Left Angle Cross of Masks in Human Design

Its 4 gates

In Ra Uru Hu’s teaching, the name “Left Angle Cross of Masks” sums up how these 4 gates meet. Read them one by one: that is where the concrete content sits.

Gate 13 · G center

Confidant

People tell you their life stories easily, and you hold on to what they said for a long time.

You keep track of past experiences and look for the meaning in them.

Gate 7 · G center

Pathfinder

Others often look your way to figure out which direction to take together.

You like bringing people together around shared interests so they move forward as one.

Gate 43 · Ajna center

Click

New ideas arrive all at once, and finding the words for them can take a while.

Your ideas often pop up when your mind is resting, and rarely when you hunt for them.

Gate 23 · Throat center

Plain words

You have a knack for making a tangled idea simple, as long as you pick your moment.

With gate 43, insight arrives from one side and you take it apart so it can be shared.

Its 2 variants

The same name covers 2 Sun gates. The 4 gates stay the same; only their places change. Your variant depends on the gate of your birth Sun.

Variant	Gates	Birth Sun	Quarter	Frequency
1	13/7 \| 43/23	February 2 to February 7	Initiation	0.59%
2	7/13 \| 23/43	August 6 to August 11	Duality	0.57%

First two numbers: Sun and Earth at your birth. Last two: Sun and Earth about 88 days earlier, the part of the chart called the “design”. Birth Sun dates are for a typical year, give or take a day.

The angle: left angle

The angle comes from the profile alone: here, profiles 5/1, 5/2, 6/2 and 6/3. The teaching describes a theme that plays out mostly through encounters: other people are its main ground. In our sample, 33.1% of charts have a cross with this angle. The 3 angles explained.

The quarters

Quarter of Initiation: the teaching links this quarter with the mind (understanding and making sense). Covers the Sun in gate 13.

Quarter of Duality: the teaching links this quarter with bonding (relating to another and passing things on). Covers the Sun in gate 7.

How common it is

Across 50,000 random births between 1950 and 2010, calculated with our engine: 1.2% of births, about 1 person in 87. Rank 20 of 112 named crosses.

Celebrities with this cross

The 2-week test

Try this

For 14 days, keep a note with 5 columns: Confidant (gate 13), Pathfinder (gate 7), Click (gate 43), Plain words (gate 23), plus a control column, Open heart (gate 25), which is not part of this cross. Each evening, reread the line for each gate above and tick the ones that described a real moment of your day, with a word on what happened. After 2 weeks, count the ticks. According to the teaching, the gate of your birth Sun should come out on top. If the 4 cross columns do not clearly beat the control column, give this name little weight.

Same Sun gates, other angles

Someone born with the Sun in gate 13 or 7 has one of these crosses, depending on their profile:

Frequently asked questions

Which gates make up the Left Angle Cross of Masks?

Gates 13, 7, 43 and 23. Their places shift with the variant: 13/7 | 43/23 for variant 1, 7/13 | 23/43 for variant 2.

Is the Left Angle Cross of Masks rare?

Across 50,000 random births between 1950 and 2010, calculated with our engine: 1.2% of births, about 1 person in 87. It ranks 20 of 112 by frequency.

Which celebrities have the Left Angle Cross of Masks?

By our calculation: Joe Rogan, Kylie Jenner, Steve Wozniak.

Does this cross tell me my life purpose?

Human Design often presents the cross as a life purpose. We read it as the theme the teaching links to these 4 gates: a hypothesis to watch in your own life, with the test on this page. No study backs that link (details here).