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The instinctual subtypes or stackings

By Alex RPublished 3 years ago 4 min read

sp/sx - self-preservation/sexual- comfort-seeking sensualist

so/sx - social/sexual - friendly confidant

sp/so - self-preservation/social - dedicated friend

sx/so - sexual/social - provocative performer

sx/sp - sexual/self-preservation - sensual lover

so/sp - social/self-preservation - reserved diplomat

sp/sx tends to have a comfort seeking and sensual quality. With self-preservation in first position and social last, they tend to want to attend to their personal sense of comfort and wellbeing. Attending to their own personal comfort can give them an insular quality compared to other stackings.

sp/sx insular and comfort seeking quality makes them hard to reach, yet they can be good intimate friends and confidants. They are usually quiet and comfort seeking though they have a friendly and amiable quality underneath the quietness.

sp/sxs may tend to withdraw from the community yet form strong bonds with those they know individually. They may have macabre quality to the way they live and present, preferring to stay in an enclosed or individual state yet they come across as extroverted in certain contexts.

sp/so has more of a mindfulness for the wellbeing of the group. They tend to be community minded and have more of a friendly quality. They are hardworking and friendly people who are good at building communities. They have a stronger focus on orderliness in comparison to sp/sx decadent, insular and at times chaotic nature.

sp/so may have a concern for building stability and act as good team members who work well in building a team or community. This allows them to build a stable home life where they can have security and a sense of personal stability.

sp/so have a focus on friendliness and security which makes them trusted friends and confidants withi the community. They may be relied upon for their sense of trustworthiness and ability to serve the community well. They are reliable people who have a friendly way about them.

so/sx are friendly confidants who value their time spent with friends. They may be communicative and intellectual and are particularly good at being around and communicating with others. They may be values for their, warm, good humour and extroversion though they also come in more introverted varieties.

so/sx may have an enthusiastic and generous nature which allows them to reach out to others and be good natured and generous friends. Their generosity is apparent around their friends and the expansive nature also extends to their energy in general. They have an expansive, generous and upbeat nature about it usually.

so/sx may have a party wild child image that they often live up to, as at times one of the more out there stackings. so/sx may live on the fringes with a similiar dare devil quality to sx/so. They like to organize friends yet may have less focus on security in general to some other stackings. Their lack of focus on security makes them seem wild of out there at times.

so/sp is more of a reserved communicator. They tend to be seen as politicians, interviews and have an interest in communicating, helping and observing other people. Like sp/so they are good at building and serving communities. They may have a group of friends. Yet they may have a more reserved or introverted side despite being around people a lot of the time.

so/sp are generically diplomat people who like sp/so are good ab buildin communities. They also may be good at observing communities and people, and observing people is something they are prone to generally. Their tendency to observe people and observe groups or communities makes them have a generous nature which is oriented towards people.

The generous and community serving nature of so/sp means they are seen as reliable. They want to serve and communicate with others though may be seen as quiet and reserved at the same time. Their reserved quality at times can mimick sp/sx and they can sometimes come in more introverted forms than their community serving archetype may convey.

sx/so is a provative and extroverted person who is often seen around people. They like to push against and be around others in a sexual or intimate way and have strong display of extroversion and more aggressive intimacy. They may seem to have an exhibitionistic quality or may seem to require a stronger sense of insularity.

Their energy is perhaps the most extroverted and exhibitionistic. They tend to push towards people in an aggressive way, though they also have a strong streak of generosity . The generous and performing nature of sx/so is strong, and makes them strongly performing personalities.

sx/so are often strongly performing personalities who have an aggressive yet generous quality. They are also the rarest of the stackings and are not seen as frequently as sp/so, sp/sx or so/sp. sx/so may be seen as a 'wild child' like so/sx though they sometimes come in more introverted forms.

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