4/6 Mental Projector

Hello, my Googling friend 🙂 Is it safe to assume you’re trying to work out what these strange Human Design terms mean?

I get it. I was in your shoes about ten years ago when I first got my HD chart and wondered what it was all about. In this post, I’m going to walk you through them one at a time.

I’ll use everyday language so that you can start to incorporate the wisdom of Human Design into your own life. After all, that’s the entire point of this system - using it to make your life work better.

If that sounds good, then let’s do this!

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.

Knowing how to make powerful and aligned decisions in your life is arguably one of the most important things Human Design can show you.

When I didn’t know how to make decisions according to my energetic design my life was a total shambles. Once I learned about Human Design and understood my Inner Authority things began to change and have only got better and better over time.

The term Inner Authority points to the fact that you are your own best authority in your life.

You know what’s best for you if only you know where to pay attention when trying to make decisions. This is the power of understanding your Inner Authority. If your HD chart or report tells you that your Inner Authority is the one listed below (and in the title of this blog post) then I'll walk you through the meaning of that now.

Mental is a misleading name for your Inner Authority when you have no context for why it’s called that. So, let me explain the most important thing you need to know at the beginning of your HD journey.

If you’re in this tiny group of people, I know this about you: You are mentally very switched on. You can think and think and think all day long. But I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that your clever mind is rubbish at making decisions!

Instead, try this: Find a kind, listening ear (spouse, friend, sibling, therapist, pet dog… whoever will listen without interrupting or giving you advice) and get all the thoughts about the potential opportunity out of your head.

That’s how you’ll reach a clear decision.