In profiling each line of personality will be coupled with two different lines of the unconscious. We have seen the first line personality with the third line unconscious theme. Now we have shifted to the first line personality with the fourth line unconscious theme.

In the 1/3 both the lines are from the lower trigram. This is inward oriented, a personal destiny of self exploration and challenge. The unconscious shift to the fourth line brings the upper trigram with the transpersonal abilities. Here we have the coupling of two foundations: the first line - the foundation of the hexagram itself, and, the fourth line - the foundation of the upper trigram. This is introspection followed by externalization.

The first line personality remains the same. It is the continuity of the line, the theme of strength and weakness. The need to gain authority in life and the focus on grasping the basics. The fourth line is very different from the third line. It is transpersonal. It has a gift of being able to establish relationships, friendships. The fourth line is the nature of the opportunist.

There is a very simple formula for those who carry a fourth line theme. Whether that theme is an unconscious theme or whether that theme is a personality theme. If you have a lover and you don't like your lover, don't leave your lover until you have another lover. If you have a job, and you don't like your job, don't leave your job until you have another job.

If you have a lover, and you don't like your lover, and you leave your them without having another one, it will be exceedingly difficult to find another quality relationship. If you have a job, and you don't like your job, and you quit your job before there's another one, it's going to be exceedingly difficult to find another quality job.

This is the mechanic of the opportunist. It is transpersonal. It recognizes that there is something to meet. The fourth line is fixed and "pointed": Clear in its purpose and waiting diligently for its opportunity to externalize.

When the unconscious 3rd line in the 1/3 becomes impatient with the struggle of the personality to grasp the basics, it will, rather than accept failure, challenge the validity of the basis itself.

The fourth line does not challenge the foundation. It externalizes it as purpose. The 1/4 profile carries the standard of the hexagram. When the personality fails to grasp the basics, it is ready to be patient. The patience is a strategy. There, is no real support for the need to be boss that the 1st line personality wishes to project. There is a willingness to step down, to accept that it may not be able to gain authority. It may never grasp the basics and have to accept them for what they seem to be according to others.

The personality's openness leads not to pessimism but to fatigue. They grow tired of the introspection of others. The 1/4 profile appears to be conservative. They externalize the established foundation whether they have experienced its essential truth or not. They will only go against the flow once they personally experience their folly. Rather than being self-oriented in the 1/3 sense, the direction of the 1/4 is aloneness: waiting and watching. Looking for that opportunity from a distance.

The first line, in its self-absorption, has difficulty in intimate relationships. The 1/3 struggles with this limitation. Making and breaking bonds caught in the weakness/strength theme. The1/4 has a strategy of friendship. It is the type of intimacy that they can handle and attract. It is through friendships that their foundation can be externalized.

The frustration of the personality not being able to establish the foundation does not lead to bonds made and broken, does not lead to the challenge of the third line, but results in an emotional wave of kindness and meanness. The 1/4 is kind to those that accept its externalization of the foundation and mean to those who reject it, who won't listen. The 1/4 will externalize its established foundation regardless of any challenge. But this is never absolute, otherwise the valid challenge to the foundation and its replacement could not be passed on to the rest of the hexagram. Their intuition can lead them to accept and to externalize a revised foundation.

The 1/4 can often feel like someone who is out of place or step. When the 1/3 is banging on the door of some basic concept ("is the world really flat?") the 1 /4 holds onto the foundation. Despite their capacity for friendship, they remain essentially on the outside. They will continue to externalize their traditional view until either they sail out to sea and discover that you do not reach an edge or more likely, overwhelming evidence gets them to abdicate, accept the transition, and externalize the new order.

In these two variations of the first line personality profiles the continuity is through the personality. This is what we meet. This is true for all of the line variations. The line of the personality defines the thematic. On the surface, first line personalities appear so much alike. Where the personality brings continuity to the line, it is the design that brings progression, evolvement. It is through the unconscious that real transition takes place.

If you have a first line personality, whether you have a third or fourth line unconscious, it is that first line personality that in order to bring peace into the life it needs to do its homework, needs to be prepared, and needs to have its introspection. The foundation that is not properly established through that personality, will result in the two different ways in which change or evolution can take place.

In the 1/4 profile, when the foundation cannot be successfully established, then it is through the pressure of relationships that change can finally be brought about. Through the transpersonal meeting with others, who say "no, no, no, that is not true", lies the opportunity to re-establish a valid foundation. The theme remains the same. The first line theme of finding the basis of things, the first line theme of being introspective, of being self-involved, and without finding that valid foundation for oneself, has sense of difficulty and discomfort in the world.