Cross of the Way Shower

Full breakdown

Gates: 1 Self-Expression, 2 Higher Knowledge, 4 Formulization, 49 Principles. Gate numbers: 2/49, 1/4.

Some people are way-showers. Has a brief encounter with a total stranger ever changed the whole course of your life? That's what this Cross is about. When the fully-Sphinx channel 13-7 disappears, it's replaced by Gates 49 and 4. Gate 49's principles first showed up in the first quarter, tied to the necessity of killing and sacrifice; here, in the second realm, 49 shifts from the Personality Sun to the Design Sun — no longer the headline theme, but present in the background.

A key feature of this Cross is that these people are intensely focused on following their own direction, and they tend to pull others along with them. They know where they're going, and living that is exactly the point: wherever they're headed will deliver the truth they need.

The difference here is depth. Beauty for its own sake, the kind that needs a clean environment to manifest, isn't quite enough — this Cross moves toward something bigger: truth as direction. If you can't tell someone with this Cross something you're genuinely certain of, they won't even pay attention. They need to know the real truth of things, and they have a way of digging straight into your soul to pull it out.