6th lines in the bodygraph operate according to age
“Finally, we come to the sixth line.
The sixth line is the role of soul mate or not. Given the special nature of the sixth line, it is really not part of the hexagram; the hexagram ends with the seduction of the fifth line.
We want everybody to be a romantic seducer, to be seduced in romance. And yet the foundation is whacking them over the head, and in between are all the variations.
The sixth line sits up there and looks and just looks.
It wasn’t the sixth line that wrote the Kama Sutra, but it’s a sixth line that wrote the criticism. “This is okay, that’s not. This will work, that won’t.”
The nature of having a sixth line when it comes to anything related to your sexuality -
So if you have a sixth line personality or unconscious in your SunEarth themes, if you have sixth lines that are in the Solar Plex or pointed at the Solar Plex, you have to recognize that they are going to bring out in you promiscuity.
In other words, they’re going to bring out in you jumping into whatever those particular streams are—into the need, into the desire, into the passion.
And you’re going to go through that phase when you’re very young and that phase ends when you’re around 28 years old—your Saturn return.
If you look carefully, and it’s one of the very strange things about looking at a BodyGraph, if you look carefully at the sixth lines in your BodyGraph, all those sixth lines operate according to your age.
In other words, generally speaking, the sixth line in somebody between the age of 28 and 51 is in a stage of aloofness, whereas up and until the Saturn return, they’re in a state of over activity.
The best way to describe that is to see that the sixth line plays out the third line role in the first Saturn cycle—trial and error, bumping into things, jumping into intimacy.
And then because it gets burnt, because the nature of the sixth line is that it not only can recognize that there is a transpersonal harmonic gate in the channel, but it also recognizes that there is an entire circuit.
Which means that the perspective of the sixth line sitting on the roof of the house is to be able to look out over that vast expanse of the circuit and to be able to say, “Yes but, that’s okay, but we need to complete this and that and that and that and the other.”
So what’s so important about that sixth line is that it needs to fall into all of those early intimacies in order to be able to step out and step into its aloofness, back away from intimacy, be indifferent, in a sense, but actively be in a role of looking for real intimacy that can truly be fulfilling within the context of the circuit.
And remember the context of the tribal circuit is that intimacy, ultimately, is a bargain that is successful in two ways: materially, and in terms of loyalty.
And the moment that any sixth line can see, as a byproduct of its intimacy, that it will have both material gain and social loyalty, then it’s ready to leave sitting on the fence and enter into the embrace of whatever that happens to be.
So this illusion of the one-night stand is that yes, but if you read that line carefully it speaks of a one-night stand that can last forever, what can be absolutely perfect.
And the ‘goal’ of the sixth line is to perfect its hexagram.
Every sixth line is ready to embrace fully its nature if it can find the one that really works. So when you’re dealing with 59.6s, you cannot change the nature of the promiscuity in the first part of their life, in their first Saturn cycle.
But if they’re living out their Type, they will only enter into those relationships that are of value to them, even though they will appear to be promiscuous.
In other words, that they will not last long, but they will be healthy relationships that do not last long because they entered into them correctly.
It will not stop them from going through that phase nor will it eliminate them becoming aloof, because the aloof stage is necessary. Otherwise, we don’t have anybody that we can rely on to make sure, and for all of us, that the nature of the hexagram is correct.
This is my favorite story of the relationship between the 5/1 and the 6/2, myself being a 5/1. The 5/1 and 6/2 are left angle transpersonal crosses. They’re very, very powerful. They’re there to do a specific job.
The 5/1 is there to take the foundation and universalize it. The 5/1 is the seducer, and the seducer can be both the devil or Christ, because it’s all seduction.
So the 5/1 comes into the village and says to the village, “God just spoke to me and it’s going to rain. And it’s going to rain so long we’re going to have to build an ark so we’ll survive.”
The villagers, at least one of them, are going to go up the hill and see the 6/2. You know, the 19.6, the recluse, the fool on the hill, the theme of the sixth line’s aloofness.
They say to the fool on the hill, “Look, there’s this 5/1 in the village who says that God told him it’s going to rain.”
Now if the 6/2 looks around and says, “Smells like rain,” everybody in the village starts building the ark.
If the 6/2 says, “I don’t think it’s going to rain,” then the 5/1 gets stoned by the villagers. It’s the power of the sixth line.
Now in the case of the 6/2, that power comes from it being called.
In other words, you go up to the recluse and you call them out of their reclusiveness to ask for their sixth line judgment.
Now transcendence for the 6/2 is not that period of aloofness where they can become sources of confirmation.
For them, it begins when they, themselves—and usually it comes around their 50s—are ready to embrace what they judge correct.
And this is the major step for all sixth lines.
In other words, you run around when you’re young, you have a lot of disappointments in your relationships.
You go into a long period of aloofness—doesn’t mean you don’t have relationships during that period, it just means you’re aloof—and then finally you can get to a point where you can reembrace intimacy at a personal level again, by seeing correctly for yourself what intimacy is really for you.
And so ultimately the 6/2 not only has to say, ‘Yes, it smells like rain, but wait for me, I’ll help you build the ark.’ That’s completion, in that sense, for the sixth line.”
~Ra Uru Hu