I am a typical geek - 5.

I'm a 2...more specifically, a Social 2 with a 3 Wing. In other words, in three rolls of the dice, it came up "extrovert" all three times: Social, Two, Three :-) I can work a room like nobody's business...

Hello.. I'm new to this tribe... I've been studying the enneagram for 4 years now... and always looking to learn more about how we function in and outside of our types... I'm a 4... but sometimes I think I may be a 2... Do any of you have a preference to either Palmer or Risso-Hudson books? or any one else for that matter.... Have a good one.... :)

Based on the readings and a few tests, I appear to be a 9 with a 1 wing, one-on-one type.

I need to check some more sites and some more resources and figure out what to do with this information...

I'm a 9w1-- which I settled on after about a year of also considering 2, 5 and 6 as possibles. I used to think I was a self-pres Nine, but the more I look at it, the more I think I'm a sexual Nine.

I'm an INFJ, according to the MBTI.

5w4

Also, my MBTI is INTP.

I'm a 5w6, INTP on the MBTI.

I'm a classic 3 with a HEAVY handed 4 wing...and most of the people I am around are 4's, 5's and 8's..got to LOVE those bosses :)

I joined Tribe two weeks ago, but only today am I getting up the nerve to post. I'm very, very shy.

I'm also a Sexual 4w5, Myers-Briggs INFJ, and Oldham Sensitive. (And for those of you who have read Elaine Aron's book, I'm also a Highly Sensitive Person.) Here's a website that I have found useful in showing the correspondences among various personality typologies: www.geocities.com/HotSpring...dence.html

For more information on the subtypes, check out www.9types.com/type4board...10045.html. I particularly like the description of the Sexual Four found there:

"SX 4s are the most emotional and romantic Fours who exemplify the Four's passionate approach to life. They live
completely by the heart, following every feeling, which can sometimes get them in trouble if they are not careful.
Intense fantasies of sunset kisses, and making love in a forest, swirl around in this variant's head, as they are the
most erotic of Fours. Their emotions are like roller coasters - from the dizzying highs of love, to the sour lows of
melancholy. One advantage of being so in tune with their feelings, is that they are also the potentially most
creative. The stereotypical artist with turbulent emotions and original art is a SX 4. Issues involving their identity
are not as prevalent as they are in SP and SCs, but instead take a back seat to their dominant emotional world of
love, hatred, happiness and melancholy."

Denise

9w1, SP (then SX then SO)
Earth Monkey, hour of the Sheep
Aries w/Leo rising, moon in Virgo
Vata-Pitta
INTJ, more or less
Indigo/Crystal by the multiple-choice test, Yellow by Pamala Oslie's word :-)
Highly Sensitive Person

I've never heard of the Blake clans; can someone post a reference please?

Hello, I'm a 5 with 4ish qualities. I learned about the enneagram years ago through my god parents who I lived with for about 6 years during & just after college. They used to teach enneagram classes & learned it from Claudio.

okay... 8w9 and INFP...

interesting thread!

Lobo

Type 7, wing 8.

I am a type 4 with a 5 wing and a line to 1. I am also an INFJ

I'm an INFJ (male so that puts me in the smallest MBTI group possible) and I am a 4w5 which I would not wish on anyone.

-new-

5w4 . one of the few in this tribe it seems.
i wouldn't assume that a 5 wouldn't find the enneagram intellectually appealing----talking about it however is a process depending on who and what context. usually its a waste of time because either the person in question mentally aligns the enneagram with astrology/numerology or the intellectual superiority of the 5 in general, and concerning the enneagram in particular makes conversation/discussion(boards) incredibly frustrating.

testing-----the only valid test is in the wisdom of the enneagram, either way testing tends to fail when most people attempt to do it for themselves as they dont have that presence telling them to stop lying to themselves about who they are.

morning.

All the tests I have taken show me being a 5 with a wing of 4.

4w5 married to a 7.

Thank God someone mentioned Claudio's books. 'Character and Neurosis' is indeed a hard read. (Claudio never dumbs it down or has writing a best seller in mind.) But then I like 'Ennea-type Structures : Self-Analysis for the Seeker.' Though not the Source of this system, it is closer than most of the written stuff out there.

Typing one's own personality is just a tough business. In 1972 I was typed as a 7 and "lived an OK life like a good 7 should" for many years until Claudio re-typed me a 9 about 12 years ago.

I remember my conversation with a really good friend who is a great human, loving, caring, looking after the good of everyone, a classic even keeled 9! He also knows the enneagram quite well as a theory. I asked his type and he said that his wife, also an astute observer, says he is a redeemed 8. I expressed my astonishment, and S just said, "I'm no ass kisser." Bingo. I guess that it takes a rebellious 9 to see one.

A tough business indeed.

Just took the test again, and I'm still a 9w1 SX.

My dissertation chair is an enneagram expert and he gives me the best feedback/advice because he know how to talk to me and how I operate. It's great!

I am an INFP 4w5/SP and highly sensitive... this is fun :)

9w8 or 8w9
i have no idea what it means.

4w5