Left Angle Cross of Spirit in Human Design

Its 4 gates

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

Gate 55 · Solar plexus center

Full or empty

Your moods swing between full and empty, and they color everything you live.

Abundance plays out inside first, in your state of mind more than in what you own.

Gate 59 · Sacral center

Breaking the ice

You know how to melt reserve and build closeness with people.

This pull toward closeness can go as far as bringing something to life together, a child or a shared project.

Gate 9 · Sacral center

Fine focus

You can lock onto one precise point and not let go until it is sorted.

You notice what others let slip by, and you need every piece before you move on.

Gate 16 · Throat center

Practice

You like repeating something until you are really good at it, and your enthusiasm is contagious.

You can tell which projects are worth the effort and which lead nowhere.

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	55/59 \| 9/16	February 19 to February 23	Initiation	0.54%
2	59/55 \| 16/9	August 23 to August 28	Duality	0.50%

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 55.

Quarter of Duality: the teaching links this quarter with bonding (relating to another and passing things on). Covers the Sun in gate 59.

How common it is

Across 50,000 random births between 1950 and 2010, calculated with our engine: 1.0% of births, about 1 person in 97. Rank 32 of 112 named crosses.

Celebrities with this cross

Steve Jobs 6/3 · 55/59 | 9/16

The 2-week test

Try this

For 14 days, keep a note with 5 columns: Full or empty (gate 55), Breaking the ice (gate 59), Fine focus (gate 9), Practice (gate 16), plus a control column, Jolt (gate 51), 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 55 or 59 has one of these crosses, depending on their profile:

Frequently asked questions

Which gates make up the Left Angle Cross of Spirit?

Gates 55, 59, 9 and 16. Their places shift with the variant: 55/59 | 9/16 for variant 1, 59/55 | 16/9 for variant 2.

Is the Left Angle Cross of Spirit rare?

Across 50,000 random births between 1950 and 2010, calculated with our engine: 1.0% of births, about 1 person in 97. It ranks 32 of 112 by frequency.

Which celebrities have the Left Angle Cross of Spirit?

By our calculation: Steve Jobs.

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).