Planetary Influences & Sojourns. Edgar Cayce

the body, and the centers that manifest same.

      To such has been accredited, then, those influences represented in what a soul-entity may have applied in the individual self. That magnified, to be absent from the body is to be present with that ye have magnified, or glorified, in thy relationships one with another.

      For He hast not willed that a soul should perish, but hath with every temptation prepared a way, a means for correction; and it is through those awarenesses, or those dimensions, that these take their course with an individual entity.

      In thyself ye find Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus as thy experiences; to be sure with their correlating from earth's experience in the sun and the moon.

      Either or any of these may be magnified to the detriment of another. It is best that they be correlated, co-balanced. For, as the earth—we find body, mind, soul; in the Godhead we find Father, Son, Holy, Spirit. These are one.

      So, in thy dealings, be not the extremist—as may be magnified either from the Uranian or the Venus influence. For these partake of those influences. These cause the urges by their expression, not because of thy being born at any given hour when this or that planet was in the ascendancy, or in the 1st, 2nd or 9th house, but because of thy doings through those environs or those dimensions.

      In Venus we find the love influence, the desire for beauty.

      From Jupiter we find the universality.

      In Mercury we find the judgement.

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      Planetary Influences

      Reading 254-2

       (Q) Do the planets have anything to do with the ruling of the destiny of men? If so, what? and what do they have to do with this body?

      (A) They do. In the beginning, as our own planet, Earth, was set in motion, the placing of other planets began the ruling of the destiny of all matter as created, just as the division of waters was and is ruled by the moon in its path about the Earth; just so as in the higher creation, as it began, is ruled by the action of the planets about the earth.

      The strongest power in the destiny of man is the Sun, first; then the closer planets, or those that are coming in ascendency at the time of the birth of the individual; but let it be understood here, no action of any planet or any of the phases of the Sun, Moon, or any of the heavenly bodies surpass the rule of Man's individual will power—the power given by the Creator of man in the beginning, when he became a living soul, with the power of choosing for himself.

      The inclination of man is ruled by the planets under which he is born. In this far the destiny of man lies within the sphere or scope of the planets. With the given position of the Solar system at the time of the birth of an individual, it can be worked out—that is, the inclinations and actions without the will power taken into consideration.

      As in this body here [Edgar Cayce] born March 18,1877, three minutes past three o'clock, with the Sun descending, on the wane, the Moon in the opposite side of the Earth (old moon), Uranus at its zenith, hence the body is ultra in its actions. Neptune closest in conjunction, or Neptune as it is termed in Astrological survey, in the ninth house; Jupiter, the higher force of all the planets, save the Sun, in descendency, Venus just coming to horizon, Mars just set, Saturn—to whom all insufficient matter is cast at its decay—opposite the face of the Moon. Hence the inclination as the body is controlled by the Astrological survey at the time of the birth of this body, either (no middle ground for this body) very good or very bad, very religious or very wicked, very rich or always losing, very much in love or hate, very much given to good works or always doing wrong, governed entirely by the will of the body. Will is the educational factor of the body; thence the patience, the persistence, the ever-faithful attention that should be given to the child when it is young.

      Reading 398-2

      Yes, we have the body, [398], and those conditions in the astrological aspects; especially in reference to those adverse influences that appear eminent in the experience of the entity in the near future; as well as that which has been builded by the entity in its sojourns through the spheres of activity where there is such a gathering of influences as to become active in a body-entity.

      In giving that which may be understandable, and that which may be helpful from the material angle at this time, as we find, it would be well that all consider the varying aspects from that considered an astrological influence. As we have given through these channels, astrological influences are effective in the experience of each and every entity. However, when the activities of a soul-entity have been such as to cause or to form the appearance of the entity in a particular sphere of activity, the position of the sojourn of the entity to the earth has the greater influence than just the adverse or benevolent positions of the planet or of a whole solar system upon the entity's activity!

      Is this understood? [Pause] You should answer! [Mrs. Cayce: I don't quite understand.]

      [Mr. Cayce continuing] Then, it is as this: When the activities of an entity, a soul in the earth, have been such that its passage from the earth would become a birth into the realm of matter known as Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Moon, Mercury, Polaris, or any of these that are effective in the universal influence, you see, the sojourn there and the position of the planets are more effective than the influence brought to bear because of a position in a certain place or portion of the universal forces, see?

      Hence, as we find, these conditions are only as urges; or, as may be termed from some reasons or seasons of thought, the planetary influences from their positions are either benevolent, adverse or inter-between these activities—one drawing upon another; but the entity's sojourn in those environs makes the impulse for the mental activity, rather than the position of these!

      Reading 439-1

      So, the astrological sojourns are rather as intuitional influences felt when in meditation or distress in mind, that brings the harking of a something that may be found through the application of self respecting the knowledge self has concerning the Creative Forces in a material world.

      Reading 518-1

      From the astrological aspects much may be gathered that will be helpful in the entity's experience in the present sojourn. While the astrological aspects make for general tendencies in many entities' experience, the planetary sojourn in the earth's environ deals more with the mental development of an entity than just because the stars, the sun, the moon or any of the zodiacal signs are in the aspects at the hour or period of beginnings in this experience.

      Rather has that which has been builded in the soul of the entity brought about its influence, and so does the entity become influenced according to its activities in relationships to that which has been the understanding or comprehension of the universal laws, as it—the entity—is related to same. For, without knowledge there is not the comprehension; and without understanding it does not become practical in the material development or manifestation of a soul.

      Reading 528-14

      Hence the astrological influences are more to the spiritual or innate urges, that are aroused by the deeper meditating of the mental self.

      Reading 541-1

      In giving that which may be helpful to this entity through such information, it would be well to include something as to how this is obtained; that there may be some credence given, and at least an attempt on the part of the entity to apply and to verify things that may be said and given—which will be as some experiences that have been in the entity's life; and then that as to what the entity and body in the present may do about that it knows of itself and its abilities in the present.

      As each soul enters in the earth, there are purposes other than that which may be arising from desire of those that