Type Nine, the Peacemaker or Mediator, stands at the top of the figure and at the centre of the body triad, and the system regards it as the type most out of contact with its own anger, which it suppresses in favour of keeping the peace. Its basic desire is for inner and outer peace and for wholeness, its basic fear is of loss, separation and fragmentation. Its passion is sloth, meant in the sense of the classical acedia, an inertia about one's own priorities rather than physical laziness, and its virtue is action. Its wings are Eight and One. Under stress the system places Nine at Six, becoming anxious and doubting; in growth it moves to Three, becoming engaged and self-developing.
In the Hornevian groups, Riso and Hudson's second classification drawn from Karen Horney's three neurotic trends, Nine falls among the withdrawn types that move away from others, alongside Four and Five, its peacemaking having as much to do with disengaging from conflict as with actively resolving it. Naranjo's instinctual subtypes cross each type with one of three biological drives, self-preservation, social and one-to-one (sexual). For Nine these give the self-preservation Collector, whose peace is sought through appetite and comfort; the social Community Benefactor, who merges with a group's participation; and the one-to-one Seeker, whose peace is pursued through union with another person.