You’ve read the stuff or taken a test and you know your enneagram number. You have heard people talk about paths forward or moving towards growth or doing the work but so far all you see is a drawing with numbers and lines. How is this supposed to help with all the gunk in your life?

The Enneagram of Personalities, commonly called just the enneagram, is an internal map, leading us to investigate the experiences we prefer to keep hidden in our shadow: out of sight, out of mind. While it can be thought of as a personality typing system, there is more depth built into it.

Moments of “being” are rare. Or at least our awareness of them tend to be rare. I think they happen more often when we are unaware of - not caught in paying attention to - ourselves. We can be in the flow of life, of an activity, a sport or a moment of stillness and then the moment fills us with amazement of “grace for us.” I love this kind of lack of self.