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You can take our new, research-backed Enneagram test here: https://empathyenneagramtest.com

Nines are the angriest type on the Enneagram and almost nobody knows it, including most Nines, because the anger is comp...
09/01/2026

Nines are the angriest type on the Enneagram and almost nobody knows it, including most Nines, because the anger is compressed rather than expressed and sits outside their own awareness.
Understanding Type Nine, our new booklet and substack on Nines, is out now. Link in bio.

The cover of a finished Enneagram lexical analysis assessment. Every one is generated for a single person, so it carries...
08/12/2026

The cover of a finished Enneagram lexical analysis assessment. Every one is generated for a single person, so it carries their name, the type the assessment landed on, the date it was prepared, and their birth details if they gave them. Vivian Marsh is invented. The real covers belong to the people who took it. The test analyzes your word choices on free response questions and image selection of archetypal collages to determine your core Enneagram type, trifix, and instinctual stacking.

The contents page. Six chapters across roughly thirty seven pages, running from your Trifix to your type, then the collage and the pattern underneath it, then your instincts, and last the astrological section. The note at the bottom explains why they are in that order. The chapters run from the nearest thing to you outward, and nothing in the document is offered as a verdict

Chapter Four, Underneath the Pattern. This is the section that explains where the type’s core fixation comes from, what it costs, and what tends to ease it. The page shown is the Type Three version, on the early wound around admiration and how the ego then fuses identity with achievement. Every type gets its own version of this chapter.

Chapter Five, Instinctual Stacking. Three collages, one for each instinct, showing the same type running on intimacy, on self preservation, and on the social instinct. They are arranged in the order your own stacking came out in during the assessment, with your dominant instinct shown largest.

The original gestalt art collage shows your type through the lens of Jungian archetypal imagery that speaks to the inner experience of your core Enneagram type.

A second cover, for a different person and a different Enneagram type. Everything on the slides before this came out of one person’s assessment. This is what the same document looks like when it is built for someone else.

Chapter Six, Astrological Insights. If you supply your birth date, time and place, the assessment adds your Moon’s nakshatra, the sidereal lunar mansion the Moon was sitting in when you were born. The page names the archetype and its ruling planet, then gives the words for it at its clearest and the wor

The gut types feel everything in the body first, before thought, before emotion. Which is exactly why they get so good a...
07/23/2026

The gut types feel everything in the body first, before thought, before emotion. Which is exactly why they get so good at not feeling it.

Our new piece explores the mechanisms of erasure at work in Eights, Nines, and Ones: denial, repression, and displacement, and how the same buried energy surfaces so differently across the three.

Comment SUBSTACK for the link.

Daydreaming and fantasizing get treated as the same thing, and pinned almost entirely on Nines and Sevens. Both assumpti...
07/10/2026

Daydreaming and fantasizing get treated as the same thing, and pinned almost entirely on Nines and Sevens. Both assumptions turn out to be wrong.

Once you separate the two (one passive, one active), you can see how differently the mind drifts depending on whose ego is driving it, and what each type is really trying to avoid feeling.

Comment **SUBSTACK** and we’ll send you the full piece.

New Substack out today. This one explores how people genuinely miss each other in conflict and what’s often underneath t...
06/19/2026

New Substack out today. This one explores how people genuinely miss each other in conflict and what’s often underneath the words. 🔗 Comment SUBSTACK, and we’ll send the link directly to your inbox.

If you have read it, let us know what you thought! Did you identify?! Say hi in the comments!

In case you haven't checked it out yet, we've got a new Type 6 article out on the Substack!🔗 Comment SUBSTACK, and we'll...
06/09/2026

In case you haven't checked it out yet, we've got a new Type 6 article out on the Substack!

🔗 Comment SUBSTACK, and we'll send the link directly to your inbox.

If you have read it, let us know what you thought! Did you identify?! Say hi in the comments!

Why are you drawn to what you are drawn to.For over a year we have been studying that question, the quiet pull toward ce...
06/04/2026

Why are you drawn to what you are drawn to.

For over a year we have been studying that question, the quiet pull toward certain rooms, certain palettes, certain images you save without quite knowing why. It turns out your taste is not random. It is organized by the same instinct that shapes what you notice and move toward everywhere else in your life.

The research is finished, and the findings held more strongly than we expected. 167 participants, and a clear relationship between a person’s dominant instinct and the aesthetic world they are drawn to.

We made a free 17 page field guide that introduces all of it, the three drives, the three aesthetic registers, the twelve profiles, and the data behind them. It is the first time this research has been shared anywhere.

Comment SEASONS and we will send you the link.

Of all nine types, the Six is the one we get the most questions about, and honestly, the one that most descriptions get ...
05/30/2026

Of all nine types, the Six is the one we get the most questions about, and honestly, the one that most descriptions get wrong.
The Six is the most frequently occurring type on the Enneagram and simultaneously the most frequently mistyped, because their surface presentation shifts so dramatically across subtypes and trifix configurations that even experienced practitioners can miss the structure entirely. A Self-Preservation Six and a Sexual Six may not appear to have much in common until you understand what’s running underneath both of them.

Understanding Type Six: The Adventurer is our new 43-page paid guide covering the core type and defense structure, all three subtypes in depth, the false flag mistyping patterns, the inner world of the Six (the rumination cycle, the cutoff, the Cassandra complex, the relationship to authority), practical guidance for coaches, and the growth path.

This is built for coaches and practitioners who want to type Sixes accurately, for students who want the full picture, and for Sixes themselves who are ready for a portrait that holds the complexity rather than flattening it.

https://empathyarchitects.com/shop/p/type6ebook

Use the discount code SIXBOOK to get 10% off until June 5th

Of all nine types, the Six is the one we get the most questions about, and honestly, the one that most descriptions get ...
05/29/2026

Of all nine types, the Six is the one we get the most questions about, and honestly, the one that most descriptions get wrong.

The Six is the most frequently occurring type on the Enneagram and simultaneously the most frequently mistyped, because their surface presentation shifts so dramatically across subtypes and trifix configurations that even experienced practitioners can miss the structure entirely. A Self-Preservation Six and a Sexual Six may not appear to have much in common until you understand what’s running underneath both of them.

Understanding Type Six: The Adventurer is our new 43-page guide covering the core type and defense structure, all three subtypes in depth, the false flag mistyping patterns, the inner world of the Six (the rumination cycle, the cutoff, the Cassandra complex, the relationship to authority), practical guidance for coaches, and the growth path.

This is built for coaches and practitioners who want to type Sixes accurately, for advanced students who want the full picture, and for Sixes themselves who are ready for a portrait that holds the complexity rather than flattening it.

Comment SIXBOOK below and we’ll send you the link to download your copy.

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