SO: “Totem” - Expresses the passion of avarice through procuring knowledge, the search for meaning through the intellect, and attempting to meet all of their needs through the mind. They tend to hide behind expertise and are more idealistic than the other subtypes.
Head Types (5, 6, 7)
Common emotional experience: fear
Type 5:
Core Theme: Fives possess an amazing ability to observe and evaluate the interconnectedness of all things. They are analyticals who excel at understanding complex systems and providing insightful solutions. They are independent, intellectual, and value knowledge.
Core Motivation: To acquire knowledge, maintain independence, and avoid feeling overwhelmed or incompetent.
Avoids: Being depleted, surprised or overwhelmed.
Superpower: Exceptional analytical skills, deep expertise, and the ability to provide objective and insightful perspectives.
Focus of Attention: Assessing who or what may steal energy from them, and then creating emotional buffers between themselves and those perceived threats. Analyzing data, identifying patterns.
Communication Style: Analytical, objective, calm and rational, focusing on delivering clear and concise information. May listen more than speak, except in safe environments when speaking about topics in which they have expertise.
Physical Profile: Reserved and contemplative, with a tendency to withdraw from emotionally demanding situations.
How Fives Deal with Fear: Withdrawing to analyze and understand complex situations, seeking knowledge as a means for reaching conclusions and attaining a feeling of certainty.
Emotional Vice (when in lower awareness): Avarice - a guarding and withholding of energy and resources.
Virtue: Non-Attachment.
SP: ”Castle” - Expresses the passion of avarice through finding protection and refuge behind walls. They are more guarded, have more boundaries, and are more self-sufficient than the other subtypes.
SP: “Warmth” - Expresses the passion of fear building alliances and finding protection in relationships. They are warmer, friendlier, more hesitant, indecisive, and uncertain than the other subtypes.
SP: “Keepers of the Castle” - Expresses the passion of gluttony through making alliances, being opportunistic, and pragmatic about getting what they want. They are more networking, materialistic, and pleasure-seeking than the other subtypes.
The 3 Subtypes of 5:
SX: “Confidence” - Expresses the passion of avarice through the search for the ideal partner and mentally escaping into fantasies of finding unconditional love. They are more romantic, assertive, and sensitive than the other subtypes.
Type 6:
Core Theme: Sixes are strategic planners and risk managers who excel at anticipating potential challenges and developing contingency plans. They are loyal, reliable, and value security and stability.
Core Motivation: To feel secure and supported by others, and to pursue certitude in all things that may affect them.
Avoids: Being without support or safety
Superpower: Uncanny ability to anticipate risks, question assumptions, and challenge ideas. Deeply loyal, wonderful team members who are often very calm in an actual crisis, because they’ve already anticipated it.
Focus of Attention: Scanning for potential hazards and threats in order to feel safe and prepared for anything that might go wrong and cause themselves, or others, harm.
Communication Style: Tend to ask a lot of questions and process their concerns aloud, often playing “devil’s advocate” to any and all ideas. Usually transparent and direct with their words.
Physical Profile: Fight or flight. When presented with conflict, Phobic Sixes tend to physically and/or mentally withdraw, while Counterphobic Sixes go up against the thing that scares them with strength and aggression. Both types of Sixes tend to carry tension in their muscles and may exhibit a shallow breathing pattern
How Sixes Deal with Fear: By questioning things. Sixes may also over-identify with certain authority figures and/or belief systems as a way to feel safe, or they may doubt and reject authority and choose to go up against their fears head on.
Emotional Vice (when in lower awareness): Fear - a general anxiety over anything they cannot predict.
Virtue (when in higher awareness): Courage.
The 3 Subtypes of 6:
SO: “Duty” - Expresses the passion of fear through finding an authority or an ideology to rely on. They are more concerned with the rules, knowing who the “good guys” are, and feeling certain than the other subtypes.
SX: “Strength/Beauty” - Expresses the passion of fear by combating it with strength. They embrace a “best defense is a good offense” approach to life, and are more aggressive and intimidating than the other subtypes.
Type 7:
Core Theme: Sevens are visionary innovators who bring a dynamic and optimistic approach to strategic planning and problem-solving. They excel at identifying opportunities and inspiring teams with their enthusiasm and forward-thinking ideas.
Core Motivation: To maximize opportunities, drive innovation, and maintain a stimulating and engaging work environment.
Avoids: Being trapped in pain or boredom.
Superpower: Exceptional ability to generate creative solutions, inspire teams with their vision, and maintain a positive and energetic environment.
Focus of Attention: Scanning for all the possible opportunities to enhance their experience while also (though less consciously) scanning for possible limitations and constraints to avoid.
Communication Style: Persuasive, engaging, and forward-looking, using storytelling and strategic vision to inspire action.
Physical Profile: High-energy and dynamic, with a tendency to move away from uncomfortable feelings by being up in their heads. They struggle to remain grounded and present in their own bodies. They often radiate a contagious exuberance for life.
How Sevens Deal with Fear: Focusing on future possibilities and reframing challenges as opportunities, often avoiding direct confrontation with difficult emotions.
Emotional Vice (when in lower awareness): Gluttony - wanting to experience a little bit of all possibilities.
Virtue: Sobriety.
The 3 Subtypes of 7:
SO: “Sacrifice” - Expresses the passion of gluttony through actively working against it, getting by on less and ensuring that they don’t exploit others. They postpone their desires for the ideals of a better world, and are more service oriented than the other subtypes.
SX: “Suggestibility” - Expresses the passion of gluttony through abundant optimism, dreaming and imagining a higher, more heavenly world. They have a need to see things for what they could be instead of what they are, and are more likely to dream, idealize, and avoid painful feelings.
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