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:
My personality type came up as ‘The Perfectionist’ which describes me perfectly. I really need help letting go of this trait. It causes me so much distress and so much tension. I constantly overthink things and feel such tension and uneasiness in my mind and body when things are not perfect. Even a picture on a wall. If it’s not perfectly straight or centered, it bothers me a great deal. I’m also soo hard on myself ALL the time. Right now I’m struggling with letting go of a ‘mistake’ I made a few years ago. Only problem is, it’s permanent and will be with me the rest of my life. Therefore, I HAVE to come to terms with it and FULLY let it go. I’m struggling with this a lot. I don’t want to live this way anymore. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I am going through a dark night of the soul, in that my beloved wife, Jean is suffering from dementia, we are together over 51 years, i am so helpless, so inadequate to be able to do anything for her
Well this is not very nice but much truth. I don’t want to destroy.
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ISFJ
Detail oriented/ analytical / loners. Melancholy and Phlegmatic blend.
The Giver
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Being a Perfectionist is difficult for me. I find it extremely challenging to balance my ideals and desires with my current abilities and circumstances. Right now, my visualized future and future self are not obtainable with where I’m at in my spiritual journey and my fiscal circumstances. The frustration of that has been hard to accept and has seemingly cemented me in place. I have a lot of work to do internally until I can begin to manifest anything externally.
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You’ve no idea what you’re talking about, ma’am. Truthfully speaking, you haven’t even scratched the surface of spirituality period, nor do you even know how to use that r-word properly. You may feel or think that you know what you’re talking about, but until you know the 6 Universal Rules…you, just like every other person on this planet besides me out of an infinite number of people in this dimension will continue to live a lie, and continue to live in ignorance.