"The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day"
The Ba'al Shem Tov (1698-1770)
The Background
Enneatypes
Each enneatype is subdivided into 3 possible levels of expression demonstrating either an ideal, intermediate or an unhealthy state of being depending on how emotionally balanced an individual happens to be.
Whilst each person will have an innate root enneatype, this will be influenced to a greater or lesser degree through a systematic relationship with the other enneatypes. For example, someone with the predominant attributes of root type 1, the perfectionist, is likely to be influenced by the attributes of types on the neighbouring 'wings', i.e. those of a caregiver (type 2) and the mediator (type 9), but can also be positively affected (the Point and Integration) by aspects of the adventurer (type 7) and negatively affected (Point of Disintegration) by aspects of the romantic (type 4).
This relationship is also closely aligned with the Kabbalah, corresponding as
it does to the attributes, or Sef
irot, of the 'Etz Hayim' - the 'Tree of Life'.
Like the Enneagram, the Kabbalah recognizes that though each of us at source incorporates all the personality traits, we will each display our own unique predominant types and sun-types.