The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth

Because of this profound capacity to understand others, it’s hard for them to take a position or hold an opinion, especially if it’s contrary to that of their partner or community.

Nine who overidentifies with the social role of a peacemaker. His community is harmonious because of his mediation efforts, yet his inner life is like a forgotten garden overgrown with weeds—ignored and disconnected from the whole.

Actively participating in intentional stillness will bring the Nine’s practice an alertness that animates their own inner energies.

the head types generally flee danger as a result of having thought through the implications of harmful situations.

it exposes nine ways our human nature manages our ego’s* collection of coping addictions that we have wrapped around our most intimate and deepest pain—our Childhood Wound.

Sevens are sometimes thought to lack the ability to follow through with their initiatives. However, this may in fact be more of a resistance to feeling forced to bring closure—which limits freedom and feels like dying to the Seven.

The Law of Seven is thought to explain the spectrums of things like light (refracted through the seven colors of a rainbow),

Like Dorothy, sometimes we become so disenchanted by the ordinary that we can’t help but create a colorful illusion in which to live. Yet ironically, this fantasy-building only takes us farther from home. The Enneagram, through its unabashed truth-telling, invites us to return to our essential nature, the home for our souls.

The contemporary Enneagram of Personality* illustrates the nine ways we get lost, but also the nine ways we can come home to our True Self. Put another way, it exposes nine ways we lie to ourselves about who we think we are, nine ways we can come clean about those illusions, and nine ways we can find our way back to God.