The Enneagram cycle. Type 8

You won't ever lose yourself
Neither in silver, nor in gold.
What I dare to behold
Is a constanty sane mature
Game
In which the material is so alluring.

A head revolves
Around a sacred space,
A hemisphere that'll never be erased,
Like a satyre
Once you've overcome that immense passion
For women,
You start confronting greed
By refining your needs.

The higher you get
From the point of view of evolution,
The more your primitive approach is replaced
By a constant admiration
Which trembles, burns
And slowly turns you
Into a hedonist
With a vast willpower,
For whom each impulse
Is a string of sour
And transparent, focused
Material desires.

Each one of them
Is like a wire
That links you to a constellation
Of magnificently courageous
Installations
Of innovative falvours, goals
And sweet sounds
Which make the Earth revolved.

A recollection
Of passionate young days
Which are covered with a haze
Of lust and a gilded dust of
Jealousy -
Why would you need it?

Your stregth is in your
List of objectives,
So don't objectivate the others anymore -
A galore of new,
More refined and clear desires
Will get you even higher.


*This is a reflection about Type 8 according to the Enneagram typology.

Not only for psychotherapist, but also for creative writers and HR specialists this portrait might come in handy.

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Type 8 is often seen in 'big politics' and large-scale business and investing.
They can also express themselves in the army, construction, hard science and production, traditional investing and show business (they choose to be quite industrious and result-oriented as film and sound producers).

As the type evolves, the fulfillment of main leadership goals gets more important to them than their hedonistic pleasures they indulge into on lower evolutionary levels.

The big data on Enneagram types is not limited by age, gender and country.