Edgar Cayce Readings, 803-1

(Life Reading Suggestion)

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EC: We have the entity here and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity, [803].
In entering the present experience we find the influences from the astrological aspects have little to do with the activities of the entity; for these are merely urges, and the application of the will respecting same makes for the changes that have come and do come in the experience during any individual or given sojourn. In these we find there are some mental conditions that are as a portion, but little of the activities or little of those things influencing the physical forces of the body in the present arise from the astrological sojourn. Then, without respect to the will, we find these merely as urges:
Jupiter makes for many changes in the activities of the entity, making for a wide or broad acquaintance, making for much of an opportunity in the relationships with individuals and groups under quite a varied type of environment of the individuals. Also this would tend to make for associations with those things dealing with the soil, or the products of the soil, or tendencies for activities in relations to same. We find these conditions at certain periods make for greater urges than at others, but dependent upon the manner in which the entity makes the application of such an urge or opportunity in the experience.
Also the sojourn in Venus makes for an affability in the entity's experience; able, then, through application of will, to make self agreeable in whatever surroundings there may be about the entity. Not that there are not the periods when there are hurts, or feelings of resentment, but the natural abilities of the entity - from the attribute of love and its broader application - make for a congeniality in the association that makes for a loveableness in all the associations in ANY great extent. These, to be sure, make for the periods of the greater development, greater happiness in the material experience or application.
The influences in Uranus we find make for the interest in particular types of experiences and individuals; and have brought and will bring into the entity's experience or activity the associations with very unusual types, very unusual characters of individuals and their activities in the earth. Through the Uranian influences the entity may develop the abilities of intuitive forces in its own experience, for with the Venus AND Uranus influences combined - and with the periods when Jupiter is in the benevolent position - the urges will be for experiences that the entity may have within its own intuitive forces, as well as from the influences from without. These may be made in such ways and manners that they may become applicable conditions in the material experiences of the entity.
As to the appearances of the entity in the earth, then, and their influences in the present sojourn of [803] we are speaking of, the entity now known as [803], we find:
Before this the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there were the journeyings of numbers of people from the middle portion of the land of the entity's present nativity to a western land. This was before the beginning of the Gold Rush in '49, but during the greater activities - for it was in '39 when the entity with others sought the activities in what is now a portion of Oregon and Washington and Idaho, and California. These brought many hardships in the material activities, yet the entity - in the name Myra Hockerschmidt - made for experiences that brought the greater development for the entity during those sojourns.
And in the present there is the love of the out of doors, the budding of trees, the sunset, the water, those things that tell of such activities in the experience of individuals become - from that experience - a portion of the entity's inner self. Hence the artistic temperament, and those desires on the part of the entity during this sojourn to have been able to visualize or picturize by the artist's brush have been innate - as well as music, and that pertaining to such things; yet the tendencies have drawn toward the out of door activity, and these have been as a portion and innate - but have not found full expression during the development in this sojourn.
Yet these, with the affability natural with the entity - and those opportunities for the giving expression to same, must bring in the present experience real joys in the entity's activities and its associations with others.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, during those periods when there were the greater persecutions of those peoples who had held to the tenets that were spread through the activities of the soldiery that returned, when there was the beginning of the ministry of those who had been teachers under the Teacher in Galilee.
The entity then was among those of the household in the ruler's activity, and the entity harkened to much of the beauties and activities indicated in the peace and harmony brought to the lives of those who became adherents to the activities of those people. Yet with the persecutions there came turmoils and strife, and oft the necessity for the entity in its activities to become identified with those gradually brought turmoils and strife. Yet in those activities, in the name Myrtina, being among those who aided those peoples in their meetings and as to the various activities, the entity heard the teachings of both Paul and Peter, also Titus, in the cities about Rome and about those groves and places of meeting that have just begun to be opened in that particular land.
Being of the Grecian people that had entered, or married into the Roman land, made for greater persecution to the entity as an individual; yet much did the entity gain in the mental and the spiritual aspects during that sojourn. Although being among those in the arena when there were the fightings with the animals, the conditions that made for distress to many, the entity - because of its beauty, its gentleness, its activity - did not become a victim to either the beasts or the breaking on the wheel, or the consorts that made for the bringing of material distresses to those people during the sojourn. Rather, with the entity's activity, it was banished to its own land again; where the entity - in the latter portion of the experience - brought much help and aid to many of those that journeyed there for the teachings and activities of the entity.
From that period we may find in the present the peculiar interests in things pertaining to Grecian art or Roman activity, and those periods when the persecutions have been in the studies these have been of an interest that has both disturbed and enticed the entity - as it might be said.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Persian, during those periods when there were the buildings of the city in the hills and plains, when there were the establishings of the teachings of the leader Uhjltd in that particular experience.
The entity then was among those who aided the household of Uhjltd, making for the care of the young - or what might be termed the beginning of the care of those that had been either neglected, abandoned or changed. The entity's activities in these directions made for a great development during that sojourn, and such activities in the present are of particular interest to the entity - yet from quite a different angle from merely a home; rather the preparations not only of the young but of the home for the housing and caring for or changing of such relations and conditions. The name in that period was Heilean.
In the present from that sojourn may be had much that may make for a real development in the soul and mental experience of the entity, through those activities that deal with the care of such.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were turmoils and strifes through the banishment of the Priest, and those activities during the periods of rebellion.
The entity then was among those who stood out against the Ibex rebellion, and because of same was banished separately and into a separate land; not by the King or with the Priest, but with those peoples of the Ibex rule - or the younger brother of the king who commanded those activities.
Yet with the return of the Priest and those changes that came about with the gathering together of many, and the reestablishing of the worship through the activities of the Priest, the entity's activities were among those that aided in the establishing of the services in the Temple Beautiful, and these made for the closer associations with the associates or consorts of the Priest that made for the better developments in the relationships with the peoples of other lands, as well as the natives and those surroundings.
From those activities there is in the present the particular interest in certain characters of cloth, weaving, knitting, embroidery, and those things pertaining especially to the lands to which the entity was banished - that is, portions of the Persian land. Also from that experience we find in the present the abilities pertaining to the management and activities of others in the study of any particular character of associations in such relations.
Then, as to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to which it may attain, and how:
As there has been throughout the sojourns of the entity in the earth the application of self in the aid to others, in all those periods of development for the soul and mental applications of self there has been brought the greater development, so in the present the entity may - through study in the intuitive influences and activities, through those things in the art, in weaving, in all associations with individuals for their activity for a definite action or definite purpose in the experience - bring the greater joy, the greater development in this present experience.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Considering my present development, in what vocation can I best serve my fellow man?
(A) As in art, as an instructor, or as in associations with those activities having to do with knitting, weaving, and such.
(Q) Where can she study this best?
(A) Where she is!
(Q) Under whom?
(A) It is natural from the innate forces of self!
(Q) How can she best develop her intuitive ability?
(A) By meditation.
(Q) And for what purpose should she use it?
(A) In developing herself and aiding others.
(Q) Am I in the right work at present?
(A) This may lead to what will make for the greater development, but in the right work in the present.
(Q) How can I make my present business more profitable, and would it be advisable to take Mrs. Dowling as a partner?
(A) Would be advisable to take Mrs. Dowling as a partner, that there may be the greater advancement in reaching out to mete out the niceties necessary and that are innate within the abilities of the entity itself to make the agreeableness in every condition, shape and form.
(Q) How can we finance this?
(A) This may be done through the activities as related to a general or a national or a local association or activity.
(Q) Will it be best for me to keep my present location or run the vacant restaurant on DeSalle St., or what other location?
(A) Keep the present location in the present, as we find, and when a change is established we would take the vacant restaurant. This, as we find, would be well to begin in May, June, or in the latter portion of the present year.
(Q) Or am I best suited to work with my brother in running a boys' school in Durham, N.C.?
(A) As we find, the activities in the present associations are the better.
(Q) Should I connect with any special school in Washington to study the art?
(A) No special school except those that make for the regular national activities of same.
(Q) Please give any counsel in detail as to how I may develop my ability in this direction.
(A) The ability is within self! Simply begin!
(Q) Please give more specific advice regarding this.
(A) Begin where you are - right WHERE you are!
(Q) Would my aunt be able to help me?
(A) Be able to help you, after you begin - but must begin with yourself!
(Q) Could Mrs. Dowling help me develop that part?
(A) May help.
(Q) What type of weaving?
(A) As has been given.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND

2/19/35 See personal message in Group #11 reading 835-1, Par. 19-A.