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type nine


serene exuberance
receptive sensuality
imaginative synthesis

conventional compliance
habitual complacence
indolent resignation

obstinate neglect
helpless amnesia
catatonic vacancy


Type nine people care more than most about maintaining a comfortable, undisturbed life. They can become trapped by compulsive avoidance of upsetting circumstances. One of their talents is an intuitive ability to melt into another person's being.

Except in rare cases, people of type nine show a flavoring from one of the two adjacent wing points, so we can say they are nine with an eight wing (9/8) or nine with a one wing (9/1).

Like all humans, nines also come in three instinctual flavors: social (9sc), sexual (9sx), or self-preserving (9sp). In addition, nines also experience nine distinct levels of mental-emotional health (briefly described by the phrases at the top of this page). Therefore, it is possible to distinguish fifty-four distinct subflavors of type nine.

Nines are also influenced by the connections shown as colored lines in the diagram above.
what do nines look like?


eights ones
contents respond junction