The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth

When Sevens rest in silence, they find the greatest adventures already lie within their own souls. Sevens don’t need to run off to what’s next when they learn to listen to what’s within. Caricatured as the type that is always up, always on the move, and always dreaming, Sevens are prone to the eventuality of burnout, so turning off all the noise of

It helps us come to terms with our gifts as well as the addictive patterns that tether us to our greatest interpersonal, spiritual, and emotional challenges. The Enneagram invites us to deeper self-awareness as a doorway to spiritual growth.

“Human behavior flows from three sources: desire [body], emotion [heart], and knowledge [head]”) and echoed in every major world religion. In this tripartite understanding, the composite of our existence is expressed through three distinct components of the human person, commonly referred to as the body, the soul, and the spirit.

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.

ranch). Our Enneagram type is the home we are likely born in and will most definitely die in.

My own consistent struggle is to recognize my addictive tendency to validate my worth (dignity) by curating an unrealistic and unattainable projection of who I think I need to be (identity).

sound (heard through the seven fundamental tones of an octave), sequence (the seven days of a week forming the basic interval to measure time), and energy (the seven chakras of the body’s energy centers that yoga students learn).

How could I have seen such tremendous growth in my inner life only to turn around and fall flat on my face?

When we give ourselves to the hard work of integrating what we have come to learn about ourselves, the Enneagram becomes a sacred map of our soul, one that shows us the places where we have vulnerabilities or tendencies to get stuck as well as the possibilities of where we can go for deeper freedom and inner peace.