This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 20th day of January, 1933, in accordance with request made by self, Mr. [2136], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [317] and Mrs. [267].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [2136] and girl friend, Mrs. [267], H. L. and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born December 12, 1907, in Tupelo, Miss. Time of Reading 3:10 to 4:05 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe, and the universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity now known as, or called, [2136].
2. In entering the present experience from the astrological viewpoint, we find the entity - from sojourns rather than from position of planet, or of the astrological aspects - coming under the influences of Mercury, Jupiter (with an affliction in same), Venus and Uranus. As we find, these may be said to come in the order named. While the will of an entity, and of this, may alter, modify or change such influences, the influence of such astrological experience makes for impulses - and often changes the actual environs of an entity, through periods when these (as sojourns) are in their position where they influence either for weal or woe.
3. Such an influence may be seen or recognized in the experience of the entity, that is now just passing - and that has for the last eighteen months to two years been as an influence, that will change materially in the late spring and summer of the present year. Jupiter, under the influence of that as has been in the descent rather than ascent; for Jupiter's influence - being afflicted by Uranus (being the extreme) through the periods of thirty-one and thirty-two ('31 and '32) has been in the descendancy, and - as the entity may have experienced - while the outward appearances were for advancement, as the ordinary term is, the "breaks" have been very bad.
4. With Jupiter coming in the ascendancy, from the middle of October last - and with the ruling influence of Uranus coming as a beneficent influence, which begins in the middle
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of May - there will be seen as DEFINITE a change in the experience for the entity at that period, as there was between the fifteenth (15th) of October and first (1st) of November, the season, year or period just passed. These we find very definite influences in the experience of the entity.
5. In Mercury (that of the mental) we find those inclinations and tendencies for the entity have ever been rather of the exceptional in abilities, and in the manner or matter of expression. Often has the entity felt self, in the present experience, at a disadvantage in the attempts to give forth even that experienced or felt as an advantage that had been gained, save as to individuals; yet the innate feeling or expression has ever been, and is, that rather could - or would - the best of self, or of self's abilities, be expressed rather to the group, to the classes, or masses. As we find, these abilities will rather find their expression in those years just before the changes will come in the experience of many in the earth's plane, or during those years when Jupiter is in the ascendancy and Uranus rather as the beneficent and the other extreme as related to those that are under the influence of Jupiter - and in the opposite of the Uranian. These appear, then, through those periods of the latter portion of thirty-three, four, five ('33, '34, '35), and a part of thirty-six ('36). The greater development, then, for the entity, through those periods of thirty-five, thirty-six to forty ('35, '36 to '40), will be those periods when the abilities as to the mental forces will find their channels of expression. This is as astrological. As to what the entity chooses, or WILLS to do with those opportunities that appear through those periods - these, as we find, will present themselves rather in the form of opportunities in much the manner as those of the opposite have presented themselves during those periods as given.
6. The influence in Venus, with the beneficent influence also of Uranus, makes for those periods when affection, love, or associations in those directions, will be the greater magnified in the experience of the entity also. That in the latter portion, then, of thirty-four ('34) becomes the period when these have their greater influence, and the opportunities - the abilities - will be in the experience of the entity during those periods.
7. As to that builded in the personality of the entity from the experiences of the sojourn, irrespective of the activities or experiences in the earth (as we shall have from the appearances), we find these as tendencies and
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inclinations in the experience of the entity:
8. In Neptune - as the opposite from Uranus - we find also influences appearing at times, but from the sojourns.
9. In Mercury we find the mental abilities of the entity; with (Jupiter and Mercury) the tendency for a quiet mien, for rather the deeper feelings, but with less of the show that comes with one quickly-spoken; with the abilities to get mad, but with the abilities also to control such wrath. Hence the entity is often termed as one rather retiring, rather quiet, rather with the disposition or the tendencies of the opposite sex; not as a sissy, no - but rather as one with the TEMPERAMENT such as might be expected from one of a much less ability to be fiery, or strong, or exceedingly masculine in action, mien or disposition.
10. One with those expressions or tendencies (from Jupiter AND Uranus) to be rather in very, very good spirits or very, very much "in the dumps."
11. One with the abilities also to fit self for whatever condition or position in which it finds self, and to make for the best of same in a very graceful way and manner. Disappointments hurt, as in one of a much more fiery disposition or temperament, yet there is the ability to put ever the first or best foot foremost, as may be termed, or to make for the continual arising of hope springing eternally anew within the activity of self.
12. One who finds that self must ever be kept busy at all times, physically and mentally, else there comes the greater period of losing the hold on self.
13. So, in mental and material - or physical activity, does the entity find for self the manner, the means or the ways of expression; and self will find - as given - that in the coming year, or years, there will come the greater opportunities for the expression of that which has been as a building experience for the entity during this formative period. It will be found that there has been no experience that may not be used as a steppingstone for greater successes, whether for the advancement for the material side or for the mental and spiritual aptitudes and forces of the entity's experience.
14. Keep the self well-balanced. Keep the mental and spiritual coordinating, with the advancements that are to come in the material and the physical things of the experience.
15. As to the appearances, and their effect upon the present experience of the entity - that may be termed as the environs of the soul body, or the mental forces of the entity:
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16. In the one before this we find the entity was during those periods when there were the establishings of the government as a government in this present land, during the sojourns of the first presidents of the land. The entity then was one associated with one of the greater presidents of the land in the many ways and manners that that body served the land, the peoples, the countries, in that period. Then in the name Thomas Screws [?] the entity was associated with that one, particularly, known as Jefferson - which may be found even among those records of that entity during that sojourn, both in Monticello and in Washington.
17. There has ever been in the experience of the entity something of a hallowed feeling towards the life of that person, yet something that has held self aloof from the closer associations or students of that particular period. The developments into same, in some portions of the entity's experience, may bring the greater abilities, mentally and of the material forces, to put to fore some of the IDEALS the entity has held and does hold as to its associations and relations; whether as to the material things that have to do with manufacturing or making things - as patents, or the like, or as to the association with the GOVERNMENT of bodies - whether these relate to social, or to the penal codes of the experience with groups and individuals.
18. The entity gained and lost through this experience. Gained so long as there was held in self the activities for the service, for the good or the betterment of the many. When there became the doubts, the fears, and the false reports that made for the losing of confidences in individuals, then did the entity bring censure upon self and associates - in such a way and manner as to bring the destructive rather than constructive forces into the experience of self.
19. Hence in the present there is that innate feeling of the wonderment, or the doubt of associations in some particular phases of the entity's activities in associations with others. Well, or better, that one - through the own self - doubt not; for with the doubting comes the destructive thoughts that make for the hardships which must be met somewhere along the way. With constructive thought the building is made. With destructive thought hardships must ensue in some association, channel or relation.
20. In the one before this we find in that period known as the Roman, when there were those destructive forces brought in the material experience of many peoples. The entity then was in the capacity of a guard, or a soldier of the legion, and among those that were required to bring much of the
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persecution upon those that adhered to a faith, or that chose to name a Name that brought doubt and fear in the hearts of many.
21. As Adrieal in this experience, the entity gained - though in hardship, though in toil, though in strife often, though suffering in body and in mind often for those that were brought to suffer in body from the very acts of self as an individual; for the entity embraced that thought, and in the end suffered with many of those that were forced to act in a manner as to be made sport of, and to supply entertainment to those that were hardened through their activities in that period.
22. There is seen in the present that feeling, or that expression that is given for those that parade themselves in ornaments - whether those of the soldiery or those that would laud themselves in any position; and the gentle faith that makes for the quieting experience in the entity's inner self. From the experience also does the entity find that ability within self to turn retrospectively within self, and whatever the trial may be in Him, in that faith, comes hope, comes the way, comes the CROWNING of hopes springing anew day by day.
23. In the one before this we find in that land known as the Persian, during those periods when there were the turmoils and strifes from the rebellions that had arisen from those invasions of the Grecians into the land for the destruction of that which had been builded by the plainsmen. The entity was among those that defended in this period, and brought to self that of aid, that of understanding; even though it were for the period a LOSING experience from the material standpoint, from the mental and spiritual was there born in the inner self of the entity that which becomes sustaining to the entity - in the ability to become a minister, a teacher, an aide in all the experiences of life, whether they be for the material, for the physical, for those as of the mental accomplishments, mental abilities, but to temper all with the spiritual forces that arise from the awakening of the consciousness within each soul of its kinship to the Creative Forces that may be manifest in the highest of the creation in this material plane - man.
24. In the one before this we find in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the gathering together of many that had been scattered abroad (through the rebellions that had arisen) - with the return of the priest to the land.
25. The entity was then among those of the king's own household, that aided in bringing the quiet, the harmony,
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the peace out of turmoil. During this portion of the experience the entity acted as a personal advisor to the young king, that had been set as one to meet all the forces presented by the native - who brought destruction through those forces brought against the one that WOULD aid in the better understanding of man's relationship to the fellow man, and man's correlation of the forces within and his relationship to the Creative Forces that were manifest, are manifest, are EVER manifest in this material plane in the INNER man.
26. In the name El-Ptho, the entity gained and lost in this experience, AND gained. With the coming in, and the establishing of the period of the king's activities, when those rebellions arose and the questionings were oft set up as to the activities of individuals, the entity changed oft; yet with the return of the priest, with the return of the peace, the harmony, and the turn towards the activities that were to be constructive for individuals in the land - and in all lands, with the dissemination of the truths the entity again advanced, becoming one of those that aided much in the distribution and in the building up of those abilities of groups and individuals to disseminate the truths that were gathered. Hence those conditions, or the sojourn from there in Uranus, brought much that is of exceptional influence in the experience of the entity in the present; and the ABILITIES of the entity from the experience bring much that is often hidden within self; yet, as given, there will be found the experiences in the coming periods for the expression of same before groups, masses, classes. There will be then the greater necessity that self be kept well-balanced in that of the ideal that makes for the balancing of self in this material plane.
27. Taking, then, all those influences - as that to which the entity may build in the present:
28. Use that thou hast in hand today; for, as the opportunity, as the time comes for the giving out, be sure it is ever seasoned well with the words of truth that make for developments in the experiences of others towards constructive influences leading to God - for he that abides in Him shall want for nothing.
29. Ready for questions.
30. (Q) What entities in this present experience will have an effect on this entity? (A) Those that were in the associations, or those that affected the entity during the various experiences through which the entity passed, to be sure; for these - as given - are rather that as may be called the ENTITY'S environment,
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while the sojourns become rather that as inherited - or hereditary influence from the spiritual viewpoint.
31. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " File