Wings and the Harmonic Triads
The harmonic triads are how a person handles stress and fears. Objective Enneagrams will try to keep a cool head and focus on meeting a goal to defeat the stress or fear. Positivists will ignore the issue at hand and find a better emotion to embrace, not wanting to deal with any negative emotions. And lastly Emotional Enneagrams will have a very hard time controlling their emotions, finding that when stressed they react emotionally.
The Object Relations triad is how a person believes their needs can be met. The Idealists are always wanting more, believing there is always something better and something more than what they have now. Rejected Enneagrams believe their needs were inherently unmet and work to prepare against further losses. Lastly, the Attached Enneagrams find that their needs are met through external sources, whether that be a person/people or events, etc.
The interesting thing that comes into play with these two triads is when Wings are applied. Wings are the subcategory of the cores. These are the primary tools a person uses to obtain their goal of their cores and are always one number more or one number less than the core. For a brief example, a 1w2 would want to follow certain standards and use helping others to meet that standard of goodness.
The Idealists and Rejected Enneagrams (1,2,4,5,7, and 8) all have the same Harmonic wings, but the Attached Enneagrams all have different Harmonic wings.
To help understand what I mean look at the following:
1w2 and 1w9 both are Objective core Positive wing
2w1 and 2w3 both are Positive core Objective wing
4w3 and 4w5 both are Emotional core Objective wing
5w4 and 5w6 both are Objective core Emotional wing
7w6 and 7w8 both are Positive core Emotional wing
8w7 and 8w9 both are Emotional core Positive wing
BUT
3w2 is Objective core Positive wing
3w4 is Objective core Emotion wing
6w5 is Emotional core Objective wing
6w7 is Emotional core Positive wing
9w8 is Positive core Emotional wing
9w1 is Positive core Objective wing
Perhaps this is where the phobic and counter-phobic 6 variants stem from?