And this leads us to a fundamental dilemma. And it is the dilemma that particularly
in this case as we see it, that is, we’re looking at 4/6’s and we’re looking at
juxtaposition in the 4/1. In the majority of cases, in the case of looking at the 4/6
and understanding that we are looking at a 4/6 profile so we’re looking at a tripartite
life process divided by the Saturn return and the Kiron return in three parts. And
understanding that in terms of the way in which the first part of the life is going to
be lived out, the first Saturn cycle, that basically the dilemma for a 4/6 is the
mistakes that they will make in terms of who to relate to.
That is, the thematic of not being a 4/6, but being a 4/“3.” They’re not really 3’s
obviously, but they live out a 3 dynamic. Of course, that is the trial and error,
make-your-mistakes process. And of course, for the 4 this can be absolutely
devastating. And this is the greatest dilemma that is there when you’re looking at
the 4th line. The 4th line suffers so much from the lack of the ability to be able to
cognitively discern who to invest in, because it’s investment. The most fundamental
thing for any 4 to understand is that they invest in other beings in the hope, in a
sense, that there is going to be some kind of return.
And it’s not a one-way street. That is, the investment of their friendship and their
influence and whatever it is that they are capable of externalizing has its value to the
other in the social dynamic that it comes with. But in return they’re looking for
something. They’re not necessarily looking for something directly from that person.
But that person may be the key to a job, to meeting a potential lover, whatever the
case may be. In other words, those we invest in bring us our returns.
Anybody who has ever contemplated playing the stock market knows that being
smart enough to know what to invest in when nobody else sees it, is what makes a
few people very, very rich. It’s a gift. And of course, this fundamental gift is
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inherent in everyone who carries the 4th line. They all have a cognitive root that
they can get to if they are not in transference.
But it’s something again to really understand about what it means to succeed as an
opportunist. To succeed as an opportunist you have to know who to befriend. And it
can’t be a not-self mind that’s deciding, because the not-self mind will not have the
resources to be able to tell which person is worthy of that investment. Sometimes
you have to invest your attention in people for a long time before that opportunity is
going to arise. Most 4’s are forever being drained by maintaining relationships that
are non-functional. And they are relationships that will never bring opportunity
because they were never the right relationships in the first place.
Again, the only way that you’re going to get there is through the correctness. There
is no other way. But it’s really something to understand about the 4, and particularly
within this context, because these early relationships, remember it takes you until
you’re about 29 or 30 years old, it means that phase of your life can include the
person that you’re going to marry, the career that you’re going to do, all kinds of
things. And that career is in its relationship to the social dynamic of the colleagues,
the people you work for, all of that is going to be distorted if one does not have the
ability to be able to recognize what people are worthy of being befriended. Of
course, this depends on its cognition.
