Trifix Cheat Sheet

Determining your full Trifix can often take years of study and introspection. However, once you do, the richness of information is revelatory. Enneagrammer coach, Emeka Okorafor, put together a cheat sheet as a starting point to considering what your trifix might be.

Note: These are basic summaries of each fix as they stand alone. However, they are always in a synergy with their stems and the full triumvirate of fixes and wings. These descriptions will also rule your personality under the general overlay of the culture you live in. For example, “individuation” at the 4 point is something that is valued in North American culture in general. Furthermore, the cores of each centre (3, 6, and 9) tend to be neutral anchoring points where the wings can highly flavour the essence of that fix. For example, the difference in self-image between a 3w2 and 3w4 fix can range from pleasing/attractive to artistic/dark.

Heart

In the Heart/Image center your fixation is your preferred way of maintaining a self-image. One might feel “I should” show:

2 -- sweetness and care, positive emotions, heartfelt love and affection, goodness and serving

3 -- excellence, accomplishments, repressing emotion, value and success fitting a recognizable mold

4 -- withdrawn individuation, negative self-image, chronic disappointment, self-distinct taste in aesthetics

Head

In the Head/Thinking center your fixation is how you're compensating for not knowing and trying to navigate and understand what's real. Each head fix is overdoing a different style of insight:

5 -- dissecting/uncovering the unknown, conceptualizing, granular over-focus

6 -- hyper-vigilance, guidance outside of myself, orienting to a system or structure

7 -- possibilities, animated interestingness, multi-faceted options for experience

Gut

In the body center your fixation is how you’re maintaining ego boundaries. It’s how you’re creating psychological boundaries and distance internally and externally:

8 -- forcefulness and impact, pushing and expanding out, amping up at the expense of softer and smaller inner parts

9 -- fuzzy and unclear, inner confusion from dispersed and cluttered wants and needs, diffuse absorbing of outside influences

1 -- rigidity and self-control, high standards of purity maintained by self-restriction, moralistic criticism and judgment