Jen Tapiser @thetapisery originated and published the triadic personality “tapestry” concept, traits as pulsive personality, the affective tempers, and the Pultrait™, Affectemper™, andCognitype™ models thereof, along with various ideas therein. Her academic background includes studying biology at university.

---

Hello, my name is Jen.

I have no formal credentials, just a high school diploma and an uncompleted biology degree (b.s. as in the redundant gen-ed half) with aspirations to minor in statistics and work in ecology. I read a lot, mostly fiction with particular writing styles, am interested in systems, modeling, evolution, ethology, and psychology, and have a bit of an art background, as for things which might influence my work here. However, not to be misleading, my experience is significantly lower than my interest due to life circumstances.

My interest in personality began during high school learning about the DISC model, though I struggled with its principles or lack thereof. I took psychology covering the Big 5, which was fairly self-evident and acceptable within its scope. Then I took the popular, erroneous 16Personalities, which still kindled an interest in alternative personality models. As accumulating notes became revisions, then tipping into novelties, options from YouTube to a blog were considered in 2017. In 2020 after originating the tempers, I chose a website for an organized, written central platform. Unfortunately, back to said life circumstances, through this I have been disabled (hence unfinished degree) and coincidentally declined severely during that time. So please bear with me as we progress.

Our auroraboros logo links celestial passages from two of my favorite literary fantasy books (shoutout to this list; RIP its website). Eddison likely influenced Tolkien (despite his denials), albeit with very different tones; the former favored the glory of war and grandiosity of man, versus the latter the simplicity of peace and beauty of nature. Tolkien is often considered the father of modern fantasy, the original “copied” by those who’ve followed. But Tolkien’s originality is largely due to being vastly well-read, integrative and derivative of other works, which he synthesized and reinvented into his own, quintessentially “seeing further by standing on the shoulders of giants.” In this case, these excerpts miss the even more striking contextual resemblance. Both scenes are through the eyes of the companion to his faltering leader, pushed to their limits, hiding in harsh lands and fighting against great odds for the stakes of all they love.

Auroras are created by solar winds disturbing the magnetosphere. The aurora borealis, or the northern lights, is named after Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn, with relations to the sun, moon, stars, and the four winds in Greek, and Boreas, god of the north wind.

The ouroboros portrays a serpent eating its own tail, symbolizing “eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death, and rebirth.” In Egyptian mythos, it represented the “formless disorder that surrounds the orderly world and is involved in that world’s periodic renewal” and the “cyclical nature of the year.” In Norse mythos, Jörmungandr the World Serpent encircles the world and will release its tail during Ragnarök, after which the “world will resurface anew and fertile.“

Dramatic mythologies and symbolisms aside, through the vast math of the universe, I wish everyone well on their own journeys and hope PersonalityTapestry and its Tapisery may be of some use to them.

🤎 Jen

• Traits: Conscientious, Honest, Introverted, Stable, Agreeable (sans the sympathy), and preferably although not measurably “Closed” (as in oriented to familiarity/similarity, if moving “open” facets such as imagination into introversion and tolerance for ambiguity/uncertainty into honesty-humility)
• Temper: 7x^o “The Watcher”
• Type: Juxta\NTPi (NiTe)