The scientific explanation is completely meaningless, what IS interesting is whether it is accurate or not. I really HATE the fact that this is based on your time of birth, on one level. Because for the rationalistic processes in my intellect, as well as my anti-new-age and anti-hokey-pokey conditioning, there's just a strong aversion to it. But so the heck what? You don't actually need to know how a combustion engine works to drive a car, or how laser works to operate a DVD.
But I
like knowing how the combustion engine works and how a laser works. I like to know how things work and always have. The how is important to me. It sounds highly unlikely. I'll play along and look it up for now. But I'm not going to be satisfied until I know
how it works.
So, Projector:
PROJECTOR
If you are a Projector (22 % of population),
you are not here to work. You are here to know others, to recognize and guide them. But that can only happen if you yourself are 1) recognized and 2) invited to do so.
Your strategy is to
wait for an invitation in the important areas of you life (your relationships, work etc.). If your authority says yes, then you can really share your gifts and guidance. To be invited means that you are seen and recognized for your values. If you don't wait for an invitation, or the
energy of invitation, you meet resistance.
Through your open centers, you take others in deeply. You take in other people's definition and you can clearly see who they are. Your aura focuses on the very core of their being and you can recognize others. But if you try to guide others without being invited to do so, you meet resistance, or feel that no one really sees you, no one recognizes you. Out of that comes a deep feeling of
bitterness, often mixed with exhaustion.
Projectors fear that they will not be invited. But if you follow your strategy of waiting for the invitation, what happens is that your aura's frequency starts to change and the more you live according to your design, the more invitations you get. This will bring you SUCCESS. Once invited, you don't need to wait for any more invitations regarding whatever you were invited to (project, job, relationship etc.). Just follow your authority in doing what you do and don't initiate. The invitation, correct entry into anything, is the key. The feeling of being recognized, appreciated, heard and seen. Is it there? Great. If not, you may stop talking in mid sentence and save yourself yet one more disappointment of not being understood.
Projectors are the eternal students of humanity and system masters. You need to have a system through which you can relate and understand life. Projectors often have the need to study Human Design deeply in order to gain the intellectual understanding of how they are to operate correctly. Projectors are the only type who can really know what's going on.
Your openness can be energetically exhausting, so it is important to have your own space where you can relax. The same advice regarding sleeping applies to you as to everyone else with an undefined Sacral: go to bed as soon as you begin to feel tired and if at all possible, sleep alone (see Manifestors for details).
Strategy:
Wait for an invitation, or the energy of invitation
Predominant negative feeling:
Bitterness
Famous Projectors: Queen Elisabeth II, Mick Jagger, Joseph Stalin, Ringo Starr, Osho, Napoleon, Woody Allen, Salvador Dali, Elizabeth Taylor, Fidel Castro, James Joyce, Barbra Streisand, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, Demi Moore, Princess Diana, Tony Blair, Ramana Maharshi, George Gurdjieff
Juxtaposition - Fixed Fate
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| 4/1 | Opportunistic
Investigator | These people are excellent teachers. It is not in their nature to change who they are or what they stand for. They have a very specific and fixed purpose in life, and it belongs to no one to change that.
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As we have seen, the fourth line is the foundation of the upper trigram. It is the foundation of what becomes a transpersonal experience. The ability to be able to interact with others. The transpersonal quality is a direct result of recognizing that fulfillment lies through the other. The upper trigram, like the upper octave in music, harmonizes with its counterparts below. The fourth line being the foundation of the upper trigram is in harmony with the first line, the introspection, the foundation of the lower trigram.
The fourth line, as a result, linked with the first line at the unconscious level, is inherently unstable and extremely rigid. It is so fixed that it can break. The 4/1 as a profile is neither this nor that. It is not truly lower trigram in the sense that it is only self involved, and it is not truly transpersonal. Its quality is to be deeply fixed. The 4/1 is not statistically abundant as a segment of the population. Most people are not here to be as fixed as the 4/1 profiles.
If we can look at the first three lines as having to do with personal destiny, and the fifth and sixth lines as having to do with transpersonal karma, our interaction and fulfillment through the other, then the 4/1 as a profile has a fixed fate. It is not personal nor transpersonal. Out of all the profiles, it is the one the most suits the image of a train fixed by the tracks that it sits on.
Its work in this life is to transmit the true essence of the hexagram, through its ability, through its fourth line personality of being able to interact with others. In a way, one can look at the lower trigram as research and development and the upper trigram as human resources and marketing. It is the 4/1 profile, that brings this fixed basis upon which human resources and marketing can be developed. This is the first profile harmony that we meet, meaning the 1 and 4 are in harmony.
We have already seen the first line personality with a fourth line unconscious in the 1/4. Through the 1/4 profile we had an authoritarian personality with an opportunistic abdicator design. In that profile the authority could be challenged by the majority, leading to abdication and an opportunity for further development. In that way the foundation becomes malleable and open to growth.
The 4/1 profile may be a mirror in harmony, but in manifestation it is very different. The fourth line personality may waiver, but in the blood underneath is the authoritarian unmoved. The abdication is transformed into social techniques. You can tell the 4/1 profile anything you like, and given enough social pressure they will bend to the flow, but within themselves and once left alone, they will return to their fixed perspective since that is really what their body, or vehicle, is about. The 4/1 profile is unique in their fixedness. It is neither this nor that and carries as a result a singular geometry of fixed fate.
All things are moving in space. The nature of how the individual movement is choreographed into the dance of the totality, operates through three distinct geometries. Destiny, fate and karma. These common terms have been corrupted in their meanings. We have seen that destiny is a geometry of personal involvement, inward oriented. Karma is a transpersonal geometry, a geometry determined with and by the other. Both destiny and karma have many variations.
It is only through the 4/1 profile that we see the manifestation of a single variation of fate. In the 4/1 is the harmony of the two foundations of the lower and upper trigram. This is the opportunistic personality waiting for a chance to look inward, always checking the foundation, always ready in its ability to be able to commune with others, to be able to establish that foundation for them in their life.
Because it is so fixed it is the only profile that truly can be broken. Remember the train analogy: if you bend a 4/1 too much they will derail. And in being broken, like Humpty Dumpty, they aren't able to put all the pieces back together again. The secret to the psychic survival of the 4/1 profile is the benefits derived from proper relationships.
A lot of the references are to things I don't believe exist. It's difficult to take this seriously.
