“It’s interesting in dealing with analysis over many, many years the level of discomfort of the not-self when the configuration is a 3/5, as an example. We already know a lot about the third line process, I deal with it often in these webcasts—the trial and error, the mutative discovery potential. And yet at the same time the dilemma of the psychology when it is always confronted with others seeing its process as failure or mistake or misled or simply a lack of capability.
Yet, in the 3/5 configuration it is really the fifth line unconscious that actually makes it so difficult. Third line beings are designed to pick themselves up off the ground no matter what happens. And even in the not-self and even carrying the burden of this deep pessimism there still is this enormous capacity for them to push forward. But the fifth line is so different. There is an extraordinary amount of pressure placed on the fifth line being from the outside, not from the inside, but from the outside. It is expectation pressure.
When you’re looking at the structure of the hexagram the first line is always the foundation, but the fifth line is the hope of the potential of that particular hexagram. And it is the hope of the potential in the way in which it’s perceived by the other. To keep it very simple, if you have a mother who gives birth to a baby that has a fifth line in its profile, that as that baby is coming out into the world, the mother’s expectation is that this is going to be the great jewel of her life. Well, no one is.” – Ra Uru Hu
The 3/5 is known as the martyr-heretic. The 3rd line is the ability to discover, adapt, and sustain itself, as well as survive the “trial and error” process. The 3 is a deeply resilient personality that learns what doesn’t work through making mistakes. The 5th line underneath is pulling a strong projection and expectation from others, and can have a far reaching influence in the world. Ra discusses how a 3/5 can enter into experiences that are correct, so they can discover what is of value to others that needs to be universalized.
Ra Uru Hu
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