#9w8

Ever wondered what each Enneagram type would be like as a dog? Here's a quick breakdown of their type ! 🐕

Want to dive deeper into each type? Check them out here : One / Two / Three Four / Five / Six Seven / Eight / Nine

cannibal virus (see what happens when 2 gluttonous fools suddenly become cannibals overnight!)

Which is not surprising to me because as an e9, we tend to not know what we really mean to the world. Our "potential." (I despise that word.)

For example, I only JUST realized that the reason why I can't achieve things in life is because I can't show up for myself but for others. For someone else, people, or something else. I don't know if I am even capable of showing up for myself. I tend to fall asleep to my own needs and desires. I avoid them like the plague, everything I do in life is either because someone else told me to do it or I am expected to do it.

This might sound like I would want to become a psychologist or a teacher but no. I want to be useful in quieter ways. Like, ways that tend to go unnoticed but would become painfully obvious if it was gone. This, of course, is overlooked in this society. Especially with the rise of ai but that's another topic for another day. And if an e9 lacks the proper guide they need in life, then they'll inevitably fall behind and when they fall behind they'll be labeled as lazy and nothing more by others. (Hi I am that e9.)

how do you set boundaries with the world around you? (do you assert yourself, do you blend in, do you please others, etc etc)

how do you act during stress? (are you more positive, do you stay calm and try to be "objective," do you get emotional, etc etc)

how do you act in anger? do you experience it often?

how do you act in shame? do you experience it often?

how do you act in fear? do you experience it often?

how do you act in relation to others in conflict? (withdraw, go-with-the-flow, upfront, etc)

how do you "get what you want?" (more demanding + straightforward, believe it should be earned, focus on self, etc etc)

Especially since I also want to know more of its distinctions between 9w8 who can also be reactive and the ones who are more aware of their anger and turbulent feelings (but still are 9s because they are still seen as calmer and chill in terms of how they present themselves as and their core motivations), and the reactive types in general who may have a more positive slant when counting fixes and/or wings.

Reactives have an attitude of “this is wrong/bad/not allowed/I hate it, and you’re gonna hear about it, because I need to draw attention to this” (aesthetic ick/shallowness – 4, a threat/ a truth everyone is ignoring – 6, the thing nobody wants to deal with – 8). They are more negative by default, because they are noticing and fixating on what is annoying to them in that context.

To a 4, this is “being authentic.” To a 6, this is “being intelligent.” To an 8, this is “facing the thing nobody else has the guts to face. The Hard Truth.” To a 4, this is proof of how they won’t settle for peon things. To a 6, this is proof they are scanning for danger and problematic beliefs or people. To an 8, this is proof that they are stronger than others and don’t shy away from problems.

But you’re really asking, what is their relationship with anger? To a 4, anger is just how they feel. It’s familiar. And they won’t get over it sooner than they feel like doing so. To a 6, anger is either fuel or a risk, it could alienate them from others and make them a target, or make them mad enough to take a stand.

But to an 8, anger is how you get big enough that nobody stands in your way. You expand, take up all the space or air in the room, and get your way, because everyone else just gives it to you, or you push right through them. It’s a contained nuclear explosion that blasts outward and clears the path ahead of irritants.

Core 8s understand that everything requires energetic output, and they have unlimited resources for this; that every field is a battleground; that you have to fight and force others and fate itself to give you what you want out of life. 9w8s have that underlining push and anger that being reactive (this is pissing me off!!!) gives them, but they are still “I want to exert as little amount of energy as possible,” so they save those exhausting self-explosions for when they want to create a boundary. Anger to a 9w8 feels good, safe, familiar, and how “I get my way.” It’s how the 9 stops being a doormat, or getting along just to avoid trouble, or kicks itself in the butt in order to actually move forward, or has that angry assertive conversation they have been avoiding, so they can then go back into “coasting” mode.

Bottom line? Anger is the engine that makes things possible for an 8. It gives them POWER, and nobody likes to feel powerless.

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Ouhhhhhh why is it so CUTTEEEEEE lowkey might make sp9 my tumblr chibi profile..... CREDITS OBV TO MATRIX OK!!

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