Episode 23 - The Human Design Profile Lines 1-6

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Hi friends. Welcome back. This week we are talking about the profile lines in human design. So this will be our last episode in this season about human design. Then we'll move on to something else in the next season. Okay, so let's talk about the line one profile in human design. The line one is the base of the Chinese hexagram.

And so this is a foundational line. Foundations need support. They need information, they need structure. So anyone who has a line one in their profile and the profile, let me back up here for a second. The profile is found by looking at your conscious and unconscious sun. The conscious sun number is the first number and the unconscious sun, is the second number.

So you'll see like, Five slash two or one slash three, and that will be your profile. So the first one is the conscious, the second one is the unconscious, which seems a little bit backwards 'cause you're looking from right to left on the chart. When you find these, it'll also be on any software that you use.

It'll just print out your profile numbers. But if you wanna know where they come from, that's where they come from. Okay. So the first line is all about foundations. This is somebody who is. Probably a lifelong learner. They are somebody who is always looking for more information, who wants detailed information, who always feels like they don't know enough.

They can get kind of lost in that. They're always looking for somebody who has the information and that person has to be somebody who is reputable. They're looking for a mentor. A lot of times they're looking for literature that backs up, you know, what they think they know. They're always looking for more information from a credible source.

And so this is the part where if they don't know, they're going to go looking for more information. So if you have a child who has a first line profile, this is somebody who is going to need more information. They might be the child who asks you how you know, what you know, where did you learn this? Can you show me?

Can you prove it to me? And so it's important to teach these kids how to find good information because we live in a world of YouTube and Google and so many other things, and AI now, and, and you know, there's so many sources that we're pulling from that are not credible. So we need to teach them how to vet information.

How do they find information that is credible? How do they find a good source? Teach them that, and that will go far for them. Get them a library card. These are kids that are gonna wanna know more. They're gonna be always digging for more information. The drawback to this I'll say is that sometimes they can get stuck in thinking that they don't know enough.

And if they don't know enough, then they can't put themselves out there. So we have to teach these kids that. They do know enough, and if they find that they don't know enough about something, they have the ability to go research and find the information that they need. So they shouldn't be afraid to just jump in and try.

And this number is always paired with a profile line that pulls this person out a little bit more into the environment and gets them out with people.

So there's a balance here of like trying it and researching it or. Showing people or teaching people or interacting with people and sharing what they know.

These kids may also need some time alone to integrate what they learn. So they may like to read a lot. They may like to be alone in their room reading. They may get lost on the internet, you know, going down rabbit holes of, of researching and learning and figuring things out. And so it's important to give them some space for that, but also not get lost in that continuous search request for more information without sharing what they know because they were a wealth of information. Okay, the second line profile is the hermit. And I actually didn't say the first one. The first is the investigator, so that gives you more insight into why they're always looking for more information.

The second line is the hermit. The hermit is a natural, like they just know information. They know stuff, but they don't always know how they know it. And so this creates a little bit of a conflict because they are such a source of wisdom. That they have gathered over time, but they don't always know where that wisdom came from.

And so we live in a world that wants us to prove what we know. And like that first line wants to prove that things are the way that they say they are or that there's information or knowledge to back up what this person knows. You know, if, if these two were interacting the second line. May get scared of that, they may kind of shy away and go, I don't know exactly how I know, I just know.

But that starts to build a little bit of an insecurity in them because now they have to prove what they know. So they're this wealth of information, but they tend to not speak up always because they're afraid that somebody's gonna ask them to prove what they know. And that can be really difficult because now they have to go find the information and prove it.

So this can go one of two ways. They can shy away from. Telling people what they know because they don't wanna prove it. Or they can become the, person who overcompensates and now says something and then scurries to find the information to prove it all the time. And this can get exhausting and it's not really the best use of their innate abilities.

So it's helping them to learn to trust that they know what they know, that that information came from somewhere in their world. So this, hermit. They do need time alone, but when they're out in the world, they are gathering experiences, they're gathering information, they're having interactions with people.

And then when, when they retreat into their Hermitage, they are integrating , that experience into knowledge and wisdom. Once they get into their Hermitage, they may not wanna come out. So, In the example of using a child, this may be a child that hunker's down in their room and doesn't wanna come out.

They're very happy in there. They're very content being in their own space, not having anybody project anything onto them, not having anybody expecting them to know something or having them prove what they know. And so they can hide away in there very nicely for a long time. But they do have a fear underneath there that they might be forgotten about that.

They might just disappear. Nobody would notice. There is an interesting effect here that this profile kind of has a vortex around it that will pull them back out. Other people will notice that they're missing. Other people will notice that their energy is not here. And after some time they will go looking for them.

They will call them, they will text them, they will pull them back out of this Hermitage and ask them to come back out and join the world again. So that fear is really unfounded because there's always somebody kind of pulling them out of it. Our role is to help them , as children, you know, recognize, like it's okay to take time to yourself and it's okay to be out in the world.

So we have to help them find that balance of coming out and sharing what they know. This is the energy of the child who is. Doing something like dancing, and they are all in their world, they're just doing their own thing, not even paying attention to other people or watching. And then someone says what a great dancer they are and wants them to teach them something, or they want to put them in lessons or, you know, there's something else that the, the parent or the other person has as an agenda.

And now the attention and focus is on. The child with a second line profile and they clam up and they go into their hermitage because now the attention is on them. They were lost in their own little world creating and doing what they were doing, and now the attention is on them and they don't want that necessarily.

So you have a child with this, you know, it's important to let them be in that little world. Let them be in that creative space and you know, Don't always interrupt it, just let it be and, and witness it and experience that because it's a really beautiful space for them to be in. Okay. The Line three is known as The Martyr.

Don't really like this name. I don't fully understand where it comes from, but it's an interesting one. So I think of this more as the experimenter. This is , A person who learns by doing, and in our world, we have a lot of perceptions about if you do something and it doesn't work, then it's failed.

Well, that is not how this works for the third line person. Everything is an experiment. They learn by doing, and we know that every time we do something, it's not going to come out perfect. It's not going to be right the first time. we have to help people who have this third line profile understand that it's all an experiment.

It's just an experiment. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But we can't let that affect our own self-worth or value or perception of ourselves. We have to recognize that this is just their way of doing. This is also probably a child who does not accept because I said so or because that's how we do it.

They're going to push those limits and want to know, well, why? Let's try it a different way. What if we do it this other way and this is a really important energy because this is how we change the way we do things. It's more of that. Like when I was talking about the emotions and the emotional ways, it's kind of like that individual energy that helps mutate, it helps us change the way we do things.

It pushes us to look at the way we do things and question, why is it this way? Why can't we do it another way? Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but that trying process is really important. , so, if you have a child with this, it's important to say. I don't know. I don't know why we do it this way. Let's try it your way.

Let's see what happens if we do this other thing. You know, be willing to experiment. These are like, these are little scientists, and if you're an adult with this profile, don't lose that quality. It's so important. It is. It is creative. It is magical energy. So harness that and use it to your ability. Okay.

Line four is the opportunist also kind of a strange name, but I can kind of see where this one comes from more. So the fourth line is the foundation of the upper trigram lines four, five, and six. So like the line one, it's another foundational line. It needs information, it needs to know what's going to happen.

You know, this is , a person who needs to know what's coming, what's next, what to expect. So if you're going to go to a new place, you know, the, the fourth line person might wanna know who's gonna be there, what's it gonna be like, what's the weather? What should I bring? Are there gonna be things to eat?

Like, you know, they're gonna ask all of those questions and it may, you know, if this is a child, it may drive you a little bit bonkers because they're full of questions about what to expect. If you're somebody who maybe has a third line profile and is like, let's just see, let's, let's just jump in and see what happens.

This can be frustrating for you because, you know, they're not just going with it. They want you to nail down all the information, but the more that you can do that for them, the more secure they'll feel and the more they'll be willing to go along with the process. So this is really important that the more information you give them, that you can give them, the more secure they'll feel, the more willing they'll be to go along with it.

The other thing about this is that their opportunities in life come to them through the people they know or people who know. People they know. So their jobs, their you know, opportunities in life in general will all come their network of people. So they may know a ton of people in their life.

They may be one of those people who knows lots and lots of people. They have tons of Facebook friends or whatever social media they're on. They don't really know them. They have a few core people that they let into their circle that they let in deeply, but they hold them very closely. These core are going to be their people that are very important to them, even though they know tons of people.

And that network is big because remember, that's where all their, their opportunities come to them from.

Spontaneity may be kind of hard for these kids. So learn to help them gather the information they need to feel secure. And the same for adults, but over time, the more you understand this about yourself, if you have a fourth line profile, the more you will be able to adapt. make change more easily and gracefully because you'll understand what is involved.

So, In the beginning, there is this learning of like, what do I need to know? I need more information. But over time this person becomes very good and adept at making those changes. Okay, now we're onto the fifth line, which is the heretic. This is somebody who is here to show us what's possible with their out of the box thinking, but they can be heavily projected upon to be the saviors or fixers.

So, This is a really interesting profile. it's one of the more complex ones if you ask me, and maybe even the most complex one. I actually have this profile and I still find it to be quite complex because there are so many different elements to it. So these are kids adults who are projected upon by the world.

The world sees them as people who are capable, who have. Information, who can fix things, who can save the day? They can rescue. And so people will project on them that they will do those things. They will rescue them, they will save them. And you know, the fifth line profile feels good when they are helping.

And so if they're not careful, they can become the person who is that go-to fixer and build their identity around that as the fixer. They can lose themselves a bit in everybody else's wants and needs because it feels good to help other people. But they have to get really good at understanding what their boundaries are and what they can do and what they can't do.

What is theirs to fix and what is not, what is being projected upon them and what is actually for them. You know, the fifth line has what we call a karmic mirror. So, The projection that is being put on the fifth line person is a reflection of what , the person projecting has unhealed within them.

So this may look like, you know, somebody who has a wound of feeling abandoned. You know, that person may project onto the fifth line person, that the fifth line person is abandoning them all the time. Whether or not that is true. It's an opportunity for that person to look within and say, is this true? Or am I projecting this?

And so that relationship dynamic can go through multiple levels of stress and tension as they work this out. If the fifth line person doesn't understand that this is what's happening, they take it very personally. They feel like they've done something wrong. Even if they haven't, they don't understand it.

They don't know where it comes from, but they feel like they're supposed to make it right, so they're trying to fix the problem. It's really not their problem to fix. This can be really complicated and it can be the cause of a lot of endings of relationships. So for me, when I found out about this, I was blown away.

It made a lot of sense why some relationships in my life did not work out like I thought they would, whether they were friendships or other relationships. It really started to make sense to me of what went wrong because I felt like I didn't do what this person claimed I did, and I don't understand where the disconnect is.

But once I understood this projection and this karmic mirror, things started to become clearer. And then it lifted a lot of that stress and burden off of me of feeling like, well, what did I do? And so if you have a fifth line profile, there's an opportunity here to look at your relationships and say, How is this affecting my relationships now and , how has it affected the relationships in my past?

How would that change how I perceived, how this relationship ended or how it is going based on this new knowledge? The other thing about this projection field is that if you have the fifth line profile, it's important to know what you are capable of. If you say yes to helping somebody with something and you can't succeed with it, if you can't follow through, if you can't save the day or fix the problem, then your reputation can suffer for it.

So it's important to be really clear on what you can do and what you can't do, and not commit to things that you are not capable of seeing through or completing in the way that the person who expects it from you needs to be done. Because your reputation will suffer for that. So be really clear on what those boundaries are.

Be really clear on what is yours, what is not yours, and be willing to say no. Be willing to say that I can't do that for you. And if you have a business, if you are somebody who is working with people, it's important. If you have a fifth line profile to have contracts, be really clear. Be really, really clear in your language and what you are agreeing to.

Because there can be that element of projection of, I thought that this is what we were going to do. I thought you were going to do this, which actually comes out usually as you said, you were going to do this. So if you have it in writing, it makes it a lot more clear on what you agreed to and what you didn't and where the lines and boundaries are now.

This fifth line profile also has the projection in seeing the best in other people. So it sees the potential of what other people are capable of, which is why it hangs on to people in relationships and it pushes them to do better. But it's not always our role to push somebody to do better or to want to be better.

And so if we have this fifth line profile, we can project onto other people that they're capable of so much more and get disappointed when they don't rise to that. Ability. And so that's not fair to them either. So we have to manage, you know, our expectations of what other people are showing us.

If somebody shows us who they are, we have to take them for their word and say, okay, I see you as you are. I also see your potential, but that's not mine. To push you into that is up to the person who has that potential to either grow into it or not, and we have to learn to disengage from that. When the fifth line person is in the right place with the right people, they lead others to fulfill their potential, to help them to see what is possible.

They look for people to align with that, live up to their word, and take accountability. Take accountability for their actions. So, You know, it's really important that you are in the right place with the right people accepting the right projection field. If you find that people are projecting onto you a lot of negativity, a lot of fantasy, a lot of things that aren't true in your life is painful.

It's an opportunity to look at what are you accepting for the people that you surround yourself with, and is it time to let some of those relationships go or give yourself some distance from them and put yourself into places where the projection field is positive, where it is nourishing, where it is helping support you and not bring you down.

Like the second line profile. They also need time to be alone and reflect and to consciously enter relationships before offering that leadership that they have to avoid falling into the saving other people role. So this is another element that's important, that they need this alone time to integrate.

And it's important that we give them that.

Okay. Last profile line here, which is the line six. The line six is different from the other lines in that it goes through three distinct phases in life. The first phase is from birth till the first Saturn return, which is around 28 to 30 ish. In that phase, they're living their lives more like somebody who has a third line profile.

So remember that experimenter experiential learner. So this phase is all about experimenting and trying things. If you have a child with a sixth line profile, your parenting years are primarily going to be like you're raising a third line child. So there's a lot of experimentation, there's a lot of trying, there's a lot of seeing what happens.

And they really need you to jump in on that with them. Let them experiment, let them see how things work. And if you have a child with a a three six or a six three profile, it's kind of like raising a three, three, if that were even a thing, profile. It's all that third line energy, which is experimenting and trying and seeing what happens.

This is a super important part of their learning in life because this is where they are trying so many things. They're experimenting and seeing what works because the sixth line is known as the role model and that's a heavy, heavy title for a child. But by the time they get to their Chiron return, the fully mature into that six line profile line, ideally and emerge as the role model.

So, In the first phase, birth to Saturn return, they're experimenting a lot. They're learning what life has to offer, how things work, and what doesn't work. In the second phase, from the Saturn return to the Chiron return, which is around 30 ish to 50 ish, they are what we call on human design. They go on the roof, and this is a time where they are going more inward.

They are reflecting and they're. Looking back at all of their experiences in the, the first phase of the sixth line profile's life where they were experimenting to figure out what they learned from those experiences. what do they wanna carry forward and what do they wanna leave behind? What did they learn doesn't matter, and what did they learn is really important.

This is an interesting phase two in that if you are a generator or manifesting generator, somebody who is used to having a lot of energy, there can be a shift during this time that's more challenging, where your energy downshifts and you become slower and you feel like you don't have as much energy as you used to.

This is challenging because you're used to going and doing and doing and doing and doing, and this is a phase that's asking you to go more inward, to not do so much outwardly, but to do more inner reflection and deeper work in that capacity. As you move through this, you may find that things in life aren't working the way that you thought that they would, and this is a time where you may start to see things kind of unfold and unravel a bit.

When you get to the Chiron return around age 50, you are in the third phase of your sixth line life, and this is where you're supposed to emerge as the role model. But if you haven't done that work while you're on the roof to integrate, to learn, to kind of reevaluate life and what you want out of it and where your life is going, you may find that life kind of.

Unfolds that for you and can be kind of what we call a bumpy landing off the roof. So sometimes this is a place where marriages maybe fall apart or businesses disintegrate, or there's career changes, or you decide you don't wanna live in this place anymore and you need to move somewhere else. You know, there's a lot of big shifts that can happen if you've not been.

Really doing this work at this time, and if you are not consciously doing the work to figure these things out when you come off the roof at the Chiron return around age 50, life can present challenges that will force you into some of these changes. So if it feels like you haven't had the time to do this work, I, you know, I really encourage anyone who is on the roof to do the work because, you know, sometimes it can be a bumpy, bumpy landing off the roof if you haven't done it.

It doesn't mean that it's always going to be, but look at, you know, where is life in alignment for you and where is it not? When you come off the roof as the sixth line profile, you are emerging as the role model. Now, I wanna be really clear that this doesn't mean that you have to do anything, right? This isn't you teaching other people.

This isn't like you come out and now you're gonna tell everybody what to do. This is a place where. You have been through it all, right? Like you've been through experimentation, you've been through the falling away of letting things go that weren't working. You're really living life in alignment at this point.

Ideally, you're living life in a way that feels like this is what you're supposed to be doing, and you authentic. You are living your authentic life, and when you do that, you become the role model for other people to also live their authentic life. So it's not about what you're doing, it's about who you are being.

Are you being in alignment? Are you being authentically you? Are you committing to the things that are most important to you and letting the other things go? This is the question that you have to ask yourself is, how am I being or not? What am I doing?

Okay, so that is the sixth profile lines. Now, in your chart, when you look at it, you're going to have. Two numbers that are in there for your profile, like the one three or the five two, or the one four. And so go back and listen to these individually for each of the numbers in your chart. Remember that the first number is the conscious, so that's gonna be the side of the chart that you are most in contact with.

It's gonna be most in your awareness. You're going to connect with it most deeply probably, and understand it most about yourself depending on where you are in life. You may or may not connect to the unconscious side as much, but it's there. So as you live more of your life, you will start to see more of this show up in your life.

You'll start to recognize it more. You'll put these two together and understand that these are two parts of yourself, but they are both there. They're always there. So for me, I have the five two as a profile line. So the heretic and the hermit. I need to be out with people and I need to be alone. I feel called to be out helping people and doing things.

And I also want time to be in my hermitage, to recenter, to reset myself so I can recharge and be back out in the world. If you have something like the one three profile. You know, the investigator Martyr, this is the investigator who needs information, is always digging for more information and knowledge, and they can get, you know, caught up in always needing more and not putting themselves out there.

But the third line is also pulling them out, saying, Hey, you need to just get out and try things. Let's just experiment and see what happens. And so when you can embrace both sides of , the profile lines in your chart, There's this beautiful synergy that's happening and it's pulling you where you need to be brought out, and it's allowing you space where you need time to integrate and be on your own.

And I think that when we can really find a balance between these two is where we find our happy spot. It's not always gonna be a perfect balance, but recognizing, you know, what are the needs that you have in each of these is really important. So experiment with it. Play with it. See what the people in your life, in your home have, you know, do you have similar profile lines or are they different?

What does it look like for you? Okay, so that is the end of profile lines. I'm gonna wrap this up here. This is the end of our first season with the Living Matters podcast. Next season. I don't know what it's gonna be about. I haven't planned it yet. I'm going to see where it goes. We may be talking about grief or death care or something else.

But for now this is what I have for human design. I hope you've enjoyed it. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. You can always email me hello@ayprilporter.com and always thank you for listening.