〈Who You Are vs. When You Are〉
- Who You Are, and When You Are
How would you describe yourself?
Maybe you’ve tried to explain your personality through habits, tendencies, or emotional reactions. The Enneagram offers a structured answer to that question. After all, we each grow inside certain patterns—types shaped by core fears, desires, and defense mechanisms. From Type 1 to 9, it maps how you see, feel, and react to the world.
But K-Saju changes the question entirely:
“Where in time is your energy now?”
It doesn’t focus on personality but on timing.
Starting from your natal chart, K-Saju traces how your energy flows through life—using the Daewoon (대운: dae-woon, 10-Year Energy Flow) and Sewoon (세운: se-woon, 1-Year Energy Flow) as its guide.
We follow the flow that runs through your life.
One tool reflects who you are. The other reveals when you are.
Between identity and timing—that’s where your rhythm begins to emerge.
- A Type You Are vs. A Structure You Carry
The Enneagram sees our personalities as shaped by core wounds and defense strategies. Early emotional experiences build a repeating response system that becomes the foundation of your type. That internal framework stays consistent, often defining how you move through life.
K-Saju approaches structure differently.
It defines your configuration through the Five Elements (오행: o-haeng) and Sipshin (십신: sip-shin). The Five Elements—Wood (목: mok), Fire (화: hwa), Earth (토: to), Metal (금: geum), and Water (수: su)—interact to form the energy pattern you're born with.
The Sipshin (Ten Spirits) are classified into:
Companion (비견·겁재: bigyeon, geop-jae) – closeness and rivalry
Output (식신·상관: sik-shin, sang-kwan) – expression and ideas
Wealth (정재·편재: jeong-jae, pyeon-jae) – drive and resource pursuit
Authority (정관·편관: jeong-gwan, pyeon-gwan) – control and responsibility
Resource (정인·편인: jeong-in, pyeon-in) – rest, study, or caution
These don’t define your personality but outline the energetic structure behind it.
- Repeating Patterns vs. Shifting Time
The Enneagram shows how your personality patterns formed—and how they continue to show up. Healing begins with awareness: noticing how your defenses play out, how you seek approval, avoid conflict, or manage shame. It’s about facing what you’ve always done.
K-Saju focuses on a different dimension: Where are you in time?
It reads the timing behind your changes.
Using Daewoon and Sewoon, it tracks the nature of time as it moves through your life. Which elements are arriving? Which energies are leaving? Which Sipshin are active right now?
Even if your core type stays the same, the flow around it changes.K-Saju reads how your inner structure reacts to time—and how time shapes what parts of you rise or fall.
- Externalized Traits vs. Energetic Interplay
The Enneagram explains how your inner fears and desires interact with others. Type 2 gives to be loved. Type 8 takes control to avoid being hurt. The way you relate to others often mirrors your internal map.
K-Saju sees interaction through the interplay of energy.Metal cuts Wood. Fire melts Metal. Earth blocks Water. These cycles of harmony and conflict explain tension, distance, or support in relationships.The Sipshin also interact—for example, Companion may suppress Wealth, or Authority may restrict Output. These dynamics reflect both your internal conflicts and outer behavior.
K-Saju focuses less on how you feel—and more on how your structure reacts to other forces.
- Self-Awareness vs. Choice in Motion
The Enneagram believes that once you recognize your pattern, you can make new choices.It’s a tool of self-awareness—mapping your blind spots, wounds, and triggers so you can live more consciously.
K-Saju also speaks of choice, but within a flow of energy.You’re not entirely free—but not entirely fixed either.Some seasons ask you to act. Others ask you to wait.Sometimes, the wisest decision is to stop and do nothing.
Your personality may say one thing,but your energy might be somewhere else.K-Saju asks: “Where is your energy now?”
- Who You Are, and Where That Is
The Enneagram helps you understand who you are—deeply.
It shows how your patterns were shaped and how they show up in the world.
K-Saju asks a different kind of question:Where are those patterns living right now in time?
You are not just a personality.You are a structure moving through time.And as time shifts, so do the parts of you that rise, rest, or return.
So let’s follow that flow—and begin reading your rhythm in the language of timing.
