The 3/6 Profile: Martyr Role Model
I wrote this as part of my certification reading for analyst training. It is speaking to someone with a 3/6 Profile. I am posting it here, because perhaps some of you will find it informative and helpful!
What is profile?
Your profile is essentially the role that you’re here to play in your life’s movie. It’s the costume that your purpose wears, and it’s made up of two different frequencies or roles. You have your personality, or the role you consciously identify with which is the 3rd line Martyr- and then you have your body, the role you’re playing out on an unconscious level, which is the Role Model.
What do both lines mean individually?
Your personality carries the frequency of the Martyr, and this is all about experimentation. On a conscious level, your role in this lifetime is to discover how the material plane operates through an abundance of trial and error. Your personality is highly adventurous and experiential: life bumps into you and you bump into life. You are equipped with the creativity and tenacity to discover what works and what doesn’t, and there’s a certain existential (and oftentimes physical) clumsiness to this process. It is not in your nature to be particularly fixed or rigid as you learn through constant change, movement and instability. You mess around with things until you find all the flaws and weak points. With a 3rd line personality, it’s helpful to your self esteem to reframe mistakes and perceived failures as discoveries. It’s always part of a learning process for you, and you have been endowed with extraordinary resilience and adaptability.
Sometimes people have a reaction to this line being called the martyr, so I want to give a bit more context for the name: One reason why your personality has the keynote “Martyr” is because it is part of your role to speak up about the truth of what isn’t working- and as the martyr, you may take some heat for doing so. Also, you are designed to uncover all the things that don’t work, so that others don’t have to!
Meanwhile, your body is the Role Model. As the name implies, you are someone who approaches life from a higher perspective, a wisdom beyond your years and a capacity to observe life with objectivity and serve as a peacemaker. While you may always have these qualities to some degree, they also take a lot of time to fully cultivate and grow into! The 6th has a particularly unique process because it goes through life in three distinct phases, reaching its prime at around 50.
The first phase of your life is from 0-30, and during this chapter the 6th line actually operates as a 3rd line. So, you were a double 3rd line up until your Saturn Return. Essentially, this means LOTS of trial and error and anarchy, on all levels. It likely felt intense, chaotic or unstable at times. You were deep in it, experimenting, tinkering around, bumping into things, finding out all sorts of things that work and don’t work!
Then, comes the next phase which you are in currently- we call this “the roof phase”, because it’s kind of like you’ve climbed up onto the roof to simply watch from above for the next 20 or so years. This is a period where you might feel less motivated to be as deeply involved as you were when you were younger, less drawn to be in the middle of all the action. There’s a quality of aloofness as you digest and process all the lessons you’ve learned so far, while simply watching from above and observing others' processes and noticing what works and doesn’t work for them. You’re in a cocoon of sorts.
At around age 50 or your Chiron return, you reach the third and final phase and this is when you come off the roof, to re-engage with life in a new way. You have grown into yourself as a Role Model. As a Role Model, you lead by example with actions that match your words. With all you’ve seen and experienced, you have cultivated immense wisdom. Others look to you for your objective administrative capabilities and higher perspective. You don’t have to *try* to inspire or elevate others, it’s simply a byproduct of embodying your authenticity and living with high integrity. You live out the truth of what works for you, while remaining objective when it comes to the lives of others.
The 6th line is always seeking perfection, and patience is key. You’re not just looking for a partner, you’re looking for a soulmate. You’re not satisfied with just a career, you seek the fulfillment of your highest purpose through your work. On your quest to maximum alignment, you can sometimes be a bit aloof or withdrawn- your attitude is, if this isn’t really *it*, why even bother getting involved?
What happens when these two lines come together as a profile?
The 3/6 is one of the rarer profiles, and it is a particularly unique role to play in the world. Along with the 6/3, this is the least stable, least fixed, and most mutative of all the profiles. There’s a lot of movement and change in the way you navigate through life, and you have enormous potential to experience transformation. As a 3/6, you’re here to grow into yourself as the wise role model who innocently leads by example, and whose credibility comes also from your vast and fascinating life experience.
As a 3/6, your roof phase (ages 30-50) looks very different than it would if you did not have a 3rd line in your profile- because your personality is still a 3rd line and always will be. This means that you don’t ever get to go *fully* on the roof- it’s just that while your personality is experimenting and adventuring as it does, on an unconscious/body level there’s a new transformational process occurring. Your body is resting and digesting.
Trust is extremely important to your 6th line body, and it takes time for you to build. As you move through your tripartite life process you build deep self trust, while also learning through trial and error how to discern if something or someone is trustworthy. Others admire you as someone who has strong integrity and can express objective input about who and what deserves our trust.
The 3rd line is known for its pessimism, a natural symptom of discovering all the things that don’t work in this world. Meanwhile, the 6th line, with its higher perspective, is fundamentally optimistic. As such, the dance between pessimism and optimism is a theme in your life. As you continue to grow into yourself and your 6th line matures, your optimism grows stronger. There may still be times when your personality is pessimistic about whether or not something will work, meanwhile your body now carries an ever deepening trust that everything will work out.
The 3/6 often has quite the dynamic journey when it comes to relationships. While your 6th line body yearns for a soulmate and has a hard time staying engaged and present with a connection that isn’t at that level, your 3rd line personality connects with others through the theme of bonds made and broken. Your personality needs to break a bond sometimes in order to either revisit the bond and address what wasn’t working in the first iteration, or simply walk away and take the lessons learned into your future relationships. Sometimes you need to break the bond and take space even when things are working, simply because it is your nature. Ultimately, your 6th line has very high standards when it comes to trust, authenticity and alignment in relationships- this starts to come online more after the first 30 years of experimentation. With patience, you magnetize and nurture connections that are so profound, they were totally worth all the trial and error it took to get there.