Profile 3/6: Martyr and Role Model

The third line learns with its hands and its own skin: something is tried, fails, and is tried differently. This person trusts only what they have tested, and treats mistakes as working sketches.

The sixth line is called the Role Model. Its idea is that accumulated experience gradually turns into a coherent view of life, and the person becomes an example to those nearby. Together the two describe a road from experiments to calm confidence.

The first number shows the line the Sun occupied at the moment of birth. The second comes from the line of the Sun 88 degrees earlier, roughly three months before birth. Each gate is split into six lines, and the Sun's position in them is determined by degrees.

By geometry 3/6 belongs to the right angle: a personal path on which a person draws conclusions mainly for themselves, and the benefit to others follows later.

The system describes the sixth line as a road in three parts. The first thirty years or so run in the spirit of the third line: many attempts, changes of course and hard lessons. Then comes a period of watching from the side, when the person steps back from the bustle and reviews what they have lived.

After roughly fifty, in this scheme, people tend to listen to such a person more, because their words are backed by a road actually walked. The ages are approximate; this is an image used by the system, not a law.

In our calculation on 2000 random birth dates between 1950 and 2005, profile 3/6 came up in 2.5% of cases. Its neighbour 3/5 came up in 15%.

The reason is the Sun: in about 88 days it covers about 88 degrees, which is around 15.6 gates, or about 93.9 lines. As a result the two lines are linked by an almost fixed offset, and six pairs come up most reliably. Profile 3/6 is not one of them.

At work 3/6 opens up where experience is valued: mentoring, teaching, consulting on a road already walked, craft, creative work, leadership that does not push itself forward. No promises about money here: a self-knowledge system does not offer such guarantees.

In relationships a 3/6 needs a partner who is not alarmed by change and stays calm about the swings. Standards for oneself and others can run high, so it helps to discuss in advance what behaviour you each expect.

Profile 3/5 has a Heretic instead of a Role Model, so its main theme is other people's expectations and practical solutions, not the ripening of an example. Profile 6/3 is the mirror image: the Role Model comes first and the path is a left angle, running through other people. It is close to 3/6 in frequency (2.2% in our calculation).

Profile 6/2 is several times more common (15.4%) and less loaded with experiments: it has no third line, but a gift that opens in its own time.