Your Constellation
The three-body problem of intimacy
Each human is a unique three-body problem — completely unique in our own constellation of intimacy. Three gravitational fields that never resolve into equilibrium. Always in motion. Always influencing each other.
In physics, the three-body problem describes a system where three masses orbit each other under mutual gravitational attraction. Unlike the two-body problem, it has no general closed-form solution — you can only simulate it, observe it, and adjust.
The system is exquisitely sensitive. Tiny variations in initial conditions create vastly different trajectories. Each configuration is unique. The bodies are always in motion, influencing each other in ways that can't be reduced to a formula.
This is how intimacy works.
Vessel
How you practice
Compass
What orients you
Current
What moves through you
Three spheres, three dimensions each
Each sphere contains three axes — continuums you exist somewhere along, that shift with time, experience, and conscious development.
Vessel
How you practice — the container that holds your work
Do you develop capacity primarily through internal work (meditation, solo practice, self-reflection) or through engagement with others (partnership, community, relational containers)?
Do you grow best in regulated, safe, contained environments — or do you need intensity, edge, activation to access deeper material?
Does insight come primarily through understanding (frameworks, concepts, analysis) or through felt sense (body awareness, somatic experience, movement)?
Compass
What orients you — the frame through which you make meaning
Do you orient toward mainstream, evidence-based, culturally sanctioned approaches — or toward underground, lineage-based, esoteric traditions?
Do you thrive with protocol, curriculum, clear stages — or with improvisation, presence, following what arises in the moment?
Is your primary unit of development the individual psyche, the dyad, or the group/community? Where does transformation really happen?
Current
What moves through you — the living forces themselves
What's your primary relationship to desire? Eros pulls toward, wants, reaches. Agape offers, serves, gives without requirement. Both are love. Different forces.
Where do you naturally find yourself on the power axis? Holding, directing, containing — or releasing, trusting, being moved?
Do you develop through strong boundaries, clear edges, defined self — or through merging, boundary dissolution, ego release?
Dynamic Interaction
Why it's a three-body problem
The three spheres aren't independent. They pull on each other constantly.
Your Compass (orientation) shapes what Vessel (practice) you're drawn to. Someone oriented toward structure and tradition will seek different containers than someone oriented toward emergence and the esoteric.
Your Current (the forces moving through you) determines what you can actually hold in either. High eros with low containment capacity is destabilizing regardless of your orientation or practice.
And your Vessel develops your Current over time — while potentially shifting your Compass. Deep engagement with somatic work might move someone from cognitive to embodied, from structure to emergence.
The assessment doesn't give you a type.
It gives you coordinates — and a direction.
Pattern Recognition
What different configurations suggest
High Structure + Traditional + Regulated
Likely thrives in therapy, structured courses, evidence-based approaches. May feel destabilized by plant medicine or emergent practices. Needs clear containers.
High Esoteric + Emergence + Intensity
Drawn to edge experiences — medicine work, tantra, altered states. May chase peak experiences without building integration capacity. Needs grounding practices.
High Eros + Low Containment
Strong desire, limited capacity to hold it skillfully. May experience intensity as overwhelming or destabilizing. Development edge: building containment.
High Power + Low Surrender
Strong capacity to hold and direct, difficulty releasing control. May struggle with vulnerability, receiving, or being held. Development edge: practicing surrender.
Not a type. A position in motion.
This refuses the tyranny of personality types. No Enneagram number. No attachment style as destiny.
Just: here's the field. Here's where you are. Here's what pulls on you.
And the Institute becomes the place that helps you navigate — not by solving the three-body problem (impossible), but by developing the capacity to stay conscious while in orbit.
Discover your constellation
The assessment maps your current position across all three spheres. Where you are now. What's pulling on you. And where your developmental edges might be.
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