The Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx (Version 1)

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The Sphinx cross opens with the Sun in gate 13, the Listener — sympathy, openness, part of the Prodigal channel, carrying the ability to hold experience, keep secrets, and eventually release them as memory turned into history. Someone whose Sun sits here doesn't look forward; they look back, always. Don't ask a person like this where you should go tomorrow — that isn't their function. Ask them what happened yesterday, or last month, and you'll get real guidance from it.

The Sphinx as a whole matters enormously to humanity's direction: gates 1 and 2 give it its essence, and gate 14 supplies the sacral fuel needed to carry mutational direction into the world. Someday, people may organize themselves according to which Sphinx-cross they carry, because together the four versions — Sun in 13, 7, 1, or 2 — form the complete picture of direction; only combined do they show where humanity is actually heading, since each one influences everyone else differently. Stand in line at the grocery store next to someone with this Sun, and without either of you noticing, you may walk away thinking about something that happened to you yesterday, or years ago — that's this Sphinx quietly at work in its aura.