Update 1.15 — Further changes in descriptions on frames for greater symmetry

For greater clarity and symmetry, I decided to put some descriptions in a slightly different way. I think that some words that are next to each other can be placed one below the other.

Specifically, I think about the following inscriptions that are placed next to each other:

• “anger” and “spring” — at the top of the Mandala of Characters;
• “autumn” and “sorrow” — at the bottom of the Mandala;
• “fear” and “summer” — on the right side;
• “winter” and “shame” — on the left side.

Among the above concepts:

• anger,
• sorrow,
• fear,
• and shame

concern the main emotions.

Emotions: “anger”, “fear” and “shame” come from the Enneagram. These emotions divide the Enneagram into three parts. Each part contains three types of characters. It means:

• “anger” — concerns Enneagram types: 1, 8, and 9;
• “fear” - concerns Enneagram types: 5, 6, and 7;
• “shame” - concerns Enneagram types 2, 3, and 4.

To the above three main emotions that are distinguished in the Enneagram, I added fourth emotion—“sorrow”. I added this emotion because there are four main areas in the Mandala of Characters. The division into four areas was inspired by C. G. Jung’s typology called “Psychological Types”, and Ancient System. In these two typologies, we have the division into four main parts.

In Jung’s typology, the division into four parts is made by the division into four psychological functions, that is:

• thinking,
• feeling,
• intuition,
• and sensing.

In the Ancient System, in turn, the main areas are related to the four main elements. These elements are:

• Fire,
• Water,
• Air,
• and Earth.

Returning to the descriptions on the frames of the Mandala of Characters, I am reminding that next to each other, there are the following concepts:

• “anger, spring” (at the top);
• “autumn, sorrow” (at the bottom);
• “fear, summer” (on the right side);
• “winter, shame” (on the left side).

Thus, the terms “anger”, “sorrow”, “fear” and “shame” refer to the main emotions, and the symbolic ancients concepts of “spring”, “summer”, autumn”, and “winter” refer to the main elements.

From the above, it results that until now, I have placed the main emotions and main elements next to each other. We can see this in the following diagram of the Mandala of Characters in version 1.14.

So, I think, as I mentioned at the beginning of this update, that it will be better if the main elements and main emotions are not located next to each other, but they will be placed on separate lines. After such a change, the Mandala of Characters will look like as in the following diagram.