Collage-style artwork with a black and grey gradient background. At the top, white text reads 'Achiever/Five of Wands.' A peacock is in the centre-right, surrounded by blue and purple flowers. In the bottom left corner, an ornate gold frame contains an illustration of a peacock. A green and white checkered pattern runs along the left edge.
Collage-style artwork with a dark background. At the top, white text reads 'Achiever/Five of Wands.' A peacock is at the bottom right, surrounded by blue and purple flowers. A green and white checkered pattern runs along the left edge. Upright: Adaptable. Image Conscious. Driven. Reverse: Overstretched. Workaholic. A blagger. Your message: Schedule down time to reflect on personal values beyond external accolades. Spirit animal: Peacock The soundtrack to your life: You’re so vain Famous Type 3s: Oprah, Beyonce

Introduction

The Enneagram of Personality (the Enneagram) is a pseudoscientific model used to identify personality types. Enneagram Tarot is our visual tool for changemakers to recognise your style, strengths and areas for development, and those around you.

I’ve drawn on my love of collage and professional experience of community-building, making social change and creating inclusive and equitable conditions to create this visual ‘Tarot Deck’ of nine cards. It’s for your personal growth and to help you better understand why and how you and others influence social change.

We all make decisions based on a mix of logic and emotion. Some of us listen to our head more than our heart, others trust their gut. To spot this at a glance, the cards are colour-coded with a yellow (gut), blue (head) or green (heart) strip to demonstrate how each type makes its snap decisions when under pressure.

Enneagram type 3s tend to operate from the heart. Your mode is feeling. Your heart goes out to people. You might refer to yourself as an empath or say that you wear your heart on your sleeve. You’re attuned to emotions and make your decisions based on your personal values and how you feel.

Type 3 – The Achiever

  • Core Desire: To be successful and admired
  • Core Fear: Being worthless or failing
  • Basic Motivation: Achieving goals and appearing competent
  • Key Traits: Driven, adaptable, image-conscious
  • How you can grow: Cultivate authenticity, separate self-worth from success
  • Common Pitfalls: Overworking, masking vulnerability

You build mission-driven ventures from the ground up, seeking success that makes a difference. Your ability to set goals and adapt helps you launch inclusive startups, social enterprises, and advocacy campaigns. You measure achievement not only by outcomes but by who benefits.

Your Changemaking Style

  • You craft metrics for diversity, ensuring teams reflect varied genders, races, ages and abilities.
  • You leverage visibility to spotlight underrepresented innovators.
  • You network across sectors to secure resources for equity-centred projects.
  • You mentor emerging changemakers from communities often excluded from traditional success routes.

Balanced vs. Under Pressure

  • When in balance, you model authentic leadership, inspire collaborative effort, and celebrate collective wins.
  • Under pressure, you risk burnout, cut corners on inclusion, or chase superficial approval rather than meaningful progress.

How to Support Yourself

  • Schedule downtime to reflect on personal values beyond external accolades.
  • Form peer accountability circles with diverse members to ground your goals in real community needs.
  • Delegate operational tasks to partners whose strengths complement yours.
  • Recognize when performance becomes identity; reconnect to intrinsic motivation for justice.

How to better support Others

  • Catch yourself chasing external praise. Pivot your focus toward how you can best support marginalised groups.
  • Track stress signals—lack of rest, isolation—and invite help before you burn out.
  • Practice transparent vulnerability; honest sharing builds trust across difference.
  • Choose long-term change strategies over quick wins that skip DEI processes.

Your drive to succeed, when aligned with equity principles, inspires sustainable movements and multicultural groups.

Just for Fun

Spirit animal: Peacock

Fun fact: In the Yoruba culture of West Africa, peacocks hold symbolic meaning, particularly as a sacred messenger often associated with Oshun, the goddess of fresh water, beauty, and fertility,  and the supreme god, Olodumare.

The soundtrack to your life: You’re so vain

Famous people: Oprah, Beyonce