Human Design Incarnation Cross Explained – Your Purpose Moving Through You

The Incarnation Cross of Human Design describes the “purpose” that is designed to move through you when you allow it to. Because purpose isn’t something that you can find in a book or a course. It emerges through you moment by moment. It’s a way of being that the most aligned, abundant “doing” naturally flows from. 

So your Incarnation Cross isn’t something that you look at to figure out what you should be “doing”. It’s something to become aware of so that you can keep an eye out for it happening in your life. And you can continue to be the medium/vessel for it to happen through you, aligning a bit more each day. 

You can almost think of it as a cosmic job description that you are naturally built for.

It is made up of 4 gates of your chart: the locations of the Sun and the Earth at the moment of your birth (right column) and at the moment 88 days before (left column).

These four gates are responsible for over 70% of your energetic imprinting. This is because the Sun is responsible for 70% of the neutrinos in our solar system. Neutrinos, the “exhalation” of stars, are the subatomic particles traveling through space that have an infinitesimal amount of mass and therefore carry information. There are trillions of them passing through you in each moment, carrying the information of everything they pass through, including the archetypal wisdom of the planets.

And so, when they pass through you in these moments, they “imprint” you with that information, creating a kind of celestial map within you, marking these 2 moments as a consistent flow of energy through your body that matches where the 2 planets were in those 2 moments.

And because you live on Earth, there’s a lot of neutrinos that pass through your body that have just passed through the Earth. That’s why these 4 Gates are so weighted in terms of the themes that will play out in your life through them. 

If you don’t know your incarnation cross, generate a free report here. In your report, you’ll find your Human Design chart where you’ll find out about your Type, Strategy, Authority, and Profile in detail. 

And on the page after your chart, you also see the name of your Incarnation Cross. Then, I recommend buying this book by Lynda Bunnel called The Science of Differentiation. It’s a very trusted resource for information on all parts of your design, including your Incarnation Cross. We can also explore your Incarnation Cross in more detail in a Human Design Reading to really understand how the 4 Gates of your Cross play out uniquely through you. 

Now, why is it called an “Incarnation Cross?” Well, it’s called that because the position of the Sun and the Earth at those 2 moments form a cross in the astrological chart. For example, here’s my chart with the location of the Sun and Earth marked at those 2 locations in Gates 20, 34, 55, 59 (The Right Angle Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix). 

You can see the Sun and the Earth are directly across from each other on the chart in both of those two moments. And in each moment, they are always across from each other in the astrological chart. And right between them is YOU: your chart. Because you are between Heaven and Earth. You are in the middle. You are quite literally a medium, here to bring forth a cosmic solar purpose into the Earthly plane. 

All you need to do is align to that Solar Fire, the fire of the Truth that naturally will move through you as you allow it to. 

This is the higher dimensional frequency of “you” before the energy slowed down enough to be tied to the physical matter of a body. Your body is your vehicle to bring this purpose into the world. Your chart is the mechanics of your vehicle. Drive your vehicle as it’s meant to be driven (Strategy, Authority, and Profile) and you’ll naturally live out your purpose (Incarnation Cross) with the most ease. 

Now again, when you look up your incarnation cross, don’t try to “do” your incarnation cross. That will just delay its happening. You want to look for it. Look for it in your life as you follow your strategy and authority, as you live your type. 

As you live your profile. Your profile is the costume of your purpose. 

Your Profile is determined by the numbers to the right of the decimal point of the Sun and Earth gates in each column:

So, in this example, this profile is a 6/2 profile. It is made up of 2 frequencies, a conscious frequency more tied to the moment of your birth (Personality, Ego, Identity) and an unconscious frequency tied to the moment 88 days before (Design, Higher Frequency). The 6 Frequency is that of the Role Model. The 2 Frequency is that of the Hermit. So this Profile is the 6/2 Role Model Hermit. 

These numbers to the right of the decimal point are referring to an even more specific location of the Sun and Earth at these moments. Each Gate is broken out into 6 Lines, each Line having a unique frequency. 

So, to live out your Incarnation Cross, living in Alignment with your Profile allows you to live out your Incarnation Cross with more ease, assuming you’re listening to your Strategy and Authority. 

This was a quick introduction and background to Incarnation Crosses. In a future post, we’ll look at the difference between Right Angle, Left Angle, and Juxtaposition Crosses. I hope this helped you understand your chart and Cross a bit better!

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