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Lines One and Four, and the One Relation That Is Inherited

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Lines One and Four, and the One Relation That Is Inherited

This profile pairs the first and fourth lines, and that particular pairing is the one place where Human Design's line structure genuinely reproduces something from the Chinese source.

Correspondence in the Yijing

Classical Yijing commentary holds that the six lines of a hexagram stand in relations of correspondence: line one with line four, line two with line five, line three with line six. The relation is between a line of the lower trigram and the line in the same relative position in the upper. It is a standard piece of commentarial doctrine, long predating any modern system.

The three pairs separated by three positions in Human Design's profile scheme are exactly those three correspondences.

And the pairs that are not

Human Design uses twelve of the thirty ordered pairs of distinct lines: the six separated by three positions, which are the correspondences above, and the six separated by two positions, which have no counterpart in the commentarial doctrine. The second set appears to be the system's own.

What is not inherited

The role names attached to the six lines, and the reading of a pair as a personality, are Ra Uru Hu's, published in 1987. Classical commentary treats the lines as positions in a situation, not as types of person. The atlas records the structural inheritance where it exists and does not extend it to the interpretation.

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