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The Enneagram of Christmas

12/11/2012

 
It's the most wonderful (and Enneagrammy) time of the year.

Merry Christmas!
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1. Christmas Cards. Especially Oneish if a christmas card list was drawn up in November to give a sensible amount of time to write and send them.
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2. Santa Claus. The ultimate Twoish giver (but he would appreciate it if you left him a mince pie).
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3. Christmas lights. The competitive Threeish facade for the festive season. Although the surface looks good, who knows what sort of Christmas they are having inside?
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4. Carols by Candlelight. Candles are so much more authentic than electric lights, aren't they? And the carols get back to the deeper meaning of Christmas - though can be a bit Fourishly depressing ('In the bleak midwinter, frosty winds made moan...').
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5. Scrooge. One of the most famous literary Christmas characters is definitely a hermit-like Five. Luckily, as the ending shows, Fives can enjoy Christmas too.
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6. Christmas Dinner. Having family and friends all sat around the table together is a special Sixish time of the day.
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7. Christmas Crackers. Just in case Christmas dinner gets boring, here's the remedy. Each has a joke, a fact, a silly hat, a toy and a big bang to shake things up a bit. How Sevenly!
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8. The Big Sell. It's that Eightish time of year when the big corporations seize the opportunity to maximise profits and cash in on the red-and-white pound.
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9. Chestnuts roasting on an Open Fire (and all other cosy things). After the meal it's time to lie back and have a warm, peaceful, Nineish doze.

The Enneagram Fixations in Art

2/8/2012

 
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1. American Gothic (Grant Wood). The perfect posture and the critical gaze are perfectly captured.
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2. Song of Angels (William Bouguereau). Caring, loving angels epitomise a Two's self-image.
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3. Masterpiece (Roy Liechtenstein). Insincerity and focusing on image and success are Three trademarks.
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4. The Broken Column (Frida Kahlo). A Four's obsession with suffering is evident here.
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5. The Thinker (Auguste Rodin). All the focus and attention is in the mind - as if thinking can solve everything.
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6. Barbara Kruger (Untitled [Questions]). Questioning authority is Sixish and the amount of questions reflects the anxious mind-chatter a Six experiences.
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7. Slides (Carsten Höller). Making art a fun, physical experience is typical of a Seven.
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8. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (Damien Hirst). This is confrontational, dominating and no-nonsense, like the Eight fixation.
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9. Bassin Aux Nympheas (Claude Monet). The gentle tranquility of a human-free environment reminds me of how Nine's mentally detach themselves from conflict.

Pop(ular) Songs

5/23/2011

 
The enneagram in pop. The delivery, music and lyric of these tracks illustrate the fixations of the nine numbers:

1. If I Had A Rocket Launcher ( Bruce Cockburn) 
Using music for a moral purpose...
2. How Much is that Doggie in the Window? (Patti Page)
She's  thinking about someone else and how she can help them (and the dog).
3. Poker Face (Lady Gaga)
Three-ishly slick, successful pop. It is also about the difference between inner feelings and outer facade.
4. Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
A strange and unique song all about jealousy and death.
5. Frontier Psychiatrist (The Avalanches)
Totally eccentric and showing amazing expertise in the layering and mixing of sounds.
6. We are the World (various)
A team effort, reaching out to bring the world together.
7. Don't Stop Me Now (Queen)
Nobody's going to stop a Seven when they're in the mood for partying.
8. No Scrubs (TLC)
Direct, no-nonsense and totally in control.
9. Orinoco Flow (Enya)
Drifting away in Nine-ish fantasies.
Let me know in the Playground if you have better examples.

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