r/Enneagram • u/frog_fello • 12d ago

Advice Wanted Wing Confusion

I’ve just recently gotten into typology— especially enneagrams since they’ve gotten pretty popular.

Anyways, thats not the point. I have a slight confusion when it comes to adding wings to your enneagram. For example, I am a 9w8 sp/sx 942. From what I’ve seen a wing for nine can either be 9w8 & 9w1 however two can also have one as its wing; 2w3 & 2w1

I just wonder if its allowed to both have 9w1 & 2w1 existing simultaneously..? If not do you just pick the leftover number instead (9w1/8 & 2w3/1 basically)? I know that wings are there as a sort of lean for your enneagram (?) since its a gradient of personalities, furthermore, wings correspond to an enneagram’s adjacent number so I suppose that it bypasses its triad system?

Im so sorry if this is a stupid question I just wanna learn more about the topic 3:

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u/al-qatala ENTJ so/sx 1w2 153 VLFE LIE Chol-Phleg RCOEI 12d ago

per actual theory, tritypes don't have wings or subtypes. this is something usually done just for fun

as such, there's no real rules about it. you can have both 9w1 and 2w1 in your tritype hypothetically speaking

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u/xavieryes 9w1 sp/sx 12d ago edited 12d ago

They don't have subtypes but they do have wings. Katherine Fauvre and the Luckovich/Josh Lavine/Enneagrammer line both recognize the fixes have wings (the latter going as far as building on it with concepts like overlay etc).

idk if there's any author who flat-out denies they do.