Six / Hex –Six is home-loving and relationship oriented. Six tends to build itself around those it loves and is very nurturing and protective of them. Six craves peace and harmony and is very defensive of its tranquility once it has been established. 



Six represents reaction to existence and the formation of attachments which give depth and meaning to being.



Seven / Hepta –Seven is individualistic and loves study and learning about new and different things. Seven is deeply curious and strives to understand the inner nature of things.



Seven represents the attempt to understand and relate to the nature of being, and to learn improved ways of dealing with it.



Eight / Okto –Eight is determined and highly emotional, throwing itself all-or-nothing into every activity. Eight is deeply passionate and likes to be larger than life –eight is usually a great success or a great failure but rarely anything in between.



Eight represents the ongoing process of experience through which understanding ultimately can be gained.



Nine / Ennea –Nine is sympathetic, caring and humanitarian, a peace-maker who always tries to make situations better. Nine believes in constant improvement –of the self and of the world- and works for this end. Nine dislikes conflict and strives to rise above inharmonious situations. Nine loves people –though often it prefers them at a distance in order to maintain its own harmony.



Nine represents the attempt to understand and integrate all which has gone before, and then transcend it. After Nine the cycle begins again with 10 which reduces when its digits are added to 1 and thus begins the cycle again –ie: integration and transcendence creates a situation of new beginnings.





The Monads and the Enneagram

 

Another form of Ennead which can be used to study the Nine Monads is the ENNEAGRAM. 

 

An Enneagram is a chart of nine. The term Enneagram is usually used to refer to a chart which somewhat resembles an open-ended nine-pointed star within a circle which is used in certain branches of mysticism and psychology. The term Enneagram can also refer to three interlinking triangles (especially in Correllianism, but of this more later), or less frequently to any nine-pointed star.