Posted by John DiFool (4w5) on February 17, 1998 at 00:51:43:
In Reply to: Re: This is just a start - I'm not trying to write anything in stone posted by Derf on February 16, 1998 at 23:05:25:
I think it is important to make a clear distinction between what is
considered a "wing" and what is your directions of integration and/or
disintegration (the latter is what seems to be the point of Becca's
revision). A "wing" is a more or less permanent part of your personality
makeup-for ex. I myself will probably always be colored by my Five side,
no matter how much I move against my arrow and become more self-actualized.
True, I should discard the unhealthy aspects of Five as I go (same for
Four), and take on the aspects of the type in my direction of integration,
but my Four and Five aspects will not go bye-bye forever while I
transmogrify into a Six-Five, Three-Nine, or whatever.
I do like the new arrows, which in some ways make more sense than
the old ones (esp for the 3-6-9 triad-the Enneagram always seemed
aestethically displeasing when there are "two" separate typologies
comprising it).
---John DiFool
"Our skin like milk, our breath of words
Like happy, awful and absurd"
---The Church, "Into My Hands"