Enneagram Type 5: Enneagram Art Series

Happy Tuesday Enneagram Paths friends! Today, I’m bringing you the next installment of my Enneagram Art Series, melding two of my passions: art and the Enneagram.

This Type Five artwork is fifth in a series of nine illustrated paintings that visually imagine the essence and integration experience of each Enneagram Type. Here on the blog, I want to give you both the art and the creation intention behind each piece. Here is a brief, succinct peek into my mind as I painted and inked each piece. The rest of the feeling, resonating, and interpreting is up to you!

Type 5: In this piece, the yellowish-green paint represents both a “cloud” of information and the connection to universal knowing that Fives access in Essence. This cloud aspect is echoed in the lines underneath the eye. The eye is part of the body and harkens to how Fives can observe all with embodied energy in integration. The eyelashes include arrows that point up and down to signify how, in health, Fives can live rich inner and outer lives. The “V” at the top of the illustrated painting shows how the True Self of Fives moves powerfully in and out of the world according to the combined wisdom of their bodies, hearts, and minds. The contract between the defined geometric shapes and the free, messy watercolor paint represents how Fives can simultaneously understand facts and be in tune with mysterious unknowing.

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I hope you enjoy! Please feel free to leave me feedback on my @enneagrampaths Twitter and Instagram. All nine illustrated paintings will be shared on social media.

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Enneagram Healing Messages

According to master teachers Don Riso and Russ Hudson, each Enneagram Type has a Basic Fear. These fears drive the patterned survival habits of thought, behavior, and emotion that make up each Type.

When we practice being aware of our Type’s Basic Fear, we can calm and heal these drives in ourselves. When the fear flares, we speak positive, true messages and lovingly invite in new energy.

*All the Basic Fears are direct quotes from The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso & Russ Hudson.

Type One

Basic Fear: “Of being bad, defective, evil, corrupt.”

Healing Message: You are already good. The Divine/Universe loves you in all your imperfect perfection.

Type Two

Basic Fear: “Of being unloved and unwanted for themselves alone.”

Healing Message: It’s healthy to have needs. You are lovable just as you are.

Type Three

Basic Fear: “Of being worthless, without value apart from their achievements.”

Healing Message: It is okay to ‘be’, everything necessary is already done.

Type Four

Basic Fear: “Of having no identity, no personal significance.”

Healing Message: You are whole and complete now, nothing within you is missing.

Type Five

Basic Fear: “Of being helpless, useless, or incapable (overwhelmed).”

Healing Message: You have the wisdom of the Universe within. Let go.

Type Six

Basic Fear: “Of having no support and guidance, of being unable to survive on their own.”

Healing Message: You can trust yourself to courageously handle whatever happens.

Type Seven

Basic Fear: “Of being deprived and trapped in pain.”

Healing Message: Everything you could ever need, you already have. Rest, and be.

Type Eight

Basic Fear: “Of being harmed or controlled by other, of violation.”

Healing Message: Vulnerability is a strength. It draws healthy people and Universal love to you like a magnet.

Type Nine

Basic Fear: “Of loss and seperation; of annihilation.”

Healing Message: You are important and loved as your whole, true self.