Cross of Caring

Full breakdown

Gates: 19 Wanting, 27 Caring, 28 the Game Player, 33 Privacy. Gate numbers: 27/19, 28/33.

Moving into Juxtaposition, 41/31 drops out — the experiential process and its influence disappear, replaced by Gates 19 and 33, as we near the end of this quarter. The unconscious Sun sits in Gate 19, the pressure to need the right principles, alongside Gate 33, withdrawal, memory, and the completion of the experiential path — though 33 can just as easily become a gate of discovery, since something can surface from it unexpectedly.

A person born into this Cross is deeply fixed on the idea that they must care for everyone, all the time. That's a heavy thing to carry, and if you have this design you'll recognize both the gift and the burden of it — it's a life spent shouldering other people's weight regardless of what's in your own.

These people struggle, deeply, for care themselves — and underneath sits Gate 28's fear of death, the fear of a life without purpose. Caring is often the only way they've found to compensate for that missing sense of meaning. In essence, this Cross represents a philosophy that says 'love thy neighbor, help the old lady across the street' — a fixed way of seeing the world that shifts once we move into Left Angle.