Where are your 2nd lines? đ€
Iâll have to look for mine, Iâm not sure đ€
"One way of looking at the second Line within that structure is to see yourself on the ground floor, itâs nighttime, the curtains are open, lights are on, and youâre stark naked in your living room doing your own thing.
An enormous parade comes walking by your window, and everyone in that parade can look in and see you.
Thatâs really what the second Line deals with psychologically in their lives â a sense of being exposed.
Second Line people dream of being caught naked in the supermarket. âIâm exposed, and I donât want to be exposed. Let me go behind these doors, behind this curtain, someplace where I wonât be seen.â
The joke is that theyâre always visible.
Someone with the 16.2 always has somebody on their fractal saying, âyou know you really have the skills for this.â
They quickly reply, âno, no, no, Iâm busy doing this over here.â Then they always hear, âno you really have skills. You should do something with them.â
It scares them, as it is very frightening for a second Line to be seen. They donât like it.
The assumption about hermits (second Line of the 10th Gate) is that nobody sees them. But how did they get that name?
People think that 2s are invisible, but 2s are never invisible.
Theyâre so visible; thatâs why they try to hide all the time. But if you have a second Line in your Design, the other can automatically see whatever that aspect happens to be.
So letâs go back to our example of the 17th Gate.
Say youâre a 17.2 and someone sees that you have good opinions, so they say to you, âI would really like to have your opinion.â
Since your shy, theyâve got to knock on your door. You donât want to tell your opinion, because youâre not really sure of it, and moreover donât really know why you have the opinion in the first place.
âWhy do you want to hear that from me?â you say.
âWhat do you want? What are you trying to get out of me?â
But theyâre saying, âI think you have a really good opinion and I think that you should get that opinion out so that we can all hear it.â
That kind of compliment will get the second Line person to give their opinion â but then you give them your opinion and they immediately say, âvery interesting â how did you get there?â
Thatâs the pain of being a second Line person who is being called out.
You quickly reply, âI told you that I didnât want to tell you my opinion. I donât want to figure how I got this opinion. Leave me alone.â
Itâs the second Line â itâs shy. Itâs a hermit (10th gate, second line).
People project on the second Line what it thinks, what it can do, and so that quality gets called out of them.
All second Lines, no matter where you look, have exactly the same process. This is the magic of understanding these themes. It just opens it all up."
- Theresa Blanding
via Philip Redd