with seven Profiles: 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 2/5, 3/5, 3/6, 4/6. If your Profile is one of these, your cross is a Right Angle cross.

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. 13.4 means Gate 13, Line 4. 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 Vessel of Love cross.

Living the Vessel of Love cross

At work

Vessel of Love people often work best where who they are is part of the job: teaching, caring work, creative practice, any role where manner counts as much as output. You may be remembered for how you made a room feel. Pick work that lets your style stand.

In relationships

Relationships are where this cross shows most. Others read your manner as warmth or reserve, and your range from quiet to intense can confuse people who expect one steady setting. Say what you are feeling when your mood swings wide, and choose partners who like the whole range.

In decisions

Strong identity can feel like certainty about what to choose. It is not. The cross tells you who you are, not whether to take this job or move this year.

Use your Type and your inner Authority for each choice, and let The Vessel of Love show you whether those choices let you be yourself. Your Strategy and Authority are how you get there; the cross is where it leads.

When the Vessel of Love 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 25: Where in your life are you still open the way you used to be, and where have you closed?
2. Gate 46: What are you determined to become, and who has seen you working toward it?
3. Gate 10: How do you behave when no one is watching, and does your public manner match?
4. Gate 15: What are the extremes of your own week, and which end are you at today?