6/3

Background: The Role Model Martyr, the completion point of the 12 profiles, combines the conscious and aloof 6th line which seeks the perfection in life, with the unconscious, restless, materially-oriented and mutative 3rd line. The 6/3 is a profile of transition and change, which can lead to a potentially chaotic and destabilizing life. 0 matter where the 6th line is in the tripartite life process, the unconscious 3rd line continually pulls it into subjective experiences. It is through this process though that 6/3's become the wisest of Role Models, ultimately discovering that uniqueness is perfection, and that we cannot trust in anyone when making decisions but ourselves.

Personal: As is true for all 6th lines, you will go through a three-part life process. For a 6/3 profile these three stages are experienced differently as the first 30 years are experienced as a 3/3 profile, which is a doubly intense and sometimes very difficult trial and error process. You are gathering subjective experiences, and you engage in and try just about everything, including jumping into situations and relationships that do not work. You can become disappointed, and ultimately conditioned, to feel pessimistically that nothing in life really works.

It is not necessary that you go through a traumatic first stage, and how you experience this first phase is dependent upon the parenting and conditioning that you receive as a child. If you are raised as yourself, respected as an individual and given guidance on how to make decisions as yourself, you will have a smoother first stage. If you are your own Authority, you will gain wisdom from these subjective experiences and discover what is correct for you to discover. 6/3 children need to be encouraged and taught to see that a trial and error process is not about mistakes, but rather opportunities for learning. Otherwise you can end up with both a martyr and inferiority complex, along with a chip on your shoulder and a deep pessimism about life.

Between 30 and 50 you go up onto the roof for a more aloof, objective observation process. This is the time when you retreat from the subjective experiences as your 3/3 is now a 6/3, but you don't really get the reprieve of staying securely up on the roof that a 6/2 profile does. Your unconscious 3rd line continually pulls on you to engage again and again in the experiential trial and error process, with feelings of "this is not it, there is still more," and "there are still things to try and things that still need to be explored." You move up and down the ladder between being connected and being aloof, between sympathy and apathy. If burned by an unpleasant or discouraging experience you retreat for a while, until you are bored or a new adventure looks appealing, and then you climb down again and engage in the next experience. You are driven by your conscious 6th line's optimism that all things are possible, and that you can find something to trust and a soul mate. You move back and forth between pessimism and optimism.

From 50 years on, you experience the potential for the fulfillment of your uniqueness and your flowering into a Role Model. By this time in your life, if you have survived, you have gained a tremendous amount ofwisdom and will be looked to as a wise and objective advisor with a unique perspective on life. Lurking at the unconscious level though is your 3rd line, ready for the next discovery, the next experiment that may disrupt the tranquility and perfection the 6th line would like to enjoy. Objectivity is your saving grace; it sustains you. It is what you aspire to and what brings you harmony in your life. Yours is a life of constant transition, of engagement and disengagement. Having a partner in life is important for you, and it is correct for you to have a life of bonds made and broken, to be able to pull away and then re-engage again. When you are operating as your own unique authority, you experience the transitions that are correct for you. There is nothing worse for you than a mental decision that goes bad, and it can lead to painful and damaging experiences.

Interpersonal: Role Model Martyrs are born with resilience, and an ability to sustain their own direction. Life works for them when they can embrace the chaos and confusion and wonderment of their early years, and receive all as essential discovery and learning as this is the foundation for their valuable wisdom. The 6/3 profile needs supportive relationships with people they trust, people who provide the option to pull away or break the bond when necessary in order to reconnect and strengthen it.

6th lines model for us the new way to live in this 9-centered world. The old ways were based on leaders and followers, with 5th line universalizers conditioning us into homogenized humans who continually gave their Authority to others. Human Design came into the world to liberate the individual, and to nurture the uniqueness of all human beings. The essence of this is embodied and demonstrated in the 6th line theme. As we enter into a new era of mutation, getting closer and closer to 2027 and a 6th line way of being in the world, the structures and institutions that support giving our Authority over to outside influences will continue to crumble.

In the old 7-centered model, we were told what to do. It's not in the nature of a 6th line to do this; instead they innocently model what it means to live our lives correctly as ourselves, through our own Authority. They walk among us in their post Kiron phase as examples of 9-centered living, allowing the uniqueness to unfold. 6th lines demonstrate that it is ok to be yourself, and that you can find what you need within.