Enneagram Type 9

Passion: Sloth

Sloth, in this context, refers to an unconscious psychological self-forgetfulness. A psychological self-fragmentation and inertia that leaves the self fuzzy, indistinct and dispersed, that a person doesn't have a clearly defined ego boundary, and as one of the consequences, "falls asleep on the self" in the face of something truly desired.

Fixation: Ego-In. Indolence

Seeks love outside himself and makes no effort to find his essence and peace.

Defense Mechanism: Narcotization, Deflection

“putting oneself asleep” through an immersion in work or in stimuli such as TV or reading the papers

Basic Traits:

Dependable, reliable, responsible, easygoing, laid-back, self-effacing, generous, good-natured, helpful, jovial

Theory

Though Ichazo denoted the passion of the Nine as "Laziness" Naranjo revised it and assigned "Sloth" to it because he thought it fully captured the essence of what Ichazo was trying to get across than Laziness did. 

Taking into account that the fixation of the 9 is Indolence, which Lilly and Hart present as "Seeks love outside himself and makes no effort to find his essence and peace," and that they go on to say that the trap assigned to the 9 is "Seeker: He is always seeking outside himself for the solution of his problems, running from guru to guru," indicates that this is an ego-structure truly seeking to be completed by the environment. This is an ego structure pushing into the environment to get the complete affection and solutions he unconsciously refuses to offer himself.

When the reader reads Sloth as the ruling passion of the 9, they often interpret it as a sense of physiological and instinctive laziness, but that's not the case with the 9. Most Nines are very physiologically active. Sloth, in this context, refers to an unconscious psychological self-forgetfulness. A psychological self-fragmentation and inertia that leaves the self fuzzy, indistinct and dispersed, that a person doesn't have a clearly defined ego boundary, and as one of the consequences, "falls asleep on the self" in the face of something truly desired.