This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of December, 1930, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [1918] via Mrs. [5615].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born February 21, 1889, at Bellville, Texas.

TEXT

1. EC: We have the entity and those relations between the universe and universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present experience.
2. From the astrological viewpoint, these - as we find - come under those influences first as seen in Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury. These bring many of those influences latent and manifestedly in the experience of the entity, and while the variations are manifested in the present experience, these in urge - latent and manifested - will be seen in, and a portion of, the entity's experience.
3. One, then, that has found the vicissitudes of life in the present often contrariwise as relating to relationships between individuals, whether as to family relations, whether as to those of marital relations, or whether as to those of friendships - for these have been often the place of question, often the place of wonderment to the entity. Many of the saddest experiences in the present have come through the breaking of relationships in all of these aspects to the entity. Many of the happiest, peaceful, pleasant, wonderments of experience have come through such relationships also.
4. One that makes friendships easily, and is more at a loss to know why the changes come, and the contentions more often arise in the other camp, rather than in the entity's own.
5. One that in Venus will find the love in the present experience that, will there be the application of self and of will's influence in their proper relationships, will bring a contentment that will be most satisfying.
6. Hardheaded, yes - the entity is often considered so; yet well discerning, and reasonable in many ways and manners; yet conditions as arise apparently to the entity are of no fault of the entity's, and must needs be the action on the part of the other to make for the proper relationships to exist. This is easily carried to extreme by the entity, for would one be forgiven one must forgive; would one have friends one must be friendly; would one be loved one must love; would one make for peace, joy, happiness, understanding, one must understand, one must emanate peace, one must reflect joy.
7. In those forces as seen in Jupiter and Mercury, these make for the bigness of things as will come in the latter portion - as we find - of the entity's experience, will they be applied in the present.
8. Those of the Mercurian forces make for, in its position, that toils, turmoils, strife, love, bigness of vision, the vicissitudes and magnitudes of life's experiences are gone all through in every phase before REASON is applied, and then the reverse order may become the experience of the entity. Not unreasonable, no - rather tempered in and through those experiences in life that have made for that in the present hard to be understood.
9. In the appearances in the earth's plane and the effect they have upon the entity in the present:
10. In the one before this we find in that land known now as the French, and during those periods when there was much of the relationships between individuals and those in high estate, and those in power and those who ruled rather through passion than through the activities of the mental for the good of many. The entity, then, was during that court of Louis the 15th, and was among those that were becoming, in a manner, as a favorite to those in that land; yet one day forgotten for a slight, and the latter portion became that of remorse, sadness, determination to be rid of many of those, and through the taking of poison did the entity pass out. In the name Elian. In this experience there is seen many of those failures of others to keep that which the entity feels oft as a promise, oft as the proper understanding in the relationships as one to another; a saddened life, in a manner, yet one often attempting to give joy, pleasure, understanding, to those whom the entity contacts; MAKING that as may be termed - not a losing, but a gaining fight for the development of the mental and spiritual body.
11. In the one before this we find in that period known as the Trojan War, in the extreme beginning of same, when there was the changing of the peoples from the isle to the mainlands and the building up of those in that portion known as the lower portion of Grecian country at present. Then did the entity RULE, as it were, with an indomitable and impregnable will, and many were they that found the displeasure of the entity to their own undoing. In the name Helois. In this experience the entity gained and lost; gained in the abilities to have the opportunity to have been of aid; lost in the aggrandizing of selfish interests as brought to the beautiful body, to the wonderful mind, those who sought for favor and were granted not. In the present this very experience makes for that which the entity would do, the entity would give, the entity would aid; yet seemingly those the entity would give the most understand the least; those the entity would succor, aid and understand, understand the least. These are as a counter-balancing, as it were, in the entity's experience; yet faint not in well doing, for that consciousness as comes through the knowledge of a life WELL spent in even attempts that fail is counted as righteousness.
12. In the one before this we find during that period known as the divisions in the land known as the Egyptian. The entity then among those of the temple service as was instituted before the divisions arose. The entity falling away with those that rose in rebellion, and becoming a portion of that rebellion, being in that position of an accomplice to, an aide to, him who raised the rebellion against the king when conditions seemed to be the weakest. The entity lost through this experience; gaining only in the very latter portions when those of the stringed instruments - as were played well by the entity - became a portion of the service re-established; a weaver and a musician, a painter of plaques, casts, and an enameler became the entity in the last portion of that experience. Hence in the present we find those things, particularly, seemingly have a something over the entity that acts almost as something hovering near when examining plaques, as of lacquer, as of OLD things, carvings in gold or precious stones, those of fine linens, and such. These hold a peculiar influence over the entity. In the STUDY of same, in their exchange and their gathering together, may the entity - AS one of EXPERIENCE - gain much in a COMMERCIAL way and manner in the present experience.
13. In the one before this we find in that land known as the Poseidian. The entity then of those that were in the temples of the land, and a danseuse and an offerer of the sacrifices in the temple; RAISED to that throughout its experience there. In the name Ersem.
14. In the abilities of the entity, and that to which it may attain in the present:
15. As has been given, as is seen from the various experiences and their application in the entity's experience in the present - that in the latter portion of the entity's experience in the present may come the great love. This will be found with those of a distant land, but NOT abroad. These, as we find, will be of those sources that the entity, in a MANNER, unnoticed in the period in the Grecian forces - for we must pass under the rod. In this association, this relation, may the entity accomplish much, especially in those fields as will make for commercialization of either those known as fine linens, brocades, or in those of jewels as carved and cut, or in lacquers - as of plaques of old conditions, positions, and relations.
16. In keeping the mental forces of the entity in attune to that which builds and brings the attempt and desire to build for filial, marital, social, and all such relationships as require a moral sense of relationships - these made in attune to those spiritual forces, and not as duties - but rather as the fulfilling of the opportunities of being aid one to another; in THESE relationships may the entity gain the more. Let the mental reason first, and those of filial, of paternal, of divine love will conquer - through that love even as shown in the gift of life to each entity; for in Him we live and move and HAVE our being. Then, let the words of the mouth, the meditations of the heart, the activities of the hand, be as ensamples of that love. May those things bring to thee those blessings, as they will - will the self be kept FAITHFUL in that manner; for, as the heavens declare the glory - and, as has been given, "Think not who will go into the heavens to bring a knowledge down, or who will go into the east or west to draw Him near, for He is within thine own heart." "If ye will be MY people, I will be your God". We are through.

    Copy to Self
    Two copies to Ass'n office

BACKGROUND

1. 2/09/30 She requested a Physical Rdg. for her sister, Mrs. [5460].
2. 2/26/30 She submitted these questions for her own Life Reading which due to many delays EC was not able to give until late in the year: "To what vocation should I further apply myself for continued success in life? Will I ever marry? What do the next few years have in store for me? Is there oil on my land? How may it be developed?"

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