The Minor Four

Everyday Themes in the Minor Four

The qualities of the Minor 4 have most impact in relationships and work, and, as it resolves across the landscape to 6, from day to night, from fertile to potent, from unfocussed to focussed, it has the potential for giving the Major paired with it quite radical changes in heart and mind.

They seem diffident to the particular concerns of their peers and can seem to be too serious for their age, maintaining an outward self-reliance and optimism that the world is benign?at least for them. As a Minor, 4 gives a Major an ability to retreat from everyday demands and to worry over a problem until it is solved or disappears. The Minor gives the Major a sense of dissatisfaction with solutions and answers that fuels their desire to create a better truth but also gives them a concern for things that may not be worth attending to.

Minor Fours readily present (and may get to like presenting) a sense of combining romantic and sexual possibilities in their relations with others. Minor Fours will be sexually aware, but may lack the social confidence to express their preferences, often remaining shy of pursuing their romantic interests, since they are wary of doing the wrong thing. Only in new associations can they forget their reticence, though can put at risk working relationships with romance and vice versa.

They realise that nothing is perfect and something else may well be better than what you have. Minor Fours will always have little things to tidy up in their lives, and they are ready to doubt even the most established facts. They are able to see the picture that no one else sees clearly, and draw the broadly right conclusions often unnoticed by the community and often without effort. Their way of re-describing information often simplifies puzzles, while their associative thinking can complicate simplicities. Minor Fours need to revise their own work, and will always be revising their first impressions. Even though Minor Fours have very good memories for patterns of knowledge, specific detail can be conveniently forgotten if it gets in the way of a pleasing pattern. Quickly absorbing ideas is their natural mode, but learning a specific thing or to a specific plan is more taxing. They need to have the reasons for things explained and they need to be directed in their studies.

In their early years, they may lack any focussed ambition and drift into things by default. But they do want success and achievement, and the drive to succeed may eventually overcome their feelings of lethargy and sense of remoteness from the ordinary day-to-day. They tend not to put all their efforts into finishing one thing but prefer to bring the many things they are doing to an end together.

Minor Fours can generally feel at home anywhere, having a poetic rather than a logician's view of the day-to-day. They take in everything at a glance, but might have difficulty in explaining what they have learnt from that glance. They need time to consider their opinion and decision, and often do not know what they think until they are forced to say it. The Minor Four is fearful of getting involved in the world and they may subtlety avoid having to take part in, and in being spoilt by, the realities of adult life, though they are appreciative of happy social gatherings where they can express their ideas. They want to appear knowing, even with little substance behind them. They are self-conscious of their need of eventual applause, and are dutiful rather than charitable. Only when the issues are personal will they come to the fight.