Northstar
“I see the path before you see it yourself.”
Belonging, Growth, Patience, Ecology
Curiosity, Clarity, Precision, Mastery
Fairness, Responsibility, Order, Boundaries
Ambition, Power, Strategy, Self-interest
Passion, Impulse, Honesty, Risk
Understanding the Northstar
You listen deeply and then offer insights that help people understand themselves or their problems. You combine empathy with clear thinking, which lets you see patterns others overlook. People often come to you for perspective because your presence feels calm and reassuring. You feel at your best when you can make sense of complexity and share that understanding in a way that helps someone move forward.
Dominant Driver
Green is the drive toward connection and organic growth. It shows up in people who think about how things and people fit together over time, who notice the emotional atmosphere in a room, and who care about whether a path feels alive rather than just impressive. This might be the person who tends to friendships like a garden, who values slow, steady progress, or who keeps an eye on whether everyone is actually okay beneath the surface. At its hardest moments, Green can avoid necessary conflict, stay too long in familiar situations, or bend itself around others until it’s not sure what it really wants anymore.
Auxiliary Driver
Blue is the drive toward understanding and mastery. It shows up in people who naturally ask questions, compare options, and try to improve the systems around them. This is the friend with too many tabs open, the person who reads the manual, or the one who quietly optimizes a process after everyone else has stopped thinking about it. At its hardest moments, Blue can get stuck in analysis, delay decisions until they feel ‘perfect’, or retreat into the safety of ideas when emotions or chaos feel overwhelming.
Lacking Driver
When you lack Black, you tend to wait to be chosen, hoping that effort or goodness will eventually be noticed on its own. You stay in unsatisfying situations because you don’t see any real leverage or options, avoid asking directly for what you want, and talk more about what you can’t do than about moves you could try. Saying no, setting terms, or pursuing your own interests feels selfish or dangerous, so your life is often shaped by other people’s decisions.
Lacking Driver
When you lack Red, life starts to feel muted and overly careful. You swallow strong feelings or postpone them, and you make choices mostly to avoid conflict or trouble. Days blur into routines that are ‘fine’ but rarely exciting, relationships stay polite rather than alive, and big desires are often shelved until the moment to act has already passed.
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Offers wisdom that blends empathy with analytical depth—you understand both the system and the soul
- Identifies root causes others miss, connecting emotional patterns to structural dynamics
- Listens with patience and nuance; people feel genuinely understood after talking to you
- Provides guidance that feels both stabilizing and expansive—grounded but visionary
- Defaults to fixing when someone just needs you to listen
- Overwhelms with insight when comfort is what's actually needed
- Struggles with silence or open-ended emotional space—you want to offer something
- Assumes others need your direction when they actually need to find their own way