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HARDCOVER
The Last Nine Kingdoms of the Merry–Go–Round
A mythic journey through the prisons of fear and a return to your true centre
What if the person you think you are is only half the story?
What if the prisons that bind you are not walls of stone, but whispers from your unconscious mind?
Have you noticed how certain patterns keep returning — the same arguments, the same disappointments, the same stories? You change jobs, you change partners, you move cities, even countries… and yet somehow, something familiar keeps repeating.
The Last Nine Kingdoms of the Merry-Go-Round is a mythic and visual journey through the Enneagram’s nine patterns, revealing how fear becomes identity and how unconscious reactions keep us circling old wounds.
Unlike traditional Enneagram books, this work does not approach the types as labels or descriptions alone. It transforms them into nine symbolic Kingdoms — living inner landscapes filled with Dragons, Archetypes, Rulers, Totems, and hidden Gardens of Essence. Through richly imagined drawings, story, symbol, and gentle wisdom, Hélène Grillot makes the unconscious visible.
This is not a book of self-improvement. It is a book of self-remembering. Each Kingdom reveals a different pattern of the human heart: the fear that whispers, the identity that forms around it, the survival strategy that repeats, and the forgotten essence waiting beneath it all.
At the centre of the journey lies the Sacred Garden of Essence — a place where nothing needs proving, only remembering. For readers drawn to the Enneagram, spiritual awakening, shadow work, inner healing, and the mystery of unconscious patterns, this book offers a different way forward: not through becoming someone new, but through seeing clearly what was never truly lost.
About the Author
Helene Grillot stands at the crossroads of psychology, spirituality, and myth. A French-born writernow based in Australia, she is a poet of consciousness and an Artisan of Awakening, whose workguides readers from the world of striving to the stillness of being.
Like Clarissa Pinkola Estés, she writes through archetypes and symbol; like Mark Nepo, shespeaks with contemplative intimacy. Yet her voice is uniquely her own – visionary and structured,born from direct mystical experience and a lifelong devotion to inner transformation.
She is the author of Just Be Yourself and The Last Nine Kingdoms of the Merry-Go-Round, a luminousexploration of the Nine Kingdoms of the Enneagram – reimagined as a mythic pilgrimagethrough the landscapes of fear and freedom. Through her companion course, Artisans ofAwakening, she invites others to recognise and release the unconscious patterns that quietly directtheir lives, and to awaken to the love that was never lost.
As an Artisan of Awakening, Helene’s voice does not instruct from above but invites fromwithin – revealing that true transformation is not self-improvement, but the art of rememberingwho we have always been.