Right Angle Cross of Contagion

It is a cross of desire and of trying things out; others learn from your experience, good or bad.

It is a cross of desire and of trying things out; others learn from your experience, good or bad.

Desire is not the same as commitment.

Lived consciously, you follow the impulse to experience and manage your yes.

Lived unconsciously, you are overwhelmed by everything you agreed to.

It turns on how many things you say yes to.

It sits on Gates 30, 29, 14 and 8

An incarnation cross is named from four gates: your Personality Sun and Earth and your Design Sun and Earth. Each one adds part of the purpose.

Gate 30, The Clinging Fire: Desire to Lightness

Feeling and the capacity to experience emotion authentically

Lived consciously: Full authentic emotional experience that honors all feelings. Feelings become the medium of understanding. The person is emotionally alive and expressive.

Lived unconsciously: Emotional suppression or overwhelm. Feelings disconnected from who they truly are. Emotional expression becomes reactive or manipulative.

As Gene Key 30, the Shadow of Desire: You want intensely: the person, the plan, the life just out of reach. The wanting is strong enough to hurt, and getting it rarely settles anything before the next thing appears. The people close to you feel the restlessness and wonder whether they are enough. So do you.

The Gift of Lightness: When you let yourself want fully and hold the outcome lightly, the wanting becomes fuel instead of torment. Feel it, pursue it, and keep your humour when it goes differently. That’s Lightness: wanting without needing the ending to go your way.

Gate 29, The Abysmal: Half-Heartedness to Commitment

Perseverance and the capacity to continue through deep difficulty

Lived consciously: The ability to keep moving through what seems impossible. Perseverance becomes a real strength. The person lives unstoppable forward motion.

Lived unconsciously: Giving up when things get hard. Losing faith in forward motion. Energy becomes stuck or resigned.

As Gene Key 29, the Shadow of Half-Heartedness: Someone asks, and yes is said before you have checked. Then you are in something you did not choose, doing it at sixty per cent and looking for the exit. People get the yes, then the half-version, then the withdrawal. And you begin to believe you are someone who cannot follow through.

The Gift of Commitment: The way through is to pause before the yes and consult your gut before your guilt. Say fewer yeses. Then give the ones you keep everything you have, all the way to the end. That’s Commitment: the power that comes from choosing, then staying.

Gate 14, Power Skills: Compromise to Competence

Power and the ability to manifest abundance through skilled action

Lived consciously: The natural ability to accumulate and multiply resources. Power flows from aligning with what's abundant. The person manifests wealth and increase naturally.

Lived unconsciously: Greed or scarcity consciousness limiting abundance. Power used to hoard or control. Energy becomes stagnant from grasping.

As Gene Key 14, the Shadow of Compromise: You are capable, so you stay: in the job that pays, the role that is safe, the work you do well but do not love. You call it sensible, and it is. It is also draining you, and the people at home get the tired, flat version of you at the end of each day.

The Gift of Competence: The way through is to follow what genuinely moves you and put your skill there, even in small ways at first. Your enthusiasm is the real resource. That is Competence: capability with your heart in it, which tends to bring in more than the safe option did.

Gate 8, Contribution: Mediocrity to Style

Contribution and the gift of supporting structures

Lived consciously: The natural ability to support and strengthen what's already there. Contribution flows naturally from aligning with what needs reinforcement. The person is the glue that holds systems together.

Lived unconsciously: Self-sacrifice disguised. Giving energy where it's not appreciated or needed. Contribution becomes resentful and depleting.

As Gene Key 8, the Shadow of Mediocrity: You smooth yourself down. The unusual idea becomes sensible, the bright colour goes back in the drawer, the opinion is softened before you speak. You fit in well. Then life loses its colour, and the people close to you never quite meet the person you actually are.

The Gift of Style: The way through is to let the different version out, one small choice at a time. Say the unusual thing. Make it and build it your way, and notice that you are still standing. That is Style: your mark on whatever you touch, which gives other people permission too.

It is a Right Angle cross

Right Angle crosses carry a personal destiny: the life purpose plays out mostly through your own process.

Questions people ask

What is the Right Angle Cross of Contagion?

The Right Angle Cross of Contagion sits on Gates 30, 29, 14 and 8. It is a cross of desire and of trying things out; others learn from your experience, good or bad.

Which gates make up the Right Angle Cross of Contagion?

Gates 30, 29, 14 and 8.