Edgar Cayce Readings, 773-1

(Life Reading Suggestion)

TEXT

EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and manifested in the personality of the present entity, [773].
In entering, we find astrologically the influences coming under those of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus, with afflictions in Saturn. In the astrological influence, then, we will find an influence as may be oft considered by those that would study or question same as being contrarywise to their general influence. Many will be those activities, as we find, in the experience of this entity in the present, that would belie those of astrological or numerological influence. On the surface these would appear to be null and void in this entity's experience, yet later in the life these will become quite an influence in the activities of the entity.
In those influences then, as will be seen as latent - and as will depend upon the manner in which the applications are made by those in care, or charge, or responsible for the entity's awakening in this material sphere, this entity's mental development in this earth's experience, those responsible for the environ and activities - these will influence in the first half portion of the experience, more in the entity's response TO those influences as are seen than will those of astrological of those of numerological influence.
One, then, quiet in demeanor yet high tempered - at times; knows oft what it wants, and why it wants it, without asking questions, and will seek for same. To be sure, the responses to the entity's development will depend upon the manner in which these influences as they come are handled, or the activities in supplying or denying those desires. Oft these will be well; oft they must be tempered.
One that, it will be found, music, musical tendencies, will be an influence in the entity's activities. The music will be QUIETING, ESPECIALLY that of stringed instruments - yet those of the horn, or pipe, or reed, will LATER be a more active influence in the entity's experience.
COLORS will also find an influence in the entity's activities, especially those of not too severe, but the violet, ultra-violet, shades of green, of mode [light bluish-gray?]¹, and pink; though the others may make for a rigor oft in the entity, the delicate shades - or those as may be termed the spiritual - will influence the entity. When illness or the like were to come about, soft music and the lighter shades or tones will quiet where medicine would fail.
In those developments as must be warned of - as there is seen, INDEPENDENCE in activity, in thought; while being led, and watchful of those things that others do by precept to the entity, there will always remain, "I know a better way to do it" - and the activities will be in that direction quite often! Hence counsel, patience, precept and example, must be WELL balanced in the associations and the relations with THIS entity in particular. There will be periods when there must be severity in the activities, yet the independence will make for the tendency to leave the body alone, or to its OWN activities too oft. While it should not be coddled, or be sought to impress too much upon the entity as to do things because someone else did, there should be those precautions that a regular routine is kept with the activities, its play, its study, its VARIOUS developments in this the FORMATIVE period of the entity's experience in the present world.
In those activities as for warnings in those of the physical forces of the body, be mindful that there are not those activities of the body in the home, or in the play, that will OFFER too great an opportunity for injury in the lower limbs, and the period through which this must be mindful of the most, in the third to the fifth year, see, and especially in that period from the middle of October to the middle of August of the next year.
In those of the appearances, and the effect as is had most in this present experience from that sojourn:
In the one before this we find during that period when there was the formation of those of the entertainers for those in the period just FOLLOWING those of reconstruction, when there was the FREEDOM of the land. The entity then in the name Strom (?) became one of those that went, as it was termed then, "barn storming" in the south land, and to the entity - as the developments come - there will be the tendency for that of going toward the west and southwest from its present environ, and to take more and more of those influences as were and will be of the peoples in the RURAL land for its song, or for the depicting of those impulses as arise in the developments of the entity. Well that IN the developing period from that experience, as will be seen, that the rudiments of business and law be given GIVEN the entity, but not CONFINING same in a closed place, as store, office, or the like. Rather that there be the ability of expressing in the open, in the crowd, on the stage, or as the POLITICAL leader or speaker. In these fields will the entity gain the most, but the DEVELOPING will come for the soul, for the spiritual portion, through the music - as is seen. This may be made the life work, or it may be made the developing of a portion OF the entity in its activity.
In the one then before this we find in that period when there was the returning of the peoples to the Holy City. The entity then was among those who were in the temple service under Zerubbabel and Zerubbabel's people, Zerubbabel's family. In this the entity then was the leader in those of the harp, the cymbal, and those that made music for the cheering of those peoples in that period. In the name Zeuri. In this experience the entity gained; gained in the ability to wield an influence over individuals, over groups, over masses; suffering in hardships of privation in the period, yet gaining when, with the establishing of the service again, through the replenishing or rebuilding under those that later came into the aid and service, the entity found much contentment, much satisfaction, in seeing the re-establishing of the service of Jehovah in that particular experience. Hence there will be the tendency in the present for the entity to be attuned to those of the religious rote and ritual. Hence as a warning that there be that of SYSTEMATIC activity of the entity in the developing of its approach in the present experience, through the mental forces of the entity, to those religious influences, as well as those of material or secular influences. In this experience, also from that, will be found associations and relations that will make for a tendency to be an idol of many of the opposite sex. Hence the precautions of the relationships as must and will exist in those experiences of the entity; not as one that becomes a know-nothing, or do-nothing, but rather as one that not abusing - but USING those associations in these directions.
In the one then before this we find in that period when there was the developing in those peoples in the land now known as the Egyptian, when those peoples were being sent into the various lands. The entity then was among those that aided in the dispersing of same through the manner in which the various lands to which this message was sent made same to conform TO the religious trend through the MUSIC of that particular land. Hence the changes as will come, the dirges as will be to the entity as an awakening. Here we may say, for the interest of those who would test same, within the next eighteen months - would tests be made as to the various dirges of the different groups of people, even the heathen, the entity's reaction TO same WOULD be such as FEW there be would not know that there was, by the activities of the entity in its response to same, a harking back to that as was closest, from whence it has recently come. In this experience also we find, as Artri, the entity gained in the abilities over the peoples through the application, not by subltelness - but because of service to many, the entity became wealthy in this world's goods during that experience, aiding much in many lands through the distribution of the various excesses of the gathering together of the earth's storehouse. In the present we will find in the latter portion of the entity's experience, one that will accumulate much in this present experience of this world's goods; in and from the world's storehouse, though, these will come.
As to the abilities in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
As has been indicated, much as to whether the entity becomes one that will be easy in its approach to the conditions of the earth's activity depends upon the manner in which those responsible for its development react to those little conditions, as has been given. As to whether the entity becomes a one BROKEN in will, BROKEN in its activities to think, BROKEN in its activities to recall much from the spiritual side of its life, depends upon what is trained OUT or trained IN by those in the formative years of the entity's development.
As the musician, or as one that has much to do with the outside, whether it pertains to stage - as political, or as to that of the profession - will bring FOR the entity the awakenings through color AND song, and ESPECIALLY dirge, that will made for a development IN THIS PARTICULAR experience as well as bringing in the middle and latter portion of the life much of those as CALLED success in and of the material things.
Ready for questions.
We are through for the present.
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¹ [mode, n. modus manner. 1. A prevailing popular custom or style; fashion, etc. 2. A color approaching drab, but of somewhat lower saturation and higher brillance. See COLOR.]

BACKGROUND

See mother's readings 903-14 and 903-15 during her pregnancy with [773].

REPORTS

11/29/32 to 4/05/35 had five health readings re. baby care, teething, scarlet fever, tonsillitis, measles, anemia, colds, etc.
10/25/35 While playing indoors with child's scissors stuck them in right eye, splitting the cornea. Operation performed. Cataract developed. Had seven health readings re. eye condition, etc., between that time and 11/16/36. [See warning in Life Rdg. re. accidents between 3 and 5 years of age. See also mother's report 4/72, below.]
7/19/36 Miss [954]'s letter to EC: "...And walking down the road with little [773] I found that he loves 'Mr. Cayce as far as the stars...'"
11/16/36 His Physical Reading 773-13, Par. 22-A--26-A, gives advice re. carrying out his Life Rdg. training.
11/04/40 Letter from [773]'s father: "...[773] is secretary of the entire school executive council..."
11/20/40 His reading 773-18, Par. 17-A, advises keeping music as one thing to be mastered.
5/08/41 Reading 773-19 re. training.
5/09/41 Verbal report by [773]'s mother: "...[773] is definitely musical, has a real feeling for music; also has to be appealed to through imagination rather than reason, as the reading indicated..."
5/31/42 Mother's reading 903-33 (Life Rdg.), Par. 23-A advises to buy home in the south because of [773]'s past associations in Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and West Virginia.
12/18/43 His reading 773-21 (Physical Rdg.) advises re. studies and associates.
8/12/60 GD's note: Mr. [773] is now a successful practising attorney in New York City.
9/10/61 He got married to a girl of his own faith.
4/72 Mother [903] reported in re accident mentioned in 773-1, Par. 8: "We always thought when [773] had the eye injury that this was what Mr. Cayce was referring to in Par. 8. Recently, however, I noticed [773] holding his back (he had been helping me move). I said, '[773], you've lifted something too heavy.' He said, 'Oh no, I've had this trouble in my lower back and limb for many years now. The doctor says it is probably from a childhood injury and that I'll just have to learn to live with it.'"