Right Angle Cross of Contagion in Human Design

Its 4 gates

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

Gate 30 · Solar plexus center

Longing

Strong wishes live in you and can last a long time before they come true.

Your feelings rise and fall in waves; wait for clarity before acting or sharing.

Gate 29 · Sacral center

Your word

When you say yes you stick to it, so it pays to choose your yeses carefully.

Once committed, you hold on through obstacles and discomfort.

Gate 14 · Sacral center

Reserves

Time, drive, practical means: you often have what it takes to fuel your projects and other people's.

Your effort needs a heading, often given by gate 2; without one, you spin your wheels.

Gate 8 · Throat center

Standing out

You like adding your own touch to a shared project and helping creative work, yours or someone else's, get seen.

With gate 1 you form a pair: one creates, the other carries the work out to people.

Its 4 variants

The same name covers 4 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	30/29 \| 14/8	February 13 to February 18	Initiation	1.1%
2	8/14 \| 30/29	May 15 to May 20	Civilization	1.0%
3	29/30 \| 8/14	August 17 to August 22	Duality	1.2%
4	14/8 \| 29/30	November 17 to November 21	Mutation	0.98%

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: right angle

The angle comes from the profile alone: here, profiles 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 2/5, 3/5, 3/6 and 4/6. The teaching describes a theme that plays out mostly along your own track: you live it for yourself first, and others cross it along the way. In our sample, 64.7% 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 30.

Quarter of Civilization: the teaching links this quarter with form (building and organizing shared life). Covers the Sun in gate 8.

Quarter of Duality: the teaching links this quarter with bonding (relating to another and passing things on). Covers the Sun in gate 29.

Quarter of Mutation: the teaching links this quarter with transformation (changing what already exists). Covers the Sun in gate 14.

How common it is

Across 50,000 random births between 1950 and 2010, calculated with our engine: 4.2% of births, about 1 person in 24. Rank 5 of 112 named crosses.

Celebrities with this cross

Coco Chanel 2/5 · 29/30 | 8/14

The 2-week test

Try this

For 14 days, keep a note with 5 columns: Longing (gate 30), Your word (gate 29), Reserves (gate 14), Standing out (gate 8), plus a control column, In charge (gate 21), 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 30, 8, 29 or 14 has one of these crosses, depending on their profile:

Frequently asked questions

Which gates make up the Right Angle Cross of Contagion?

Gates 30, 29, 14 and 8. Their places shift with the variant: 30/29 | 14/8 for variant 1, 8/14 | 30/29 for variant 2, 29/30 | 8/14 for variant 3, 14/8 | 29/30 for variant 4.

Is the Right Angle Cross of Contagion rare?

Across 50,000 random births between 1950 and 2010, calculated with our engine: 4.2% of births, about 1 person in 24. It ranks 5 of 112 by frequency.

Which celebrities have the Right Angle Cross of Contagion?

By our calculation: Coco Chanel.

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).