The 4/6 profile has an unusual geometry. Here we have the first personality that is in the upper trigram, the fourth line personality. Though the 4/6 is part of the upper trigram and the transpersonal process, its role to complete the personal process which began with the 1/3 profile. The 4th line profile is one of the most unusual. It’s an integrating field between the right angle and the left angle. The lower trigram ends with the 3.6. When we get to the 4.6 it’s not longer lower trigram and it belongs to the upper trigram. But it’s still right angle.

Right angle is personal destiny. It’s about being self absorbed in ones own process. The 4.6 is all transpersonal in it's lines but it is not a transpersonal profile.

The 4/6 is an opportunistic personality employing its transpersonal gifts, its ability to establish friendships, to communicate the values of the lower trigram, and in doing so, fulfilling its personal destiny. We have seen the aloofness and disinterest inherent in the sixth line and that it rarely leads to involvement. The nature of the transitional sixth line is to code and assess and then pass judgment on what has been established beforehand.

At the end of the lower trigram through the 3/6 profile the six assesses and qualifies the trial and error of the three. But in the upper trigram through the fourth line of externalization the process is different. Where the third line will test the foundation, the fourth line is only interested in externalizing it. Where the six grades the qualities of the foundation beneath the three, it grades the mechanics of social interaction beneath the four. In this sense, the fourth line personality accepts the foundation established through the lower trigram process without question. What is now important is whether the message can be delivered.

The 4/6 has only one question. Can I get my truth across to the other? It is not whether or not I have the truth. It is whether or not I have the skills to get other people to accept it. Wherever we see the fourth line, we encounter the capacity to influence others. The missionary quality of determination and fixed attention. The 1/4 profile and the 2/4 profile both carry this potential in the blood. Here it is the personality. The 4/6 is conscious of its need to communicate and restrained by its sixth line unconscious.

The fourth line is always the opportunist. The opportunist is always ready to abdicate, ready to surrender to the pressure of the majority. However, the 4/6 cannot afford to surrender to any challenge to its authority, it would be shattered. So it holds to its aspired role of aloneness, avoiding contact with those it is uncertain of. Social perfection lies in finding allies that embrace the 4/6 profile socially and either agree with or avoid challenging the 4/6's basic concepts.

The entire externalizing mechanism for the 4/6 is the tension between wanting to be left alone so as not to be threatened. The unconscious demands aloofness while yearning at the personality level for quality friendships. The bonding strategy of the fourth line is to be a confidante or not. It is becoming this confident that precludes an overt sexual nature.

Friendship is the dominant theme. At the unconscious level, the sixth line is seeking perfection in all bonds and is ready to abstain and wait for the opportunity. It is not uncommon for 4/6's to befriend the partner of a friend, become their confidante and end up having an affair.

Before the sixth line can make a commitment, they must first observe and contemplate from a distance. They cannot successfully just leap into a relationship. In watching someone else in a relationship over time, their friends or their friend’s partner, they can assess the person and their qualities and in finding them satisfying can then begin to dream that they could be their partner.

The primary question at the heart of the 4/6 profile is if there is anyone that they can trust. As a result, one of the dominant themes in the life of the 4/6 is corruption. Words have their power. Corruption is a term that is misunderstood if it can only be viewed through moral lenses.

As an example, is a judge who corrupts the law good or bad? Let us imagine that the tribal law established out of communal values and maintained over time is that if you're caught stealing bread you will have your left hand cut off. A judge that presides over such a case and despite clear evidence that the crime has been committed refuses to apply the traditional law can be viewed by the majority as having corrupted the law.

The 4/6 profile fears any challenge to its law. It would rather be alone than be corrupted but it is not past corrupting others in order to bring them to its values. The fourth line personality must externalize its foundation and not allow that foundation to be corrupted. The sixth line unconscious, in its aloofness, is there to guide and to be in judgment.

Despite the transpersonal gifts of the 4/6 profile and the personality's capacity to be able to easily establish friendships, they suffer from great fatigue with the reflections of others. Friendship is there in order for them to be able to establish their law and not to listen to the laws or pay attention to the laws of others.

As with all profiles, how the 4/6 is going to be able to function successfully, how they are going to be able to find the right kinds of relationships for externalizing the foundation, will be dependent entirely on their living out their Type.

Having access to the knowledge of your profile does not mean that you actively have to pursue that. It is your nature and finding your purpose is a natural by-product of your living your design.

It is a natural by-product of following the mechanical rules of living out your Type.