The Left Angle Cross of Informing (22/47 | 11/12)
The Left Angle Cross of Informing is a Transpersonal Destiny cross — its purpose unfolds through relational and social encounters, and the truth-surfacing work it carries is activated through contact with others. The Personality Sun is Gate 22, the Solar Plexus Center's gate of Openness, in the Individual circuit. This cross is structurally distinct: it contains the complete Channel 12-22 — Gate 22 (Solar Plexus) connecting directly to Gate 12 (Throat) via the Channel of Openness, creating the Manifestor definition that makes the Informing cross a natural vehicle for bringing emotional and subconscious truths into voice. The mouthpiece role this cross carries is not metaphorical but structural.
The Gates
- Gate 22 (Solar Plexus): The Gate of Openness — feeling, honoring, and listening to the full range of emotion without disrespecting the feelings of others, the love and appreciation for things outside oneself, sensitivity to authenticity
- Gate 47 (Ajna): The Gate of Realization — sifting and working through ongoing archetypes from subconscious memory and lineage, the retrospective understanding that surfaces meaning from the abstract
- Gate 11 (Ajna): The Gate of Ideas — the ability to move dreams, archetypes, and ideas into form, effective idealism, sensitivity to what is genuine
- Gate 12 (Throat): The Gate of Caution — using the voice to promote truth, the separating tendency used to seek out what is genuine, love for things outside oneself voiced with precision
The Theme
Gate 22 is the Solar Plexus's quality of genuine openness — not the managed emotional presentation of social acceptability but the authentic honoring of the full range of feeling, including its difficult and passionate extremes. At its highest, Gate 22 carries "feeling, honoring, and listening to the full range of one's own emotion without disrespecting the feelings of others." At its shadow, Gate 22 becomes "trying to force only happiness or 'good' emotions, extreme passion-highs and lows, dishonoring oneself by disregarding one's pain or shadow."
This cross contains the complete Channel 12-22 — the Channel of Openness — which connects the Solar Plexus (Motor) directly to the Throat, creating in the body graph the definition that makes a Manifestor type. The Informing cross is structurally equipped to be the voice for what needs to be expressed: the emotional depth and openness of Gate 22 finds its natural vehicle in Gate 12's Throat, and the cross is built to bring what has not yet been said into expression.
Because the Personality Sun is Gate 22, the Informing 1 is most consciously organized around the experience of that emotional openness — the direct registration of the full range of feeling and the authentic honoring of it. The transpersonal encounter with this cross activates when others need to tap into an authentic truth that has not yet been expressed — when something at the emotional or subconscious level needs to be named and voiced.
Gate 47, the Personality Earth, grounds Gate 22's emotional openness in the Ajna's subconscious processing. As the Earth gate, Gate 47 ensures that Gate 22's openness is backed by the genuine retrospective understanding that makes sense of what is felt — the emotion is not raw data but is processed through the abstract Ajna's capacity to surface meaning from the subconscious archive. Gate 11 as the Design Sun is the Ajna's idealist capacity — operating below conscious awareness as the ongoing ability to move dreams and archetypes toward form, the sensitivity to what is genuine that informs the Informing cross's truth-voicing function. Gate 12 as the Design Earth is the Throat's cautious, genuine expression — the unconscious precision in voice that seeks out what is real rather than what is merely comfortable to say.
The Shadow
Gate 22 in the shadow is the forced emotional management — the openness that has become the pressure to perform only acceptable feelings, the dishonoring of one's own pain or shadow that produces the extreme passion-highs and lows that result from suppression. The Informing cross in the shadow lives in an illusory or isolating reality wherein truthful emotions and subconscious wounds are suppressed rather than voiced: the mouthpiece that was built to inform has gone silent about what matters most.
Gate 47 in the shadow is the burden of latent subconscious memory — unable to face the archetypes surfacing, trapped in a subconscious that has not been processed. Gate 11 in the Design shadow is living in illusion — belief systems and fantasy lands that substitute for the effective idealism Gate 11 can produce at its highest. Gate 12 in the Design shadow is the voice as shield or divider — using words to separate from others, elitist language that pushes away rather than inviting genuine expression.
The Gift
The gift of the Left Angle Cross of Informing is the quality of voiced authentic truth — the specific capacity to be the mouthpiece for what others are experiencing but have not yet been able to express, to surface the emotional and subconscious content that the collective needs to become aware of. People pass through this cross's life when they need to tap into an authentic truth that has not been expressed. The Informing cross functions as the journalist or reporter of the emotional and subconscious realm: the one who sees that something has changed and ensures it is acknowledged.
Living This Cross
The practical work of the Informing 1 is trusting Gate 22's genuine emotional openness — allowing the full range of feeling to be present and honored without managing it into acceptability — so that the Channel 12-22's connection between Solar Plexus and Throat can operate. Gate 47 as Personality Earth provides the grounding: the retrospective understanding that ensures the emotional truth being voiced is not raw reactivity but genuine information that has been processed into meaning.
The question to hold: What feelings do you need to honor?
The low mantra: I wouldn't have been able to be a voice for the subconscious unless I went through a period of being unable to face it.
What's your life theme?
Your Incarnation Cross, calculated from your exact birth time.
Famous Examples
Roald Dahl, Amy Winehouse, Jenna Marbles, Stromae, Mitt Romney, Bong Joon Ho
