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Lines Four and Six in the Chinese Commentaries

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Lines Four and Six in the Chinese Commentaries

This profile pairs the fourth and sixth line positions of a hexagram, both of them in the upper trigram, and both with settled readings in classical Yijing commentary.

What the commentaries say

The fourth line is the bottom of the upper trigram, immediately below the ruling position, and the commentarial tradition characteristically reads it as anxious and cautious, close enough to power to be exposed by it. The sixth line is the top of the figure, past the ruling position, and is commonly read as excess or as a situation that has gone beyond its proper conclusion.

Neither reading is about a person. They describe places within a situation that the hexagram as a whole is about.

The modern layer

Human Design gives each of the six lines a role name and reads a profile from two of them as a description of someone's nature. Those names and that reading are the system's own, published by Ra Uru Hu in 1987.

The pairing rule

Of the thirty ordered pairs of distinct lines, Human Design uses twelve: those separated by two positions and those separated by three. The separations of three coincide with the Yijing's doctrine of correspondence between lines one and four, two and five, and three and six. This pair, separated by two, has no counterpart in that doctrine and belongs to the system's own arrangement.

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