4/6 Emotional Generator

With a 4/6 Profile, your experience of life is going to look very different depending on the age you are now. Known in Traditional Human Design as the "Opportunist/Role Model" one part of you is a friendly social butterfly and the other part is… well, on something of a wild ride ;)

The “4” (aka the “4th Line”) is pretty stable. It likes stability and it likes people. This is the part of you that’s friendly, outgoing, a natural networker. You make a good friend and are always trying to build a solid web of relationships made up of good people.

You want lots of friends and kind acquaintances. You want people to have your back and you expect the same in return. The more robust your network the better for you and everyone who knows you as your opportunities for growth and success come through this network.

But this is only one part of you. Your “6” (or “6th Line” self) is quite a different character. This part of you is forever changing, mutating and adapting on its way to becoming the role model you were born to be.

For the first 29 years (or so) of your life, you’re going through a deeply experimental phase. You’re designed to ‘try all the things’ many of which won’t work out the way you hoped. You’ll make lots of so-called “mistakes” and probably collect a bunch of bumps, bruises and perhaps some breaks along the way. This is the time when you learn a lot by doing a lot.

If you’re reading this and you’re still under the age of 30, know that everything you’re learning you’ll have a chance to use later to help the people you know. Hold on, it gets better.

Around age 29, you go through your first Saturn Return. This marks a shifting point for you where you step back from the messy, intensity of life and you begin to reflect on the things you’ve been through. Over the next couple of decades, you slowly heal and integrate these experiences, ideally making peace with any shame you might feel about perceived “failures”, especially relationship failures.

The better you can heal, integrate and see a more objective perspective on the things you’ve experienced, the better a role model you’ll become when your Kiron Return happens at around age 50.

And while your Opportunistic 4th Line self has still been tending to relationships and connecting this person to that person, and sharing what it knows with the people in its network after 50 is when you really get to shine.

This is when you will influence your network the most. This is when you can share all that knowledge you’ve collected through the multitude of experiences you’ve had and the wisdom gleaned from them.

This is when you get to be an example, a role model, an inspiring illustration of what it can look like to truly be yourself.

Emotional Inner Authority does not mean you’re designed to make decisions based on your emotions or that you’re necessarily an overly emotional person. It means that you need to reach emotional clarity or neutrality before you know if the thing is a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ for you.

Forget trying to make on-the-spot decisions; you’ll end up regretting it later.

Try sleeping on it or at the very least, wait a full day or two. You’ll know it’s time to choose when the correct decision is obvious.

The third and final part of that shorthand label we use for your Human Design is what we call “Type”. Type refers to how your aura (or energy field) relates to others and the world around you.

It can show you a huge amount about how to make any and all relationships work better and is often the first thing people will ask you if they know anything about Human Design.

There are five Types in Human Design (though many teachers choose to split the world’s population into four Types instead of five. At this point in my Human Design journey, having heard endless arguments from both sides of the fence, I’ve come to the conclusion that neither is perfect and I simply choose to focus on what’s useful).

Each Type group is here to do something a bit (or a lot!) different from the other Types. And that’s perfect because we can’t all do the same thing. After all, how boring would that be?!

If you are a Generator, then you are here to find and do work you love. What are you going to pour your energy into? Is it building something, or raising children, or running a company, or something entirely different?

There is something you are here to do that you’ll love doing soooo much you would do it for free. If that’s not your reality right now, your number one job is to find that thing.

Ask yourself: What’s the one thing that just the thought of doing it lights you up so much that you can’t believe people get paid to do it. That’s your thing to do in this life, or at least, at this point in your life.

Note: You’ll find this thing by responding to opportunities as they come to you. Forget about taking your ideas and trying to make them happen. That will only lead to more frustration.

Instead, know that life will bring you your ideal “work” and you’ll know it’s right for you because your whole body will go “yes, yes, yes! That’s my thing!”