3/5

Background: If the theater is on fire, and the fire department has not shown up due to budget cuts, the person standing in the middle of the theater yelling "This is not right," while at the same time organizing a fire brigade and finding all the exits, is the Martyr Heretic. The 3/5 profile combines two potent agents for change. Resilient, adaptable and mutative, the conscious 3rd line focuses itself primarily on discovery in the material world, and lives a very physical trial and error process, which allows it to sustain itself and others with its discoveries. Martyrs are equipped to take the heat when they stand up and tell the truth about what isn't working, but they are not equipped to meet the other gracefully. Life bumps into them and they bump into it. Like the 1st and 2nd lines, they are not looking for anyone. They are, however, looking around at the world in order to be stimulated and potentially mutate, and end up bumping into all kinds offorces. Some ofthese forces may not be correct for it, and so the 3rd line can become pessimistic. Learning to discern at an early age what works for it or not is very important.

On the other hand, the unconscious but seductive 5th line cannot escape from the other. It continually attracts projections from those who see the Heretic as the General who can ride in on the white horse and pull them out of crisis. This can be quite uncomfortable for the 3/5 as from the time they are born, people project onto them that they can save the day, and then the 3rd line process kicks in and the one who is here to help can do nothing but make mistakes.

As it matures through life, the 3rd line naturally provides a wealth of experiential wisdom. The 5th line, the General, will be asked into situations where the Martyr will know and see what does not work. It can then stand up as the Heretic, take charge, and deliver something new and practical that does. The anarchistic Martyr will play right along, adapting and experimenting and refining the process every step of the way. Referred to as the great 'fixers,' they provide us with innovative solutions, help and guidance. The 3/5 profile also needs to know when to relinquish the reins and let others continue the process themselves. They are not networkers with continual influence like the 4th line, and their greatest power and effectiveness is as a stranger of consequence.

Personal: The hardest thing for you is to reconcile your very natural 3rd line discovery dance through life with the projections ofsavior that others place on your unconscious 5th line. For you to correctly inhabit your role as a Martyr Heretic, your emphasis must be on what is learned when life bumps into you, as well as how and when to correctly apply these discoveries. You must have great discernment when something or someone bumps into you, and determine ifit is worthwhile for you to stay there or not, to bond or not. Your discovery process may feel at times like you have failed, but your experimentation is a foundation that someone else will build on. There were a thousand ways the light bulb did not work before they found the way that it did, yet each of those discoveries fed the next. You are someone who can sustain the trial and error process as you do not give up easily.

Most importantly, you must enter into both your explorations and rescues correctly through your Strategy and Authority, or you may end up feeling pessimistic about life, or possibly watch your reputation go up in smoke. When a commitment is made correctly, you can step in with the full force ofyour resilience, adaptability, determination, generosity and selflessness, and be sustained by life no matter how hard it bumps into you. And even if you get burned at the stake, you will just move on to the next one.

You are here to stand up for a principle, and to change the world around you by bringing a new value or structure to the collective. You have to be careful though not to end up with a Martyr complex, saying "why me" or "why now." You have to discover the principles that you can live by yourself, and then transform those principles into a universalizing force. You are here to ultimately create a new principle, a new heresy, but if that heresy is not practical you pay a price. Your work, or any activity you engage in, needs to be stimulating and not repetitious. Seeing new clients every day, for instance, can be good for you, as bonds made and broken is your theme.

Interpersonal: Martyr Heretics are masters of the material plane. When things aren't working out, however, they will break the bond and walk away. Their projected attitude may best be expressed as "never belong to an organization that would have you as a member." They are anarchists who must be willing to break the bond with anything that does not work, in order to finally discover what does. There is enormous value for everyone to have a 3rd line around who is consciously designed to discover what does not work. If parents, teachers and others can refrain from calling the 3/5 pessimistic or negative, or telling them that they have made a mistake, they will save themselves considerable time and energy by making use of the 3/5's experiential wisdom.

We need to offer a special kind of grace to a 3rd line child. Parents and teachers must allow them to go through their process with positive reinforcement. "What did you learn from it?" or, "Don't see it as a mistake, just a process." If they do not, the psychological damage to a 3/5 child can be great. When Martyr Heretics can't live up to the expectations projected onto them, they will flee and burn their bridges behind them. If they can navigate the projection field though, through Strategy and Authority, then the full potency oftheir truth, along with their ability to adapt, find a practical way, and still see the beauty and wonder ofthe material plane, will shine as a real gift for us all. The only thing they need to empower this role is positive reinforcement