Emotional aspect of the head center. Using values and beliefs as a means of navigating truth and gaining clarity -- resulting in the bifurcation of reality into internal beliefs and external facts, fighting to find certainty.

Head-attachment is the primary obsession with reality and truth. The core drive is to dissect truth from falsity, what can be trusted from what is deceitful. The distrust and trigger towards any appearance of truth that is not grounded in something demonstrably real. “What if it’s all a lie?”

The self is organized around a double-bind: the need for certainty and the impossibility of certainty. To resolve this bind, Six creates simulations of reality-checks, hypothesizing outcomes, confronting inconsistencies, and scanning for threats. This hypervigilance toward truth creates a personal reactivity and insecurity when the systems, groups, or beliefs that the six depended on becomes questionable.

Clarity and function, good and bad, mutual understanding and group efforts. Sharp and cutting opinions on vast topics until tested unknowns become filtered.

Unlike 5's that focus on the directness and complexity of observation of details in smaller focal points, 6 prioritizes more objective utility and seeks to understand from a systems level or even from a direct huamn level understanding. And unlike 7 that believes facts can be created by believing in possibilities, 6 is very much driven to understand the world from the facts up - cutting through false information to expose what is real.

The Hidden Triads as they relate to #6:

Head (5, 6, 7): Fixated on processing reality and identifying the truth in every context. Most aware of the back and forth in information and its direction toward uncovering reliable information about people and systems. Dynamic thinking.

Transactional/Superego (1, 2, 6): Putting efforts in validating and stabilizing systems and/or persons of common beliefs or relationships to sustain mutual support.

Attachment (9, 3, 6): Attached to one's belief on what is true and dependable for understanding reality, creating a simultaneous counter-movement between seeking more clarity and deepening ideology. vacillating between an emotional attachment to gratifying beliefs and obsession with uncovering false beliefs.

Reactive (4, 6, 8): Sensitive to lies, misinformation, hidden knowledge, and all forms of obfuscation of reality and takes accountability for exposing it.

Autonomy-Seeking (5, 6, 8): Finding stability in acute awareness of truth. Living away from falsities and unreliable systems.

Head-Attachment refuses to meet the center’s need for internal guidance by attaching to external systems (yes, including concepts in your head, like this) to establish something firm. Confidence in self wavers or is bolstered depending on the stability of the object of attachment.

As a reactive type, six is sensitive to inconsistencies in knowledge, or even in characters/intentions. They are driven for security and expect to find something undesirable in everything to prove to themselves that the world is not to be trusted.

Objectivity is best manifested when it is understandable between people and systems.

Much like how the head center is split into 5: pure observation and 7: pure self-affirmation, type six struggles to find the “correct” side of opposites. The need for self-affirmation and pure understanding tend to conflict with each other, and this type ends up conflating both aspects to produce both a feeling of safety for the self and to be purely observant of reality. This duality creates a propensity for hyper-vigilance regarding information. 

Key Qualities:

• Attachment (=) | Transactional (=) | Reactive (-) 

• Hyper-Vigilance

• Very serious about “reality” and separating is not “real”

• Sensitive to dualities and inconsistencies

• Adept at picking up patterns of thinking or the logical background behind what others say.

• Obligation to truth and “rightful” action

• Suspicious and doubtful

• Susceptible to black and white or generally polarized thinking

• Emotionally attached to perspectives

• Forms bonds of allegiance with like-minded individuals (sensitive to flipping and becoming antipathic to those individuals if the hyper-vigillance is triggered)

• Can have a receipt-based mentality when it comes to relationships. Lack of perceived reciprocation is seen as destabilizing.

• Whistleblowers

• Refusing to meet the center's needs for certainty and truth by testing and creating intrigue around information until falsities are discovered (or created). wavering between doubt and faith.

Wings

6w7: asserting knowledge and expanding the application of perspectives to fulfill the needs of the self.

6w5: withdrawing into detailed analysis of function and knowledge, engrossing the self toward gaining more and more perspective.