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Origin 1987

The 2/5 profile is one of twelve profiles in Human Design, a modern system Ra Uru Hu began teaching in the early 1990s after a self-described 1987 experience in Ibiza, blending birth chart astrology with the I Ching, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and the chakras. It pairs a second line Personality Sun with a fifth line Design Earth, the conscious and unconscious traits the system calculates from the birth moment and from roughly eighty eight days before it. The second line is the Hermit, a natural talent best drawn out from solitude, while the fifth line is the Heretic, described as someone others project expectations onto and who is called on to solve practical problems. This is considered one of the more exposed profiles in the teaching, pairing a naturally private line with one that is said to live constantly in other people's projections.

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Contested Use
Contested or Appropriated Modern Use
Disputed as a description of persons. The one empirical test located, a University of Vienna psychology thesis, could not validate Human Design characterisations against the NEO PI-R personality inventory, and found assent to them consistent with the Barnum effect, under which generic statements are read as personally accurate. 3
Contested or Appropriated Modern Use
The I Ching of China, the chakra teaching of India, Kabbalah and astrology are drawn on here inside a scheme assembled in 1987 and offered as an instrument of psychological counselling. The four traditions it draws on are old; the arrangement that joins them is not, and none of them produced it. 2
Origins
Origin Period
1987 2Tradition: Human Design (Ra Uru Hu, 1987)
Origin Period
The Hermit / Heretic profile, one of the twelve profiles formed by pairing two of the system's six lines, belongs to the Human Design system, synthesized in 1987 out of the I Ching, the chakra teaching, Kabbalah and astrology. 2
Lines
First LineSourced to the subject's own account
Line 2, Hermit 1
Second LineSourced to the subject's own account
Line 5, Heretic 1
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The Profile in the Human Design Model

The 2/5 profile (Hermit / Heretic) is one of the twelve profiles of Human Design, a modern esoteric system originated in 1987 by Ra Uru Hu and presented here as a contemporary framework rather than ancient wisdom. A profile is formed from two of the six lines, a scheme the system borrows from the six lines of an I Ching hexagram and reads psychologically: the profile pairs a conscious line with an unconscious one to give an archetypal role. The 2/5 profile joins the roles named Hermit / Heretic. The line names and their meanings are Human Design's own twentieth-century reading, not a claim inherited from the Chinese classic whose six-line figures suggested the structure; they are described here as the system presents them, not as verified fact.

Human Design describes the second line, Hermit, as carrying a natural talent largely invisible to the person themselves, requiring solitude and needing to be called out by others; the fifth line, Heretic or Universal, is described very differently, as a practical, crisis solving line that draws projection from people it has never met, being cast by strangers as either a saviour or a scapegoat depending on how its solutions land. The 2/5 profile is accordingly described, within the system's own framework, as an unusually sharp contrast between lines, a natural gift that would rather stay hidden paired with an unconscious role that is instead pulled constantly into public view and public judgement.

Lines Two and Five, the Two Central Lines

This profile pairs the two positions that classical Yijing commentary regards most highly, and it is also one of the three pairs whose relation Human Design genuinely inherits.

The centres of the two trigrams

A hexagram is read as two stacked trigrams of three lines. The second line is the centre of the lower trigram and the fifth is the centre of the upper. Centrality is the strongest positive marker in the commentarial tradition, and the fifth line, being central in the upper trigram, is conventionally the ruling position of the figure.

And they correspond

Commentary further holds that line two and line five stand in a relation of correspondence, one of three such pairs, the others being one with four and three with six. Human Design's twelve profiles include exactly those three pairs among its six separations of three positions, so this relation is a real structural inheritance rather than a coincidence of numbering.

What is not inherited

The role names Human Design attaches to the six lines, and the reading of a pair as a personality, are the system's own, published by Ra Uru Hu in 1987. Classical commentary treats the lines as positions in a described situation, not as human types, and nothing in it evaluates a person by which two lines their birth chart activates.

The atlas records the inherited structure and the modern interpretation as two different things.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Disciplines That Use This

Human Design, Disciplines

The twelve profiles read from the conscious and unconscious lines.

Source The Human Design SystemRa Uru Hu (Alan Robert Krakower)
Sources
1. The Human Design System
Ra Uru Hu (Alan Robert Krakower), Human Design America, 1992The 2/5 profileView the Source
2. Über den Tellerrand, ein Blick ins Human Design System (HDS)
Petra Stute, Virineya Würgler and Johnny Würgler, Springer, Journal für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie/Schweiz 24 (2021), pp. 50-51, 2021p. 50: the four systems synthesised, and the use made of the synthesisView the Source
3. Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik unter dem Aspekt des Barnum-Effekts
Katharina Freistetter, Akademiker Verlag, Vienna (University of Vienna diploma thesis in psychology, 2012); ISBN 978-3-639-46969-1, 2013on the Human Design characterisations tested against the NEO PI-R

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