The 9-6-3 Alchemy Process
The three step method for transmuting the leaden personality into Golden Being.
Enneagram Alchemy transforms the Enneagram, usually employed as a method for typing people, into a real-time navigational compass for transmuting the lead of personality into the Gold of Being during everyday life.
Enneagram Alchemy achieves this through a three step process based on the universal pattern of 9-6-3.
The Leaden Self Process
The leaden self begins at Point 9 with the universal "original sin" of falling asleep, dimming awareness of self, and withdrawing from being present in one's life.
The leaden self then becomes stabilized as a universal "No" to reality and self at Point 6.
Finally, the leaden self becomes the basis of one's personality as one moves throughout the world and functions at Point 3.
Enneagram Alchemy is a simple process that you can activate in any moment of your everyday life to transmute this leaden self into the Gold of Being.
Activation at Point 9
The mining of Gold in the process of Enneagram Alchemy also initiates at Point 9. This time, Point 9 represents:
pausing the activity of the leaden self;
"forgetting" one's identification with whichever false self is arising;
becoming the space of awareness;
relaxing the physical tensions of the character armor in the body;
connecting with the rhythm of the breath;
sensing the body;
and becoming receptive to new insights, possibilities, and ways of being.
Inquiry at Point 6
From this space of greater stillness, ease, softness, awareness, and receptivity, one can then begin to mine the Gold of Point 6: Curious inquiry into the truth of reality and self. Here, questioning begins:
Which "part" (or sub-fixation) am I identified with?
Which fixation point is that part associated with?
Which point feels right to move into tension with to alchemize this fixation?
Action at Point 3
Once the appropriate direction becomes illuminated, one can then mine the Gold of 3 by moving towards the destination point and taking inspired action from there.
This alchemical process of 9-6-3 can be activated at any time, in any moment, to orient one's life towards greater ease, truth, and life-forward action.