RAX vs LAX | Personal vs Transpersonal Incarnation Crosses
I think this has been posted before, but for some reason (and maybe it's me, it seems clearer this time.
"In this century we have confused a lot of this terminology: karma, destiny, fate, all of this language that has been popularized. But in Human Design these geometries are very specific.
If you have a right angle cross [RAX Incarnation Cross]– which tends to be the majority in society – you have what is called "personal destiny“ and you’re not carrying any karma.
Now, if somebody comes and says to you: “You’re gonna pay for this!“ you can tell them, “No, I am not carrying any karma, thank you very much!” – because it’s true!
The right angle cross is self-involved. They have their own geometry and it isn’t people around them who alter that movement in their life.
They have their personal destiny and they are going to get to their personal destiny regardless of who is around them.
When you are dealing with the lower trigram [lines 1-3 in the profile], they have very poor transpersonal skills, they’re not equipped to deal successfully with the other because they are absorbed in themselves.
1st Line - The 1st line is introspection and says: I don’t wanna see anybody, I am studying. Don’t bother me, I’m doing my research. Leave me alone, I am busy with my own thing.
2nd Line - The 2nd line says: I don’t know why you’re coming to me, I like to be left alone. The moment you come, I have to do something, I have to learn something, I have to figure something out. Leave me alone!
3rd Line - The 3rd line says: Jesus, I didn’t mean to bump into you! – because that’s what happens to 3rd lines: They just bang into things. None of them are really equipped to deal socially with the other. They have personal destiny! They are into their thing.
Now it doesn’t mean they can’t love, and they can’t live life like everyone else, but it’s not about whom they meet that’s going to get them to the point where they will fulfill their personal destiny.
– So a tremendous part of the population is just involved in their own thing.
4/6 Side note: Even though the lower trigram stops at the 3/6 and the upper trigram begins with the 4/6, the 4/6 is still a right angle. The 4/6 is one of the most unusual profiles. It is the only profile that is purely transpersonal – both the 4th and 6th lines are in the upper trigram – so it gives you the illusion that this is a deeply transpersonal cross: it is not!
They are in their personal destiny. They are the great voyeurs because they are there in the environment but they are actually keeping to their own process.
4th line : The fourth line is the bottom part of the upper trigram and thus their harmony is with the 1st line. The 4th line is concerned with influencing their network with the foundation. They aren't interested in the foundation but more in how to use it to effect others.
Then we come to juxtaposition. Both the Left Angle and Juxtaposition have a hexagram placement on the wheel that is NOT at right angles.
The 4/1s are the only people that have fixed fate. When the 4/1 drives into a tree, you know it’s fixed fate because that’s their way and nothing gets in the way of these beings. They are a 4 and a 1; they are the 2 foundations that are there in the structure of the hexagram, so they are very fixed. So fixed that they barely can bend at all and that they are very easily broken. They have their track in life.
The left angle [Incarnation Crosses | LAX] are purely transpersonal.
The 5th and 6th lines are the most transpersonal in quality.
They are always getting ready both to go out into the world and to observe the world as a whole.
They are the ones that carry karma. And the only way to unload this stuff is to meet the old forces that they got the karma from in the first place.
It’s only through the transpersonal that we can universalize and connect with the other.
5th line : The 5th line is like the 2nd line but a lot more transpersonal. They aren't exactly hermits because they recognize the value of others, but there is a touch of suspicion there - "What do they want from me?"
6th line : Even though the 6th line is in the hexagram, they are removed from it. Their perspective allows them to see that there is more than the energies of that hexagram. This perspective lends to aloofness."
~Ra Uru Hu