The Minor One

Everyday Themes in the Minor One

The Minor One gives youthful energy, curiosity, and an interest in the trends in ideas to the Major. Those with the Minor 1 are lively, responsive, questioning, and communicative, absorbed in the things around them. They enjoy relating to those with similar outlooks and like to seek out those key people who are responsible for social and technological change. They are peer-minded and like to join small teams or groups and to keep an eye out for new team members. Everyday life is a matter of getting tasks in the right order, and they may find it difficult to step back from their life and get a broader view of what is happening to them and where they want to go.

Minor Ones can profit from learning. They like to be out and about, exploring roles, daring and challenging. They seem to have the essence of youth: curious and questing, talkative and funny. But they can be exhausting because they never want to rest. They play easily and are generally happy in stimulating environments. In dull or restrained environments, they become stressed. Discovering and seeking out new fields of interest is something of a race for them, and they have an acute sense of priority and in being 'first'.

They often have a better understanding of the cogs of the working world than other Minors, and, as children, they tend to challenge adults who are less able and versatile than they are. They will opt for careers that give them as much movement as possible. When they set off on their journeys they like to give the impression of launching out into the blue, but they have a good idea of where they are going to land. They find it difficult to centre their restless minds. They like to look down every alleyway, and may find it difficult to present the sum of their work as a cohesive whole, and they take a dim view of anything or anyone that disturbs this picture. They would like to encapsulate the liveliness, the intelligence and all the best of their questing life in a leading social role.

Minor Ones enjoy energetic argument, but are less happy with social chitchat. They prefer to keep to etiquette and good manners, and enjoy the concept of the people's forum where discussion follows accepted rules, as long as interesting things are said and conclusions are arrived at. They react badly to being overshadowed in company, and will tend to slip away from attacks (depending on their Major) with cleverness and acidity, pouncing on logical jumps or flaws in conclusions. They are observers of what others get up to and note anything out of place or exceptional, a false step in an argument, a bargain in a store, better than average odds.

They don't like to waste the money in their pockets but they are also happy to spend it to make something better than it was before. They see the charitable act as an enabling process. They will risk their cash on their abilities to calculate better than others, and social games like poker or bridge may well be attractive to them, whereas strategic games for two players, while intellectually interesting, are less attractive. If they bet, they will bet on propositions whose outcomes have well-defined probabilities.

Minor Ones make 'classic' friends, in that they are sociable, like to converse about everything, have logical but compassionate minds, and have a forward looking energy that can pull the team or the group along. They have less interest in indulging in the sentimental and will be brisk when getting bogged down in navel-gazing threatens.