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

Each Enneagram type has its own energetic structure, and over time it tends to show up on the face, in the microexpressi...
10/16/2026

Each Enneagram type has its own energetic structure, and over time it tends to show up on the face, in the microexpressions we make so often that they settle into our features at rest. In our new free Substack post, we look at how Oscar Ichazo read type from the tension around the eyes and mouth, how Paul Ekman’s work on microexpressions helps explain what he was seeing, and why the face can also mislead us. We’ll go further into all of this in our live class, Principles of Enneagram Typing, on November 14. Comment SUBSTACK and we’ll send you the link to the article.

Of the nine types, Four is the one people most want to be and the one they are most often wrong about.In our lexical res...
10/05/2026

Of the nine types, Four is the one people most want to be and the one they are most often wrong about.

In our lexical research, out of three hundred and twenty-three people who arrived believing they were Fours, thirty-four produced language that actually indicated Four. That makes it the most frequently mistyped type in the data set, and the confusion has shaped almost every description of Four now in circulation.

The new booklet runs eighty-three pages and is built from our own course transcripts, which means it reads as what we actually teach instead of as a portrait assembled from outside. It carries the Four that Oscar Ichazo described, a melancholic intellectual he placed in the intellectual domain and called the Reasoner, which almost nobody teaches now. There is a part on envy alone, because in this type envy operates as a habit of attention and not as an occasional embarrassment. And there is an expanded section on mistyping, including the Twos, Sixes and Sevens who keep arriving convinced.

Fair warning that we do not go easy on the type. Going easy on a type is how it gets caricatured, and the Four has suffered considerably more from admiration than from criticism.

Link in bio. If you are not certain of your type, the assessment is at empathyenneagramtest.com.

Type Sevens are known for their egalitarian spirit, the sense that nobody is above anybody and we are all here to enjoy ...
09/26/2026

Type Sevens are known for their egalitarian spirit, the sense that nobody is above anybody and we are all here to enjoy ourselves together, but underneath that ideal there is often a quiet need to be one up, whether intellectually, spiritually, or aesthetically. In our new free Substack post, we look at the Seven’s dichotomy of superiority and inferiority, why being one down feels so intolerable to them, and why this is one of the harder parts of the Seven’s inner work to see. Comment SUBSTACK and we’ll send you the link.

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.

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