I'm a Gryffindork. This post proves it.

I lied. I'm a hufflepuff. This is a post about personality typing. A subject near and dear to my heart, that plagues my mind day and night. Well... maybe not so much. But I think it's really cool! ~ The dork

I think you've seen Whitney Lee Milam's video on youtube entitled Personality Typing + Hogwarts Houses. Well if you haven't... I will provide it... right below these sentences. There.

Well, I'm going to try to elaborate on her video as well as try to simplify the different systems in the most convenient ways possible. Yes. Personality typing is super complex and really inaccurate. I mean. How can you honestly expect to fit perfectly into a mold? Before I start I need to rant a minute. I'm already dreading explanations, because I have so much to say.

When I watch movies or more often television shows with lots of characters, most recently Lost, I think... I bet many of these people have overlapping personality types... be it the sixteen modern PTypes, or the four humors (four temperaments), or the sixteen Myers Briggs types. So on a show with seventeen characters there has to be overlapping. It's really fun to type strangers, if not creepy.

A lot of people make tests to try to sort you or type you, but they include questions like 'If a woman was dying and you could provide medicine, would you?' Which basically catagorize you into two types 'heartless' and 'normal'. (Hufflepuff speaking)

But before I explain the shortcuts, I'll tell you how I typed myself. Hello, I'm Sara, I'm phlegmatic, Conscientious, an INFP, a virgo, and a Hufflepuff. They don't all match up, and I don't demonstrate all the characteristics of each type, but I found some ways to make more sense out of them... and here's how.

Humorism

I won't dwell on this, because it's explained pretty well in the video.  People were drained of either blood, yellow bile, black bile, or phlegm, based on whether they fell into the sanguine, choleric, melancholic, or phlegmatic humor, and they were then drained of the respective metabolic agent to 'normalize' them. They would be either pleasure seeking, power seeking, knowledge seeking, or a sort of relationship seeking person. Simple enough. What do you want in life, right? There are other characteristics in the diagram to the side, like introverted Melancholic and Phlegmatic and the extraverted Choleric and Sanguine. I feel like I display a lot of the Melancholic traits, reserved, anxious and moody, but am also reliable, passive and careful. And as I will explain when I talk about sorting, it can be about what traits you want to enhance in yourself or you think or more important.

Sorting

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series features groups or 'houses' that match up with the Humors. Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff. While these houses demonstrate qualities of the humors and inhabitants, in reality it's a choice about your own ideals. What you value, bravery, power, intelligence, or family and friends (relationships). Hermione was really intelligent, but she valued bravery over intelligence, and Harry basically just chose to be in Gryffindor, although he had overlapping characteristics. I just really like these types and they're just so easy to sort people into.
Also, each house has a mascot or symbol, an element, and a metal. The house of Gryffindor is symbolized by a lion, a creature of bravery and passion, the element of fire and gold. Slytherin is symbolized by a serpent, the symbol of cunning water, and silver. Ravenclaw is symbolized by an eagle, as clever and intelligent as any of its fellow birds, air, and bronze. Hufflepuff lastly is symbolized by the badger, an animal that burries underground and lives with its family in catacombs, and is generally peacefull unless provoked, when it becomes fierce and formidable, earth, and the color black.
I explained the animal symbols, but I might talk more about them under 'animals', and I will talk about the elements below, but for now I'll talk about the elements. If you're unfarmiliar with Harry Potter or its houses, then you might be reeling at 'the color black'. Gold, silver, and bronze are often associated with first, second, and third place in competition. Perhaps in terms of passion for competition, leaving Hufflepuff out of the running. However if you've read The Goblet of Fire you'd know that Hufflepuff can be just as competitive as its fellow houses. However when you add the color combinations red, green, blue, and yellow, you could make the connection between Hufflepuff's and bumble bees. Busy bees working together for a higher cause, fiercly loyal and willing to die to protect their queen or one another.
But I mean, literally took all sorts of tests and was sorted into every house save Slytherin, and don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with some serious ambition, but it's not really me, and yes, I would give the dying woman medicine.

PTypes

I really reccomend going to www.Ptypes.com for further explanation of the PTypes. These include conscientious, sensitive, vigilant, dramatic, aggressive, idiosyncratic, inventive, solitary, leisurely, serious, self-sacrificing, devoted, self-confident, adventurous, mercurial, and exuberant. While each word is a pretty good clue what the type is all about, the website has all sorts of little details. I'm a thrifty perfectionist. However, I'm not so neat and tidy. Check it out. 

Zodiac (Star/Sun Signs)

Well, if you've been following me up until now, I might loose you with this one. As much as people can believe typing, it's harder to believe that your personality can be influenced by the stars you were born under. They don't exactly correspond with each month, so you do have to look at the specific days to find your Zodiac and then you're off to understanding your future exactly by looking at charts in the back of magazines. No. I'm not so dumb as to believe Seventeen magazine's predictions of my life, but the Zodiac is really cool and if you want, you can make you're own charts. The picture on the right, by the way shows the actual constellations, which is cool. You're a capricorn, right? The Goat. Practical, prudent, funny, and pessimistic. Stable and independent, they are an eart sign. Virgo's an earth sign, too, which matches up with Hufflepuff as well. Interesting. You are liable to knee problems and are often taken advantage of. You ruling planet is Saturn. Like most personality types there are symbols attatched to each sign, however they are the constellations themselves and are really what the characteristics are based on. Virgo, the virgin, is innocent and shy, makes sense? Again with the Lions, Leo's are outgoing, domineering (Kings/ Queens of the Jungle) and brave (Gryffindors).
To make a natal chart you can follow these steps: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-Astrological-Chart or go to some of the free chart making websites, if you like the easy way out. I did. Here's a good website: http://astro.cafeastrology.com/cgi-bin/astro/natal that makes free charts for you!
It's worth a shot and I feel like I embody a virgo. Well... http://www.astrology-online.com/ is a great resource.

Elements

Different figures on the zodiac associate with different elements, which is also worth checking out, then the Hogwarts houses associate with fire, water, air, and earth. However the humors they match up with do not have the same elements. Air, fire, earth, and water, which is strange. I mean, you kind of have to really think about what the element means to you or the world. Air is free and moving, essential to life, climbing higher and: flying. Air is a wet and hot element. Fire is hot and dry, raging and destructive, it profits from oxygen and can be put out with water or smothered with earth; loyalty and reason, as much as it embodies passion, which could translate to the Choleric or Slytherin passion for power. Earth is stable, rigid, and according to the humors dry and cold, however when you think about how often earthquakes take place earth can be a violent, angry element. Lastly water, the cold and wet element. Water goes with the flow quite literally. It takes many forms, but is always essentially H2O, it's inside of all people and all living things. Everything needs water. Everyone needs loyalty and goodness, determination and kindness. So I lean more twoards the Humorism's interpretation of the elements.

Animals/Symbolism

I went into a Native American store the other day, looking for a worry stone. Yeah, dumb problem. And they asked me what my Totem Animal was. So I just looked blankly at them and said I hadn't really ever put much thoughts into it (none at all). But a lot of Native American jewlery and medicine changes based on your Totem Animal. The Eagle is a universal totem in case you came unprepared like me, but don't come unprepared! Think about it! Right now!

I heard that in some native tribes of various countries this is a pretty big deal, there's this whole ceremony where the leader or the shamen gets his son high or super drunk and the son journeys through the forests of their mind until they find an animal and then they take over the tribe identifying with that animal. That's really cool and would be a really interesting experience sans the whole high/super drunk aspect.

Crazy psychics online suggest you sit still and meditate on the subject, of course, in today's world you aren't limited to identifying with animals just in North America, because theirs things on every other continent and some islands that all have distinct personalities and characteristics and although you'd have a fantastic time looking for zebra-totem specific items in a Native American store, it's you and your life and you can always just be an eagle in America! (Again that's really cool because it might signify Ravenclaw being a universal, accepting house...)

This website is pretty good at explaining animal totems in America, and like the houses it's really more of what you aspire to be instead of what you already are. http://www.starstuffs.com/animal_totems/

Myers Briggs

I feel pressed for time so I might have another post in the future to explain these all better, but I'll give my shot and my personal favorite. Myers Briggs.

Are you introverted or extraveted? Simple enough. Do you recharge by yourself, reading or some activity alone or at parties or hanging out with large crowds. A ridiculously high percent of the population is extraverted, so keep that in mind, and it doesn't men you're antisocial to be introverted or you're not ever alone as an extravert, it's just a majority or preferencial thing.  

Are you sensing or intuitive? So basically a bit superficial, or a bit of a know-it-all?

Do you feel or think? It doesn't mean you're dumb. Would you rather act on people's feelings, kindly or what you know is right or will end up all right in the end (rationally).

Do you judge or percieve? Are you more into concrete and literal, or do you look at things more abstractly?

Then when you judge your own type look them up on the following website for career, relationship, friendship and even parrenting advice:
www.personalitypage.com

Or to go this website to find out interesting stuff too like famous fictional and non-fictional people who share your type, as well as more information into how you process things:
www.typelogic.com

And here's this really helpfull diagram with the sixteen types that also have the most common careers the types tend to choose:

Well basically that's it. A much quicker guide than I was planning on to deeply understanding yourself and others, in your daily life or in the fictional world.

~Sara

P.S. I loved the story, and I really want to find it and read the full version. It was pretty freaking deep for a fairy tale, a little creepy, which isn't that strange in fairy tales but all around really good!