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Lines Two and Four in the Chinese Commentaries

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Lines Two and Four in the Chinese Commentaries

This profile pairs the second and fourth line positions, and both have well-established readings in classical Yijing commentary that are quite unlike the role names Human Design gives them.

What the commentaries say

The second line is the central line of the lower trigram. Centrality is a strong positive in the commentarial tradition, and this position is generally read as well placed and correctly situated. The fourth line is the bottom of the upper trigram, immediately below the ruling position, and the commentaries characteristically describe it as anxious or cautious, close to power and exposed by that closeness.

Both readings concern a position within a situation described by the hexagram. Neither describes a kind of person.

What Human Design does

Human Design names each of the six lines and reads a profile from a pair of them as a description of someone's nature. Those names and readings are Ra Uru Hu's, published in 1987, and are not renderings of the commentarial doctrine.

The pairing

These two lines are two positions apart. Human Design uses twelve of the thirty ordered pairs of distinct lines, the six separated by three positions and the six separated by two. The first set coincides with the Yijing's doctrine of correspondence between lines one and four, two and five, three and six. This pair belongs to the second set, which has no counterpart there.

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