44. Line 4: The Opportunitist

Speaker A: 00:00:00

For the fourth line, opportunities for them come through their network. So for the fourth line, it is through the network that you find opportunities to offer what it is you know.

Fourth lines are interested in helping to connect others who are well suited to influence one another, maintaining and feeding the network, building that foundation for interaction.

Speaker A: 00:00:27

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Speaker A: 00:01:53

Line 4, the Opportunist. What remains the same, moving from line three to line four is that we're still in the AJNA binary. So there's still a theme of mutation and instability, but what changes here is a lot.

We're moving for the first time into the upper trigram, the transpersonal realm, where the orientation of this character is more about influencing the other and also being influenced by the other. The part of the process that we're in here is externalization.

So after introspection and then a projection of what was experienced in the introspection, and then an adaptation, a completion of this lower trigram process, we move into the upper trigram and we begin with the foundation of the upper trigram, which is externalization in the house.

This is the foundation of the second floor and we can see a difference between how this guy representing line one, the foundation of the first floor, is actually looking down and examining the foundation. But up here on the fourth line, the foundation of the second floor, this guy's actually talking to all these other characters.

So they're both foundational, the actual floor of their level of the house, but they're orienting very differently because we're going from first line, foundation of the lower trigram, which is a personal process, into the foundation of this upper trigram, the transpersonal realm. However, we can see the foundational component is a harmonic. Right.

So 1 and 4 have a harmony with each other in that they are both foundational in regards to what they are orienting to within their trigram, the foundation of the learning process, one, the personal process, and four, the foundation of the external realm, the transpersonal. Let's dig into line four, the opportunist, the upper trigram, AKA transpersonal. This is about influencing the other with what you know. Right.

So just like with all the other six lines, the lines themselves, the characters themselves are an embodiment of where we are in a process. So they hold the memory of what came before them and the potential of what's to come.

Which means the fourth line holds the memory of what happened in 1, 2, and 3, specifically what happened in 3. Right. There was a no, a knowing that required the martyrdom of the third line.

And in the fourth line, now we're beyond that, and now it's okay, I really know.

So now I can go ahead and externalize about this with the other harmonic to the first line, building a foundation in the transpersonal realm, seeking to externalize what is known. Right. So there's still this orientation towards security in a way, because it's foundational, but now it's ex.

Instead of looking for the gaps the way that the first line did. What don't I know? The fourth line is like, what do I know that I can then externalize?

I have to know it solidly enough to be able to now influence the other and externalize with it. Again, foundational shows up here because the fourth line is drawn to sharing what they know well with those that they know well.

So with the fourth line, there's an orientation towards the network and who is in my network and who is not. I often will refer to fourth lines as networkers.

They're building networks, they're maintaining networks, they're discerning and observing the networks. So fourth lines tend to. They. They don't only know who's in their Network.

They also have a sense of like, who's connected to each other and how, you know, like this is like the town gossip in a way, you know, they're maintaining an awareness of what's happening in this transpersonal realm. Similarly to how the first line is always investigating what do I need to know more? The fourth line is doing that in the transpersonal realm.

What, what don't I know about how these connections are made and who's connecting with who and what I just always picture like a horizontal grid with fourth lines. Heterarchy is a word I learned recently where instead of hierarchy, top down information, heterarchy is horizontal information.

And that's what the fourth lines do. They spread information horizontally, building networks, maintaining networks as they go.

The word opportunist is the name for the fourth line character because these are people who are looking for opportunities within their network to influence the other and to apply what they know in proximal interpersonal situations. So proximal here again, coming back to this foundation piece, they want to share what they know with those they know. Right.

There's a sense of I want to share it with the people who are like, I don't know if my, my equals comes to mind, I don't know if that's the perfect word for it, but my peers, sort of my people, my friends, my network essentially. And these people are oriented towards more, a more personalized and not universal influence.

So when a fourth line connects with someone, it's like they're plugging into this person and there's this opportunity for exchanging with one another. It almost feels like transactional in a way to me. No negative connotation, but like I can influence you this way with what I know.

What do you know and how can you influence me?

And then there's like this, okay, now that I know who you are and what you know, I'm going to clock that because down the road, through all my networking and through all my seeking opportunities for exchange and building the network, I might find someone who I see is interested in something that I don't know, but I know you know that. So make again making these connections, these opportunities for building connections.

And for the fourth line, opportunities for them come through their network. So for the fourth line, it is through the network that you find opportunities to offer what it is.

You know, one of my teachers, Amy Lee, 5:1 projector, but she used this phrase, feeding the network for fourth lines.

Fourth lines are interested in helping to connect others who are well suited to influence one another as well as maintaining and feeding the network, building that foundation for interaction.

In contrast to the third line, the fourth line is very interested in maintaining bonds because of this orientation to maintaining the grid of connection, stabilizing and creating this foundation for connection.

The fourth line person, while they might not always be tuning in in every direction of their network, the sense is sort of like you're in the network or you're out.

And so if you're in the network, if you're part of this network, part of this grid of relational connection that I belong to, then even when we are a little removed from each other, you're. You're still a part of it. And we, it might return. And there's, you know, it's almost like the, the fourth line wants to connect for life, you know.

But the third line and the fourth line in relationship with each other. No one who has a three in their profile ever has a four in their profile.

It can be useful to just be aware of the difference in relational orientation. The third line is going to break bonds sometimes and pull away.

And that might feel bad to the fourth line or at least very different, you know, so just understanding that when a third line breaks a bond, it's not necessarily personal, but third lines, you know, also understanding that the fourth lines in your world, they orient a relationship a little bit differently than you and nobody has to change anything. But just awareness of that difference, I think is worth noting.

Karen Curry Parker calls this one the stabilizer and says this line is all about laying the foundation for community and connection and preparing the way for the sharing and spreading of ideas. And here's a raw quote about the fourth line. The real gift of the fourth line being is their capacity to influence those that they know.

The worst thing for a fourth line being is to try to influence or try to have a relationship with a stranger. One of the most important jobs of the fourth line is that it sets the foundation of how we deal with the other.

Where the first three lines are concerned about what happens to them and their discovery and their experience. The upper trigram is concerned about reaching across the channel and meeting somebody else. They are more aware of the other.

So while, you know, I mentioned and Carrie, Carrie Parker calls the first line the resource and I mentioned, like walking encyclopedia types, human Googles. There's something that, about that, that extends to fourth lines, but instead of it being about information, they're not a resource for information.

Fourth lines are a resource for connectivity and community and collaboration. So the stabilizer, the foundation of how we connect.

And if we think about what's to come is the fifth line, which is integrating and synthesizing this ability to influence the other. But with the fifth line, it's going to be more universal themes.

But I think about how fourth lines, because they feed the network, because they are oriented to building and maintaining this grid of connection, that fourth line character lays the foundation that allows then for the fifth line and the sixth line versions of transpersonal orientation to take place. Fifth lines have a big message for a wider audience of strangers.

And sixth lines are these role models who with their lives are demonstrating something to the rest of us. So all these transpersonal orientations through 4, 5 and 6.

But for the 4, it's kind of like with a 1, it's like the nitty gritty work of building and maintaining the network. So that connection exists for that in the fifth line and the sixth line to come and do their thing.

The fourth color associations here are determination, calm and nervous touch. So it has to do with like stimulation.

So again, that idea almost thinking about the fourth line network as like the nervous, the nervous system of the body, like the nerves, the neural wiring and the information spreading. So stimulation comes in here, mountains, environment for fourth color.

So being able to kind of come up above the personal realm a little bit and have this heightened perspective where you can see everything that's going on is one way to see that need motivation. The mind is concept is motivated to conceptualize according to kind of like what could elevate the experience here.

Like the opportunist looking for an opportunity to influence the other, looking for opportunities for connection. It feels very curative to me. I always think of curation with need motivation. Like motivated to kind of like fear motivation.

The harmonic or in this case what's called transference is what do we need to know better. And need is like not so concerned with what we know. That part's done right. I just finished three.

I just finished knowing and figuring out what's really true and what really works. And four, it's like, how could we just elevate it a little bit? So again, elevation with the mountains there and then wanting view.

Fourth color sees what's wanting in a situation. Kind of sees the little things that are missing not from like a survival point of view, but again from that more curative, elevated perspective.

And the fourth line in context here. So once again we have four different profile combinations. We have the 4:1 and the 4:6, in which case the personality is the opportunist.

So these are people who think of themselves as having these fourth Line characteristics. They are the networkers.

They see themselves as, yes, I'm here to build the grid of connection here to look for opportunities for influencing the other and being influenced by the other, communally oriented people and aware of it, social beings, one fours and two fours. It's the design or the body that is the opportunist.

So these are people for whom these fourth line characteristics are qualities of the form, less conscious to the personality. And at this point we've discussed the one and the two.

So for these two, for instance, you can think about kind of the, the difference between the mind being in such a personal process and then the body always driving the being towards connectivity, even though the mind thinks that it needs to be alone or needs to be focused. So now that we're at the 4, at 4 already, we've looked at most of the numbers.

So of these four profiles, 46 is the only one that we won't take a look at here because we'll reserve that for when we've looked at the sixth line in more detail.

We can look in a little more detail and kind of tease out the combination of fourth line personality, first line body or first line personality, fourth line body, second line personality, fourth line body. So first I want to look at the 41 and the 1 4. Because in this case we're looking at harmonic profiles, right? Because they're both foundational.

There's a harmony between the four and the one.

So even though we have one personal, one transpersonal, it's like they kind of feed off of each other harmonically because they're oriented to the foundations of both trigrams of both the personal and the transpersonal realm. So let's look at that, the four one, the opportunist investigator and the one for the investigator opportunist two of the harmonic profiles.

In this case, both the personality and the body orient to foundation for the 4:1, the personality is concerned with relational security, this feeding the grid, this who's in my network, who can I have these exchanges with? While the body requires and ensures an orientation towards personal security.

So the fourth line personality is, thinks that it's really all about community and connection. But the first line body maintains this sort of orientation towards security through, through knowing, through that personal investigation process.

And it's not a lot of tension there.

The way that we'll see for our non harmonic profiles, it's like the, the first line body's investigative orientation just sort of naturally feeds into how the fourth line personality shows up. Conversely, for the 1 4, the personality is concerned with personal security.

So the personality is always thinking I have to learn more, know more, investigate more, solidify the foundation. While the body requires and ensures an orientation towards relational security.

So the 14 might feel like not as much of a social being, but we'll find that the body is always bringing it into situations where it has these opportunities to connect with others and to feed the network. In the 24 we get to the hermit opportunist. And this is a non harmonic profile.

And so this one is there's going to be a bit more tension between the orientation of the conscious second line and the unconscious fourth line in this case the personality. The second line personality desires and orients to isolation and personal orientation.

Hermitting wants to hermitage doesn't really want to be around people all the time or be I I should say the second line personality doesn't always really want to be in exchange with people all the time. But the fourth line body requires and ensures connection to an influence of the other.

The hermit personality must surrender to the body's need for the network.

Oftentimes what I see in two fours and this is something I notice because I'm only I'm looking at like how my second line body needs to be actually physically away from other bodies. But something I see a lot with the 24 is that the 4th line body actually needs to be in connection.

But then the second line personality or the second line mind is kind of able to be in physical space connection with others fourth line body. But the second line mind is still happy. It's able to hermit and do its own thing even in the proximity of others.

Which is probably not so much the case for people with a second line body. So just a little anecdotal thing that I notice, the hermit personality must surrender to the body's need for the network.

I have a 24 friend who like likes to go out to bars and clubs and stuff alone and just kind of sometimes go be dancing and socializing but also be on the perimeter just kind of watching. And it's like doing their own hermit process within the context of a social situation.

The second line personality can rely on the body's ability to be the opportunist. Remember the second line has these natural gifts that it's projecting out that others see.

And often the second line needs to be called out to offer those things. The hermit being called out to offer its wisdom.

And as a 24 this can work kind of nicely because the network that your body just naturally orients to maintaining even though from a personality place. You think you're actually pretty introverted probably.

But you have that network because your body is is constantly requiring and orienting towards community and connectivity in the social realm. So for two fours the network happens without you doing anything and your calls come from within your network.

But consciously you're still orienting as this like kind of loner to an extent. But you notice that the body is always pulling you into connectivity and relationship and community.

And then the 46 again we'll take a look at when we look at the sixth line profile.

Speaker A: 00:21:55

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