I watched this Omeletto video this morning and was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t super profound, but it was a light-hearted example of what society looks like when we’re unbalanced in the three intelligence centres, with an overweight toward the heart. In the Enneagram, we have three intelligence centres- the head (logic, rationality, etc), the heart […]
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Between getting hit on the side of the head that my dad might be a Six this year, realizing some people I love are Sixes, seeing more clearly the Six-ness behind the conspiracy theorizing that’s dismantling western democracy, seeing the case for Luigi Mangione being a Six, and finally facing my Jordan Peterson fears, 2024
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On the topic of politics from yesterday, here’s another way the right-left divide is exacertabed unnecessarily: the political gap is as much about us feeling unheard and invalidated in our respective intelligence centre as it is about different values. I used to fight with my dad- he is a head type (5/6) and I’m a
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The Enneagram-teaching therapist Tom Condon uses movies to get his clients into certain spaces. I remember reading one of his posts where he had a client who needed to do something courageous- I forget what type he was, but he needed to do something that required toughness and strength of will, so Tom sent him
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Last weekend, my boyfriend and I drove out to his family farm to get a big garden area ready for planting, and as I was jumping up and down to dig my fork into the soil, I wondered if maybe my chart was made for farm life, with my Saturn so prominent on the MC,
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I was so excited about blogging this morning, I woke up at 5:40 am. I just graduated with my degree in political science last April (took me 20 years!), and politics has weighed heavy on my mind of late. Politics is as much about policy as it is about psychology, and I would like to