I’ll have to look for mine, I’m not sure 🤔
"One way of looking at the second Line within that structure is to see yourself on the ground floor, it’s nighttime, the curtains are open, lights are on, and you’re 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.
That’s really what the second Line deals with psychologically in their lives – a sense of being exposed.
Second Line people dream of being caught naked in the supermarket. “I’m exposed, and I don’t want to be exposed. Let me go behind these doors, behind this curtain, someplace where I won’t be seen.”
The joke is that they’re always visible.
Someone with the 16.2 always has somebody on their fractal saying, “you know you really have the skills for this.”
They quickly reply, “no, no, no, I’m busy doing this over here.” Then they always hear, “no you really have skills. You should do something with them.”
It scares them, as it is very frightening for a second Line to be seen. They don’t 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.
They’re so visible; that’s 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 let’s go back to our example of the 17th Gate.
Say you’re a 17.2 and someone sees that you have good opinions, so they say to you, “I would really like to have your opinion.”
Since your shy, they’ve got to knock on your door. You don’t want to tell your opinion, because you’re not really sure of it, and moreover don’t really know why you have the opinion in the first place.
“Why do you want to hear that from me?” you say.
“What do you want? What are you trying to get out of me?”
But they’re saying, “I think you have a really good opinion and I think that you should get that opinion out so that we can all hear it.”
That kind of compliment will get the second Line person to give their opinion – but then you give them your opinion and they immediately say, “very interesting – how did you get there?”
That’s the pain of being a second Line person who is being called out.
You quickly reply, “I told you that I didn’t want to tell you my opinion. I don’t want to figure how I got this opinion. Leave me alone.”
It’s the second Line – it’s shy. It’s 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