Shadowing Practice: Human Design 2/5 Profile Explained (Hermit / Heretic) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Welcome to the Moonrise Human Design Channel.
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In this video, you can expect to learn about the 2 -5 profile.
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We will be diving deep into the 2 line, what that means.
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We'll be diving deep into the 5th line, what that means.
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And then we'll also spend some time unpacking the interplay of what it means to be a 2 -5 together.
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Before we get into that, I want to tell you a little bit about what we're doing here.
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So this Moonrise Human Design Channel and Moonrise community brand generally, is a space for you to learn and explore human design.
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We believe that human design is a very valuable tool to coming home to yourself, to cultivating love and understanding yourself,
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and then cultivating love and understanding for those around you.
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My name is Sam Pfotenhauer.
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I'm an embodiment coach, an intuitive and human design teacher based in Austin, Texas.
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My name is Nadia Last.
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I'm a therapist and I love using human design in my therapy practice.
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And I teach human design.
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We offer a ton of different offerings if you want to dive into the different things about human design.
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This is just one aspect of profile line.
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So we have an entire series dedicated to the different profile lines.
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You can read about all 12 types of them.
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You can also join us for human design training, which is a course that we teach.
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You can join us live.
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We have live options.
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We also have self -paced options that you can learn more about in the video description.
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We also both offer individual human design readings.
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We offer sessions.
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Sam works as a coach.
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I work as a therapist.
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And if you like this content, please like it.
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Please subscribe to this channel.
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And please share this with somebody that you think could benefit from it.
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All of these organic ways help this channel grow and allow us to continue making free and accessible human design content.
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So let's start with what is a profile.
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Nadia, what's a profile?
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A profile in its simplest form is basically how you are intended to use your gifts
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and share your gifts with the world around you.
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By learning about your profile, it helps to inform you how you might be able to interact with
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and share the things that you are best at with the people in your life
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and in the world with more ease and fulfillment.
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It gives even more nuance and depth to other things
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that you learn in your chart that can speak about role and about how you express yourself, but it's a really important kind of foundational piece.
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The profiles have numbers.
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So yours is a two five.
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And what this comes from is that there's six different lines in the profile system.
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So we just call it first line, second line, third line, et cetera.
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And everybody has two lines.
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So everyone has two different numbers.
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Your second line and a fifth line, a two five.
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And each of those lines means something.
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The order also matters
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so the line that's first your second line is we call this your conscious profile line
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and all that means is
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that you're likely to have a little bit more of a
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connection to this you lead with it it's probably more obvious
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to you you've likely observed it more in your life
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and then the second in human design language you call it
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your unconscious um though you may be aware of it
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or not is more like a supporting cast character uh it's
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still really important it's still very much a part about the way that you share, but maybe a little bit less obvious to you.
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It tends to be a little bit more obvious to the people around you.
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So today we'll start with the second line.
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The second line is the hermit.
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And what that means is that you are meant to spend time alone, but it's not just about spending time alone, about hermiting, about kind of like,
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okay, I'm going to kind of separate from the world a bit.
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The reason that it's valuable to hermit, yes, you can rest and recharge.
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But in that time, you connect with these innate gifts.
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Second lines have this very special quality about you, where you will have things that you're innately talented at, that just makes sense to you,
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that you don't know how you're so good at it or where it came from, but just happen from you.
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And when you take that time by yourself, you get to develop and cultivate that skill set.
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One part of the second line is that the things that you're best at will feel very natural.
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The word natural is used to describe the second line a lot.
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And these gifts will feel so natural to you
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that you might forget or not even realize
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that other people are not naturally imbued with the same propensity toward the things that you're best at.
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And as such, as a second line, it will feel really good to hermit away from the projections of other people.
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People saying, oh, this is what you should do with your gifts.
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And also, you need to be in interaction with the people around you to know and to reflect and hear reflections.
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You know you're really good at that, right?
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You know that most people can't do what you do, right?
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And hearing those projections, hearing those reflections will allow you to get out of your own head
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and be able to share those gifts more naturally with the world.
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And here's that we use this like language, like you need to be called out as a second line.
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And so as Nadia is discussing like, okay, yes, you do need to hermit.
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But there, it's not that you're just supposed to hermit by yourself forever.
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You know, it's like you hermit, you develop these things, and then you start to show them to people or you start living them, you start doing them.
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And in doing that, people will say, you're really good at that.
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Or we've ever thought about doing this.
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And it can feel like a projection when it's something that you don't want.
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And you feel like you're being forced into something you're
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so good at science and tech you should be an engineer
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and you're like I don't want to do that um I'm
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so good at cooking you should be a professional chef actually that's a hobby versus uh you're
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so good at photography I maybe thought about that as a career
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and then you can feel into like that would actually be amazing you're saying
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that that's possible I could do that and
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because second line's kind of a really hard time assessing themselves
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and so you will need to be called out and
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that can feel uncomfortable for you because to be a part of
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that just kind of wants to like keep it protected um
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but in that process you start to reflect on okay what is it
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that others see in me
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so it's a reflection you can think of what are the things
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that other people tell me i'm good at
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and then of those things what are what do i want to pursue you don't need to pursue everything
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that you're good at sometimes second lines learn that
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and have to learn that later in life i just picked this career
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because i'm good at it being good at that it is a good reason to move forward in something, but also, does it feel aligned for you?
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Does it feel satisfying?
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Does it bring you a sense of fulfillment?
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Do you actually wanna do it too?
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When you have that combination, that's where second lines really thrive.
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So that's the second line.
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The second line is that, in summary, I guess, we can say that the second lines, you are here to have things that you are innately really, really good at.
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When you give yourself the space and the sanctity of privacy, that is how you cultivate your own inner creative fire.
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That is how you get better at the things that come most naturally to you.
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Now we're going to talk about the fifth line.
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The fifth line in human design is called the heretic.
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And the heretic, it's kind of intense language, hermit heretic.
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Hermit, again, is just meaning to be by itself, to develop its skills on its own.
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And the heretic is how you share those gifts with the world.
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And we say the world here as the heretic because you are actually designed to find better ways of doing things.
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Heretics are meant to be problem solvers.
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You are meant to really find better ways to do things, more efficient ways to do things.
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You are designed to go against the status quo, to go against the grain sometimes, and to say, I know we've always done it this way, but I have a better way of doing these things.
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And that's where the heretic language comes into play because heretics are meant to be a little bit heretical.
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They're meant to say, hey, I stand for something different and I'm progressing humanity forward.
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Fifth lines have this ability to see a universal solution.
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So there's likely something obvious to you that it's like, wow, if we just corrected this thing, or if everyone knew this information, or if everybody developed this skill,
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if there was this resource, things would get a lot better for a lot of people.
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Like if we just click this one thing wow
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so much would shift and you have
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that ability to kind of like see this wow this one thing is universal
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and so as a fifth line you're meant to kind of like see what
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that call is
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and then to share it fifth lines have this ability to
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influence people outside of their network strangers um we call this
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like impersonal influence i like to think of the fifth line
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as the ted talker where you like are at a ted talk conference
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or you pull up a ted talk on youtube you watch
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it you have no idea who the person is you don't remember anything about maybe they're credentials
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or where they came from but you're
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so moved by their idea you see yourself in their idea
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and it sticks with you and all of a sudden four years later you're thinking about
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that idea at work you're telling somebody about it you know at a coffee shop
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or getting drinks because it moved you
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and that's what I think the fifth line has to be like you don't know
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that person they weren't a personal friend
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but you were influenced by them the fifth line has
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that gift so uh what is the solution and then other people seeing it.
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The other thing about the fifth line is that they are often projected on.
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So the two -five has a lot of projections because they're seen as a savior.
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Ania, can you tell me about that?
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Yes.
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As a fifth line, you are meant to solve problems.
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You are innately a problem solver and you have to get away from the energy of other people to really
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filter through your strategy and authority, which we have other videos on, but to tune in with yourself and say, is this actually a problem that I want to be solving?
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Or do people simply feel my problem solving energy, my fix it energy when I enter a room?
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And are they just projecting onto me what it is that they want me to fix?
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So getting clear with yourself.
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means spending some time by yourself.
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Again, getting into this hermit energy to recognize, am I just solving everybody else's problems right now?
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Or am I really sinking my teeth into the problems that I want to be solving?
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Because fifth lines, they have this universal solution.
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They're the natural problem solvers.
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People will often put you on a pedestal and they'll say, okay, you can solve all of our problems.
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We see you in this light.
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And you may be actually very well equipped to solve that problem, or you may not be.
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Either way, whenever people are pedestaled, they are eventually deflated, either because you couldn't solve the problem, or perhaps you don't want to,
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or you don't have the capacity to.
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You may have even come into and said yes, but you're saying yes to so many things because
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so many people view you and see you as the capable person that you are, but putting too much on your plate, and then you can't fulfill all of it so it's really important
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that fifth lines learn boundaries saying yes and also learn
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that there may at times disappoint people um people may be disappointed
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when they expect things and then it falls and that's okay you can hold it um it's okay and um
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one thing that i wanted to add is it's almost like superhero energy excuse me wonder woman can't always be Wonder Woman.
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Wonder Woman has to feed herself.
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She has to go home to her family.
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She has to do other things.
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So it's like, if you're a fifth line, think of yourself before you leave the house in the morning, like you're putting on your superhero cape.
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It almost can be helpful for fifth lines to have an alter ego
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that they step into so that they know when they're in their problem solving mode.
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And Wonder Woman is not necessarily small, like solving small crimes.
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Wonder Woman is solving the things that she wants to solve.
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So as a fifth line, you should feel empowered to recognize that your greatest sense of fulfillment will often come in one -to -many solutions.
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Just like a TED Talk, that TED Talk speaker is meant to give a TED Talk that gets distributed online to many, many, many people and ideas that shape the way that we do things.
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Whereas if that speaker just told one person at a time, they wouldn't be fulfilling their greatest gift, which is to share things that transform us,
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to share mutative truths that will bring us forward as a society.
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Nadia, how does the 2 -5 fit together?
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How do those lines fit together?
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As a 2 -5, you are quite rare.
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In human design, it's only about 2 % of the population.
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That's why we're so happy we're doing this video.
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We love you 2 -5s.
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You have such a unique role to play.
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But the 2 -5 profile is interesting because you're receiving projections on both sides.
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As a two -line, you're going to receive projections from people who are like, hey, you know you're really good at this, right?
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Which will feel amazing to hear.
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And then people will say, this is what you should do with that gift.
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And you have to be outside of their influence to recognize what actually feels true for me.
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And then on the fifth line side, people will sense, you can solve this.
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You're a problem solver.
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This is what I want you to solve for me.
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And again, you have to tune into yourself to know, is this a problem that feels most nourishing for me to solve.
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So as a 2 -5 together, you are here to be naturally gifted.
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You are here to do things and use your gifts that you're not even entirely sure where they come from sometimes, and you're meant to share them in a way
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that brings us forward to do things in different ways as a fifth line.
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So in that problem solving, like, okay, what's the solution?
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That's going to come to you most likely through that hermit time, through those alarm times, through I don't really know how I know
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that this works or how this entered my mind
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or why this is so obvious to me but I see it here
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and that doesn't mean that you won't study or seek teachers
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or have like trial and error in practice
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but the the gifts at its core level come from something
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that is rather innate and in that it'll become clear
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and then that's what you share
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and that's the way you're here to impact others yes
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so as a two -line I will often tell people find three to five people
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that you trust most and simply ask them, what do you think that I'm best at?
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And see the common denominators that exist and the answers you receive.
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As a fifth line, get in touch with yourself and say, what are the problems that I really see in our world?
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And what are the problems that I find innately interesting that I want to contribute my life force energy to solve?
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Yeah.
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I think that's all we will say for this episode.
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Anything else you want to finish with?
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There's so much more that we could say and that we do say in our human design training.
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So if you find this really, really interesting and you want to dive deeper, go to our Moonrise Human Design podcast.
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You can learn more on this YouTube channel, but we really get into the juiciness of what it means to be a 2 .5
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and more in our human design training, which we offer live and self -paced.
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And we'd love to welcome you into a future cohort.
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If you want to learn more about your chart, you want a reading, but maybe don't want to do a session
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or want something more price accessible check out our guidebooks
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These are extensive documents that will give you so much information about your whole chart, how all the pieces come together.
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Thank you for being here.
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Thank you for studying and learning human design alongside of us.
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We're so glad to be connected with you.
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Have a good one.
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If you're a 2 -5, feel free to share in the comments what you love most about being a 2 -5 profile. Do that.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 235 sentences and 3029 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:05. The speaker talks fast, about 201 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| solve verb | /sɒlv/ | To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. |
| projection noun | /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ | Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out. |
| naturally adverb | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | In a natural manner. |
| dive verb | /daɪv/ | To swim under water. |
| universal adjective | /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/ | Of or pertaining to the universe. |
| chart noun | /t͡ʃɑɹt/ | A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon. |
| reflection noun | /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/ | The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected. |
| skill noun | /skɪl/ | A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. |
| reflect verb | /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ | To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface. |
| connect verb | /kəˈnɛkt/ | To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. |
| pace noun | /peɪs/ | A step taken with the foot. |
| tune noun | /tjuːn/ | A melody. |
| pursue verb | /pɚˈsu/ | To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. |
| accessible adjective | /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/ | Easy of access or approach. |
| therapist noun | /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/ | Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| call out verb | To specify, especially in detail. | |
| fit together verb | To put the appropriate parts of (something) into a whole; to combine pieces that go together to create a finished object. | |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| pull up verb | /ˌpʊl ˈʌp/ | To lift upwards or vertically. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are intended · are meant · be called |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | training, which is · gift, which is · people who are |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've ever thought · we've always done |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 75 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, thrive /θɹajv/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: projection /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, chef /ʃɛf/
- Long words — get the stress right: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like solve, projection, naturally.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.