The Intelligent Enneagram Reading Group

@Kim Mitchell You were asking about the significance of numbers. I've spent a lot of time trying to find a really good source about this, but the best one I've come across so far is this video that talks about Jung's work on numbers https://youtu.be/gtQGfFj8iTY?si=Wyerx2GA-b3yNQMX IIRC the video says the significance of 4 is that it completes the apparent perfection of 3 by bringing to it the darker side of things to bring a real wholeness (as opposed to the brilliant light of the trinity it is something richer and more complex). This I guess you could understand in a couple of ways. One would be the 4 personality thing to fixate on the dark side and say THIS IS WHAT MAKES ME UNIQUE and ignore the other three points that are included in 4 from 3. The other way I think would be more connected to Holy Origin in seeing that everything belongs together, including the darkness and the light, and that would be connected to equanimity. I think it's important to think about how 4 points can be used to make a square. And at first that would seem very contrary to 4ness because "being square" is really not something 4s would like. However, if you consider that a square is made up to 4 lines of EQUAL length, I think we can see the connection to equanimity. The square also gives me a sense of perfection in the sense that it is very solid and definite (think about the square shape at the edge of a mandala), and I can sense in the shape of a square the line from 4 back to 1 on the Enneagram. In this sense the opposition between odd (masculine, yang) numbers and even (feminine, yin) numbers is reconciled in 4. It is an even number, but in its wholeness it achieves qualities of odd numbers. So it is a kind of reconciler.