Profile 6/3 · Role Model / Martyr

Meaning

A profile pairs two lines. The first is that of the Personality Sun, at birth, which Human Design reads as conscious. The second is that of the Design Sun, about three months earlier, read as unconscious and often clearer to others. In the 6/3 the first is the Role Model, the second the Martyr. Each is the line of the gate where that Sun stands, a hexagram of the I Ching counted from the bottom: lines 1 to 3 form its lower trigram, 4 to 6 its upper one.

Human Design teaches that the sixth line lives in three phases: experiment until about 30, observation until about 50, then a life that embodies what was learned. The tradition marks these turns by the Saturn return and the Chiron return. The third line learns by trial and error, finding what works by meeting what does not.

In the 6/3 the conscious sixth line seeks a calm, detached view of life. The unconscious third line keeps pulling the person back into hands-on experiment. Trial and error therefore runs through the whole life, not only its first phase. The tradition reads this mix of perspective and bruises as what makes the profile’s advice realistic: it knows both the view from above and the ground below.

Lines 6 and 3 hold the same place in the upper and lower trigrams, the two halves of the hexagram, so they are in harmony. The 6/3 closes the Left Angle, which the tradition reads as a transpersonal destiny, a life that unfolds largely through meeting others. It mirrors the 3/6, and after it the cycle of profiles starts again at the 1/3.

In practice

• Someone aims for a settled life, yet moves several times and changes field before it takes shape.
• Later, friends trust that person’s counsel because it is neither naive nor harsh.
• A plan that breaks after careful thought is, in this reading, part of the profile’s method, not a contradiction.
• Leaving time to observe after each experiment helps the two lines work together.

Across traditions

In Richard Wilhelm’s I Ching, the top line often stands at the end of a situation; the third is a precarious passage. In the first hexagram the top line is the dragon that climbed too high, “Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent” (Wilhelm, in Cary F. Baynes’s translation). Human Design makes that place the observer’s.

How Ulune calculates it

The first number is the line of the Personality Sun, at birth; the second, the line of the Design Sun, when the Sun stood exactly 88° of ecliptic longitude earlier. From gate 41 at 302° of tropical longitude, each gate spans 5.625° and each line 0.9375°. The Earth always shares the Sun’s line.

88° is about 93.87 lines. So the Design line usually falls two places after the Personality line, counting on from 6 to 1. It falls three places after only in the last 0.125° of a line. That last stretch, about three hours of the Sun’s motion, gives the 6/3. It is one of the six rare profiles, each about 2.2% of the zodiac against 14.4% for a common one. They are exactly the six whose lines form a harmonic pair. In the Sun’s order it comes between 6/2 and 1/3.

Without a birth time, Ulune casts the chart at noon and at every hour of that day. The Sun moves about a degree a day, more than a line, so the profile is always marked ~: another hour gives a neighbour, usually the 6/2 or the 1/3. Ulune names the profiles that day can give under the profile, as in “that day also 1/3”. The cross is marked too when its angle or gates could change.

Correspondences