The Second Mystery is awoken at around the age of seven, causing you to explore your emotions more deeply within the relationships around you in your group. With the help of Jupiter, this exploration enables you to get a greater understanding of who you are through learning the rules of human interaction, and also is the way you receive the values you inherit. These values are passed down to the next generation via the bloodline and are thus like impulses that only exist in the etheric web. They are your family’s way of providing a framework around which your emotions can be built. They are the way your bloodline helps you to create emotional stability, so you can serve both your direct and the indirect wider group.

At around fourteen years of age the Third Mystery places you face to face with your Will using the forceful fire of Mars. You express what you want using your personality and as a result you learn how to rely on your own decision making. This also forces you to stand by and look at your own mistakes. You are supported here by unconscious messages coming from the astral plain. This is like talking to yourself to ascertain exactly what you want, for these feelings tell you if something needs to change. To do this you may need to confront patterns of behaviour that are no longer relevant and do things differently. You may need a force of Will to do this, especially if you have been brainwashed into doing things in a set way by parents or teachers. A repressed Will can have deep and lasting consequences on your ability to do what is best for you.

The Fourth Mystery is the place where you confront the abyss and enter your heart. To do this you must leave behind the restrictions of the personality, with all its lower desires, and rely on spiritual insight to negotiate your crossing. It is the light of the Sun that lights your path and this light also helps you to examine all past earthly karma and integrate it as a positive, which you need to do to make this crossing. This is the greatest test you will ever take. Pain is something that we all avoid and bury deep within ourselves in order that it can remain hidden in the past. Facing your pain is the only way you can cross the abyss and move into the spiritual part of yourself, thus freeing yourself from the fear that holds you back.

The Fifth Mystery is to set yourself free within spiritual creativity and with this you begin to learn how to take what you receive from the spirit world so it can manifest in the physical world. This is at its most powerful during your late twenties, but can be cultivated at any time in your life through the words you speak. Sound is the energy of your command and, because it is essentially just slowed down light, through it you create everything for yourself. Hence the greatest creative tool that you possess comes from the words that you speak. Venus helps you get them right here with a big dose of her compassion because to know and say your truth is the most important aspect of yourself. Through investigating your truth in the spiritual world, you discover that the illusion of non-truth is found in matter and perpetuated by the personality, whereas once in your spiritual self, your truth takes on a whole new meaning.

The Sixth Mystery is the place where you discover true spiritual reception. The mind can be divided into two parts; its lower and its higher. The lower pertains to the intellect and the personality, whereas the higher governs what we receive from the higher plains. Understandably, Mercury rules here, taking the messages sent from the gods and placing them in your third eye. At this point you are being asked to discern between lower and higher thought because the purpose of life is to live from that coming from the higher plains. We are, alas, taught to think using logic, which gets us stuck in our intellect. We should think by taking from the spirit world and feeding it into the material one. This is the way humanity develops consciousness.