Welcome To Your Enneagram Mood Check-In ✨

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Your current state is:
average

Where Are You Right Now Enneagram 9?

You’re striving to keep the peace and maintain harmony, but you might feel disengaged or hesitant to assert yourself. Avoiding conflict or going along with others’ desires can leave your own priorities overlooked. This is a chance to reconnect with what truly matters to you and take small steps toward voicing your needs. Balance comes from honoring both harmony and your individuality.

How This Shows Up: Signs You’re Here

In daily life, you might go along with others’ preferences to avoid conflict, even if it means neglecting your own needs. You could spend time on comforting routines or distractions while putting off important decisions or tasks. At work or home, you may appear easygoing, but internally, you might feel stuck or unmotivated, avoiding challenges that could disrupt your sense of peace.

I accommodate, seek comfort, wool-gather, am resigned

How This Feels: Emotional Indicators

You may feel a subtle sense of numbness or disengagement, as though you’re going through the motions without fully connecting to your desires. There’s often a lingering frustration about being overlooked or unacknowledged, but it might feel easier to suppress those feelings than address them. You might experience guilt for avoiding conflict, paired with an undercurrent of inner restlessness.

WHAT’S FUELING THIS:

Common Triggers or Mindsets

  • A belief that avoiding conflict and keeping the peace is the best way to maintain harmony.

  • Suppressing your own desires or opinions to prevent tension, even if it leaves you feeling overlooked.

  • Turning to routines or distractions to avoid addressing unresolved issues or taking decisive action.

FINDING YOUR BALANCE

  • Take one small step to assert your needs or opinions, even if it feels uncomfortable at first.

  • Break tasks into manageable pieces to avoid feeling overwhelmed or stuck in procrastination.

  • Engage in an activity that excites or energizes you, reconnecting with your passions and sense of purpose.

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Remember: This Is Temporary

Being in the average state is part of the natural rhythm of growth. While it might feel frustrating or heavy right now, remember this is just a moment in time—not your destination. You have the tools and awareness to shift toward balance and ease. Be patient with yourself, and trust that small, intentional actions can guide you back to the clarity and alignment you’re capable of achieving.

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Celebrate Your Growth:

Even in an average state, you’re showing up and doing the work—and that’s worth celebrating. Recognizing where you are is a huge step toward growth, and it takes courage to pause and reflect. Every effort you make to understand yourself, even on challenging days, is a sign of progress. Growth is a journey, not a destination, so take a moment to honor how far you’ve already come.

New to the Enneagram Levels of Development? Start Here!

LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT

Each type is divided into 9 levels of Psychological Health, 1= highest & 9=lowest. These are grouped into Healthy, Average & Unhealthy. At each level, we employ different strategies to reinforce our identity

Core Traits of Enneagram 9 at each Level

HEALTHY

1

Serene, self-aware, empowered, harmonizing, grounded.

2

Supportive, kind, peaceful, easygoing, empathetic.

3

Agreeable, patient, accommodating, collaborative, comforting.

AVERAGE

4

Passive, stubborn, avoidant, complacent, conflict-averse.

5

Resigned, disengaged, indifferent, numbing, procrastinating.

6

Apathetic, escapist, checked-out, lethargic, dismissive.

UNHEALTHY

7

Neglectful, resigned, withdrawn, detached, self-denying.

8

Dissociated, lost, inert, immobilized, depressive.

9

Catatonic, hopeless, empty, emotionally paralyzed, unresponsive.

Enneagram Levels of Development: Healthy, Average, and Unhealthy

HEALTHY RANGE:
In the healthy range, you’re not overly tied to your self-image or identity. You feel free to explore and express yourself in authentic and dynamic ways. By letting go of rigid definitions of who you are, you naturally align with your values and act in ways that reflect your true self, effortlessly reinforcing your sense of purpose and wholeness.

  • Level 1 – Liberation (Ego transcended-balance and freedom)

  • Level 2 – Psychological Capacity (Ego is identified as an ideal-self)

  • Level 3 – Social Value (Ego operating in a constructive way)

AVERAGE RANGE:
In this range, some imbalance starts to show, and your focus narrows. You may become more preoccupied with your identity and how others perceive you. To maintain this image, you might rely on social roles, subtle manipulation, or trying to control situations, all in an effort to reinforce your sense of self.

  • Level 4  – Imbalance (Ego-role assumed, defences increased)

  • Level 5 – Interpersonal Control (Manipulative & Defended)

  • Level 6 – Overcompensation (Ego inflation, conflicts with others)

UNHEALTHY RANGE:
In the unhealthy range, your focus on your identity becomes so intense that it distorts your perception of reality. You may see yourself in a way that feels completely disconnected from how others experience you, creating a sense of isolation or misunderstanding.

  • Level 7 – Violation (Survival tactic, neurotic)

  • Level 8 – Delusion and Compulsion (Major personality disorder)

  • Level 9 – Pathological Destructiveness (Psychosis, breakdown).

AVERAGE RANGE

AND ITS LEVELS

4. Level of Imbalance / Fixation:

At the Level of Imbalance, Enneagram 9s retreat into passivity, avoiding conflict at all costs by giving in to others. They downplay their own needs, assuming the role of "no one special" to stay in the background and not disturb the peace. Accommodating and self-effacing, they idealize others, agree to things they don’t want, and use clichés to deflect tension, withdrawing into fantasy to maintain a fragile sense of harmony.

5. Level of InterPersonal Control: DISENGAGED PARTICIPANT

At the Level of Interpersonal Control, Enneagram 9s disengage from life, insisting on their easygoing image while resisting change. Emotionally lazy and detached, they avoid discomfort by ignoring problems, distracting themselves with routines and fantasies. Smug yet anxious, they manipulate by tuning out pressure, refusing to confront reality. Stuck in autopilot, they resist growth, clinging to comfort while passively pushing others away with quiet stubbornness.

6. Level of Over-Compensation: RESIGNED FATALIST

At the Level of Overcompensation, Enneagram 9s retreat into apathy, minimizing problems and avoiding responsibility. Resigned and fatalistic, they convince themselves—and others—that nothing can truly change. They appease and deflect, offering unrealistic solutions while stubbornly resisting real action. Their procrastination and indifference frustrate those around them, as they suppress conflict at any cost, making "peace" not through resolution, but through avoidance and quiet disengagement.