The Enneagram is a fascinating model of the human psyche. Everyone should take the test at least once in their lifetime!
Used in therapy, business, and self-development circles, the Enneagram is a powerful tool that can increase your self-awareness, empower you with self-understanding, and increase your self-love.
The Enneagram is also a highly psycho-spiritual model (meaning that it caters to human psychology and spirituality) that can support you on your spiritual journey.
Get ready to learn about your deepest strengths, weaknesses, and gifts in our free enneagram test!
How Does the Enneagram Work?
The word ‘enneagram’ is composed of the two Greek words ennéa (meaning nine) and grámma (meaning something written). And that is the crux of the enneagram: it reveals the nature of the human personality by dividing it into nine different archetypes.
The interesting thing about the Enneagram is that it possesses a number of different facets that help us to identify:
(1) what we desire more than anything else,(2) what we value the most, (3) what tempts us the most, (4) what causes us the most fear, (5) what our biggest fault is, (6) what our greatest virtue is.
Our enneagram test (bottom of page) will help you to identify these different facets and what you need to pay attention to.
The 9 Enneagram Types
The nine Enneagram types include:
- Type 1 – The Reformer
- Type 2 – The Giver
- Type 3 – The Performer
- Type 4 – The Individualist
- Type 5 – The Observer
- Type 6 – The Loyalist
- Type 7 – The Idealist
- Type 8 – The Challenger
- Type 9 – The Peacemaker
It is common to find a little bit of yourself in all nine Enneagram types. However, one or two of them should stand out for you as revealed by this enneagram test. These are your dominant personality types.
How Understanding the Enneagram Could Transform Your Life
The Enneagram Typology was first conceptualized by the mystic Gurdjieff and developed further by Oscar Ichazo and psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo.
There are several reasons why understanding your Enneagram type is so helpful:
- It helps you to become more objectively aware of your personality “blind spots”
- It assists you in developing more self-love by helping you to understand yourself more
- It encourages you to consciously work on parts of your personality that inhibit your ability to live a harmonious life
- It allows you to develop more awareness of your “higher self” (Soul) by deconstructing your personality
Keep in mind that the Enneagram is more of a system of transformation than a means of labeling and identification. Perhaps the most amazing thing about the Enneagram is that it encourages the development and liberation of the Soul underneath.
Enneagram and Spiritual Awakening
The power of the enneagram lies in its ability to lead us to higher awareness. By helping us to understand the root of our fixations and various neurosis, we learn about our ego structure and where it broke off from Divine consciousness (called the ‘Holy Idea’). We also learn what quality we need to develop in order to deepen our spiritual awakening journey.
In his Enneagram book Facets of Unity, A. H. Almaas writes,
The … view of the Enneagram is that each ennea-type fixation is the expression of a limited mental perspective on reality, and that each of the nine egoic perspectives is the direct result of the loss or absence of the enlightened perception of one of the Holy Ideas … Working with the Enneagram as part of a larger spiritual work, however, leads to a much deeper realization of truth and thus, a freedom from personality patterns.
Take Our Free Enneagram Test!
Now that you have the important background information, it’s time to get started!
Find out what your Enneagram type is in our free enneagram test below. (Don’t forget to share what you got in the comments!) This is one of the best, free, and fast Enneagram tests out there with a description of your type at the end:
What did you get?
Share your results!
The perfectionist.
This was oddly accurate and gave me a lot to think about.
The Giver. ?? Admittedly I’ve taken the Enneagram test a few times over the decades (I’m 58). I’ve come out as a 9 more than once, and a 4 when I was younger. But I’ve never before received The Giver as my “type”.
Can Enneagram types change over time? Or is there generally one type a person will be throughout their lifetime?
Another factor to consider is that I’m at a very low point in my life rt now, having my life upended over the past 10 months (in brief: had to sell our family home in July, youngest daughter ‘left the nest’ in August, separated from a 26-yr emotionally abusive marriage in September, moved to another state where I know no one, living alone for the first time in 26 yrs, lost my cat, my home, my marriage, my kids (to ’empty nest), my mother (to dementia) … and not gaining any traction in my ‘new life’ so far. The shame and grief and loss have been overpowering. Well That was a lot of complaining! But I just wanted to know if all of these factors could possibly lead to a Type that isn’t me? (It does sound like me though … but so did 9, and so did 4 when I was younger and a hopeless romantic :)).
Thank you so much for all you do!!
Maureen–that’s a lot to go through! I’ve been a 9 and a 4 at different times of my life as well and I believe we can shift in many ways throughout our lives–especially in moments of intense change and transition.
Being a 9 and a “Giver” leads me to assume you’ve probably focused a lot on other people in your life. Perhaps this time of challenge and strife will lead to new insight in how to care for YOU. I certainly hope it does!
Sending light and love!
Ha ha, the individualist, spot on, that`s me except for “the feeling more special than others”. From a young age on my school mates made let me feel i was different from the “others” so i tried to blend in as much as possible. Now i live among some extraordinary creative spirits with whom it is nonsense to compete in specialities. Maybe our community is a (soul) group full of individualists.
Hello,
The result of this test was very interesting to me, I got type 8, and when I read it, it sounds more like an exact opposite of who I think I am… I have no clue which “part” of me filled this test in, perhaps the inner critic? Or is this who I wish to be? It is something to think about for sure, and makes me feel a lot of emotions. Thank you!
This is so on point with my personality, I think that it’s something I need to be aware of.
Wow, the observer! Covid has forced me inward, isolated, seldom see family, as live too far away, however, in constant contact via e-mail and FaceTime.
So am I’m truly an isolationist?
This enneagram is in line with the the first one I took. It said I am a 1 and a 2. I was tested by a psychologist over 30 years ago and was a Myers Briggs type INTJ but after going through a divorce and a lot of healing I have retested twice to be an INFJ. I am new to the whole enneagram thing and am still trying to figure it out. Thanks for the free test. Peace be with you.
Stephanie
Thank you Stephanie for sharing your experience with these tests. I also got INTJ with the MBTI, you may also find it useful to try the Big 5 types as it has a lot more nuance :)
Hi I have taken other tests on sites devoted to the enneagram and was a 4 and 9. I keep getting perfectionist or one on your test Althea and Sol. I read the description and it does not fit either. Just letting you know that one or more of your questions might need a bit of fine tuning either for clear comprehension or simply for a different meaning than the two of you ascribe. I am definitely The Individualist for the most part. I am INFJ, Green, Receptive Empath, Destroyer, Wolf, Indigo, Devotee/Shaman. The rest of the results of tests seem accurate including the hidden part of my subconscious being love. I so enjoy all of your articles and your weekly e-mails. My life has been enriched by your work and I look forward to learning more. Namaste,
Hello Sarah, I don’t often reply to comments but felt such an affinity with you I had to comment! I too have been both a 9 and a 4 on past Enneagram tests (4 when I was younger). This test gave me a 2- The Giver – which threw me a bit, but does make some sense based on the recent upheaval of my entire life . My shadow was also Love. As for the rest I’m not sure – except definitely in an Empath for peoples feelings, plants, animals, environment, and something else . I’ve tested as an INFP most frequently, with some change in the Introvert-Extrovert category depending on when I took the test.
And I too have been a long-time follower of lovely Luna & Sol – through too many email address changes! This is my favorite website, and I deeply appreciate the love, wisdom, and genuine teachings I find here
Me again :). So, just for grins I took the Personality Type test (Myers-Briggs) …
And lo and behold, I came out as an ISFP! Which actually seems more fitting than my usual INFP.
Just thought I’d report in :). So much fun. Thank you Mateo and Alethia ❤️
It’s like it knew me already
I do not agree with this common profound societal way of thinking.
To be original, without remorse is an rewarding alienation of personal truths.
Hello, I cannot find a link to the enneagram test, only a blank space at the end of the article. I am not sure if it the webpage itself or my device.
So, please tell me what it may mean…if i’ve previously came up with :
8, 5 & today I’m a 1?
Just took the Enneagram test, Type 5 The Observer. not sure what all of it means, but some key points explained me perfectly. but I will research it seen what it all means and how to correct it. Thanks
Glad to hear that Shelley <3
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