Advanced Enneagram Studies -- Rewiring

In the past, we here at the DailySkew have written about the Enneagram and the Animalgram (an alternate version of the Enneagram that we use in the Dream Seeker stories) ... one of the things I brought up with the Animalgram is the theory of Rewiring. I'd like to explain rewiring in terms of the Enneagram.

First, let's define rewiring:

Rewiring occurs when a person is under extreme duress from factors in the environment. An example would be living in a 20th-century country where the individual is oppressed by a totalitarian regime, with no basic human rights. Being imprisoned and interrogated for extended periods can also cause rewiring, as well as intense, prolonged treatments for physical or mental ailments.

Rewiring can occur at any stage of a person's life -- childhood, adolescence, adulthood. An overbearing parent or spouse can trigger the process of rewiring, for example. Any pressure that is too much for the person to bear for an extended period of time can and will lead to rewiring.

We now know that the process of rewiring is gradual -- much like a frog being boiled slowly to death, the person may not be aware of the shift until it has already occurred.

Now, let's define the rewiring path:

3--->

8--->

7--->

9--->

5--->

4--->

6--->

2--->

1--->

Up until this morning, the only thing that had confounded me, in terms of the rewiring path, was how to account for wing types (example, 6 with a 7 wing). Do the wings follow their own separate path? I woke up today with the insight.

Basically, the Enneagram is 360 degree circle, with points along that circle that stand for a personality type. The paths of integration/disintegration/rewiring guide us to points in the circle -- but it's still a circle.

I realized that, when you're dealing with a person who has a wing type, the circle shifts, much like the way you would slightly adjust the a dial on an oven.

The dominant personailty type travels along the paths of integration and disintegration, as well as rewiring. The wing merely tags along, and morphs into another wing type, depending on where the dominant personality type lands on the circle.

So, starting with type 3w4, you would have this rewiring path:

3w4->

8w9->

7w8->

9w1->

5w6->

4w5->

6w7->

2w3->

1w2->

Starting with 3w2, this would be the path:

3w2->

8w7->

7w6->

9w8->

5w4->

4w3->

6w5->

2w1->

1w9->

I will not comment on the symmetry of the numbers at this time.