Right Angle Cross of Laws in Human Design

Its 4 gates

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

Gate 3 · Sacral center

Sorting chaos

In a messy beginning, you slowly find a new way to put things in order.

You feel pushed to invent truly new ways of living, thinking or making things.

Gate 50 · Spleen center

Safeguard

You make sure shared rules truly protect everyone, especially the most vulnerable.

You look after the wellbeing of your clan, family or community, in calm times and in crises.

Gate 60 · Root center

Frame

Constraints bother you less than most, and you often use them as something to push against.

Fighting your limits keeps you stuck, while acknowledging them opens a way through.

Gate 56 · Throat center

Storytelling

Telling stories and sharing ideas is a pleasure, especially when it makes listeners think.

You find your balance by moving around and lining up new experiences.

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	3/50 \| 60/56	April 16 to April 21	Initiation	0.93%
2	56/60 \| 3/50	July 19 to July 24	Civilization	1.1%
3	50/3 \| 56/60	October 20 to October 24	Duality	0.87%
4	60/56 \| 50/3	January 17 to January 21	Mutation	1.0%

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 3.

Quarter of Civilization: the teaching links this quarter with form (building and organizing shared life). Covers the Sun in gate 56.

Quarter of Duality: the teaching links this quarter with bonding (relating to another and passing things on). Covers the Sun in gate 50.

Quarter of Mutation: the teaching links this quarter with transformation (changing what already exists). Covers the Sun in gate 60.

How common it is

Across 50,000 random births between 1950 and 2010, calculated with our engine: 3.9% of births, about 1 person in 26. Rank 11 of 112 named crosses.

Celebrities with this cross

The 2-week test

Try this

For 14 days, keep a note with 5 columns: Sorting chaos (gate 3), Safeguard (gate 50), Frame (gate 60), Storytelling (gate 56), plus a control column, Taste for new (gate 35), 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 3, 56, 50 or 60 has one of these crosses, depending on their profile:

Frequently asked questions

Which gates make up the Right Angle Cross of Laws?

Gates 3, 50, 60 and 56. Their places shift with the variant: 3/50 | 60/56 for variant 1, 56/60 | 3/50 for variant 2, 50/3 | 56/60 for variant 3, 60/56 | 50/3 for variant 4.

Is the Right Angle Cross of Laws rare?

Across 50,000 random births between 1950 and 2010, calculated with our engine: 3.9% of births, about 1 person in 26. It ranks 11 of 112 by frequency.

Which celebrities have the Right Angle Cross of Laws?

By our calculation: Dolly Parton, Jim Carrey, Kim Kardashian, Omar Sy.

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).