The Elven Star Interpretations

Mystery 6: Softening into Spiritual Awareness

Course Introduction
Use your sixth Sabian Symbol to study the word Sorry
Arrival in this world as a baby is quite shocking for the soul. No amount of forewarning could educate spirit to know what it will feel like to descend into its opposing principle. Materiality is as ardently keen to contain and deny spirit as is spirit to inspire and raise up matter. Having no strength or comprehension, the baby’s position is very vulnerable so its inner imperative is to secure itself from harm and find a place to be. This is thrusting.
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The soul has its own purpose for incarnating and this is not fear-based at all. It is not interested in security but more accepting, easy and naive, not at all thrusting. In fact the less we push and the more we observe and respond, the closer we can tune into the soul. 
Elven Star Mystery 6

Integration

If you have reached this stage in the Elven Star method then your interest is clearly more than casual. Here we study the integration of what we have done so far, by discussing the overall plan. The essence of the 6th mystery is to integrate life's feedback processes into full consciousness so that you can find alignment between your life attitude and your soul. Certainly this is much more powerful when done in real time with real people, and the Elven Star retreats are to be held for this purpose. Yet it is also very helpful to do what you can alone. The (free) Elven Star course can be used to receive some mentorship.

The task is to review your life in close detail and then marry up 7 strands of evolutionary development with your unique set of Elven Star Sabian Symbols.

You are guided to trace the track of your personal history with awareness of the 7 Words, asking yourself how has No, Hello, Thanks etc featured in your life events, personalities, successes and failures? Then you will try to uncover the hidden mystery of why these steps were the way they were - specifically in terms of your Elven Star Sabians. When you can do this fully at some depth, then what is revealed is a unified sense of how it all comes together - and this unified field of energy is the soul's expression of itself on Earth.

Primary Word: Sorry 

Do you make amends if you cause harm?
In some spiritual groups, on camps etc, we can observe the process called ‘karma yoga’, which raises the concept of chores to a new level. By doing work in the spirit of sacred service, the effect is to heal ourselves of issues that trouble us. This is the way to understand making amends. It is not done simply to justly compensate the other. It is done to repair the damage in ourselves that is evidenced by our insensitivity to others. When we do the right thing by others, we feel good on a soul level. It’s worth it; benefit outweighs cost by a dimension.

Are you relatively free of guilt?
This question is also profoundly correlated with happiness. From a truly spiritual perspective, guilt is always wrong – and blame too. So whatever we do that is motivated by guilt or blame will always lead towards an unsatisfactory result. We need to avoid that behaviour, whatever the cost, and to let go of guilt – or our chances of joy are very significantly diminished.

Are you a person who can forgive and forget?
We all do what we think is right. If we think that someone is doing something wrong then it’s just because their model of the world is different to ours. It explains all the friction and resultant conflict. Forgiveness is more than excusing someone’s bad behaviour; it is much more. Forgiveness is a state of grace that enables a person to release resentment and be fully responsible for everything that they experience in life.  It heals the poison of blame and guilt.
This word is so often said with a heavy voice or launched at another person like an accusing missile: ‘it’s your responsibility!’, yet its origins clearly indicate the ability to respond. If a doctor is present at a medical emergency then they have the responsibility to deal with it simply because they can. Undoubtedly it is suggestive of emotional maturity and adult attitudes.
As responsible adults we will come to see upon reflection that much of what has disturbed the peace could have been better handled by us. To some extent we are at fault if we had the ability to respond to a situation better than we did. To make this right and correct the error we need to make amends. 
Often a word that seems to apply to two different meanings in fact reveals by artful ambiguity that the meanings are not really different at all but together suggestive of a hidden truth. This word reflection is used to describe what we see physically when we look at a special piece of glass, and also what we perceive mentally through contemplation of events and feelings. These are disconnected activities – and yet when unified by their shared name they point to one of life’s most beautiful secrets.
We are each of us bound up by our very physicality and all of our other attachments, yet the eternal truth of who we are cannot be permanently constrained. The eternal self is often called soul, and is made of fiery, expressive spirit whose essence-nature is absolute freedom. Before deciding to incarnate, soul had little or no comprehension of how it might feel to be encased in clay; it had no way to understand what it would be like to live in a world run by the fearful and violent. 
The Sabian Images on this site are by Ruby Fumizki