A stylized card with a gradient background fading from black to dark grey. At the top, white text reads “Loyalist/ Eight of Swords.” In the lower-left corner, a black and white sketch of a horse adds a dynamic focal point. The left edge features a vertical strip with a checkered blue and white pattern, while scattered white stars and a planet-like sphere in the top right lend a cosmic, dreamlike feel.
A stylized card on a dark background. At the top, white text reads “Loyalist/ Eight of Swords.” In the lower-left corner, a black and white sketch of a horse adds a dynamic focal point. The left edge features a vertical strip with a checkered blue and white pattern. Upright: Loyal. Reliable. Committed. Reverse: Vigilant. Nervy. Indecisive. Your message: Recognise knowledge hoarding - make room for emergent voices and co-creation. Spirit animal: Horse. The soundtrack to your life: Jolene, Dolly Parton Famous Type 6s: Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe

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 6s tend to operate from the head. Your mode is thinking. You tend to focus on facts, data and logic. Security is your priority. You make your decisions and navigate the world by consulting your head over your heart.

Type 6 – The Loyalist

  • Core Desire: To feel secure and supported
  • Core Fear: Being unsafe or abandoned
  • Basic Motivation: Seeking safety and trust
  • Key Traits: Loyal, vigilant, anxious
  • How you can grow: Trust inner guidance, reduce catastrophising
  • Common Pitfalls: Indecision, projecting fears onto others

You’re a protector who anticipates risk, spotting biases in hiring, testing safety protocols in public spaces, and ensuring immigrant families know their rights. Your vigilance builds solid foundations for equity-driven organizations.

Your Changemaking Style

  • You conduct inclusive risk assessments, ensuring policies safeguard all identities.

  • You design contingency plans for community relief efforts that account for language access and disability needs.

  • You vet partners for equity credentials before collaboration.

  • You build coalitions around mutual trust, standing by marginalised leaders under threat.

Balanced vs. Under Pressure

  • When in balance, you present well-researched proposals, reassure communities, and coordinate support.
  • Under pressure, you can spiral into doubt, cling to familiar routines, or resist necessary change.

How to Support Yourself

  • Reframe anxiety as advocacy by documenting concerns, then channelling them into policy briefs.
  • Cultivate alliances with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
  • Practice small risks—invite fresh perspectives even if they unsettle you.
  • Use grounding techniques such as mindful breathing or joining peer/solidarity circles to manage uncertainty.

How to better support Others

  • Monitor when caution becomes paralysis; set clear decision deadlines.
  • Reflect on your loyalties. Are they reinforcing biased norms or protecting equity?
  • Embrace co-creation. Shared responsibility reduces your burden and enriches solutions.
  • Affirm that courage lives in collaboration, not solitary vigilance.

Your careful foresight, balanced with trust in diverse coalitions, forges resilient movements for lasting justice.

Just for Fun

Spirit animal: Horse

Fun fact: Horses can not only read but also remember emotions. They can discern facial expressions and people’s emotional state from previous interactions and adjust their behaviour accordingly. Equine Assisted Therapy incorporates counselling and psychotherapy to address people’s mental health issues.

The soundtrack to your life: Jolene by Dolly Parton.

Famous people: Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe