But in order to understand what that means, and in order to understand the role that is there in others, you need to understand the structure of the Hexagram. Now, the role of Profile is very significant in life, because the moment that you’re operating correctly is the moment that you begin to experience the correctness of your role. You can always see this at the top of your chart by looking at the Lines, not the Hexagrams, but the Lines of your personality Sun/Earth or your design Sun/Earth. That is the Sun/Earth will be in a first Line, the personality Sun/Earth, and the design Sun/Earth will be in a third Line. So we begin, for example, with the first Profile, which is a 1/3. We always read the personality Line first. Those 12 Profiles are based on the Line of the personality Sun/Earth and the Line of the design Sun/Earth. If you’re new to Human Design you have seen that there are a number of different Profiles, there are 12 of them. That is, your Sun and your Earth of your personality are activating the same Line in opposite Hexagrams.īut it’s the Line that gives us our Profile value. So when we’re looking at the personality or the design, we get to see the Line that is being activated. Because they are opposite each other they always have exactly the same position. Your Profile is actually the position of your two binaries: the Sun/Earth of the personality and the Sun/Earth of the design. But the Profile is based on understanding the values in the Lines.

The other aspect is role, and role is derived from the Profile. It is the conditioning that brings on the pain, the confusion and the lack of recognition of self in the life. It is the conditioning that determines the quality of the life. For most human beings, the not-self, the characteristics are everything. Then the characteristics no longer get in the way. In other words, our characteristics are about coming to grips with that to be correct in our process we need to be able to follow our Strategy, honor the authority of our Strategy. The characteristics are the various aspects of our design that we have to deal with: Centers that are open, the not-self Strategy that arises from them, the quality of definition we have, the authority that is there for us, the Type that we have. One is our characteristics and the other is our role. There are two basic things that we are dealing with in our design. One of the most important things we discover with our design after we find out what our Type is and what our Strategy is, is that we begin to look at the framework upon which it is based.

This is an extraordinary key into being able to begin the simple process of analysis. Today I want to focus on the nature of the Hexagram, the structure of the Hexagram and the Lines.

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