33.

5 Timing
You know that the fifth line operates in a wave that we call ‘the seducer and the seduced.’ So it is
all about seduction. It is one of the things to recognize about the nature of all fifth lines, they all are
deeply related to the question of timing. This line personifies that in its name. This is the line of
‘Timing.’ The fifth line is always getting projected on. So in that sense they are getting projected on
that they are the seducer. But because of the projection coming from the outside, it does not mean
that they are ready to fulfill that projection at the time when the projection is there. There is always
this pressure of the 5, where there is this projected field on the outside which is trying to pull them
into some kind of response that they may or may not be ready for. If you have a line of being private,
and you have a child with the 33.5, you have a parent that says, "Why don’t you stay in your room
and play by yourself and close the door?" It is being projected on you that you need that privacy and
you need that withdrawal. This is a projected field, and a lot of 33.5 children get locked up in their
rooms very often. It is projected on them that they need to be alone and private. Due to this projection
it is even projected on them that they are not really social, or capable of it.

‘Timing.’ Pluto exalted, As important as the timing itself is the ability to keep secret one’s intentions
until the appropriate moment. This is the magic that remembrance can bring in the right timing.
Everything about this process is about reflection: going through it and completing it, and only then
the capacity to be able to act on that and verbalize that, as in this particular case. What that means
is that until the reflection is done, you cannot give in to the pressure from the outside. You can’t.
Only in the right moment, only when the reflection is done, then you have the power to universalize
that reflection. In thewhite book, The ability to keep one’s intentions secret. You keep the secret until
you know. In other words, the reflective abstract person is always at risk when they try to involve
others in that process, because they do not have their own opportunity to go through it and see it
clearly. They can only express themselves when they are ready.
Jupiter in detriment, A tendency to want others to participate in the selection of the timing, which
can lead to confusion. In the white book, Without a sense for timing, letting others in on the secret
prematurely with resulting confusion. Let us say that you are reflecting on how you experience your
work day by day and you recognize, as you reflect each day at the end of your work, that you really
do not like your job. Day by day, each reflection brings you closer to that point where you are really
clear about that. This is not a work for me. I have reflected on that. I am clear about that. At the
moment that you are really clear, you can quit your job. But only at that moment. That is the exalted.

The detriment works in another way: You have this ongoing process on reflecting about the quality
of your workplace and you do not like it. Then you start talking to somebody that you work with and
you say to them, “You know. I don’t really like this job and I am really thinking that maybe this is not
for me, and maybe I should do something else." In that moment of seeking out somebody else’s
reflection, experience or guidance, in that moment anything is possible. That person can have a
friend who needs your job, can go to the boss and say, "Louise is not happy. She is thinking of
quitting." Louise goes home that night, goes through her reflective process and realizes, "I really do
like my job. I just have bad days." She comes into the office the next morning and the boss comes
over and says, "You are fired. We do not like to work with people who hate their job."
Whether this event is good or bad for Louise is open. This is not about a moral question. This is
simply about mechanics. There are going to be these people who will always let others in. They just
do. Sometimes that will be very confusing and sometimes that confusion will work its way through.
It is not about whether this is good or bad. It is just about recognizing that that is the mechanic. To
recognize that something is a mechanic is in order so you can come to grips with accepting yourself.
If you are somebody that cannot get to the point where you have the right timing, and you know that
that timing is going to be disturbed by others. At least, you can see that that is correct for you. It is
not about changing it. It is about recognizing what is correct for you. The moment that you recognize
that that mechanism is you and correct for you, the moment you surrender to that, you will find out
what its value is. It is not without value. It is just one of many ways in which this reflective process
works.