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Lines Six and Two in the Chinese Commentaries

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Lines Six and Two in the Chinese Commentaries

This profile pairs the sixth and second line positions of a hexagram, and both carry settled readings in classical Yijing commentary that are quite unlike the role names Human Design gives them.

What the commentaries say

The sixth line is the top of the figure, above the ruling position, and is commonly read as excess, as withdrawal, or as a situation that has passed its proper conclusion. The second line is the centre of the lower trigram, and centrality is the strongest favourable marker in the tradition, so it is generally read as well placed.

Both are readings of positions in a described situation. Nothing in the commentarial tradition uses them to sort people into kinds.

The modern layer

Human Design gives each of the six lines a role name and reads a profile as a personality made of two of them. Those names and that reading are Ra Uru Hu's, published in 1987, and are not translations of the material above.

The pairing rule

Human Design uses twelve of the thirty ordered pairs of distinct lines: the six separated by three positions, which coincide with the Yijing's correspondences between lines one and four, two and five, three and six, and the six separated by two, which have no counterpart there. This pair belongs to the second set.

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