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 ennรฉa (meaning nine) and grรกmma (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 โ The Reformer
- Type 2 โ The Giver
- Type 3 โ The Performer
- Type 4 โ The Individualist
- Type 5 โ The Observer
- Type 6 โ The Loyalist
- Type 7 โ The Idealist
- Type 8 โ The Challenger
- Type 9 โ 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 โblind spotsโ
- 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 โhigher selfโ (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!
Iโve been getting perfectionist on every test like this I take lol and like a true perfectionist, Iโm like omg Iโm doing something wrong
I did the test twice. Once as pre-spiritual journey, and a second time as to where I am at now. My first result was The Perfectionist, it was bang on. Now I’m The Individualist, again bang on. I’m still working through a lot of things so we’ll see where I go from here!
Thank you Angela for sharing your results, it’s always curious to track how things shift in our continual unfoldment. ๐
I see truth in this, more than other tests so far. It is recommended on this site that we use our intuition and take everything with a grain of salt. This begs the question, who has the intuition so developed to see where the salt should land? I am a Type 4. My thinking is that it describes me well overall, but the Ego Fixation is not totally correct, while the Holy Idea, Basic Fear and Motivation make more sense. For somebody else, it may be different.
Perfectionist. Spot on!
I never thought of myself as a perfectionist. Always saw myself as a Giver, Loyalist or Peacemaker even. Interesting!
Do I really gotta be an idealist?!
You’re most welcome Valerie!
Type 8 Enneagram (Challenger). so surprising! I’ve changed in my 50’s, for the better tbh๏ปฟ๐๏ปฟ
Iโve done a lot of work and am at a very different stage in my life, so I did the test twice and tried to have the perspective of before and after. The before perspective came up as the Performer (Achiever) which was a good description of before. After the work and life changes, I got the Giver. This feels pretty accurate, and Iโm sure Iโm a bit of bothโฆ and probably the other seven as well. ๐ป
“The Giver”
Definitely on point๐
The Perfectionist-ReformerโฆI in the past was very much a perfectionist. The problem for me was this left me in a state constant disappointment and resentment both in myself and the world in general. I was my own worst critic and beat myself up endlessly and thoroughly and was indeed resentful that the world was so imperfect. It took me a very long time, but I finally came to the self realization that perfection while it might be my ideal could never be achieved or measured up to. It was a just a concept not a reality ! Iโve since released myself from responsibility for measuring up to this concept and accepted that imperfection is the true reality for me and the world and thatโs okay.