The Minor Fives

Everyday Themes in the Minor Five

Minor 5 gives to any Major a basic social attractiveness and a hopeful outward looking personality, with a need to finish things. The Minor Fives are sensitive to those around them, but also practical, and understand what people want, and tend to go with the majority view. They have a feeling for propriety and manners between individuals, and Minor Fives expect people to listen to each other in a thoughtful way. But they are also bound by an order and a hierarchy and are connoisseurs of pecking orders. They may be too accepting of situations that are not in their best interests having a strong sense of what is generally preferable rather than what is preferable for them. This also leads them into situations they don't want to be in, and they can end up in escapades that make them feel guilty.

They rely on structure and the self-possession of others for the smooth running of events, and may lack skills in dealing with the recalcitrant or domineering individual. Their overt charitable, understanding and trusting natures are appealing to many, but they are all too ready to reject those who might de-stabilise the balanced environment. They are stoic about setbacks, but complain if too much stoicism is asked for?they don't want to be put in the background.

Minor Fives learn practical knowledge easily and tend to use this to compete with their peers, though they are less comfortable with abstractions and knowledge remote from the everyday. They need to express themselves in one way or another continuously, and are able talkers and debaters. They like to know who said what, and they are readily drawn into gossip and chat. They like the attention that comes from doing well, but, at the same time, they don't want to be set apart in a leadership position. Minor Fives may dither over difficult decisions and tend to ignore them until forced to make them. But in the end, the power of experience will help them make decisions easily. In work, they absorb the established viewpoint and can make decisions with it in mind.

Minor Fives will be advanced in social relationships and enjoy the popularity that comes with being more 'grown-up' than the rest. They wear sophistication easily and absorb the codes of society without question. They can spot trends and themes, and will begin to look outside their family and school to heroes and heroines and elite models of behaviour.

Minor Fives are optimistic, charming and moderate in their ambitions, and they always fear, at the back of their minds, being put out on a limb by success. They learn to measure their responses to a situation and hold back their creative power until they are more confident of their environment. They search for supportive friends, but look for approval from higher up the scale. They become wise to the way the world works and know when to intervene and when to leave alone. Community and equality, to Minor Fives, implies a practical code of conduct between individuals that they can learn easily and quickly. It seems to them that democracy is about behaviour more than economics. Minor Fives see the world as full of social duties but are never quite concerned enough to find what their own duty to others actually consists of.

When there is no pressure put on them to perform, their intellectual energies can develop in a more scholarly and authoritative direction. Minor 5 resolves to 1, so there will be an increasing interest in fresh ideas and choices to take. And because of this, the idea of having children as representatives of this new growth will become increasingly appealing. Minor Fives like a community of equals and would prefer their children to mature early to join them in it.

In the day-to-day, Minor Fives are quite happy to put important matters to the back and let the status quo keep going for a while, all the while measuring themselves up against the voices and conduct of the established authorities.