Profile 1/4: Investigator and Opportunist

The first line, the Investigator, needs solid ground. This person feels calm when a subject has been studied and anxious when they must improvise without knowledge. They gather facts, check them, and only then speak with confidence.

The fourth line, the Opportunist, is about the network of relationships. The word does not mean calculating: it means that things go more easily next to long-known, reliable people. Offers, jobs and ideas more often come from friends, former colleagues and family than from chance contacts. Together the lines describe a specialist trusted by their own circle.

A profile is written as two numbers. The first is the line of the Sun at the moment of birth, the second is the line of the Sun at the prenatal moment, when the Sun stood about 88° earlier, three months before birth. Each gate is split into six lines: 360° over 64 gates gives 5.625° per gate and 0.9375° per line, so the Sun changes lines about once a day.

Profile 1/4 means line 1 at birth and line 4 at the prenatal moment. That is why you need an exact date, time and place of birth: an error in the time can move the line to a neighboring one.

In our calculation on 2000 random birth dates from 1950 to 2005, profile 1/4 appeared in 2.1%, the lowest value in the table. Close behind are 6/3 (2.2%), 4/1 (2.3%), 3/6 (2.5%), 2/5 (2.6%) and 5/2 (3%). The six common profiles take from 13.5% to 15.4% each.

The reason lies in the arithmetic. In 88-90 days the Sun covers about 88°, which is 15.6 gates, or roughly 93.9 lines. The personality and prenatal Sun lines are therefore tied by an almost constant offset, and the 1/4 pair only comes out at the edges, when the Sun sits near a gate boundary.

The system places profile 1/4, like 1/3, 2/4, 2/5, 3/5, 3/6 and 4/6, in the 'right angle' group, meaning a personal path. The person is responsible first for their own life, and influence on others comes as a result. For 1/4 this means knowledge stays their anchor, and the circle of acquaintances helps them put it to use.

At work, profile 1/4 feels at home where knowledge is passed to people: consulting, teaching, expert communities, small teams. Wide platforms with an unfamiliar audience are harder than meetings with people they know. Any system only describes leanings and promises no income.

In relationships this person usually prefers a few close, dependable people. It matters that they can discuss what they are studying with a partner and get an honest response. Abrupt changes of surroundings are harder: bonds are worth more to them than novelty.

It shares its lines with the mirror profile 4/1 but has different geometry: 4/1 is called 'juxtaposition', a fixed path where the person adapts less to circumstances. In 1/4 the emphasis is on study, in 4/1 on connections. Compared with 1/3, the fourth line replaces the third: knowledge is tested in conversation rather than in solitary experiments. Compared with 2/4, talent here is not inborn ease but the result of preparation.