When
three stages: ages 20–40, 40–60, after 60
Purpose in the Destiny Matrix
The purposes outline three stages of life: finding yourself, finding your place among others, then giving meaning to it all.
The essentials
Purpose at a glance
- When
- three stages: ages 20–40, 40–60, after 60
- Points
- 7
Purpose: what it refers to
This section brings together seven points.
The personal purpose, from twenty to forty, matches the sky, your aspirations, with the earth, your concrete life. The social purpose, from forty to sixty, matches the male and female sides, what the men and women in your life teach you. The spiritual purpose, after sixty, combines the two previous ones and tells what gives meaning to the journey.
The points
Sky line: Your aspirations, what you reach toward.
Earth line: Your concrete life, what grounds you.
Personal purpose: Ages 20–40: bringing your aspirations and your concrete life into harmony.
Male line: What the men in your life teach you.
Female line: What the women in your life teach you.
Social purpose: Ages 40–60: finding your place among others.
Spiritual purpose: After 60: what gives meaning to it all.
The calculation, step by step
The sky adds the talent and the life lesson; the earth, the portrait and the material point.
With the imaginary date of March 14, 1987, the sky is 3 and 6, making 9; the earth 14 and 7, making 21. The personal purpose combines these two numbers, 30, reduced to 3. The male line adds the two paternal corners of the ancestral square, 17 and 13; the female line, the two maternal corners, 10 and 20. Each gives 30, so 3, and the social purpose is 3 plus 3, making 6. The spiritual purpose adds the personal and the social: 3 and 6 make 9.
A symbolic reading of the Destiny Matrix: food for thought about yourself, never a verdict or an established fact.
Frequently asked questions: purpose
Is a purpose a fixed destiny?
No. The word points to a direction, not a mandatory arrival. Each purpose describes a lesson offered at one stage of life, which you can welcome, postpone, or live in your own way. Two people with the same energy will follow very different roads; what they share is the general meaning of the path, not its concrete steps.
Why three purposes?
Because priorities change with age. Before forty, we mostly seek to build ourselves and match our dreams with reality. Then comes the question of our place in a group, a profession, a community. Later, the need for meaning takes over. The three purposes follow this natural movement of adult life.
What is the link between purpose and life mission?
Many readers look in the purpose for what is called a life mission. The comparison is understandable: both speak of direction and meaning. The purpose remains more modest, though, broken into stages and attentive to the concrete. It offers a heading for each period, without claiming to reveal a single task assigned in advance.