The Right Angle Cross of Consciousness 2 (35/5 | 63/64)
The Right Angle Cross of Consciousness 2 is a Personal Destiny cross. This variant of the cross opens through experience rather than through the questioning mind — the Personality Sun is Gate 35, which means the conscious, waking identity is oriented toward change, progress, and the accumulation of new experiences. Where the first variant of Consciousness opens with Gate 63's doubt, the Consciousness 2 opens with Gate 35's hunger. The questioning still happens, but it happens unconsciously, from the Design side, processing the experience that the Personality side gathers.
The Gates
- Gate 35 (Throat): The Gate of Change
- Gate 5 (Sacral): The Gate of Fixed Rhythms
- Gate 63 (Head): The Gate of Doubt
- Gate 64 (Head): The Gate of Confusion
The Theme
The Cross of Consciousness 2 carries the same four gates as the first variant but with the experiential axis (35/5) as the Personality and the analytical axis (63/64) as the Design. This produces a fundamentally different conscious experience: where the first variant is most aware of its questioning, the Consciousness 2 is most aware of its desire to move through new experiences.
Because the Personality Sun is Gate 35, the conscious experience of this cross opens with the Throat's experiential gate. Gate 35 in the I Ching is Progress — it has the quality of movement forward, of advance, of the desire to experience what has not yet been experienced. The person with Gate 35 as their Personality Sun wakes up into the world with this hunger: what is next? What has not yet been done? What experiences remain to be gathered? This is not restlessness in the shadow sense — at its highest it is the specific orientation of a consciousness designed to learn through living, to accumulate the raw material from which genuine solutions can eventually be built.
Gate 5, the Personality Earth, grounds this hunger for experience in the Sacral's natural rhythm. Gate 5 is the gate of Fixed Rhythms — not the Sacral's response to what is asked but the Sacral's own inherent timing, the biological clock that knows when to engage and when to wait. As the Earth gate, Gate 5 means that Gate 35's experiential hunger is not expressed through frantic accumulation but through the patient following of the body's natural sequence. Experiences arrive in rhythm.
The Design side — unconscious, bodily — carries Gates 63 and 64, the two Head Center gates. Gate 63 as the Design Sun means the body unconsciously processes all the accumulated experience through logical skepticism: does this actually work? Is the pattern here reliable? The Consciousness 2 may not experience itself as a natural doubter in the way the first variant does — but the questioning is happening below awareness, sifting experience into logical assessment. Gate 64 as the Design Earth means the imaginative processing of that experience — the swirling of confusion before insight — also happens below conscious awareness. Solutions emerge for this variant not through conscious deliberation but through a process the body conducts at the level of the Design.
This cross is built to gather experiences (35), follow the Sacral's rhythm in doing so (5), have those experiences logically processed below awareness (63), and release the resulting insights in a form that others can use.
The Shadow
The shadow of the Consciousness 2 is the experience-hunger that cannot be satisfied. Gate 35 in the shadow becomes the craving for novelty as a substitute for genuine progress — always seeking the next new situation because the existing ones cannot hold enough interest, accumulating experiences that don't deepen into anything useful. The "been there, done that" quality that the cross can carry in its high expression flips in shadow into a chronic restlessness that mistakes motion for advancement.
Gate 5 in the shadow is the disconnection from natural rhythm — pushing the Sacral beyond its own timing, forcing the body into the next experience before the current one has been metabolized. Gate 63 in the Design, when the Personality is in shadow, produces an unconscious skepticism that undermines the experiences being gathered: the doubt processes everything into "this probably won't work either" before the experience has been given enough time to reveal what it actually contains. Gate 64 in the Design amplifies this as unconscious pre-completion pressure — the confusion never releases into imagination because Gate 63's shadow skepticism closes it down before it resolves.
The Gift
The gift of the Consciousness 2 is the quality of solutions that emerge from a lifetime of genuine experience followed to its natural depth. Gate 35's hunger for progress, when it is operating from the Sacral's rhythm rather than from mental urgency, produces an unusually broad and varied experience base. The cross that has lived in many different contexts, navigated many different challenges, and allowed each experience to be metabolized carries a store of real-world pattern-recognition that Gate 63's unconscious processing turns into something genuinely useful.
One example (someone who recognized the signs of psychological abuse from their own experience and was able to reach a person no abstract advice could) captures the gift exactly: the solutions the Consciousness cross offers are solutions from having actually been there. Gate 35 as the Personality Sun means the cross can genuinely say "I have experienced this" — which gives the solution a quality that no theoretical account can match.
Gate 5's rhythm as the Personality Earth ensures the experiences are spaced by the body's wisdom. Gate 64 in the Design ensures the unconscious processing is genuinely imaginative — the confusion swirls and eventually, in its own time, releases into insight.
Living This Cross
People pass through the Consciousness 2's life when they need to connect their experiences to logical solutions. For this variant, the encounter is often framed by the experiential authority the cross carries: the person who arrives is not primarily looking for analysis but for the acknowledgment that comes from someone who has genuinely been through something similar.
The practical work for the Consciousness 2 is trusting Gate 5's rhythm — not forcing the next experience before the current one has taught what it knows, not mistaking the desire for progress with the need to move on. Strategy and Authority determine engagement. The experiential hunger of Gate 35 is real and correct; the question is whether it is being followed from the body's timing (Gate 5) or from the mind's impatience.
The question to hold: What predicament can my past experience help you overcome?
The low mantra: I wouldn't have been able to teach through experience unless I went through a period of confusing experiences.
What's your life theme?
Your Incarnation Cross, calculated from your exact birth time.
Famous Examples
Anderson Cooper, Walt Disney, Freddie Mercury, Claudette Colvin, Alexei Navalny
