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Lines Three and Six, a Correspondence Pair

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Lines Three and Six, a Correspondence Pair

This profile joins the third and sixth line positions, which classical Yijing commentary holds to correspond, and it is therefore one of the three Human Design profiles whose structure genuinely descends from the Chinese source.

Correspondence

The six lines of a hexagram are read as two stacked trigrams, and commentary holds that a line of the lower trigram corresponds with the line occupying the same relative position in the upper: one with four, two with five, three with six. The relation is standard doctrine and much older than any modern system.

The positions themselves

The third line is the top of the lower trigram, a transitional and, in the commentaries, characteristically difficult position. The sixth line is the top of the whole figure, beyond the ruling position, and is commonly read as excess, withdrawal, or a situation that has run past its proper end.

Both readings describe a position within a situation. Neither describes a person.

The modern layer

Human Design attaches a role name to each of the six lines and reads a pair of them as a personality. Those names and that reading are Ra Uru Hu's, published in 1987. This atlas records the structural inheritance, which is real, and records the interpretation as a modern addition rather than as Chinese material.

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