This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of April, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - [309].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and Leslie B. Cayce. Born December 2, 1918, at St. Luke's Hospital, in Anniston, Alabama.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces; that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, [309].
2. In entering, we find the astrological influences - as would be ordinarily considered - of little or no advantage in outlining developments for the entity; though they may give general characteristics in some directions of the present entity, as indicated or intimated through the influence of one under this peculiar phase of the astrological sign of that period of the year, showing:
3. One of genial, jovial nature; and, while not considered lazy, would be considered as one that would never hurt self in its overindulgence in activity of a menial nature.
4. These characteristics, however, when analyzed from the greater influence through the planetary sojourn - as well as from the environment through the appearances in the earth, and their impulsive reactions in the make-up of both the individuality and personality of the entity, while coinciding in some directions would be very much in at variance in others.
5. Then, as we find under astrological sojourns and their influence upon the entity's activity in the present experience, as well as upon the entity in its relationships to individuals of certain temperaments or activity:
6. In Venus, Jupiter, Mercury and Uranus do we find the greater activities in the experience of the entity, making - without respect to will - these innate and manifested traits in the entity in the present experience.
7. One of a tender, loving disposition; that may be ruled or reasoned with through love, obedience or duty; yet may not be driven to do any of these through sheer force or fear of corporal punishment.
8. In this influence also we will find then, that sympathy - or the activities in being able under any circumstance to make for the alleviating of hardships, pains, or such conditions in the experience of others - will ever be APPEALING to the entity.
9. To be sure, these traits come from not only Venus' sojourn but as relative influences in the experience of the entity through earth's sojourns' also.
10. From Jupiter the abilities are in a pleasing personality, as in relationships to groups, individuals, or in associations with large bodies or groups of people. While never one considered as a leader from the aspect of being fiery in the activities of the individual, yet one - in groups or masses - that controls rather through better judgement; and has those tendencies or abilities to move groups or individuals for the consideration of any activity, whether pertaining to those things in the secular or material life or as to controlling the mental aptitudes or attitudes of groups, as respecting THEIR associations or relations in either mental or physical activity.
11. Hence, as an instructor, a teacher, or preferably in alleviating sufferings - or in a political field, as one controlling some great movement - would the entity make a name or place for self; or as an active practitioner in the alleviating of physical ills.
12. These urges all come under the aspect of Jupiterian influences, and may be altered or changed - as may be seen - by love or duty influence through Venus, or through more the aspects in Uranus that make for circumstances in the experience of the entity in this particular plane or period; or by reasoning through the mental activities from the Mercurian influence, which comes third in the experience of the entity - for the present entity makes for those periods, through the developing years, when it may be called one that rather ABSORBS the mental influences, aptitudes or attitudes, than one that seeks to dig and study into such things. While the entity is never considered as a shining light, it is often held as one that others would do well to pattern by, in the activities of the entity, as to their mental proficiency and abilities.
13. The influences in Uranus, we find, make for sudden changes; as in the developing of the body will come, and do come to the experience of the entity. And such influences must be weighed well with those ideals that may make for the better developments of the body, physically, mentally, spiritually, through this particular experience.
14. Hence, through the nineteenth year period, special precautions should be taken by self as to its association with wine, women or song, and especially keep far away from firearms during this particular year of the experience. THIS as warnings!
15. The aptitudes that will bring the influences through this sojourn may be gauged better through the earth's experience, through the appearances in same and their activities that make for the latent forces that may be aroused in the experience of the entity.
16. As for appearances, then, and their influences upon the present experience of the entity:
17. In the one before this the entity was among the advisors to Charles the First in England; rather in the form of the jester and his assistants than in that known as a counsellor in the form of political influence.
18. Hence through the period the entity gained and lost; gained much through the experiences as for the activities to the aid of the ruler, yet disagreeing and falling into disfavor - both with those who warred against the ruler and with the ruler - brought about many of those experiences that made for the dissatisfying of self. Yet, with the abilities as the jester, in the latter portion of the experience, as Hapworth, there was brought a development through the mental and the material abilities of the entity, aided by those activities in the spiritual influences; for then the entity became a HEALER - in the sense of divinations, that partook of the consorts of the alchemist, as well as those of suggestion and the activities as relation to same.
19. Through the SINCERITY of the individual, these abilities may be brought in this present experience to aid in whatever may be chosen as the life's experience or work in this particular sphere; whether in that of the doctor as a medicine or whether in that of the consort or politician that would mete out for the betterment of the economic or social order of conditions in relationships of groups or masses.
20. In the one before this the entity was in that period when there were those activities in the land now known as the Arabian, when there had been the overrunning and the destructive forces in the activities of those peoples from the isles that destroyed the influences of Uhjltd in the mountain land.
21. The entity then joined forces with that one that rose as a leader, that later separated from the entity. This entity then as Zoiara (the other entity, or Zoas (?), becoming those influences in the mental realm) gained in the activity, in the application of self to the HEALING art, especially to that of the MENTAL unbalancing.
22. Hence the efforts in this particular period in line with aiding the individual in distress, especially having to do with surgery, would be the greater field of activity of the entity.
23. In the one before this we find the entity was during those periods when there were the exchanging of many of the peoples between what is now the northern coast of Africa and Cyprus, Cilicia and Rome.
24. The entity was then among those of the northern coast, and became one of those dreaded by the peoples upon the waters; known then as a pirate, yet the activities were only drawn upon those that had in THEIR activity attempted to subdue, conquer or bring servitude to the entity's people during this particular period.
25. Yet, as Sebastian, the entity gained a renown that in the present day would not be called very savory; yet developed mentally and SPIRITUALLY throughout the experience, for the entity held to an ideal of a high moral, social and spiritual order, though disagreeing with many who felt themselves the entity's superiors.
26. From this period, in the present there are those tendencies towards backwardness - as considered at times - in the associations of groups; yet the abilities to be a leader in the more silent counsel - or the more weightier matters.
27. Yet the love of adventure, and those experiences of which the entity must beware during those special periods when, in the nineteenth year, those influences would be the greater in the activities of the body. Beware that these do not bring a detrimental influence in the present.
28. In the one before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there was the rebuilding and replenishing of the land, when there was the return of the priest and the preparing for the spreading abroad of the various activities that had been brought about by these developments.
29. The entity then was among the chemists that made for the aiding of those who cared for the sick, or the hospital activity; and the entity may be called among those of the first that were able to remove successfully those of pressures or accidents to the head proper.
30. Then the entity was in the name Ptsy-clo, and in those tombs - or tomb - yet to be opened may be found some of those instruments the entity then used among the first operations of this nature, upon the king and the associates of same, in that experience.
31. AGAIN may be seen those influences or tendencies that will bear or lead towards the alleviating of pain in a material world, or the drawing together in a political atmosphere something of the same natures. These will depend upon the activities of the entity.
32. As to the abilities, then, and that to which the entity may attain - and how:
33. In the application of self, then, in either field, passing over those periods when there may be the change in either direction, there may be brought for self an activity worthy of any service, or any cost that may be to self's own physical body for the development mentally, spiritually within self, with the holding to the ideal of that influences that might does not make right; but Right, with the inspired influence of divine favor, grace and truth, may bring - under ALL circumstances - that which makes for true joy, true happiness, true contentment, in the experience of everyone. Ready for questions.
34. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. Previous rdgs. were obtained by his parents, Mr. [2698], Mrs. [522], and brother [1715].
2. 4/11/30 His mother wrote that he had rec'd the highest grade in his class in arithmetic.
3. 1/10/33 "See if medicine is my calling." [His mother's two brothers were doctors.]

REPORTS

1. 8/01/33 "I have waited so long to write you and thank you for my life reading that I am ashamed to write now. Well I hope you know how it is I just kept putting things off until the present time. Just the same I wish to thank you for the reading you gave me on my life."
2. 2/12/35 He requested Ck. Physical 522-6 for his mother. [GD's note: We heard later that he did become a medical doctor.]
3. 1/15/60 Cousin [Mrs. [852]'s] letter: "We had such a pleasant surprise in July when Aunt [522], [309], his wife [...] and 12 yr. old daughter [...] came by for a short visit. [309] and his family live in ..., Tex., where he has one of the executive positions with Dow Chemical Co. They had been to ..., [Ala.] to visit with Aunt [522] and decided to drive on up for a few hours with us. [309] is the same jolly, rotund boy of his youth, so much like his father in disposition. [Uncle [2698] died in 1934.] [309]'s wife is such a pleasant person, very attractive, of German descent. She told me the name (you know how I am about the family. Ha!) but I couldn't begin to spell it - just remember it began with an 'S.' Their little girl is a beautiful child, with the loveliest manners. Don't wonder that Aunt [522] is so proud of her. She is the only child."

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