The Type in brief
Strategy — the main rule
Strategy isn’t advice, it’s mechanics. A Reflector makes decisions like this: wait a lunar cycle (~28 days). When a decision is made according to Strategy, life goes with less resistance, and the Type’s Signature appears — surprise.
Aura — how people feel you nearby
Resisting and sampling. The aura works before words do: people react to it without yet understanding why. That’s why a Type with a closed aura has a hard time when rushed, and a Type with an open one — when not noticed.
Work and money
A Reflector is the rarest Type, about one percent of people. You have no defined center at all, and you reflect the place and the people you are among. So what matters more to you is not “what to work as” but “where and with whom”: in the right environment you bloom, in the wrong one you get sick.
Relationships
A Reflector needs time and variety: you live through the same decision differently in different company. It matters for a partner not to rush you and not to mistake changeability for unreliability — it is a way of learning, not a character trait.
Fatigue and rest
You take on what belongs to others and don’t always tell where your own is. You need to be alone regularly to let go of what you’ve picked up, and to physically change places.
Common mistakes
- Deciding fast under pressure — almost always you end up with someone else’s decision.
- Staying in an environment that feels bad, hoping to get used to it.
- Counting your changeability as a flaw.
If this is your child
For such a child the class, the yard and the crowd are critically important: they become what is around them. A change of environment changes them more than any persuasion.
How Type connects to the rest of the chart
Type is responsible for energy and for the Strategy of entering a situation, but not for the choice itself. The choice is made by your inner Authority — and it differs even among people of the same Type. Profile adds the role in which all of this happens, and the defined centers are what the Type is made of.
Finer than Type are the four Variables, the layer of the chart about how your body and mind work most comfortably: Digestion, Environment, Motivation and Perspective. They’re calculated only from an exact birth time.