eighteen wing flavors

The enneagram is a model that necessarily simplifies the vast complexity of personality. But the model can be refined, polished, and tuned, until deeper and deeper levels of detail become visible.

One useful refinement is to subdivide each of the nine types into two sub-flavors reflecting the two adjacent types, which are called wing types. This is possible because a person's personality type is not a single number, but rather a highly precise combination of two adjacent types. Each one of us lives at a spot somewhere on the edge of the circle, and most of us are not exactly on top of one of the points, but rather somewhere between two adjacent points.

There is much difference between the two subflavors of each basic type. In particular, it is useful to notice how the differing stress and balance points of the wing affect the overall flavor of each type, making the highly integrated and highly stressed states distinctly different for the two wing-flavors.

Here are descriptions
of the eighteen wing flavors:

Nine with eight-wing Eight with nine-wing Eight with seven-wing Seven with eight-wing Seven with six-wing Six with seven-wing Six with five-wing Five with six-wing Five with four-wing

Nine with one-wing One with nine-wing One with two-wing Two with one-wing Two with three-wing Three with two-wing Three with four-wing Four with three-wing Four with five-wing

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