'Not sure of my primary variant, but I spend pretty much equal time fantasizing about being unambiguously a part of an ideal community/family and feeling completely at peace with an ideal physical...|||I was not aware of this distinction, or even that Ichazo ever endorsed the enneagram as a model of personality at all, much less wings and multi-type combos. I knew he originated the idea of a...|||It's something called 'tritype.' It's based on the idea that we have a fixation in each of three centers, head, heart, and gut. A lot of people don't give it much credence, but it can be helpful once...|||Since my family re-watched all the Potters for the holidays...  Peter Pettigrew isn't a bad candidate for a 9 villain. 9w1 sp. His entire life derailed because he was terrified to stand up to...|||I'm sp, and I tend to support the team for my geographic region. Whatever city's closest. Or for college sports, whatever university I went to, or whoever has the best mascot. I have a totally...|||Hell no, we NEED some really hateful and evil Nines. :ninja:|||Only child, 9w1 ESFP mother with severe ADHD and a 7-fix; 3w4 ESTP dad.   I was very much the beloved trophy child. We lived a thousand miles away from the nearest family, and they all doted on me...|||Interesting. People able to read between the lines is precisely why I don't mind most lies. I can usually easily see that people aren't telling the truth and see where the other person is coming...|||I lie like a rug. I've never really understood the moral prohibition against lying, except lying to deliberately cause harm. I find threes fascinating because the masks they wear make them more...|||I have a similar relationship to 479. It's very much my ego ideal--only unlike real 479s, I very much identify with the 'gentle spirit', fairy-like energy. I'm the type to put flowers in my hair and...|||No problem, like I said, it just made me laugh. Didn't know it was Marilyn! And almost: I'm most likely 359, SO or SX last, depending on how you draw the definitions. Oddly, I'd also put 135 in the...|||o0india0o since this thread is about opposites, I figure it's an ok time to tell you that your signature quote always makes me laugh because it's SO MUCH the opposite of me. Mine would read, I'm...|||I object to the idea that any 1w9/9w1 bar would allow anyone to light up a cigar within 20 feet of the premises. Especially if it's an oxygen bar. Think of the fire hazards, Pete!  Ugh, forget...|||Most like me: anything with 5-9. 359 or 259, probably.  Least like me: 468. Confrontational? Reactive? Truth-teller? Too much work. Why get up in someone's face and be miserable all the time when...|||I seem to be the only one who responded to the description of the 479 Gentle Healer with hells yeah buddy, I'm gentle as f*ck!   But I'm a little too into self-denial to have 7 in there, I...|||I think the issue is that tritype is kind of a niche concept; most respected authors don't address it at all, so if you go looking for a system set down by an authority, you're going to be...|||This Nine description always annoyed me because it spends so much time on Nines as leaders--something that I, and (as the article itself acknowledges!) most Nines don't aspire to be. The tangent on...|||Off-topic introjection: I'm just popping in as your friendly neighborhood historian to say that astrology, historically, was actually a quantitative field that the vast majority of learned people...|||9w1/5w4/3w4 depending on the day, apparently   Julie, from Julie of the Wolves Pocahontas, Mowgli, Tarzan, Neitiri...anyone who hangs out in the woods and talks to animals and does Nature Stuff...|||I'm almost certain I'm an image type these days. 3w4 makes so much sense on the level of motivations, vices, and lines of disintegration, and I relate so much to the chameleon aspect of 3....but I...|||Sx-last.  I'm pretty passionate and I like love (and sex) a bunch, so it was hard for me. But whenever anyone starts talking about energy, merging, soul-union, animalistic urges, irresistible tides...|||Quang  I'm really intrigued by your test, but every time I try it I get all the way through and when I click 'finish,' the button doesn't respond. Tried it on iOS, Firefox and chrome, no ad-blocks...|||What does this distinction look like when the areas the Nine values are mental? The Nines over on the board here seem to put immense personal effort into, say, learning or making up imaginary worlds,...|||mariahj  Thanks. Like, seriously, thank you for all the thought you put into these questions. 3 was a longshot, so it's good to get some confirmation!   I'm pretty sure I've read everything...|||Your friend is my hero. Mad props.  When I first came across triads, I knew I had to be competency; so many of my problems come from knowing what I'm supposed to do and fearing what happens when I...|||Yes, actually, I've been thinking about it since you suggested I might have a 6 wing. I brought it up over in the reservations about current typing thread; I'd value your input if you have any. I...|||Wow, reading this thread makes it clear how contemptuous people are of traits I value very much. I guess I'm proud to be weak, and it seems to work for me.  Weakness for me: -Asserting your...|||aurly--thanks for the thread!  My trouble is that I relate to all three styles in different circumstances.  Of course I need to feel like someone acknowledges my emotions or my grievances when I'm...|||mariahj. Thank you. I always had a similar idea of the intellectual 6 as closed-minded, the stereotypical diehard Marxist or Ayn Rand follower or social justice warrior. I'm always the one rolling my...|||Haha, I'm ashamed enough of my elitism to try to hide it most of the time, but that's no good for typing:-/ I relate a lot to the 'escape' aspect--it's one of the reasons I cycle through Nine a lot,...|||Just read Helen Palmer on 6. Oh, 6s don't have to be loyal and hardworking? They can be irresponsible and procrastinate? They aren't all SJs? Reactive *doesn't* mean 'emotionally unstable'? Six is...|||I'm not seeing anything here or in your other posts that lead me to believe 7 over 5. What is your relationship to gluttony? When you packed to move to those new cities, did you take a lot of pride...|||I agree, I assumed chatter was normal and part of thinking. As far as action goes, it's usually deliberate because it takes a lot for me to be moved to action. When I'm deliberating an action, my...|||Thank you very much for these! Answering them helped me think some things through. Does any of this suggest a direction?    Lately, I'm introspecting, reading about MBTI and the Enneagram,...|||Reservation: I close my laptop whenever my boyfriend walks in *not* because I'm a Five and Fives are Secretive, but because I'm worried he'll find out how much time I spend doing nothing and force me...|||*shrug* Everyone intimidates me. Even the fours I know think I'm too sensitive. They're just jealous though.|||You're my hero. I have EXACTLY the same question about tamping down sx for so-reasons and exactly the same issues with knowing what you want but falling short. To me it makes ZERO SENSE to call an...|||Sx/sp|||This guy may have just been lonely and well-intentioned, then, but clearly too self-centered to think about how approaching a random woman, alone, and coming on that strong might make you feel. Maybe...|||Holy shit, this is the creepiest thing I've ever heard. I might have done the same thing you did out of sheer terror. This guy has serious issues and I would bet he was trying to prey on a much...|||Interesting. According to this view, I'm undeniably Sx-first, because the focus of my attention and analysis is my intimate relationship. But my anxieties in my relationship aren't different in kind...|||Actually, I relate to this a great deal. But my understanding was, if I'm *comfortable* with my partner, I'm not drawing on SX. SX, as I understand it, is supposed to be about discomfort, intensity,...|||Do you mean countertypes? I'd love to read more on that, if you wouldn't mind.|||Thank you for this! It's funny you should mention 'webs'--for me, SO, or what I think of as SO, feels like vibrations in a web. If something in the room isn't right, my little spidey sense feels the...|||I guess the parts about collapsing into a paranoid stupor out of terror of the everyday world do read a little small and frightened:) They're fear types, after all. I've always wondered why only...|||And don't forget, the social 5 descriptions tend to emphasize a kind of 8ish 5 who is anything but weak, who goes after other peoples' ideas and demolishes them at the unhealthy levels, or who tells...|||As I am right at this very moment procrastinating on grading homework for a Math for Poets type class I'm teaching, I'd say find a school that counts one of those as a math class:-)   Seriously,...|||I agree with this wholeheartedly.|||just for the spark Yep, I think I'm SO. I'm trying to figure out how I work within the Neurotic dominant-balanced secondary-less important tertiary model. I'm relieved to hear you call so-dom a...|||Confession: I'm deeply, deeply confused about instincts right now and I may not be social-dom. But I think I am.  My SO (confusing abbreviations!) is pretty supportive of me going out to see...'