As in the case of the extreme Ruby Red, the extreme Azure Blue is ironically inclined toward introversion. While they seem, on the surface, to be highly engaged in their relationships with other people and to find energy in these relationships, it is often a one-way street: the extreme Azure Blue is giving to others but finds it hard to receive the caring themselves (there is an inclination toward self-sacrifice and martyrdom).
We find three Enneagram types that are aligned with Azure Blue. They are Enneagram 2 (the helper), Enneagram 6 (the pessimist), and Enneagram 7 (the visionary). The alignment of Azure Blue with Enneagram 2 offers us an important insight regarding this preference. The extreme Azure Blue will often come to a helping relationship with an Enneagram 2 hook. As an introvert, they want something in return but never indicate what it is [a common dynamic among Enneagram 2 types].
The alignment of Azure Blue with Enneagram 6 offers us yet another insight. The introverted Azure Blues are inclined toward helping other people because at some deep level they believe that our world is always wounding us—hence there is always the need for healing and support. This leads us, in turn, to the role played by Enneagram 7 in our understanding of the extraverted Azure Blue. In essence, Enneagram 7 is about looking upward and forward so that we might ignore or seek to transcend the bleak picture offered by Enneagram 6. The Enneagram 7 is fully aware of reality—and knows that it is not very pleasant. That’s why the extraverted Azure Blue asks us to look up at the sky rather than down at the muddy and murky real world in which we are now standing. Even more dramatic is the realization that we are standing in (or sinking in) quicksand. We need a helping hand to pull us out (even if this hand is nothing more than a fragile dream of the future). This is where the extraverted Azure Blue joins with their introverted Azure Blue colleague in seeking to provide service to other people.
The Enneagram 7 also instructs us about the visioning of the Azure Blue. It seems that the extraverted Azure Blue is inclined toward promoting their own dream of the future, rather than entertaining the possibility that other people might also hold a valid and compelling vision of the future. The introverted Azure Blue similarly believes that they alone hold the viable dreams. However, they are inclined to withhold their dream, either because it takes too much energy to promote this dream or because they don’t think other people are sufficiently “advanced” or “mature” in their thinking and feeling to accept their lofty dream. The underlying arrogance of some introverts is revealed. They are inclined to stay inside themselves because other people are simply “unworthy” of entrance into the introvert’s psyche.
It often takes a Rainbow person or a person who blends Azure Blue with Purple (as an advocate) or Green (as an informed helper) to bring other people into the collaborative journey toward a shared vision. We will have more to say later about this intermixing of interpersonal preferences.
The Azure Blue Portrait
In moving toward other people, the Azure Blue person is likely to find a source of joy in building commitment to a vision—either alone (introversion) or with other people (extraversion). The primary source of energy for someone with an Azure Blue orientation is imagining what “could be.” This imagining process provides energy for the extravert when it is shared. For the introvert, energy comes from imagining primarily when it is done in private. A notebook is filled with images or visions of the future that are swirling through the introvert’s mind and heart as they fall off to sleep (the hypnogogic state) or are dreaming. This proclivity toward imagination is in keeping with the Jungian (MBTI) intuitive function.
