#enneatyping

(I’m horrible at staying recent) back to Ennegram typing. Murdock is a 4.

Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They typically have problems with melancholy, self-indulgence, and self-pity. At their Best: inspired and highly creative, they are able to renew themselves and transform their experiences. Basic Fear: That they have no identity or personal significance

Basic Desire: To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity)

Continuing with my Enneatyping, way later cause I’m horrible at this.

Ray is a 2.

Back at the Enneagram....Josiah is a four (my sisters a four, I have personal experience so believe me, he is a FOUR)

Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They typically have problems with melancholy, self-indulgence, and self-pity. At their Best: inspired and highly creative, they are able to renew themselves and transform their experiences.

Basic Fear: That they have no identity or personal significance

Basic Desire: To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity)

Sebastian Castellanos

8w9: Sebastian has a kind of stoic strength. He does what needs to be done without quibbling and is generally calm but carries enough aggression in reserve to tap into when necessary. He is more oriented toward people (ie family) than experiences/items (being hooked into STEM is a pretty rare and unusual experience, but he holds no awe, nor does he even reflect on the weight of the experience at all really). He is stubborn, poker faced, but readily voices his opinions, even in the face of a hostile opponent. He is straight forward with little tolerance for games and subtlety, instead prefering face value. He has a tendancy to push in order to get truth/reactions (such as when he meets the first Mobius operative). Sebastian is also protective and has a soft side which is reserved for those close to him. Some people might try to type him as a 6, but Sebastian is too decisive and lacks the ambivalance or the need to “puff himself up” by displays of strength. He doesn’t rebel for the sake of proving his own independance - when he acts with power/agression, it is for a purpose, to get shit done, not just to reassure himself. 6s have a tendancy to need to “refuel” their sense of security/strength regularly, either by seeking reassurance of others faith in them, or by acting out in some way. Sebastian does not do this.

SP/SO: Sebastians wife was also a part of the police department, which can lead us to deduce that part of the reason they chose eachother was because of common interests/beliefs/chosen lifestyle. He seems to have a lack of interest in being swept up in the primal (that we’ve seen) unless pushed to the breaking point, and has a wall up to keep people from getting too close/prevent being sucked in to anything too intense. He is largely oblivious to the intensity of Stephano’s focus on him.

Stefano Valentini

4w3: The self absorption of the 4 paired with the self-display of a 3. Stefano is creative and driven to leave a legacy. Despite claiming that Sebastian is his art (in human speak, that would be victim), his actions speak to another, less conscious desire (though not one that negates Sebastian being his victim, just dual-roles him). Sebastian becomes his unsolicited audience (he torments him, but even more than that, he consistantly and compulsively sticks his art in Sebastians face), because he needs an external witness (3 wing). He pretends not to care about the opinions of others regarding him/his work, but then reacts agressively when his desired reaction is not given (such as to Sebastians “rejection”/unwillingness to offer desired attention/play Stefanos games), proving that he is in fact quite concerned and even sensitive as to how he is perceived by others (especially his chosen audience). Regardless of this sensitivity, he remains competitive in his desire to prove himself and compelled to seek attention and admiration for his work. He is the epitome of a dramatic exhibitionist, extravagant and narcissistic. He has aristocratic taste and an equally elaborate self presentation. He is a murderous peacock. If Loki and Hannibal Lecter had a son, it would be Stefano Valentini.

I’m really behind and so sorry. But I’m now Enneatyping Face. Face is a 3.

I’ve finished my 9th book in English, “Spiritual Guide To Our Soul Blueprints,” which is available in ebook and Paperback format at two sellers (links below). This book is based on my pioneering research on the Enneagram to bridge it with Human Design and other typing systems to reveal how our souls design human characters to play different roles on this planet. ​​​​​​​This book explores answers…

Part enneagram discussion, part individual typing. The amount of time (years...) I've spent on enneagram would embarrass most people of a reasonable nature. This blog is an attempt to put some of that study to good use.

On Enneatyping:

I will only do core typings.  I will not do tri-typing. I may do instincts variant typings.  

My outlook is Jungian, not Freudian. I will not psychoanalyze and explain why you are the way you are. My goal is to provide a guided dialogue to assess coping mechanisms and motivations while helping to map them to a specific enneatype. I'll happily link to literature about the types and potential areas of interest, but I am not a therapist and will not give advice that is authoritatively therapeutic in nature.  The Process:

First, it is important that typees have a decent amount of self-awareness. Those who have experienced at least one "crisis of persona" and are willing to deconstruct it are usually straightforward and easy to type. Those who haven't, while not impossible to type, can be difficult due to possible ego identification. 

It is also important that the typee can lucidly evaluate their psychological health. Specifically, whether their personality is stabilizing or disintegrating.

Note that the process may (one could argue "should") be somewhat uncomfortable. It is easy to get caught up in the glitz and glamour of “finding one’s identity” and forget that the enneagram is based on esoteric concepts with the goal of targeting our individual pathologies. If you either:

Reject or struggle to identify your flaws

Feel unequipped to engage your flaws from a position of detached neutrality.

Are not willing to temporarily set aside your spiritual (dis)beliefs to work with the system.

Then typing will prove either impossible or extraordinarily difficult and, truthfully, I would not enjoy it. 

Conclusion:

Finally, please note that I’m only doing this because I enjoy it and want to. I find the subject interesting and personally fulfilling. I’m not doing this out of obligation and so will not tolerate harassment, condescension or abuse. Disagreement can be thoughtful and cordial. In fact, I expect it to be.