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"Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip…circulating from
mouth to mouth…and which...was as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs."
Henry Thoreau
The Major Fives
Resolution of 1 / Resolves to 1 / Antagonised by 4 / Antagonises 6
Friends 5,1 / Lovers 5,1 / Allies 1,3,7 / Rivals 2
5 represents the Landscape and is divided into the potent half above the horizon (after the Spring equinox) and the fertile half below the horizon (after the Autumn equinox). Each Landscape sign describes a fertile and imaginative type and a potent and active type.
In the TO8 scheme, 5 represents the high point of social organisation and purposeful community activity. For Fives the social realities of status and ownership have a continuing existence that never vanishes, and they are attracted to social glamour and the basic experiences of social elites. While they believe in open and free communication, their democratic instincts tend to remain within the level of society in which they move, and they are always aware of the level of society that people belong to. Fives like to understand status and acknowledge it, and they accept that while people can and do move up and down the social hierarchy, eventually their status needs to become a fixed value.
Fives are sociable, energetic and competent. They have practical abilities and love to solve practical problems for the people around them. Fives are warm and enjoy keeping everyone around them happy, and expect that warmth in return. They are ready to flirt, though less happy for a flirtation to lead on to sex unless it consolidates their territory. Fives are a boon to community activities, identify with them and will labour hard for what they perceive is the common good. But they cannot operate well without feedback or encouragement. Fives most dread banishment from the group, and this fear motivates them to always find an answer and to accept personal situations that may end up being in their worst interest. It makes them territorial and wary of going outside their beat. Still, Fives are robust and can absorb and dissolve hurts and difficulties more ably than those off the landscape. They bounce back even against injustice.
Fives are fully socialised. They are considerate, giving people the dues they deserve, and are easy with the rewards they deserve. They find it difficult to deny anyone, and which generally means that their capabilities are often stretched, or that they are imposed upon or found in situations not of their making. At the same time, they have capability and resilience, seeing along the Landscape to the options sunrise can offer, and can be urged on to great things. For Fives, problems have solutions. If there are really no solutions to be had than that is the way it is; if they are checkmated in the rules of the game than that also is that. The idea that they could, as it were, knock the chessboard over, doesn't occur to them.
The social hierarchy is something to be respected, and they would expect, in time, to have a firm position on it, and from where they could participate in the decision-making process. Debate and discussion is all important to them, and social communication is a continuous process of contact and chat, where polling for opinion is crucial to making a decision. They pay close attention to who has what idea, because the source is as defining as the content; the messenger is as important as the message he or she brings. To a Five an authority is one that has a social position.
Because of their openness, we would find Fives in occupations that deal with people and interpersonal structures, especially in communication, entertainment, politics and public relations. While Fives are able organisers of work priorities, they are less able bureaucrats. They like to balance energies and find real immediate solutions to problems, and rely a great deal on the expertise and confidence of others. Fives' strength comes from being part of the orthodox majority view. They measure themselves and the opinions of others against the highest consensus, while comparing with it the common good of their friends, family and neighbours. They aim to find the most satisfaction in the solution that works well for everyone, not just for themselves.
Fives have a sense in which service accumulates, and that rewards should match the extent of work performed. Work has a value outside of 'deals', and Fives are confident and see the issues that confront them with clarity and certainty, but they form opinions or a course of action through consultation. Fives understand human relationships well, and would make good advisors for friends and family, but they are not just passive listeners. They express their opinions directly and may dominate others simply through their frankness. They need to be involved in both the setting out of the problem and in finding the solution. Guiding a working solution into place gives them a social satisfaction. Fives (especially double Fives) are also literal and are less easy with symbols and implied meanings. Their eyes are on the social dynamic outside their personal condition and are less patient with sickness and personal problems that try to draw them away from that dynamic. They are also uneasy with partners who fail to connect with this same dynamic or whose trend is ultimately away from it to personal fulfilment. Fives are easily mocked by cynical minds but are not easily bettered since they try to integrate rather than divide.
The Landscape is, of course, also about the environment, and Fives are naturally drawn to decorate their spaces and to populate them with objects of value and social significance.
As children, Fives learn social skills quickly and often can behave in a more adult way than their peers. They like to play out complex social situations with their playmates and dislike being treated like children.
There are two types of Major 5, the potent (+) and the fertile (o). The social situation is, for fertile Fives, the cauldron of human affairs, and they are happy with whatever stew is cooking. They love to play host to those also committed to the social scene, and like to participate in the debates of free minds looking for a solution to a community problem. Potent Fives prefer practical jobs that deal with people and the issues of the day, and they have little problem understanding tools and getting things done. They are best among their peers, sharing difficulties and satisfactions together, where each member of the group gives his individual best. They prefer the definite well-articulated issue. Doubts and tentative discussions do not interest them; only the notions that people act upon hold any interest for Fives. They can be stern, even angry, and, through their ability to confront the actual, able to sway others to the majority view.
Fertile Fives have the energy to lead but need to have this right thrust upon them in order to exploit it. They like strangers with new things to offer, but they are wary of outsiders who might tangle up the forum of debate with side issues and problems that do not respect the orthodoxy. They suffer when they are misled. They enjoy making things and building up teams of happy workers with the aim of improving their community and family life but are sensitive to any mavericks included in the group. They do not want to rock any boat with their own ideas, and do not like to contemplate notions they have not shared with the rest. Fertile Fives are always generous to those they like, but are more sensitive than potent Fives to the consequences to their status of their generous acts.
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