Susan RhodesSusan Rhodes is a cognitive psychologist (Ph.D., Univ. of Washington) with an ongoing research interest in individual differences, psycho-spiritual systems, and the nature of transformation. She is also a mosaic and polymer clay artist fascinated by olor, texture, and transformational art. In 2000, she plunged into a deep study of the enneagram. In 2006, she became the staff reporter for the Enneagram Monthly, the only continuously-published newspaper on enneagram topics since 1995. The enneagram is a sacred geometrical construct with an emphasis on the number nine which generates nine personality/temperament types, which are conventionally described as personality fixations. Susan turns that idea on its head by describing them as nine paths to transformation; this is the vision set forth in her three previous enneagram books: The Positive Enneagram (2009), Archetypes of the Enneagram (2010), and The Integral Enneagram (2013). Her most recent book, The Fool's Excellent Adventure: A Hero's Journey through the Enneagram & Tarot (2017), explores the relationship between the enneagram and tarot, a transformational system that uses archetypal images to depict the process by which we fully realize our potential. Susan has been studying the tarot almost as long as the enneagram, noting parallels between the two as she went along. In 2014, she wrote a 50-page article for the Enneagram Monthly that served as the first draft for the book. Read More Read Less