The Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx

What the Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx means

This cross runs through gates 1, 2, 7 and 13 — all four sides of the G Center, the part of your chart tied to identity and direction. In plain terms: you carry a strong, quiet sense of which way life should go, for you and often for everyone in the room. Think of the friend who just knows which job offer to take or which city feels right, without a spreadsheet of pros and cons. The mistake people with this cross make is announcing that direction to others like a command, or freezing on an old path out of habit. What works better: let your strategy and authority pick the moment, then simply walk your path in front of people. Your example does the convincing, not your speech.

The four gates of the Cross of the Sphinx

The cross brings together Gate 13 (The Listener), Gate 2 (Direction of the Self), Gate 7 (The Role of the Self) and Gate 1 (Self-Expression) — all four in the G Center. Its 4 variations fall in the Quarters of Civilization, Duality, Initiation and Mutation.

• Gate 13 — The Listener / Fellowship of Man · G Center (Identity)

  Personality Sun in the 13/7 variation · Design Sun in the 2/1 variation · Personality Earth in the 7/13 variation · Design Earth in the 1/2 variation

• Gate 7 — The Role of the Self / The Army · G Center (Identity)

  Personality Earth in the 13/7 variation · Design Earth in the 2/1 variation · Personality Sun in the 7/13 variation · Design Sun in the 1/2 variation

• Gate 1 — Self-Expression / The Creative · G Center (Identity)

  Design Sun in the 13/7 variation · Personality Earth in the 2/1 variation · Design Earth in the 7/13 variation · Personality Sun in the 1/2 variation

• Gate 2 — Direction of the Self / The Receptive · G Center (Identity)

  Design Earth in the 13/7 variation · Personality Sun in the 2/1 variation · Design Sun in the 7/13 variation · Personality Earth in the 1/2 variation

Who has this cross?

Anyone with the Personality Sun in Gate 13 or Gate 2 or Gate 7 or Gate 1 and a 1/3 / 1/4 / 2/4 / 2/5 / 3/5 / 3/6 / 4/6 profile — 4.0% of people.

A Right Angle cross

Your life points toward personal destiny — your path unfolds mainly through your own experience, choices, and initiative, not through fitting into other people's plans. It's one of the 16 Right Angle crosses, carried by 64.4% of people.