LAX of Dominion – The Highlights

You:

The benevolent dictator whose mind is a beautiful, chaotic engine of doubt and genius.

Tools of Your Reign:

A relentless need to dismantle any concept until it reveals its core logic. A mind like a kaleidoscope, where chaotic fragments of thought suddenly align into a moment of brilliant clarity. The ego to go & sell that vision with unshakable conviction. And an undeniable gravity that makes you the ruler of the room.

Tyrant Tendencies:

Spinning out in a vortex of self-doubt until you question your own authority. Making impulsive moves to escape the pressure of mental confusion. Using your powers of persuasion to sell a version of the truth that only benefits you. Mistaking your throne for a private hoard instead of a communal resource.

How You Hold Court:

Well.. it's less of an entrance and more of a weather event. You absorb the collective static, let it rattle around your skull until it forms a coherent thought, and then speak with the kind of clarity that makes people shut up and take notes. Don't worry, they don't see the messy internal process, just the compelling product that comes out of your mouth.

From One Monrk to Another:

Point your death-ray of doubt at the world's bullshit, not at your own head. Let your brain be a disaster zone sometimes. Your best ideas are born from the messes. Your power of persuasion is a gift and a weapon babes, don't be another dickwad using their power to fuck over the masses. Your job is to declare "let them eat cake" and then actually provide the fucking cake.

The Intro-ish

Your HD chart came back, and it seems you've been cast in the role of the Insidious Regent.

The prophecy... err, umm... the official description for the Cross of Dominion says you have the strong intellect to create doubt in order to take over.

 NGL, when I read that, my finger hovered over the backspace key. Take over what? The world? Are you a dictator? A villain in a Marvel movie? What are we even doing here?

Anyway.

This is a fantastic life purpose if you're planning to head a multi-level marketing scheme or launch the hostile takeover of a neighboring kingdom.

This is also the point where the peasants start sharpening their pitchforks.

sighs in mild panic

To save the world, and more importantly, you from yourself,  this is me sliding a better, less world-ending alternative across the table. We're going to look beyond the basic description to dig into the gates and the real-world possibilities of your Incarnation Cross.

Because for the sake of all that's holy, we need to find a better way to channel all that... intensity.

Let's go.

䷾ Gate 63: Doubt

• I Ching: After Completion
• Astrology: Pisces
• Biology: Head/Brain
• Channel: Connects to Gate 4 (Formulization) to form the 63-4 Channel of Logic
• Location: Head Center (The pressure cooker for questions)
• Quarter: Initiation - Purpose fulfilled through mind

The Gist/Theme:

Welcome to the source of your divine discontent. Gate 63 is the relentless mental pressure to question everything. It's the constant, nagging suspicion that there's a flaw in the pattern or a crack in the logic. While this gate can at times feel pessimistic, it needs to ensure that the future is built on something that can actually last. Your mind is a bullshit detector with an urgency to formulate a question.

 It's constantly scanning for what's illogical or unsustainable so it can be corrected. When you contribute that question to a group process, you force everyone to scrutinize weak patterns, creating the doubt necessary for a better way to emerge.

Energy Type & Strategy:

This is pure Head Center pressure. It’s an itch, not a motor. It’s designed to generate questions, not immediate answers or actions. Acting directly from a place of doubt is a recipe for disaster. This is also projected energy, meaning your brilliant, pattern-destroying questions can land like insults if they're not invited.

You need to wait for recognition. Before you voice your skepticism, drag that shit through your personal Strategy and Authority. It's the only thing that tells you if it's correct to open your mouth and share the doubt that's pressuring your mind.

Line Expressions

• Line 1 - Composure: The Zen master who can hold a question without needing an answer.
• Line 2 - Structuring: The architect of the perfect, soul-piercing question.
• Line 3 - Continuance: The dog with a bone who won't let a flawed pattern go unchallenged.
• Line 4 - Memory: The pattern historian who remembers every time this bullshit failed before.
• Line 5 - Affirmation: The truth-seeker who demands proof and won't settle for a flimsy answer.
• Line 6 - Nostalgia: The skeptic who knows the "good old days" probably weren't that good.

How It Shows Up Here (As Your Conscious Sun):

This is your core identity. Your light. You are here to be the asker of uncomfortable but necessary questions. The basis of your Dominion is founded on this energy. Your right to rule is founded on the strength of your rigorous, doubt-tested logic. This is the quality control for your whole reign.

The biggest trap is turning this powerful searchlight inward, questioning your own worth instead of the flawed systems in the world. Your doubt is a tool for external review, not a weapon for self-flagellation. Use it wisely.

䷿ Gate 64: Confusion

• I Ching: Before Completion
• Astrology: Virgo
• Biology: Pineal Gland / Brain
• Channel: Connects with Gate 47 (Realization) to form the 64-47 Channel of Abstraction
• Location: Head Center 
• Quarter: Duality - Purpose fulfilled through Bonding

The Gist/Theme:

Before I dig into this gate, I'm going to say the thing I think most of us are thinking: having the first 2 gates in your cross be Doubt and Confusion probably feels like some top-tier celestial fuckery. BUT there is magick in the madness, I promise. That being said, welcome to your sacred state of confusion!

This gate is a kaleidoscope in your head, constantly replaying a chaotic swirl of memories, images, and disconnected data from the past. Its purpose is not to be resolved quickly. Its purpose is the confusion itself. You are designed to let this mental movie play out, sift through the chaos of past experiences without forcing a narrative.

You patiently marinate in the swirl until, in a flash of epiphany, the lesson or wisdom reveals itself. Sharing your abstract, non-linear "downloads" of information can create confusion in those stuck in rigid thinking, opening up space for a new vision.

Energy Type & Strategy:

On top of the pressure from Gate 63 to question the future, you have this added pressure from Gate 64 to make sense of the past. It’s a double whammy of Head Center angst. 

Once again, do NOT make a single goddamn decision from that state. Acting from confusion breeds more confusion. It's an overwhelming mental state that is not to be trusted for decision-making.

The "aha's" that emerge from this process are a projected energy, meant to be shared as inspiration for others when you are invited. Your Strategy and Authority is your anchor in the storm, the only thing you trust to tell you when clarity has truly landed and if it's correct to share it.

Line Expressions

• Line 1 - Conditions: This is your inner voice demanding that everything be just right before you even attempt to wade into the mental chaos to sort things out.
• Line 2 - Qualification: This is that uncanny radar for finding the exact right person who can listen to your abstract ramblings and somehow help you find a thread of sense.
• Line 3 - Overextension: This is the very real danger of drowning in your own data, getting so lost trying to analyze every single memory that you burn yourself out.
• Line 4 - Conviction: Once you've survived the storm and found your truth, this is the power to stand by it with unshakable conviction, no matter how weird it sounds to others.
• Line 5 - Promise: This is the deep drive to find a nugget of genius in all that chaos. You're looking for an insight that holds the promise of a better way forward for your people.
• Line 6 - Victory: That glorious, triumphant feeling when the clouds finally part and you achieve a moment of profound, hard-won clarity. It’s the prize at the bottom of the cereal box.

How It Shows Up Here (As Your Unconscious Sun):

So, how could this chaos engine work with your conscious doubt? Your unconscious (64) is dumping a truckload of unsorted, abstract files from your past onto your front lawn. Then your conscious mind (63) comes out, sees the mess, and starts frantically trying to create a logical blueprint for the future out of it.

You can also destabilize a situation by poking logical holes in a plan (Gate 63) while sharing a swirl of confusing data and unresolved possibilities from the past (Gate 64). This is your one-two punch for taking Dominion. 

This dynamic can feel like you're living in a state of perpetual mental whiplash. That is the gig. Acknowledging that this part of your process can frankly suck is step one. The magic is in not trying to consciously control it. The work is trusting that your background processes are handling it, especially when your conscious mind is freaking the fuck out. 

䷙ Gate 26: The Taming Power of the Great / The Egoist

• I Ching: The Taming Power of the Great
• Astrology: Sagittarius
• Biology: Thymus Gland
• Channel: Connects with Gate 44 (Alertness) to form the 44-26 Channel of Surrender
• Location: Heart Center (The motor for willpower and the material world)
• Quarter: Mutation - Purpose fulfilled through Transformation

The Gist/Theme:

This is the gate of the divine salesperson, the ultimate influencer. Gate 26 holds the energy to take a truth, an idea, or a memory and package it so compellingly that it convinces the tribe to buy in. It's the power to manipulate memory and desire to serve a specific end.

This is more than the ability to sell a product; it comes with the power to sell a reality. It has the egoic strength to withstand rejection and the shrewdness to know exactly what the people need to hear. This is the engine of marketing, propaganda, and persuasion.

Energy Type & Strategy:

This is a powerful motor from the Heart Center, but it's part of a projected channel. This means you have a massive well of willpower and persuasive energy, but it can't be fired off at will.

It needs to be recognized and invited to have its intended impact. Shouting your brilliant sales pitch into the void will exhaust you and make you look like an asshole. Your job is to wait for the tribe to ask for your influence.

When the invitation comes, you have the energetic authority to step up and sell the vision. This is also an energy that needs rest. It's designed for impactful bursts of work followed by periods of recovery. It's not designed for a 9-to-5 grind.

Line Expressions:

• Line 1 - A Bird in the Hand: The pragmatist who knows how to leverage a small, sure thing into a larger success.
• Line 2 - The Lessons of History: The ability to learn from the past and use those lessons to shape a more effective sales pitch for the future.
• Line 3 - Influence: The natural capacity to affect the actions and opinions of others through sheer force of will and charisma.
• Line 4 - Censorship: The strategic skill of knowing what information to withhold to make a message more impactful or persuasive.
• Line 5 - Adaptability: The flexibility to change your pitch on the fly, adapting your message to meet the changing needs of the market or tribe.
• Line 6 - Authority: The ultimate expression of this gate, where your influence is so established that your word becomes law for the tribe.

How It Shows Up Here (As Your Conscious Earth): 

This is your anchor in reality. So while your brain (Gate 63) is questioning and obsessively poking holes in everything, this part of you (Gate 26) is what gives that doubt a purpose. You find the flaw (63) so you can sell a better reality (26). This is where your mental gymnastics get their hands dirty.

Your doubt is just anxiety until you can use it to persuade people to build something better. Gate 26 is the egoic power that takes your mental conclusions and makes them manifest on the material plane. BUT the whole thing implodes if you lose your integrity.

This gate can sell anything, including lies. And the moment you start selling snake oil just for the thrill of the sale is the moment you lose your footing. Your power is grounded in using this gift to sell truths you actually believe in. For the betterment of the collective. When you do that, you're unstoppable.

䷬ Gate 45: The Gatherer

• I Ching: Gathering Together
• Astrology: Gemini
• Biology: Thyroid/Parathyroid
• Channel: Connects with Gate 21 (The Hunter/Huntress) to form the 21-45 Channel of the Money Line
• Location: Throat Center (The hub for communication and action)
• Quarter: Civilization - Purpose fulfilled through Form

The Gist/Theme:

This is the throne room of your chart. Gate 45 is the voice of the King or Queen, the natural-born ruler. And yes, I know how that sounds. It's ridiculously grandiose, but stick with me, cuz the energy really is that extra. This gate speaks in one of two ways: "I have" or "I have not." It is the tribal authority that assesses the community's resources and directs their use. This isn't democratic leadership; it's the energy of a monarch who intuitively knows what the kingdom needs to prosper. You are the living, breathing balance sheet for the entire community.  You gather your people, protect the wealth, and hold the center of the community so everyone has a rallying point.

Energy Type & Strategy:

This energy comes roaring out of the Throat, the center of manifestation. It's designed to make declarations about the material state of the tribe. So when this gate speaks, people are meant to listen, and reality tends to shift. Its power is in directing resources, not necessarily in managing them day-to-day. That's the job of Gate 21.

This voice belongs to the ruler, the one who makes the plans for others to execute. It's a frustratingly hands-off energy if you're someone who wants to get in there and control the outcome. 45 is the Queen; she decides the vision, but she needs a Chief Advisor to handle the harvests and the payroll. Your strategy is to own your authority and use your voice to guide, educate, and direct, not to get bogged down in the micro-details of the work.

Line Expressions

• Line 1 - Canvassing: The smart ruler who casually polls the audience before deciding which heads will roll.
• Line 2 - Consensus: The political skill of getting everyone in the room to nod along, ensuring the stability of your reign
• Line 3 - Exclusion: The ruthless but necessary wisdom to know who doesn't belong at the royal table.
• Line 4 - Direction: The sheer power of your voice to point the way forward for the entire tribe.
• Line 5 - Leadership: The natural embodiment of a ruler who is both effective and, dare I say, liked.
• Line 6 - Reconsideration: The balls to admit your "genius" plan was actually shit and the wisdom to pivot for the good of the realm.

How It Shows Up Here (As Your Unconscious Earth):

This is the unconscious foundation that provides your entire being with stability. While your Unconscious Sun (Gate 64) is swimming in a chaotic sea of past memories and confusion, this Gate 45 provides the deep, instinctual stability of the throne.

It’s the part of you that knows, no matter how confusing things get, there is a kingdom to run and a material reality to manage. It's the grounding force with a deep, material purpose, ensuring the abstract alchemy of Gate 64 has a tangible purpose: the prosperity, education, and security of your people.

Your chaos serves your crown.

The whole operation implodes when that unconscious drive for security curdles into a conscious, greasy, fear-driven, scarcity narrative. That's when things get extra tyrannical. You forget your purpose, start hoarding power and resources, and starve those same people you've been charged to protect.

Your Dominion Cross IRL

Your mind is a fascinating paradox. It churns out endless reasons to doubt every reality while simultaneously housing a deep-seated drive to be the one who defines that reality for everyone else. This creates a person who is built to lead from the front, selling a brilliant vision with unnerving charm.

The whole game is to align that persuasive gift with something genuinely clear, so you're building an empire instead of just a beautiful facade. Let's dig into how this plays out in the normal world.

Relationships

Dating someone with your wiring can feel like negotiating a scene without a safe word. You have a primal need to be in charge - the Dom of the narrative, so to speak. You want to define the terms, possess your partner, and have everything run according to your plan. The hilarious contradiction is that while you're playing the all-powerful monarch externally, your internal world is a swirling mess of doubt and confusion.

You might demand your partner prove their worthiness while you can't even trust your own feelings from one day to the next. This can lead to some seriously mixed signals, where you're asking for their complete surrender while you're secretly shackled to your own anxieties. True connection happens when you learn to negotiate with yourself first, finding a way to enjoy the ride without needing to control every single outcome.

The Bottom Line:

You thrive with a partner who understands the difference between your need for control and your actual desires. Someone who can call you on your bullshit and remind you that real power in a relationship is consensual, not declared. Ease up on the interrogation and let some things remain a mystery.

Work & Career

Your professional life is your chessboard. You have a unique and unsettling talent for walking into a room, listening to a perfectly sound plan, and systematically dismantling it with a few choice questions. You don't argue; you inject doubt. You introduce confusing, abstract possibilities that make others question the reality they were so sure of. This is your power move.

You create a vacuum by destabilizing the consensus, and into that vacuum, you step. With your regal presence and uncanny ability to sell a new story, you present a solution that just so happens to put you in the driver's seat. You’re the ultimate pattern-disruptor. At your best, you’re the visionary who saves the company from a fatal flaw no one else saw. At your most chaotic, you're the one who deliberately engineers a crisis just to prove you’re the only one who can fix it.

The Bottom Line:

 Stop thinking about finding your place in an existing structure. Your job is to reshape the structure itself. You excel in roles that require high-level strategy, turnarounds, and "creative destruction." The key is to know why you're shaking things up. Are you exposing a genuine weakness for the good of the whole, or are you just playing games to gain power? The answer determines the legacy you build.

Personal Growth & Self-Awareness

This is the part where you feel seen in a way that’s both thrilling and a little bit terrifying. It’s the part that sounds suspiciously like a villain origin story, and honestly, we all get a little turned on by a charismatic villain. Your design comes with the keys to the kingdom and the tools to burn it all down. You can destabilize consensus, create chaos, and reshape reality with your words. The question your growth hinges on is the one all the best anti-heroes face: are you burning things down to build something better from the ashes, or do you just like to watch the pretty flames?

Your evolution is about graduating from a petty trickster who causes chaos for an ego boost to a master strategist whose disruptions have a point. This requires you to sit in your own discomfort, to let the doubt and confusion brew until a truly brilliant, transformative agenda emerges.

The Bottom Line:

Anybody can start a fire. Your work is to become an architect of the blaze. The integrity you build by mastering your own internal chaos is what separates a footnote from a legend. Choose the scale of the game you want to play.

The Wrap Up

Phew. We made it through the Dominion rundown without anyone staging a coup. Now for the reality check you didn't ask for but are getting anyway. Trying to make sense of an Incarnation Cross can feel like translating a dead language you found scrawled on a cocktail napkin after three martinis. It's… interpretive.

So, everything you absorbed here is filtered through my perspective, my research, and my particular flavor of "color outside the lines" brain magick.

My way of seeing the HD world may not align with every viewpoint, and that’s the point.

This is one narrative. If you don't like it, keep looking until you find one you do.

Please do not treat this blog post as the definitive instruction manual for your soul. There are a million ways for this cross to manifest itself. And HD 101 suggests that you are meant to awaken "inside" of your I.C.

Incarnation crosses outline the potentials, but this path isn't owed to you. Your actual, day-to-day, boringly effective operating instructions remain your Strategy and Authority. It lacks the spicy, dramatic flair of this whole "divine dominion" discussion, but it’s the thing that works.

If you're stuck on the "Am I a visionary or an asshole?" question and need to untangle how this whole Dominion complex shows up with your specific chart details, a Mini Reading is where we get into it.

Bring your confusion and your ethical quandaries.

I'll bring the insights.