Enneagram
Nine ways of meeting the world, and eighteen questions to find the one you lean towards.
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Nine typesGut, heart and head
Each point on the circle is a way of meeting the world. Answer the questions below and the figure marks the one you lean towards.
Eighteen questions
Pick the answer nearest to how you usually are, not how you'd like to be. No birth is needed.
The figure
Nine points on a circle, joined by a triangle and a six-sided figure. Each point is a type, and the two beside it are its wings.
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The symbol reached Europe through G. I. Gurdjieff early in the twentieth century. The nine personality types were set out later, by Oscar Ichazo in the 1960s and Claudio Naranjo in the 1970s, and many teachers have built on them since. The names, questions and descriptions on this page are our own.
The types sit in three centres. Eight, Nine and One react first from the gut, Two, Three and Four from the heart, and Five, Six and Seven from the head. Each question here has one answer from each centre.
Most people lean towards one neighbour, the wing, which colours the type. The inner lines link each type to two others; teachers read them as the ways a type tends to shift under stress and when it feels secure, though they don't all agree on the details.
A mirror, not a measure
The Enneagram is a tool for self-reflection, not a test with scientific validity.
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Research on the Enneagram is limited and its findings are mixed, and a short self-check like this one can't settle anything about you. Treat the result as a starting point for thinking, and if it doesn't ring true, trust yourself over it.
Your answers are counted in your browser and the result is kept there only. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing here uses your birth.