The Committed, Security-Oriented Type: Engaging, Responsible,
Anxious, and Suspicious
Sixes are reliable, hard-working,
responsible, and trustworthy. Excellent "troubleshooters," they
foresee problems and foster cooperation, but can also become defensive,
evasive, and anxious-running on stress while complaining about it. They can be
cautious and indecisive, but also reactive, defiant and rebellious. They
typically have problems with self-doubt and suspicion.”
At their Best: internally stable and
self-reliant, courageously championing themselves and others.
v Basic Fear: Of being without support and guidance
v Basic Desire: To have security and support
v Stress: Competitive, arrogant 3
v Growth: Relaxed, optimistic 9
Key Motivations: Want to
have security, to feel supported by others, to have certitude and reassurance,
to test the attitudes of others toward them, to fight against anxiety and
insecurity.
-Sounds like Leo/Sagittarius, Taurus/Virgo/Capricorn,
Cancer/Pisces
Zodiacs listed:
v Leo/Sagittarius (6)
v Taurus/Virgo/Capricorn (10)
v Cancer/Pisces (5)
v Gemini/Libra (7)
-As predicted the Green
guys have it –which makes sense since they are hard-working loyal, and practical.
Leos and Libras are a close second. Knowing this, I’m not going assess myself
against it, since I’m not an earth sign.
“We have named personality type Six
The Loyalist because, of all the personality types, Sixes are the most loyal to
their friends and to their beliefs. They will “go down with the ship” and hang
on to relationships of all kinds far longer than most other types. Sixes are
also loyal to ideas, systems, and beliefs—even to the belief that all ideas or
authorities should be questioned or defied. Indeed, not all Sixes go along with
the “status quo”: their beliefs may be rebellious and anti-authoritarian, even
revolutionary. In any case, they will typically fight for their beliefs more
fiercely than they will fight for themselves, and they will defend their
community or family more tenaciously than they will defend themselves.
The reason Sixes are so loyal to others
is that they do not want to be abandoned and left without support—their Basic
Fear. Thus, the central issue for type Six is a failure of self-confidence.
Sixes come to believe that they do not possess the internal resources to handle
life’s challenges and vagaries alone, and so increasingly rely on structures,
allies, beliefs, and supports outside themselves for guidance to survive. If
suitable structures do not exist, they will help create and maintain them.
Sixes are the primary type in the
Thinking Center, meaning that they have the most trouble contacting their own
inner guidance. As a result, they do not have confidence in their own minds and
judgments.
This does not mean that they do not
think. On the contrary, they think—and worry—a lot! They also tend to fear
making important decisions, although at the same time, they resist having
anyone else make decisions for them. They want to avoid being controlled, but
are also afraid of taking responsibility in a way that might put them “in the
line of fire.” (The old Japanese adage that says, “The blade of grass that
grows too high gets chopped off” relates to this idea.)
Sixes are always aware of their
anxieties and are always looking for ways to construct “social security”
bulwarks against them. If Sixes feel that they have sufficient back up, they
can move forward with some degree of confidence. But if that crumbles, they
become anxious and self-doubting, reawakening their Basic Fear. (“I’m on my
own! What am I going to do now?”) A good question for Sixes might therefore be:
“When will I know that I have enough security?” Or, to get right to the heart
of it, “What is security?” Without Essential inner guidance and the deep sense
of support that it brings, Sixes are constantly struggling to find firm ground.
Sixes attempt to build a network of
trust over a background of unsteadiness and fear. They are often filled with a
nameless anxiety and then try to find or create reasons why. Wanting to feel
that there is something solid and clear-cut in their lives, they can become
attached to explanations or positions that seem to explain their situation.
Because “belief” (trust, faith, convictions, positions) is difficult for Sixes
to achieve, and because it is so important to their sense of stability, once
they establish a trustworthy belief, they do not easily question it, nor do
they want others to do so. The same is true for individuals in a Six’s life:
once Sixes feel they can trust someone, they go to great lengths to maintain
connections with the person who acts as a sounding board, a mentor, or a
regulator for the Six’s emotional reactions and behavior. They therefore do
everything in their power to keep their affiliations going. (“If I don’t trust
myself, then I have to find something in this world I can trust.”)
Although intelligent and accomplished,
Connie still has to wrestle with the self-doubt of her type:
Until they can get in touch with their
own inner guidance, Sixes are like a ping-pong ball that is constantly
shuttling back and forth between whatever influence is hitting the hardest in
any given moment. Because of this reactivity, no matter what we say about
Sixes, the opposite is often also as true. They are both strong and weak,
fearful and courageous, trusting and distrusting, defenders and provokers,
sweet and sour, aggressive and passive, bullies and weaklings, on the defensive
and on the offensive, thinkers and doers, group people and soloists, believers
and doubters, cooperative and obstructionistic, tender and mean, generous and
petty—and on and on. It is the contradictory picture that is the characteristic
“fingerprint” of Sixes, the fact that they are a bundle of opposites.
The biggest problem for Sixes is that
they try to build safety in the environment without resolving their own
emotional insecurities. When they learn to face their anxieties, however, Sixes
understand that although the world is always changing and is, by nature
uncertain, they can be serene and courageous in any circumstance. And they can
attain the greatest gift of all, a sense of peace with themselves despite the
uncertainties of life.”
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