This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 21st day of February, 1925, in accordance with request made by self - Edgar Cayce.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.

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1. GC: You will have before you the psychic work as done by Edgar Cayce. You will answer the following questions as I ask them regarding this work.
2. EC: Yes, we have this work here, with all of its modifications, and the various channels through which it may manifest in the various phenomena of the psychic forces. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Is this body when in this state able to give a horoscope reading?
   (A) Able - but would not be worth very much to anybody.
4. (Q) What is a horoscope reading?
   (A) That in which the planets and their relative forces having to do with the planets that, control the actions without respect of will or without respect of the earthly existences through which the body has passed.
5. (Q) Do horoscope readings include former appearances in the earth plane?
   (A) Not at all. The former appearances and the relation of the solar forces in the Universe have their relations to what might be termed life readings, or experiences, for as has been shown and given, horoscope the science of the solar system and its relation to various phases of earth's existence may mean for anyone. In life existence in earth's plane, and the entity's relation to other sphere a different condition, for the sojourn in other spheres than earth's plane controls more the conditions or the URGE of the individual, just as we see in the earth plane an individual controlled by the surroundings, or by the circumstances that have to do with the individual, yet [we find] the urge, the latent forces, that would give an individual, or two groups, or two individuals raised under the same environment, of the same blood, would have different urges. These received from experiences the spirit entity gains in other spheres, correlated with that of its present circumstance and condition. These should never be confused, for to gain that of a horoscope is only the mathematical calculation of earth's position in the Universe at any given time, while in the life reading would be the correlation of the individual with a given time and place, with its relative force as applied and received through other spheres and manifested in earth's sphere in the flesh, and the development being the extenuation of the soul's development manifested in the earth plane through subconscious forces of an body or entity.
6. (Q) Give the words that should be given to this body to obtain a reading of this kind, a life reading, with the former appearances and their effect in the present life on an individual.
   (A) "You will have before you - the body, giving name and place of the individual at birth, the name at birth as given - and you will give the relation of this entity and the Universe, and the Universal Forces, giving the conditions that are as personalities latent, and exhibited, in the present life. Also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving time, place, name and that in that life which built or retarded the development for the entity, giving the abilities of the present entity and to that which it may attain, and how."
   In this, you see, we will find the effect not only of the present environment, as it has been, as it may be, but the effect of the past experiences and through what sphere these were obtained.
7. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of Reading 254-21 - "Work of EC"; "Horoscopes and Life Readings"; "Astrology and Reincarnation".

REPORTS

1. GD's note: The following is the suggestion which was given in obtaining a Physical Reading (at beginning, just when his eyes close):
   Now the body is assuming its normal forces, and WILL be able, and WILL give, such information as is desired of it at the present time. The body physically will be perfectly normal, and will give that information now.
   Now you will have before you the body of [...] who is located at ... You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also the suggestions for the help and relief for this body.
   You will speak distinctly at a normal rate of speech.
   You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. GD's note: The following is the suggestion which was given to wake up Edgar Cayce, at the end of ALL TYPES of readings, after he said "We are through":
   Now the body will be so equalized as to overcome all those things that might hinder or prevent from being and giving its best mental, spiritual and physical self.
   The body-physical will create within the system those properties necessary to cause the eliminations to be so increased as to bring the best normal physical conditions for the body.
   The mental will so give that impression to the system as to build the best moral, mental and physical forces for this body.
   The circulation WILL be so equalized as to remove strain from all centers of the nerve system, as to allow the organs of the system to assimilate and secrete properly those conditions necessary for normal conditions of this body.
   The nerve supplies of the whole body will assume their NORMAL forces; the vitality will be stored in same, through the application of the physical being, as well as of the spiritual elements in the physical forces of the body.
   Now, perfectly normal, and perfectly balanced, you will wake up.

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