Hi everyone! I've been intrigued by the Enneagram for a long time, since I was in high school, and I'm only just learning about tritypes, which are fascinating to me. I'm not sure yet though how to combine wings with tritypes, especially for myself.
Here is what I know, pretty clearly: my core type is 4. I've thought for a long time that I was a 4 with a 5 wing, but I'm not so certain about that in this moment. I feel pretty confident that in terms of instinctual subtype I'm So/Sx, but I'm also still learning about that.
Here is what I feel most confused about: how do you combine the wing system with the tritype system? Is it possible to be a 4w3 with a 5 fix?
For me, I identify with aspects of both 3 and 5. I feel most clearly connected with 5, both emotionally/introspectively and through test scores. But, while I do tend to be pretty intellectual and analytical and care more about fighting for truth and justice and social change than I do about conventional success, I also totally want to be famous and see myself having some definite shape-shifting capacities. (Also, though, the way I want to be famous is definitely more about critical acclaim/being appreciated by people with really good taste than it is about being popular with tons of people.)
Here are my results from this test: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/evaltest.php
Type 4 - 10
Type 6 - 8.7
Type 2 - 6
Type 5 - 5
Type 3 - 4.4
Wing 4w5 - 12.5
Wing 4w3 - 12.2
Wing 6w5 - 11.2
Wing 5w4 - 10
Wing 3w4 - 9.4
Wing 5w6 - 9.4
Wing 6w7 - 9.2
Wing 2w3 - 8.2
Wing 3w2 - 7.4
Wing 2w1 - 6.7
Part of what is confusing is there's so many possibilities. Like, I am a 4w5 with a 5w6 or maybe a 4w5 with a 6w5? And then I start to think, does it even make sense to combine the wings with the tritypes (which seems like a 5 question)? Is that a valid intellectual system? Who came up with combining them? (Which seem like they could be 6 questions or 1 questions or 5 questions?) And, of course, I'm aware that I'm performing introspection right now, like sharing my inner process for Internet strangers and I'm being mostly honest about that process, but also I want you to like me and be impressed by me and I don't know how to parse out the 5 and the 3 from that. I mean, it almost seems like I'm doing a 4w5 thing for 3 ends? Or maybe it's just for So subtype ends?
Also, I'm aware that because I'm a 4 with 5 influence, there's this way that I get fascinated by myself and my identity and also by intellectual systems and my own/everyone's thought processes and maybe I'm being swayed by my own preferred self-image. Like, maybe I want to be a 4w5 because it's called the Bohemian and I'd rather be a bohemian than an aristocrat... Help me before I get lost in an infinite loop of self-recursion?
(Oh yeah, there's also the question of the gut center. I don't feel very connected to 8, see aspects of both 9 and 1 in myself. I could see being either a 9w1 or 1w9--I doubt I'm a 1w2, despite my test results--that's probably an, um, indication of my current level of health/disintegration, although who knows?)
Here is what I know, pretty clearly: my core type is 4. I've thought for a long time that I was a 4 with a 5 wing, but I'm not so certain about that in this moment. I feel pretty confident that in terms of instinctual subtype I'm So/Sx, but I'm also still learning about that.
Here is what I feel most confused about: how do you combine the wing system with the tritype system? Is it possible to be a 4w3 with a 5 fix?
For me, I identify with aspects of both 3 and 5. I feel most clearly connected with 5, both emotionally/introspectively and through test scores. But, while I do tend to be pretty intellectual and analytical and care more about fighting for truth and justice and social change than I do about conventional success, I also totally want to be famous and see myself having some definite shape-shifting capacities. (Also, though, the way I want to be famous is definitely more about critical acclaim/being appreciated by people with really good taste than it is about being popular with tons of people.)
Here are my results from this test: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/evaltest.php
Type 4 - 10
Type 6 - 8.7
Type 2 - 6
Type 5 - 5
Type 3 - 4.4
Wing 4w5 - 12.5
Wing 4w3 - 12.2
Wing 6w5 - 11.2
Wing 5w4 - 10
Wing 3w4 - 9.4
Wing 5w6 - 9.4
Wing 6w7 - 9.2
Wing 2w3 - 8.2
Wing 3w2 - 7.4
Wing 2w1 - 6.7
Part of what is confusing is there's so many possibilities. Like, I am a 4w5 with a 5w6 or maybe a 4w5 with a 6w5? And then I start to think, does it even make sense to combine the wings with the tritypes (which seems like a 5 question)? Is that a valid intellectual system? Who came up with combining them? (Which seem like they could be 6 questions or 1 questions or 5 questions?) And, of course, I'm aware that I'm performing introspection right now, like sharing my inner process for Internet strangers and I'm being mostly honest about that process, but also I want you to like me and be impressed by me and I don't know how to parse out the 5 and the 3 from that. I mean, it almost seems like I'm doing a 4w5 thing for 3 ends? Or maybe it's just for So subtype ends?
Also, I'm aware that because I'm a 4 with 5 influence, there's this way that I get fascinated by myself and my identity and also by intellectual systems and my own/everyone's thought processes and maybe I'm being swayed by my own preferred self-image. Like, maybe I want to be a 4w5 because it's called the Bohemian and I'd rather be a bohemian than an aristocrat... Help me before I get lost in an infinite loop of self-recursion?
(Oh yeah, there's also the question of the gut center. I don't feel very connected to 8, see aspects of both 9 and 1 in myself. I could see being either a 9w1 or 1w9--I doubt I'm a 1w2, despite my test results--that's probably an, um, indication of my current level of health/disintegration, although who knows?)