46. Line 6: The Role Model

Speaker A: 00:00:00

The sixth line is searching for this truth, this ultimate truth and this ultimate authenticity. And so they're looking for that in the other. And how can you know who your soul desires to connect with?

How can you experience another soul connecting with you and yours if you're not truthfully living as the soul that you truly are? So a soulmate in terms of like I am truly being and embodying me and my differentiation and my subjective truth.

And in doing that it allows for another soul to recognize me and for us to have a real true soul level connection.

Speaker A: 00:00:44

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Speaker A: 00:02:11

Line 6 the role model, so here we are at the completion of the entire six line process and at the completion specifically of the upper trigram transpersonal realm. In this part of the process, it's about transition, because after the six we move to the one.

So not only is the six completing a trigram like the three is, but the six is also completing this entire gate. And so it is a part of the nature of the six.

To look ahead, to look out beyond the five looks kind of almost down or back at the process up to this point in order to make its universalization. And then the six just embodies that and is looking ahead into the next thing. So there's a transition, a feeling of transition here.

And we can see that in the house metaphor. The six on the house is this guy not even. He's not even in the house. He's laying on the roof and he's looking up at the sky.

He's looking at what's beyond the house. This is solar plexus binary. So along with the five, it is oriented towards the experiential. The five is the yin version, the six is the Yang version.

So the six is putting out, almost like the. The second lens putting out its projection as a Yang line.

The six line's putting something out into the world, but it's not a projection that it's putting out, it's putting out itself. It's role modeling. It's embodiment of whatever the gate is or the channel. It's like the fifth line is the messenger. It has a message to give.

But the sixth line just lives that message out with its authenticity and its embodiment. But you can feel the solar plexus binary in both of these things.

This experientially based orientation, sixth line role model, boiling it down to the basics and the patterns again here, upper trigram, so transpersonal, and is about influencing the other with what you've learned. The sixth line is harmonic to the third line. I didn't mention this, so let me go back. But the third line's transitional in a way as well, right?

It's moving from the first floor to the second floor. The sixth line is moving from the very top of the house into what's beyond. So transitioning out of the house entirely and into the next structure.

Harmonic to the third, it's about doing the thing. So for the three, it's like, okay, I learned it in one, I integrated it and synthesized it into. And then in the three, I go out and do the thing.

I practically apply it. And so the sixth line is to five and four what the third is to two and three. So it's about doing the thing in this, this time.

It's about living your life in pursuit of the truth. Right? You're not just discovering something anymore for the sake of your own personal understanding and concrete knowing.

For three in the sixth, it's this like higher, more big picture orientation towards discovering something. But the thing you're discovering is your ultimate truth, the pursuit of truth and. And modeling that truth and authenticity to others.

Through embodying what you know, what you've discovered through this process of the six lines, we can think about it like one through five is the, the known universe. And six is looking around outside of its universe. It's naturally transitional, going beyond what is known.

In anticipation of line one of the next gate, it's preparing to dig into a new, a foundation of a new orientation. The fifth line calls out the truth. The sixth line lives. The truth embodies the truth. Role models the truth.

And becoming the role model is a lifelong process. We're going to talk about these three distinctive life phases, which to be clear, are life phases that we all experience. They're based on transits.

And so these are true for everyone. What I'm about to share about this getting on the roof process in the three life phases is true for everyone.

However, this evolution towards the third life phase and all the parts of the evolution, these three life phases that I'm about to go over, they're not as crucial to your becoming and playing the character. I can move through these three life phases as a 1 3, but I can still be a 13 in any of these phases.

I can still fully live up to my role as the 13 character in all three of these phases. And that is the same for all of the profiles that don't contain a sixth line.

But for the sixth line, you can't fully embody the role model until this third life phase. And so while the phases are distinctive for all of us, they feel extra distinctive for the sixth line. And they're experienced especially deeply.

And the experience of these three life phases is directly influencing the six lines process of becoming a role model, becoming who they are on a profile character basis. The three distinctive life phases are age 0 to 30. This is pre Saturn return. And this is when they're in the third.

Everyone is in what we call the third line phase, the sort of trial and error phase of life. And for six lines this is. It's harmonic, right? It's harmonic to your six, the three.

And so you really are experiencing the third line line phase pretty much like you're a third line. Just like third lines, you're bumping into things.

You're finding things out the hard way, but because you are about this other thing, this ultimate truth, embodying the ultimate truth and demonstrating and role modeling this, you're not enjoying the, this third line phase the way that third lines can, right? Third lines are like, yeah, I love to fuck around and find out. I love to bump into things.

It's it gives them the thing they're after, which is the concrete knowing on the mundane practical level for their own personal discovery. That's not the thing that you as a sixth line are after.

You as a sixth line are after almost like perfection in a way, like the perfect embodiment of the ultimate subjective truth. It's still your subjective truth, but you're after this ability to fully embody and role model that.

So six lines tend to not appreciate the having to bump around and hit things and learn things and discover things in this first 30 years of their life, pre Saturn return, because they have this sense of I'm here to show the world something, to demonstrate this truth. Why do I have to keep falling on my ass, right? And then there's not this built in resilience.

Again, the third line, when they bump into things, it immediately feeds into their desire to know things. And it doesn't work the same for the sixth line.

So there can be a lot of, a lot of struggle for six lines, especially six lines who don't have a three because there are two six line profiles with a three in it as well. So if you're a six three or a three six, you do have that resilience.

But there might just still be like an aching for a kind of knowing and demonstration that's not available to you in that pre Saturn return phase.

And then for everyone of all profiles, when you turn 30 or when you have your Saturn return, you enter this middle phase of life which is referred to in human design as the on the roof phase. This is from the Saturn return, the first Saturn return, until the Chiron return.

This is where it's like you're having to move through the house until the Saturn return. And then everybody to an extent climbs up onto our respective roofs.

When we have the Saturn return, we detach a bit from the third, the lifelong up to this point discovery process of trial and error. And then everybody of any profile has a sort of elevated vantage point.

When we get to our roof phase where we kind of climb out, we're not as we're not we not trying to learn so much anymore.

We've experienced a whole lot now and now we're drawn to sort of detaching for a bit and viewing things from this perspective of I'm up on my roof, I've climbed up to my roof after living my life up to this point and I kind of get to become, you know, it's Saturn. So as an astrologer, I think about how at the Saturn return we Sort of become our own authority for the first time.

And we detach a bit from everything happening down there in the house, in the conditioning field, on the projection field, even. So when we're on the roof, we're gaining perspective, some detachment, some aloofness.

But when this happens for the sixth line in particular, again, it is just experienced so much more deeply because as first, second, third, fourth, fifth line, when you go up on the roof, you're still engaging at the level of the other of the lines in your profile. But when you're a sixth line and you go up on the roof, you're no longer engaging in a third line phase like you were.

You move from that staircase up to the roof, and there's a part of you that just fully removes itself from the house. I say a part of you because you have another line in your profile that's still gonna engage down there.

But when you're a sixth line and you're on the roof, whether it's your personality or your design, this massive part of you is just fully removed from the house process.

And even though we all have that metaphorical sort of detachment, regardless of profile, when we hit the roof phase, the rest of us are still very tethered to our other kind of station in the house with our. With our lines. But the sixth line, a part of you just fully detaches.

So that transition to going up on the roof is a very, very distinct shift for six lines during, a little bit before, during, and then especially after the Saturn return. And it doesn't happen in an instant. It's typically thought of as like a couple years before, during, and a couple years after your Saturn return.

It's like this slow climb to really get up onto the roof to detangle from your third line phase. My friend Vaness Henry, a 6:2 ego manifester who's pretty, pretty well up on the roof at this point.

I've heard her talk about it as like, this, this middle phase is where you're kind of looking back and healing from your neuroses that you gained while you were in this third line phase. You were the sensitive sixth line being, but you had to move through the challenging third line phase.

And so this middle 20 years is like a time to get some space and really look at and confront and recover from all the neuroses of those first 30 years. Even before hearing that from Vanessa, I kind of thought of it similarly, of like, there's two things happening.

You're looking back and you're contextualizing everything. You've learned up to this point, you're gaining perspective.

There's aloofness, detachment from it, where you can look at it all a little more clearly from way up here on the roof. For those of you who speak astrology, the roof phase has always felt very Aquarian to me.

Like I'm way out here looking in at something from the outside, detached. And then the other thing happening when you're on the roof is you are starting to calibrate more to being a role model.

So part of what happens when a sixth line is on the roof is they're becoming more aware of who their role models are. And they're almost like a role model in training.

They're starting to really see who in my world is modeling things, who in my world is embodying their subjective authentic truth and just living their life in that way and gaining an understanding of what it means to be in a role model through observing role models. That doesn't have to mean you're only observing sixth lines, right?

You're just noticing who to you is representative of this idea of role modelship, of authentically living the truth.

And then at age 50, or a little after age 50, the Chiron return happens and after the chiron return, we come off the roof and we fully actually become the role model or there is the potential to really lean into this role of the role model.

And what I sort of envision with six lines coming off the roof is like there's a amount of healing that has taken place so that now there's a readiness and an availability for coming back down into the house or back down onto the field after a 20 year period of having removed oneself from life in a way, from aspects of life in a way. But now there's this awareness that has like built this capacity for being able to go back down. But now I'm not going to be so impacted.

My body's not going to get thrown around anymore because I know what I know now and I'm embodying what I know now. There's themes for six lines of truth, authenticity, soulmates, physical health.

The physical health piece is like when a six line is resistant to climbing onto the roof. There can be a lot of health systems stuff that takes place, but I think it goes beyond that as well. Embodiment, like it's.

It's done a lot for me personally to, to think about the six as being the most evolved part of this process. Sixth tone for sense, your body's cognition or sense is touch.

And so I just that that's done a lot for me to feel into, like, really physical experience. Embodiment is the most evolved thing we can do.

And it's funny because when we think about, like, a lot of times when we think about spiritual awakening, it can be easy to think that the more you wake up, the less of this world, of this third dimension that you are. So for me, it's just been really helpful to think about the sixth line as the ultimate and the most evolved.

The sixth color, the sixth line, the sixth tone. And it's like, very oriented towards the body. And the view for sixth color is personal view. It's very committed to what am I experiencing as myself.

So the sixth line, it. It's. It's not maybe quite what you first think when you think role model. Because the sixth line isn't showing us, like, the truth necessarily.

The sixth line is modeling their truth. So it takes the universality of the fifth line or the fifth color, the fifth tone, that orientation.

And then it, like, fully embodies it in a way that only they can. And they demonstrate their truth as the role model. It's. It's the ultimate destination really, of that gate.

So these themes of truth, authenticity, living authentically as myself. And then there's the soulmate theme that shows up a lot. It's sometimes tricky for me to, like, remember why there's that connection.

I can, like, feel, feel it. And my partner is a sixth line. And I totally feel his orientation towards the soulmate thing.

I think it's like the sixth line is searching for this truth, this ultimate truth, and this ultimate authenticity. And so they're looking for that in the other. And it's transpersonal, right? It's the completion of the transpersonal trigram.

So it wants to experience the other, and it's just naturally oriented to experiencing the other, but like the pinnacle of the other, right?

So it's like when I am embodying the truth of me and you are embodying the truth of you, like, where is the ultimate embodiment of influencing the other? What is the truth of relationship? What is the truth of embodying the self on this shared transpersonal plane?

How does that show up through the realm of I am me, you are you, and what do we experience through role modeling these differentiated subjective truths in connection with one another? Here's a raw quote about the sixth line.

Everything about being a sixth line being is understanding that their role in this life is to end up being the example for others. This is a line of transition. And this transition is from Going through a process of observer observed to simply being correct.

I think ultimately it's not about this, you know, mentally driven need to be seen and to role model something. It's more about to simply being correct. It stops being about I need people to see me, I need to be observed.

And it, it becomes more I need to be true to who I am. And in doing so, you lead by example.

And it's not that other people are going to parrot what you're modeling, but they see this example of someone role modeling being authentically themselves self. And I guess kind of bringing the soulmate thing back into that is like how can you know who your soul desires to connect with?

How can you experience another soul connecting with you and yours if you're not truthfully living as the soul that you truly are? So a soulmate in terms of like I am truly being and embodying me and my differentiation and my subjective truth.

And in doing that, it allows for another soul to recognize me and for us to have a real true soul level connection. Sixth color. The determination here is direct indirect light.

So this has to do with you can, you can digest anything as long as you are either in or out of direct sunlight. Shores, environment, these are people whose bodies resonate with being on a shore at the precipice of, of one thing to another.

So for natural shores, land to water, those are left facing arrows. For artificial shores, these are people with right facing arrows, right variable for environment. And it can be a artificial shore.

So I have artificial shores, environment. And it's like balconies kind of being, even windows, you know, being at the edge of one space and looking out into another.

So this transitional idea and that transfers to light determination as well. Right.

Like sunset and sunrise are these transitional moments from the half of our life which is in the day and the half of our life which is in the night. Innocence motivation is kind of like this detached orientation the mind conceptualizes according to just what it's observing in a detached way.

And like solar plexus binary. Again like to me, I have innocence motivation as well.

When I look to what I have in common with other innocence motivation people, it's a lot of like the sort of thinking about life as a video game, reality as a game, and just sort of playing innocently, not really having an agenda. So that detached piece of the six line, obviously there's again so much more to this.

Just kind of drawing a few connections from six line to six color personal viewers. So really owning what I'm experiencing. I, I can Only see what I see from my vantage point. I can't see what everybody else sees.

And that becomes really the like vantage point for people with personal view when they're in alignment is they're not trying to see things all sorts of ways. They're, they're just embracing what they see from a personal, personal vantage point.

I'm not a six line, but I've talked a lot with six line friends as a second line body. I can kind of relate to aspects of this because it was really at the Saturn return for everybody. The Saturn return is a reckoning, right?

We know this in astrology outside of human design as well, that at the Saturn return you're kind of forced to reckon with the limitation of your form, which is I didn't start using exactly that language until human design because I learned that in human design you can kind of get away with not living as yourself.

But then the ways that you aren't living with yourself are going to kind of come to a head at or around the Saturn return and you won't be able to carry on. You don't have the youthful, you're not in the third line phase anymore.

So you already found out the trial and error has happened and you start to really know what works for you and what doesn't.

And so coming back to my second line resonance here is as a second line body I wasn't consciously aware of how sensitive my body is of how much alone time that I need.

And so as I'm deconditioning and specifically since post Saturn return, it's just like I'm detaching more and more and more and I'm hiding more and more and more and I'm less and less interested in like being out and socializing for the sake of being out and socializing. It like has to feel right and it's so much more rare.

So when I meet people post Saturn return it's like so wild to me that they don't know how much of socialite I used to be and how outgoing and just constantly out in the world and doing things and making connections and really kind of behaving like a fourth line. And I've, I've had conversations with six line friends who are like just.

It's a world of difference between how I show up in the world and in relationship before I got on the roof and now that I'm on the roof. So there's like an empathy that second line bodies I think and six lines in general have with that sort of like, oh, I Am not who I used to be.

All right, now looking at the 6 line in context, we've now covered all 6 lines so we can look at all 4 iterations of the 6 line profile, including the 62 and the 6 3, in which case this the personality is the role model.

So the person thinks of themselves as having these six line role model characteristics as well as the three six and the four six in which the design or the body is the role model. And so these characteristics of role modelship are qualities of the form less conscious to the personality.

We'll start as we have been with the two profiles that are harmonic, so the 6:3 and the 3:6. The third line is harmonic to the sixth. For both of these profiles, the personality in the body orients to completion to dependable knowledge.

So for the six three, the role model martyr, the personality is concerned with being the role model, with living in truth and authenticity as oneself. While the third line body nourishes this process via unconscious personal discovery through trial and error. So again it is harmonious.

There's a natural flow between the third line body's process and how that is able to nourish and heal feed the six line personality's role model orientation.

And for the three six, the personality is concerned with personal discovery, the martyr, the martyr role model, the third line personality is concerned with personal discovery via trial and error while the six line body unconsciously utilizes those discoveries for the purposes of modeling truth and authenticity. So I kind of see it as like the 6:3. I have a very close 6:3 to me and a very close 3:6 to me. And I kind of see it as like this.

They're both learning things for themselves and embodying this really beautiful like leadership role modeling this stuff that they've learned. And there's like such a concrete truth and an authenticity to these profiles.

But for the 6:3, it's like the conscious orientation is towards I have to learn what I have to learn so that I can demonstrate so that I can be a role model, live in my truth. And then there's this unconscious process of like bumping around and finding out and this resilience that goes with it.

Versus for the 3 6, the orientation is like I'm learning about it and it's a personal trigram consciously. So it's. I'm not necessarily trying to role model something. I'm more about my own personal process of discovery.

But it just so happens that because of my six line body, once I learn the thing, I really begin to embody it. And others are watching and others are able to learn from it. Even though that's not really my goal, that's not really my orientation.

And for both the 6:3 and the 3:6, the stuff that I was saying about like oh, the third line phase can be so hard for the sixth line, it doesn't maybe hold as true for the 63 because when it's a harmonic profile, it's harmonic profiles are rare by the way. And I will, we'll look at that, that breakdown in the final lecture to come on profile.

But for the 63 and the 3 6, like the 6, it feeds on the third line process in a way that feels a bit more congruent and more supportive than for 6 line profiles like the 62 and the 46 who don't have a 3 in their profile. So they have to move through that phase without the natural resilience that these two harmonic profiles have.

So getting into the other two six line profiles, the non harmonic ones, there's going to be a bit more of a tension between the sixth line including its third line phase and then the other number. So the second line or the fourth line. Let's start with the 6:2.

The role model Hermit the six line personality desires to be the role model who lives in demonstration of truth and authenticity. While the body requires privacy and security in order to protect the natural gifts.

So there's some tension here between the six line personality who's going I have to get out there and live my truth and the second line body who's like I have to protect myself. I don't actually know if I want people to see. And also like what even do I have to show?

I'm not even sure what it is that I have to demonstrate and show because I can't even see myself. The nature of the second line, what am I role modeling? Well, it needs to be called out in me. I don't even really know my natural gifts.

So the body is. This is sensitive. It's requiring privacy and security to protect the natural gifts.

But the six line personality is first of all in the third line phase bumping into shit. That, that poor second line body, it doesn't get to remain protected. Right? Kind of like when I was talking about the 1 3.

First line mind is really obsessing with security. But the third line body keeps getting it hurt, presenting it situations that feel unsafe to the first line mind versus the 6:2 is like a 3:2, right?

Where the third line personality during that third line phase is bumping into shit and the second poor second line sensitive body that just wants to hermit is like what are you doing to me? But the difference is that the 1 3, even though the first line line thinks that it's lacking security, the third line body maintains the resilience.

The resilience is available to the 13 for the 6 2. It There is a resilience, but it's like a long arc resilience for the 6:2. It's like it's hard and you feel like you're not resilient.

But what that teaches you allows you to eventually ultimately arrive to and embody this truth.

So a 6:2, when you're like kind of operating as a 3:2, you don't actually have that in the moment resilience and but you're getting banged around and your second line body is kind of getting dragged. So I almost see the third line phase for six twos being like the most challenging of these four profiles and probably an overgeneralization.

But that's just something that I've kind of noticed as I've watched kids who of these different profiles as well as like heard from friends on the roof with these profiles.

I have a friend who's a parent of a 6:2 projector and they were telling me that this kid like when they fall on the playground they get like really embarrassed. So that's what I think about a lot with the 6:2.

The conscious awareness that I'm here to demonstrate something, I'm a leader, but then having to bump into things as a kid like that almost like that embarrassment of I felt, oh my God, you know, that feels, that's what I see with 6:2. It's like that like the humility that is a result of the second line body feeling so sensitive and shy at times.

But the six in the six line personality wanting to live up to this expectation they have for themselves of like embodying the ultimate truth and role modeling but then having to like learn the hard way and knowing that people see that and not maybe not wanting to be seen as a hermit body.

So the six line personality has to surrender to the sensitivity of the second line body and trust the body's natural gifts to nourish the role modelship in time.

Trust that you are in the process of attaining what it is you need to obtain in order to to role model what it is that you consciously are aware that you're role modeling that you're here to role model over time. And the six line personality can rely on the second line body's Natural orientation and knowledge to inform what you are here to demonstrate.

You aren't going to fully be the role model until post chiron return at the earliest, until 50 or later. But you can lean into your second line body's natural orientation. What do you love to do? What are you naturally skilled at?

And just nourish those talents, nourish those gifts and just trust that it will lead you to the role modelship that you are more consciously sort of fixating on in time. And the second line body may be relieved when the six line personality begins to climb onto the roof. Right.

I was talking on the last slide about how there's, there's a bit of overlapping sort of quality of experience for second lines and six lines.

I think sometimes even though they're not harmonic, because the six line pulls away, it goes through that whole 20 year roof phase which is like hermiting.

And the second line is on a more frequent level pulling away into its hermit phases, into its hermit nature, hermit crab, you know, coming into its shell. And so when the second, when the 62 moves from the 32 phase into the 62 phase there can really be this like sense of relief.

Like the second line body's like finally we're pulling away, thank God versus it can be very different with the 4 6.

So moving into the 4 6, the opportunist role model I mentioned with the 13 that the 13 is the only profile with both numbers in the personal trigram, the lower trigram, the 46 is the only profile with both numbers in the upper trigram, the 4 6. And so even just in that you can kind of feel into why might the 46 have a harder time going on the roof and pulling away from it all?

Because the other part of the sixth line is the four which is very invested in what's happening in the transpersonal realm. So we'll get to that. But first the fourth line.

So the 4 6, the opportunist role model, the fourth line personality desires to make and maintain relational connections and influence the other personally. While the six line body requires a transcendence of the interpersonal realm.

So the six line body, it is both in and it's in this world, sorry, it's of this world, but not in this world is sort of how the 6 line is. It's the culmination of this world, but it's looking to what's beyond.

So there can be some tension there in this non harmonic profile where the fourth line it really wants to stay on the ground of this transpersonal realm. But the sixth line is pulling it away, pulling it towards this aloofness, this detachment on the roof.

The fourth line personality has to surrender to the sixth line's need for aloofness and detachment, especially at the roof phase and the transition to the roof phase.

The fourth line personality can trust the six line body's capacity for the highest level of influence and can trust that that 6 line's ability to influence, to embody in time will ensure and maintain the integrity of the network. The fourth line is so about exchange and externalization and therefore can really resist the process of climbing onto the roof.

But if fourth line personality can surrender to the six lines process and lean into this less conscious what you're less consciously aware of, but is absolutely ultimately true about your body and your form and your design in your life, which is that you are here to influence the other and the transpersonal realm in a massive way by being the example, by being the role model. But in order to do that, your orientation to the network as a 46 has to change.

It has to take a different shape after your Saturn return as you transition onto the roof so that your role modelship can can be cultivated.

And then when you come off the roof, it's like you arrive as the opportunist role model and you're able to reestablish yourself in the network as the role model rather than as the fake four three. The four fake three that you were in your first 30 years of life.

And as I mentioned, of the four sixth line profiles, this one is generally understood to have the most challenging experience of that transition onto the roof because of the extremely social and relational orientation of the fourth line personality.

Speaker A: 00:37:19

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