Planetary Influences & Sojourns. Edgar Cayce

upon the skein of time and space.

      Reading 566-1

      In giving, then, the astrological influences, these would vary considerably from that as would be seen from the spiritual—or the…soul experience in the earth's plane. Were this entity's experiences given from the purely astrological science, as accepted in many quarters, these would vary entirely from this [record] which may be given here, or that is viewed from here—for these are the Akashian records of the entity's or soul's development. As to how the present experience, with its environs, will be acted or influenced…will have little influence from the astrological standpoint. The entity will be governed rather by the reaction of the experience in the earth's plane through its appearances, rather than astrological influences.

      Reading 2571-1

      Thus in giving the interpretations of the records here, we would give not only the environmental but also the hereditary influences; not merely from the material lineage but from the mental and spiritual. For these, too, are a part of the heritage of each and every soul.

      While there are those influences [from the planets], those urges latent and manifested, know that no urge surpasses the will of the entity—that birthright given each soul that it may know itself to be itself and by choice become one with the Creator…

      For, each soul . . . is a co-creator with the universal consciousness; making those activities for self, for others…

      For, the astrological sojourns represent the mental or dream forces; while the material earthly sojourns represent the expression through the emotions—or the reaction…in expression, in experiences that may be had, may be sought, may be shunned by the entity.

      Reading 1401-1

      It should be understood that the earthly sojourn [incarnations] urges are [pertained] to the emotions, while the mental or innate urges are from the experiences of the soul in the environs about the earth.

      But these are merely urges or inclinations, not impelling forces, and these used in their proper relationships as warnings, or as those things to embrace, may be applied in the experience for helpful forces and influences.

      Know, however, that…what the will does about that which is set as its ideal in a mental, in a material or in the…spiritual [experiences]— and then having the courage to carry out that ideal—makes the difference between the constructive and creative…relationships and those that make one become rather as a drifter or a ne'er-do-well, or one very unstable and unhappy.

      Reading 1235-1

      For Life is a continuous experience. And the mind, the soul, the will, are those influences that act through the material manifestation for the improvement, the development, or for the retardment to the whole of the experience.

      For each soul enters each experience for a development, that it may be prepared to dwell with that it seeks as its goal.

      Hence the necessity of each entity…setting its ideal in each experience.

      Hence we find in the developments through those activities of an entity in a material sojourn or through an astrological experience are but the evolution, or making practical. For it is not what an individual or an entity may proclaim that counts, but what each soul…does about that it has set as its ideal in relationships to…[other] individuals about same.

      Reading 5366-1

      Yet may this entity be set apart. For through its experiences in the earth, it has advanced from a low degree to that which may not even necessitate a reincarnation in the earth. Not that it has reached perfection but there are realms for instruction if the entity will hold to that ideal…

      Remember, there are material urges [here] and there are materials in other consciousnesses not three-dimensions alone.

      Reading 1796-1

      Thus we find this entity—as each entity— is in the present the result of that the entity has applied of Creative influences…in every phase of its experience. Thus it makes for that called by some karma, by others racial hereditary forces…

      And…[which] (as are accepted) are in their reality the activities of the mind of the entity in its choices through the experiences in the material, in the mental, in the spiritual planes.

      Emotions and the Glandular Centers

      Reading 2620-2

      Thus, as we find in this entity, they [the planets] give expression in the abilities, which find manifestation in the material body through developments or attunements in the glandular system of the body for material expression.

      Thus upon the skein of time and space is the record of each soul made. In patience, in persistence may such be read…

      As to the appearances or sojourns in the earth—these we find expressed or manifested in the material body through the senses. Do understand, do interpret the difference between the emotions that arise from the sensory system and those that arise from the glandular system alone. True, physically these interchange; yet one [the glandular] represents the whole of the development, the other [sensory] represents the step by step activity by an entity in its activity through the material world.

      Reading 263-13

      The spiritual contact is through the glandular forces of creative energies…

      Thus we find the connection, the association of the spiritual being with the mental self, at those centers [glandular] from which the reflexes react to all of the organs, all of the emotions, all of the activities of a physical body.

       Editor's Note: In the 281 series of Cayce's discourses, each of the seven glands, or psychic centers, is said to be attuned or related to a planet, as follows:

      Pituitary: Jupiter (third-eye chakra)

       Pineal: Mercury (crown chakra)

       Thyroid: Uranus (throat chakra)

       Thymus: Venus (heart chakra)

       Adrenals: Mars (solar plexus chakra)

       Lyden: Neptune (navel chakra)

       Gonads: Saturn (root chakra).

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      Free Will vs. Stellar and Planetary Influence

      Reading 5-2

      These [astrological] influences are not greater than the will of the entity. While the varied aspects may be said to rule the entity, yet the entity—as everyone—should rather, with its own will, rule those integral aspects in the affairs—of the stars, as well as of self's own life. Rather…than the stars ruling the life, the life should rule the stars—for man was created a little bit higher than all the rest of the whole universe, and is capable of harnessing, directing, enforcing, the laws of the universe.

      Reading 311-3

      In any influence, will—a self, the ego, the I Am—is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, as astronomical and astrological conditions do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships with individuals.

      Reading 3340-1

      Astrological aspects may or may not become a part of the experience physically for the entity. For these are merely urges, and the will—that which designates God's creation of man from the rest of the animal world—rules as to what an individual soul does with opportunities in relationships with the fellow man.

      Reading 1646-2

      For, will is that factor…which gives the ability to choose that as may be for the development or the retardment. For, as has so oft been