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The Enneagram is symbolized by a nine-pointed star in a circle.
The name combines ennea- (from the Greek ennea: nine) and -gram (from the Greek gramma: letter, writing)
The Enneagram shows nine patterns or models of feeling, thinking, and behaving.
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Usually one of these nine Enneagrams is dominant in each of us, while we all have aspects of them all. None of the types is "better" than any other. But within one type, one can be more healthy or less healthy:
In the main Enneagram page, we show the categories of: Riso & Hudson; Daniels & Price; Vollmar; Naranjo.
Sandra Maitri provides a rich array of information on each type, summarized in a set of diagrams. See her text for terminology tabulated here:
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| Virtues (D.1, p.xiv) | Serenity | Humility | Veracity | Equanimity | Nonattachment | Courage | Sobriety | Innocence | Action |
| Holy ideas (D.1, p.xiv) | Holy perfection | Holy will | Holy law | Holy origin | Holy omniscience | Holy faith | Holy plan | Holy truth | Holy love |
| Passions (D.2, p.xv) | Anger | Pride | Lying | Envy | Avarice | Fear | Gluttony | Lust | Indolence |
| Fixations (D.2, p.xv) | Resentment | Flattery | Vanity | Melancholy | Stinginess | Cowardice | Planning | Vengence | Indolence |
| Self-preservation subtypes (D.6, p.265) | Anxiety | 'Me-first' | Security | Dauntlessness | Refuge | Warmth | Family | Satisfaction | Appetite |
| Social subtypes (D.7, p.269) | Inadaptability | Ambition | Prestige | Shame | Totems | Duty | Sacrifice | Friendship | Participation |
| Sexual subtypes (D.8, p.273) | Heat, jealousy | Aggression, seduction | Masculinity, femininity | Competition, hate | Confidence | Strength, beauty | Suggestibility | Possession, surrender | Union |
| Traps (D.9, p.298) | Perfection | Freedom | Efficiency | Authenticity | Observing | Security | Idealism | Justice | Seeking |
| Avoidances (D.10, p.299) | Anger or deficiency in rightness | Neediness | Failure | Despair (lost) or simple sadness | Emptiness | Deviance or delinquency | Pain | Weakness | Conflict |
| Anti-self actions (D.11, p.300) | Self-resenting | Self-frustrating | Self-imaging | Self-controlling | Self-hiding | Self-inhibiting | Self-symbolizing | Self-punishing | Self-forgetting |
| Lies (D.12, p.301) | Preconception; false affirmation | False valuation | Self-deception | Simulation | Dissimulation | Idealization | False imagination | Prejudice; false denial | Consideration; mechanical conformity |
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Most Enneagram books are on the main Enneagram page.
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