PLANETARY TYPOLOGY

• Planetary typology in Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus

• Planetary typology by Claudius Ptolemy

• Planetary typology in Homeopathy

• Planetary typology in Steiner pedagogy 1, 2

* Joel Friedlander - Body Types: The Enneagram of Essence Types, 1993. Describes seven planetary types.

* Susan Zannos - Human Types : Essence and the Enneagram, 1996. She traces roots in Homeric legend and the Olympian pantheon through medieval astrology and the Qabalah, as well as discussing endocrinology and psychology. 

♦ Planetary typology in Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus by Manly P. Hall, source sacred-texts.com

POIMANDRES, THE VISION OF HERMES
"After the lower nature has returned to the brutishness, the higher struggles again to regain its spiritual estate. It ascends the seven Rings upon which sit the Seven Governors and returns to each their lower powers in this manner: Upon the first ring sits the Moon, and to it is returned the ability to increase and diminish. Upon the second ring sits Mercury, and to it are returned machinations, deceit, and craftiness. Upon the third ring sits Venus, and to it are returned the lusts and passions. Upon the fourth ring sits the Sun, and to this Lord are returned ambitions. Upon the fifth ring sits Mars, and to it are returned rashness and profane boldness. Upon the sixth ring sits Jupiter, and to it are returned the sense of accumulation and riches. And upon the seventh ring sits Saturn, at the Gate of Chaos, and to it are returned falsehood and evil plotting.”

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♦ Planetary typology in Tetrabiblos (The quadripartite mathematical treatise) of Claudius Ptolemy, source astrolibrary.org

Book III 13. OF THE QUALITY OF THE SOUL
"If Saturn alone is ruler of the soul and dominates Mercury and the moon, if he has a dignified position with reference to the universe and the angles, he makes his subjects lovers of the body, strong-minded, deep thinkers, austere, of a single purpose, laborious, dictatorial, ready to punish, lovers of property, avaricious, violent, amassing treasure, and jealous...
Mars alone, given the domination of the soul, in an honourable position makes his subjects noble, commanding, spirited, military, versatile, powerful, venturesome, rash, unruly, indifferent, stubborn, keen, headstrong, contemptuous, tyrannical, active, easily angered, with the qualities of leadership...
Allied with Venus, in honourable positions, Mars makes his subjects pleasing, cheerful, friendly, soft living, happy, playful, artless, graceful, fond of dancing, erotic, artistic, imitative, pleasure-loving, able to secure themselves property, masculine, and given to misconduct in matters of love, but still successful, circumspect, and sensible, difficult to convict and discreet, furthermore passionate for both young men and young women, spendthrifts, quick-tempered, and jealous."

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 ♦ Planetary typology in Homeopathy by LEON VANNIER, source homeopathic.com

Dr. Vannier describes eight basic prototypes, named from Greek and Roman divinities with definite individualizing traits. These are Mars, Saturn, Apollo (Sun), Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Luna, and Terra. Each type is thoroughly described in terms of dominant characteristics, morphology, mind, character, diseases to which they are prone, and changes that commonly occur with age and in specific circumstances.
Dr Vannier makes it clear that no human being is a pure prototype, exhibiting one set of characteristics alone, and that in his view two, three or even four types will be found in one person, either together in varying degree, or else in succession. 

‘Typology in Homeopathy’ book review by Barbara Roberts (2024) >>>

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♦ Planetary typology in Steiner pedagogy 1, sourse www.waldorflibrary.org
Max Stibbe, in The Seven Soul Types (1992), describes seven predominant dispositions that come forward.

• Saturn: Active introvert Ego conscious; serious relationship to life Needs time to work things through Makes a silent impression; Memory and conscience of a group Guardian of original resolutions; Keeps view of original aims Can miss the moment.

• Jupiter: Active balanced; Can see solutions to arguments Decisive; Can be seen as emotionally cool Jovial at times

• Mars: Active extrovert Aggressive, dynamic, wants to tackle everything. Brings life and movement; Takes initiative. Can work through the spoken word. Does not always respect the freedom of others.

FALSE BELIEFS AND ILLUSIONS OF DIFFERENT TYPES

Se - Si - Fe - Fi - Te - Ti - Ne - Ni

Translated by Google Translate from Ukrainian language. Correction needed. Source here >>>

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● Type Ne - Escape from pain and the illusion of freedom

AVOID CONTACT WITH YOUR PAINFUL EXPERIENCES AT ANY COST

Although this belief is most characteristic of Type Ne, anyone can have it.

Type Ne is distinguished by mobility, lightness, an optimistic attitude to life, a broad outlook and a non-standard approach. Outwardly, he looks active and inquisitive, easily meets new people, boldly goes to meet new adventures. Despite this, type Ne are often full of fear, but this fear does not concern the outer world, but the inner one: they are afraid to plunge into their inner world and face their pain, sadness and anxiety. Representatives of type Ne want to believe that they live in a magical world of unlimited possibilities, in which there are no suffering, deprivation, restrictions. They are convinced that contact with their painful experiences should be avoided at all costs.

To avoid meeting their inner world and painful sensations, type Ne uses various methods: distraction, dissipation of attention, switching attention to new things or people, rationalization.

Eight-function model

Aušra Augustinavičiūtė (the founder of Socionics) developed a model of personality called Model A, which includes eight functional positions. Every human has every function, and can perceive and process any available information aspect by them; however, depending on where the function is located in a type's functional ordering, the actual quality of the produced information and the means of its use may vary.

Model A (Augustinavichiute - the founder of Socionics)

● 1st - Leading, program, primary, base, or dominant function. This is the strongest conscious function, and the most utilized function of the psyche. A person's outlook and role in life is largely determined by the nature of this function. One is generally very confident in the use of this function, and may defend it when challenged.

● 2nd - Creative or secondary function, is second in influence only to the dominant function. It assists the dominant function in achieving its essence. One is generally less confident with the use of this function than with his dominant function. As a result, the creative function is sometimes less instrumental when a person is challenged or threatened, or when dealing with new and complex tasks and data.

● 3rd - Role function, is a weak but conscious function. One generally tries to be at least adequate in areas where use of the role function is necessary. However, generally one has very little control or confidence over the role function, and criticism is painfully acknowledged with respect to it. Tactful assistance is required from one's suggestive function to overcome the problems associated with the role function.

● 4th - Vulnerable function, or place of least resistance, is a weak and conscious function, in addition to being the weakest function of the psyche. One painfully perceives his complete inability to use this function, and reacts negatively to its imposition upon him. Tactful assistance is required from one's mobilizing function to overcome the problems associated with this function.

Typology and development

Original text in Ukrainian here >>>

This article is about how each of Jung’s 8 personality types manifests in social life.

Part 1 - Social Roles

Part 2 - Neurotic Roles and Manipulations

Part 1

The Social Roles

The social role is a kind of social portrait of a psychologically mature person of a certain type, who constructively uses his qualities both for his own social adaptation and for the common good. Each of the 8 types is characterized by innate predispositions to a particular activity. A person's strengths resonate with the corresponding demand from society – this is the main condition for the successful realization of a person's vocation and for feeling happy in his or her place.

Each of the eight social roles is a natural consequence of the manifestation of one of eight Jungian psychological functions.

A person's increasing maturation or increasing stress have a significant influence on how the person is expressing his or her type. If a person has a lot of internal conflicts, then a huge part of his or her efforts and energy is spent on these conflicts, so he does not have the strength to realize his potential for good of society and to fulfill a social role. Such a person’s social role is distorted by manipulation and various destructive neurotic games. Each type has his own manipulations.

EIGHT MAIN SOCIAL ROLES  

● Decisive PATRON – takes responsibility for others, believes that he should be a patron, a support for others: provides them with financial and material resources, protects them from the dangers of the outside world. 

The role of Patron is activated in situations of physical threat, conflict, physical confrontation. Patron strongly defends his/her people, rushes headlong towards the adversary, stands up for the weak and defenseless, demonstrates physical strength and bravery. He takes indecisive and fearful people under his protection, helping them to act in the physical world, supporting them financially. Satisfied when he receives for this fidelity, subordination of others and recognition of his power and influence.

Under the mask of a strong person, he hides his weakness, sensitivity and dependence on others.

Correlation between Enneagram and Jungian Typology

While studying the Enneagram and Jungian typology, I came to the conclusion that these two typology systems describe the same personality types using different parameters for description.

I want to note that I am writing about Jung's typology, which has 8 types, and not about the MBTI. MBTI is just a small slice of Jungian typology and in some ways contradicts it (especially in regard to the rationality-irrationality of types). Jung's typology, in contrast to the MBTI, talks about the nature of neurosis of each type and about the levels of psychological maturity of the types.

Unfortunately, not many people can compare the 9 Enneatypes with the 8 Jungian types, since Jung's 1921 book “Psychological Types” is written in very complex language and there are no modern descriptions of types written in plain understandable language.