👹 Enneagram Shadow Type 👹
Theory by Larissa
You have a type in each center (head, heart, gut) and a wing on each of those types. The wing is the type on either side - so if you’re a 7, you would either be a 7 wing 6 or a 7 wing 8.
These wings create our “shadow” - an aspect of ourselves that we have access to but either reject, abhor or envy in others - because we don’t really see or acknowledge those traits, motivations or behaviors in ourselves.
🤡 The irony is, you do have access to those behaviors, they’re just in your shadow. In the abyss with the other discarded parts of self. The things you were told were “bad” as a kid, or things your type’s ego says is “not me.” Maybe it feels dangerous. Threatening. Or even a bit seggsy.
Example: If you’re a type 9 with an 8 wing, you might see other people doing 8-ish behaviors - like being assertive, taking up a lot of space, streamrolling, doing whatever they want - and it might trigger you, annoy you, or you might wish to be more like that and therefore it creates a kind of envy.
The combination of your wings (creates your ‘shadow type’). You can think of your wing as your ‘shadow’ (if you don’t have a full tritype/trifix) or the combination of the wings on your tritype/trifix as your shadow type.
If you get typed as a 9w1 6w7 3w4, then your main tritype/trifix is 963 and your ‘shadow type’ is 174 (making you an extra frustrated, picky and aesthetic adaptation type).
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