Edgar Cayce Past Life Report Sample
(sample cover page--customized with your
information)
Ry Redd's Cayce Past Life Report for
Edgar Cayce
March 18, 1877
3:03 PM
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
What is Karmic Astrology, how does it "work" and how does it relate to reincarnation?
In ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Greece, Rome and in native cultures around the world, it was popularly believed that astrology was actually based on reincarnation, karma and the afterlife. By karma is meant the meeting of oneself in the present through thoughts and deeds from the past. According to the Edgar Cayce readings and the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, all planets, including the Sun and the Moon, have been part of your afterlife experience in your passage between death and a new birth in each lifetime. Astrology, then, cannot be separated from reincarnation (vice versa). It operates not through the signs of the zodiac, but according to a combination of emotional, earthly past life karma and mental, mostly subconscious urges from your unique planetary sojourns between earth lives.
How does the Cayce approach to reincarnation and astrology reveal the meaning and purpose of life?
The Cayce readings emphasize that the purpose of your between-life interplanetary soul journeys, as well as your earth incarnations, is eventually to become a suitable companion with God in His Kingdom. As the Christ did before us, we all have to make ourselves spiritually fit through experiences in all realms of awareness. This is so that in our companionship with the Most High, we will not cause separateness or disruption in the realm of Beauty, Harmony and Divine Power.
Moreover, in gaining a deeper comprehension of your experiences -- physical as well as spiritual -- in the realms of earth, Sun, Moon and other planets, know that all these experiences, challenging or otherwise, are opportunities for you to accomplish this single mission. In whatever dimension or state of consciousness you find yourself, your ultimate awakening and enlightenment is due to one desire of God. His single desire is that you continue to have your own unique thread of gold running through each conscious act or thought, toward your inevitable, eternal companionship with Him. Therefore, use whatever you have in hand -- whether it be astrology, reincarnation, scripture study, chanting, music, meditation, prayer or your dream life --to enhance your inner awareness of your spiritual relationship with God.
Your planetary journeys in the afterlife, then, represent lessons in consciousness and each new earth life is an opportunity to apply -- and ultimately to perfect -- the lessons learned in these heavenly visitations. Again, the purpose of this Cosmic Course is to so develop spiritually and comprehensively that we, like the Christ who did it before us, can once again be fit companions of the Most High.
What are "astrological aspects" and "planetary sojourns" and how are they related to the planets of the solar system?
"Planetary sojourns" are frequently mentioned in the Edgar Cayce readings. They denote your consciousness experiences - - afterlife soul journeys -- in the non-physical dimensions between lives. The different dimensions of these spiritual experiences are linked with the orbits of the planets around the sun. Cayce also calls these interplanetary experiences "astrological aspects." The personal interpretations researched and written for your planetary sojourns begin with the Moon, which serves as a kind of base station from which to review the life just ended and to travel in the heavens before starting a new earth life. Planetary sojourns include afterlife experiences involving the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune (Pluto is rarely mentioned in the Cayce readings and is therefore excluded).
How are planetary sojourns related to the imagination and to our subconscious urges?
As souls between lifetimes we experience each of the ten planetary sojourns as an attribute of God ultimately to be perfected, both in Spirit and in the flesh. Now, each planetary heaven has a peculiar mental-spiritual vibration which is just a little higher than the physical vibration of the earth. Each thought vibration experienced in these planetary heavens uniformly resonates to a common urge, principle or mental image.
These inner urges are actually lessons in consciousness which we have to learn before we can return to God. For example, love and beauty are the basic vibrations making up the common principle of the Venus dimension to be perfected, how to deal with anger and aggression is the lesson peculiar to Mars, while communication and intellectual ability is the dominant chord of Mercury.
Cayce illustrates our thought vibrations and inner urges from our planetary sojourns -- and the lessons we are to learn from our experiences there -- through the metaphor of attending different colleges. Going to one university or another makes for an idiom, mode of speech, lifestyle or attitude which is unique to that place of learning and living. In other words, our mental urges and images make up the essence or the SPIRIT of the institution which was attended. Even though their major field of study might be the same, one student might go to Harvard, another to Yale, and yet another to Oxford, Stanford or the University of Arizona. These students would carry with them the vibrations they created by their years of activity and influence upon -- however small -- those universities and college towns. In this way, then, not only do your inclinations and inner tendencies arise from your activity in a given planetary sojourn between lives, but you can potentially influence the planets more than they influence you!
On my own, can I discover my past lives and planetary sojourns? If so, how should I treat the information in this profile?
Your imagination as well as your dreams draw on your unique reservoir of these mostly subconscious mental urges and inclinations. As a result, your planetary soul journeys -- and your past lives as well -- make for impressions or vibrations which you can tap into through your dreams and during your deeper meditations, as well as during hypnotic regressions. With this in mind, take care that you balance your inner guidance and intuitions about your past lives with the information provided in your personal profile. Cayce emphasized that we each know within everything we need to know about ourselves, past, present and future. Prayerful attunement to your own Higher Self, then, should always take priority over information from sources outside yourself (including this profile).
If some of the material in my reading appears to be inconsistent or contradictory, how can this be explained?
Interpretations of different types of patterns between planets of somewhat opposite natures may come up in your reading. One thing this means is that you are perhaps more complex than you thought you were. Another is that you could be expressing contrasting qualities at different times. Most likely, however, you expressed tendencies to behave in certain ways or to think along certain lines at one time in your life, say when you were young, but have simply outgrown these patterns at this point in your life.
Above all, take the information in your profile and carefully, prayerfully weigh it against what you have learned from going within in meditation, or in your prayer and dream life. Always remember that you are your own best source of information about you, whether you are consciously aware of it or not!
How are the Cayce Readings used to identify my previous incarnations and planetary sojourns?
With nearly 8,000 indexed references to astrology --mostly to planets -- there is obviously a vast amount of astrological material in the Edgar Cayce readings. With all its uplifting spiritual counseling involving past lives, planetary afterlife journeys and present opportunities for growth, this material indeed has practical, immediate value in our lives today. After all, while we each are unique, with unique birthtimes and birthcharts, we all have in common the fact that a horoscope can be erected for the time we were born. Horoscopes can also be set up for the individuals who received the Cayce readings. Therefore astrology is a valid way to link and apply the readings' rich contents to seekers such as yourself who did not have the great fortune of getting a "life reading" from Edgar Cayce.
Using the birth data provided at the beginning of each Cayce reading, with the aid of computers hundreds of horoscopes were set up for the individuals who received the original readings. Planet positions in a given birthchart were carefully compared with what the corresponding reading had to say about that same individual's planets and past life experiences. A given reading's interpretations of two previous planetary sojourn influences upon a certain soul, for instance Mercury and Jupiter, was compared with the type of aspect pattern found between Mercury and Jupiter in that individual's horoscope.
Interpretations of your aspects and past lives, then, are a synthesis of material from readings given for individuals with your very same patterns. Thus, in your personal profile, you will find past life and planetary sojourning interpretations based on what the Edgar Cayce readings say about your unique planetary patterns. This research of the Edgar Cayce readings was done by astrologer Ry Redd at the Edgar Cayce library at the Association for Research and Enlightenment headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia. By looking at hundreds of astrology charts, Ry Redd determined what planetary influences were most likely responsible for the astrologically based readings of Edgar Cayce.
Also, most of the narratives which comprise your profile identify your career potentials and relationship dynamics. Some include health indicators and suggest remedial measures like wearing specific planetary gemstones and using prayer, affirmations, auto-suggestion and working with ideals. Yet to get the most out of your Profile, link your study of it with your meditation, prayer and dream life. And remember that in your deeper meditations and dreams you can tap into your subconscious mind. You can thereby retrieve valuable guidance on how to use your experiences in former lives and planetary soul journeys between lives toward greater soul growth this lifetime.
What are planetary patterns and how are they referred to in the Cayce readings?
Simple geometric patterns or angles between planets mentioned by Cayce in a reading for someone were frequently found in the corresponding birthchart for the individual who received the reading. Three main categories of aspect patterns have been found in the readings and therefore are employed in your profile. First, there is the conjunction, which occurs when two or more planets are conjoined, or in the same place in the zodiac. (The most easily recognized conjunctions are those at a New Moon or an eclipse, when the Sun and Moon are conjoined).
Next there are harmonious patterns between planets. Considered as flowing and easy, harmonious aspect patterns were described by Cayce as "benevolent" and "beneficial." Harmonious patterns represent resources available for our use this lifetime (for instance, in our careers). Harmonious angles are basically triangular or hexagonal in shape, like the honeycomb and the snowflake. To be more specific, two planets are in a harmonious pattern when they are 1/3 or 1/6 of the zodiac away from each other. When 1/3 of the zodiac apart, the angle formed between two planets is a triangle (called a trine for short). When 1/6 of the zodiac separates two planets, the angle formed is hexagonal in shape. This is called a sextile aspect.
Generally, then, the more harmonious aspects -- the sextile, trine and some instances of the conjunction -- were psychically seen by Cayce as generally indicating resourceful life experiences. For example, in many instances, especially when involving your Sun, Mars and Jupiter, these more flowing, positive aspects indicate you have natural potentials for leadership, from your having been a leader in one or more past lives.
Last, there is the inharmonious pattern between planets at your birth. Representing challenges to convert into opportunities for spiritual growth, Cayce consistently referred to these patterns as "adverse" or "afflictions". The angle formed can be that of a square, or a perpendicular angle, when planets are 1/4 of the zodiac away from each other. On the other hand, planets can be 1/2 of the zodiac apart. They are then, of course, opposite each other in the heavens. In fact, the most widely known inharmonious pattern is the Full Moon, when the Sun and Moon are opposite each other. Incidentally, the square is more internal, while the opposition is more external. The opposition shows areas where compromise is needed with others with whom you have karma to work out from past lives.
Moreover, there is a distinct internal consistency to the readings' details on past lives and soul journeys in the planetary dimensions as compared with the type of aspect found in the corresponding horoscope. The inharmonious aspects are consistently identified by Cayce as indicating a lack of will power. This is especially the case with the square aspect. The opposition aspect is characterized by Cayce specifically as presenting "adverse conditions" in the form of self-doubt, or being "afflicted" in applying principles in a spirit of compromise with others. Again, these are karmic conditions --"meeting self" as Cayce put it -- from previous incarnations.
How can prayer and meditation best be used in connection with the Cayce information about my planetary patterns? Also, what kind of results can be expected from using affirmations and prayers on a regular basis?
To begin with, the interpretations of your planetary patterns which make up your profile are paraphrased from the original Cayce readings. They are a representation of your collective experience from the past. Each planetary pattern depicts a portion of your overall personal pattern. Taken collectively, then, your planetary patterns show the precise stage of growth and development you have attained prior to this lifetime. Therefore, understanding your patterns and working with their energies play a vital role in releasing past behaviors which have become stumbling blocks in the present.
Recently, a way was devised to help you do this. Affirmations and prayers have been written for many of the narratives. They describe a certain energy pattern that the planets in the pattern represent. By using these affirmations and prayers, several important things happen. First, you begin to acknowledge the influence your aspects exert on your life. Second, in the case of harmonious, flowing patterns, repeating the affirmations and saying the prayers gives you a chance to recognize, affirm, appreciate and give thanks for your good qualities. Third, in the case of prayers for the more difficult patterns (including some conjunctions), saying the prayers allows you to talk to God about the karmic planetary influences you have created from the past. It gives you the opportunity to "spiritualize" these influences and to obtain healing for their adverse effects.
As you use the affirmations and prayers with a sincere heart and on a regular basis, you will begin to notice subtle changes in your situation. In time, these changes will become dynamic vehicles for growth. What has happened is the Law of Karma has been transformed -- through prayer and meditation --into the Law of Grace. There is no better way to mitigate "negative" astrological and past life influences and to enhance the benefits of your "positive" traits than through prayers and affirmations.
Overall, then, how can I best direct my free will toward greater soul development in this life and prepare for my next lifetime?
First, all influences from planetary sojourns are related to your unique past life history. This is in turn is entirely subject to the action of your free will. Cayce repeatedly makes this point. Whether flowing or difficult, harmonious or inharmonious, your planetary patterns -- as seen through Cayce's clairvoyant eyes -- reveal how you can best direct your will toward greater soul growth this lifetime. As you study your reading, especially note any patterns which emerge, such as multiple mention of the same career or relationship potential or likely past life. These themes should take on special significance in your search and present areas you are likely to continue growing in during your next lifetime.
Most important, though is the necessity to recall that ALL apparent obstacles in your path are spiritual growth opportunities. They are to be welcomed by your will and blessed from your heart. Whether pointing to past achievements or failures, your planetary patterns show what kind of resources are available or are in need of development, both in this life and the next, through the application of your will.
Your birthmap or horoscope containing these planetary patterns is therefore no more of a "cause" for future failure or success than is your high school or college transcript a cause for your failure or success in life. Both your birthmap and educational transcript indicate mental training from learning experiences of different kinds and on a variety of levels. All are subject to change through the application of your free will.
Consequently, your freely chosen ideals and activities in this star system can make or mar your soul's purpose. The special need or unique niche to which you have been appointed by God to fill can and will -- eventually -- be met. Of this you can be certain. However, you can return to the Light now or you can take your time and turn away empty-handed (though not forever). Whether you use your obstacles or opportunities to return to the One very soon or much later, the choice is always yours and yours alone.
As a soul, therefore, although separated for a time, you are destined to return to our Maker. Your WILL is the factor, together with divine Grace, which you can use, especially with the help of prayer and meditation in a life of service on behalf of others, to carry you back to God, to the First Cause. You can then identify yourself as worthy to be ONE WITH the Whole yet aware of your uniqueness as part of the Whole. All souls share this destiny and purpose.
Your birth chart interpretation
is based on the positions of the planets at the time of your birth.
Astrologer Ry Redd calculated on computer the astrology charts for hundreds
of people who received readings by Edgar Cayce which contained astrologically
based information. By studying these astrology charts, Ry Redd determined
what planetary influences were most likely responsible for the readings
by Edgar Cayce. In many cases the astrological basis of the Cayce readings
appears to be very straightforward. From this information Ry Redd was
able to develop, in conjunction with the computer programmers at Cosmic
Patterns Software, an analysis of your birth chart as Ry Redd believes
that Edgar Cayce's psychic readings would have interpreted it. Ry Redd's
research effort was exhaustive and was conducted over many years, some
of which was spent at the Edgar Cayce library at the Association for Research
and Enlightenment headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
For the benefit of students of astrology, these positions, along with
other technical information, are listed below:
Sun position is 28 deg. 23 min. of Pisces
Moon position is 12 deg. 14 min. of Taurus
Mercury position is 11 deg. 42 min. of Pisces
Venus position is 15 deg. 43 min. of Pisces
Mars position is 11 deg. 13 min. of Capricorn
Jupiter position is 2 deg. 03 min. of Capricorn
Saturn position is 12 deg. 49 min. of Pisces
Uranus position is 21 deg. 16 min. of Leo
Neptune position is 3 deg. 39 min. of Taurus
Pluto position is 22 deg. 56 min. of Taurus
Asc. position is 20 deg. 59 min. of Leo
MC position is 14 deg. 44 min. of Taurus
Tropical Zodiac Local Mean Time observed.
GMT: 20:52:57 Time Zone: 0 hours West.
Lat. and Long. of birth: 36 N 40 49 87 W 29 19
Sidereal Sun position is 6 deg. 15 min. of Pisces
Sidereal Moon position is 20 deg. 05 min. of Aries
Aspects and orbs:
Conjunction: 8 Deg. Applying and 7 Deg. Separating
Opposition : 7 Deg. Applying and 6 Deg. Separating
Square : 6 Deg. Applying and 5 Deg. Separating
Trine : 7 Deg. Applying and 6 Deg. Separating
Sextile : 5 Deg. Applying and 4 Deg. Separating
Harmonious aspects are: Trine or Sextile
Inharmonious aspects are: Square or Opposition
Your Past Life Report begins on the following page . . .
(only a few sample interpretations
are given here...your complete report is about 15-20 pages)
Your Sun is in an inharmonious pattern with Jupiter.
Your afterlife experience in the realm of Jupiter brings you a helpfulness
in getting along with those in powerful, prominent positions, especially
in helping them to develop brotherly love in their actions. You have great
abilities in your associations with such individuals in these ennobling
directions. As long as you avoid tendencies toward false pride and taking
any selfish advantage of your influential role, you should continue to
bring harmony into the lives of others whom you contact.
You also have the capacity from Jupiter's experience of keeping balance
and remaining tolerant while going through various turmoils about you.
These challenges are most likely to have taken the form of antagonisms
on a larger scale dealing with groups, organizations and institutions
as well as individuals around you. These experiences have probably not
been without anxiety for you nor has your judgment always been without
exaggeration. However, your patience and capacity to forgive are the basis
for your endurance of such animosity and unpredictable behavior on the
part of others.
Your mental trends and self-expression will be in very definite, ambitious
directions this lifetime. One result of your drive to make yourself felt
is that you will be heard of from both far and near as a powerful soul
with considerable broadness of vision. This drive can be a constructive
expansion beneficial to others -- while contributing to your soul development
-- or, it can be merely an expansion of your desire to gratify your own
motives (the latter will most often take the form of extravagance and
questionable judgment in finances).
As to which of these will prevail, the answer lies in what you do in applying
your free will and your abilities to know what you have set as your ideal.
Resources for ideals include reading English literature and history, along
with inspiration from music. As remedial measures for this somewhat challenging
pattern, the wearing of planetary gemstones about the body can be a helpful
vibratory influence. Specifically recommended is either the turquoise
blue or pigeon-blood ruby. [1143-2]
Your Moon harmoniously aspects Mars.
The ever-emotional Moon points most directly to past lives where you experienced
karmic emotions, including lower Mars-ruled passions. These emotions have
been tempered and moderated during your previous lives. This prior resolution
of your passionate animal side is carried over for your constructive use
in relating to others on a personal level in the present. Therefore, regardless
of your sex it makes for good relationships with women.
Past life indicators include a recent lifetime in America's pioneer days
and an earlier incarnation involved with the Roman Empire. These likely
experiences give you a great deal of courage.
Also, from your previous lives and your soul journeys in the Mars sphere
of consciousness between lives, your subconscious feelings are in basic
harmony with your expressions of energy. Positive influences of this resourceful
aspect incline you not only to be courageous, but also energetic and healthy,
with excellent recuperative powers and an overall strong vitality.
Your Moon harmoniously aspects Mercury.
Your strong mental urges and high intellectual abilities in virtually
any direction you choose arise from your afterlife soul journeys, that
is, the activities of your superconscious when absent from the material,
earth plane.
Now, at the time of your birth there was a particularly favorable pattern
between the Moon, mirror of karmic emotion from past lives and Mercury,
heavenly realm of the mental. This carries into your present life from
your previous one a great deal of harmony between your mind and emotions.
For instance, in a prior incarnation, perhaps in your immediately previous
life, you may have been, or at least closely related to, an important
public figure. During that lifetime your communication and basic social
skills were highly developed, perhaps out of necessity.
Moreover, you read from the resourceful side of your akashic ledger at
the time of your soul's earth reentry at birth. This brought back to you
from your previous life a basic integration and natural coworking of your
feeling and thought processes.
Your mental-emotional harmony together with your powerful intellect gives
you an extraordinary capacity to communicate your ideas to others, whether
privately one-on-one or publicly before a large audience. These communication
skills, together with your alert mind, interesting conversation and sharpness
of perception, all combine to make you a natural teacher and writer, especially
in training the minds of the young and in carrying out a personal mission
to deliver a specific message.
Perhaps worded in your own way, let your prayer be something like, "Lord,
I am grateful for the ability to respond to others with genuine, loving
concern. You have given me the willingness to lend a sympathetic ear,
and the moving stories I hear prompt me to help people in need. Also,
Lord, I am grateful for a good memory, and for the skill to communicate
my thoughts and feelings effectively. With these gifts, may I spread Your
message of love to those who yearn for hope and understanding." [3948-1,
2459-1, 140-3]
Your Moon harmoniously aspects Saturn.
From our past lives the Moon mirrors our karma back to us for our growth
in the present life. One way this works is through the aspect formed at
birth between the Moon and other planets, such as Saturn. Your favorable
aspect pattern between the Moon and Saturn reflects for your use this
lifetime resources from the "plus" side of your akashic ledger.
That is, you are again presenting to yourself positive karma from past
earth lives.
For instance, in a prior incarnation -- perhaps your previous one -- you
were probably responsible for a public-oriented institution or organization
involved with education in some way. In the present you have a very strong
sense of duty, excellent organizational skills, a good nurturing capacity,
extraordinary teaching abilities and can well handle responsibilities
working with any organization that does business or deals with the public.
Bear in mind that earth incarnations are principally emotional experiences.
The fortunate timing with which you chose to reenter the earth plane carried
into your new life a basic harmony between your feelings and emotions
on one hand and your practicality and common sense on the other.
Introversion, however, is likely; yet you are quite able to use your introverted
urge in a constructive, practical manner as a distinct opportunity for
soul development. For instance, you can use your "loner" tendency
to maintain your self-confidence, spiritual attunement and consistency
concerning the ideals and higher personal goals you have set for yourself
this lifetime. [633-2, 759-1]
Your Moon harmoniously aspects Venus.
While other past life influences and symbolic aspect patterns related
in this report should be taken into account --particularly other more
challenging ones -- this favorable Moon-Venus pattern is excellent for
marriage and family life. Souls should be attracted to you from your cosmic
past who will take positive roles in the present both as your helpmeet/helpmate
and as your children.
You will also probably attract souls from previous lifetimes who will
be in positions to help bring you financial benefits, either through your
career, marriage or in other ways.
The Moon acts as the reservoir of your past life resources. These benefits
earned by you in previous lives are mostly of a Venusian nature. In addition
to inclining you towards having an attractive and loving personality you
are likely to have an above-average proportion of the Venus temperament,
including optimism, charm, cheerfulness, and popularity.
This aspect also brings a love of harmony and order, together with Venusian
abilities domestically and publicly, especially in creative, art-related
endeavors. You should pursue any opportunities to develop as well as apply
your artistic talents and your good sense of harmony and order.
Your Mercury is conjoined with Saturn.
You have considerable depth of mind yet have the exceptionally challenging
experience -- from your Saturn indwelling -- of continual changes in life.
One day every indicator of success will be present regarding a given relationship
or endeavor and the next day it will appear to dissolve. This is probably
karmically rooted in your finding many individuals in whom you have placed
your faith or confidence to have shaken that faith by letting you down.
With application of your will, you can turn this into a distinct opportunity
which can prove very beneficial for not only your soul development but
also your overall material success. Because you are so ambitious, your
characteristic inclinations toward hard work and persistence should guarantee
this for you. [195-14, 2328-1]
Your Mercury is conjoined with Venus.
You have high intellectual abilities together with a strong home loving
and artistic temperament. You have a cautious, resolute and tenacious
mind, reserved and self-controlled as far as feelings for others is concerned.
You are interested in people, are a good conversationalist and companion,
and a wholesome influence on most groups. Your entrance into groups or
companionships with others is even more beneficial to them than to you.
You would make an excellent creative writer or designer, being interested
in all forms of the arts, especially music, color and form.
In fact, your intellectual, artistic abilities are very likely to be considerably
above average. Therefore your potentials especially in the literary field
are exceptional. Commercial applications of your mental abilities in law
and advertising are also encouraged.
The love influence in its highest or noblest sense is primary for you.
Were others to criticize you for allowing what they perceive as carnal
love to be influencing you excessively --your experience of "love
at first sight" for example -- you do little condemning in return.
Although you and many others see the sacredness of such physical expressions,
your love expressions are likely to be mostly on the level of speaking
kindly and having generosity, a gentleness of manner and trueness of spirit.
You are more likely to fall in love with a beautiful evening, and to find
much wonder in the moon, the planets and stars. The beauty of nature,
with its clouds, lightening, thunder and other natural voices are for
you -- though maybe hard for others to understand - - an especially rewarding,
stabilizing influence.
Attraction to and by the beautiful and handsome in the opposite sex will
often influence you a great deal. If other past life indicators point
to challenges in this area of your personal life, they are most likely
to deal with the influences of passion, on both the mental and purely
physical levels. That is, your feelings, desire, and sensation -- all
elements of passion -- may at times be overactive, even impulsive. There
is also some danger of jealousy and misplaced trust in love relationships.
This may actually be due to a mild aversion of forming close relationships,
because of past life associations needing self-healing in the present.
Moreover, it may often be difficult for you to hear from others, or yourself
express through stories, jokes or the like, that which is considered coarse
or crude. However, having considerable mental concentration powers as
well as charm you can control and disguise your feelings when you feel
the need. [1136-1, 2612-1, 2386-1, 1792-1, 234-1, 305-3, 1637-1, 304-5,
3271-1, 2124-3, 1716-1, 1991-1, 1230-1]
(...additional interpretations would follow...).
NOTE: The Zodiac signs of the
Sun and Moon are
analyzed below. First they
will be analyzed in
the Tropical zodiac. If the
positions are
different in the Sidereal zodiac,
then they
will also be analyzed in the
Sidereal zodiac.
Also, if the Sun and Moon are
in the same zodiac
sign, then only the Sun position
is interpreted;
the Moon position, being the
same as the Sun
position, does not needed to
be interpreted in
this case.
Your Sun is in Pisces (Tropical zodiac).
Coming u
nder
the influences of Pisces, water and religion or spiritual matters are
likely to have an untold influence on you. Of course, this depends upon
the way you respond to these kinds of experiences, for they have probably
played an important part or at least have been innate in your experience
through many lifetimes in the earth.
Pisces means or symbolizes what is naturally, or by its very nature, representative
of influences of the higher soul or higher spiritual level. Hence those
things of the spiritual nature should preferably be the way in which your
judgments are drawn, as to whether this or that activity should be your
impelling influence. Not that you should become lost in motives or in
influences impelling your actions: just use those things of the spiritual
import as the measuring rod of your activities and experiences.
In light of this, the period around the birth and ministry of Jesus, the
Christ, is the clearest past life for you to recall and build upon in
the present. You may even remember a lifetime as part of Roman culture,
where priority was placed upon position in society and in the military.
Another early Church memory might be stronger for you: the hills around
Galilee and the desert near the Dead Sea where the Essenes and others
gathered to meditate and study. Then too you may be emotionally drawn
to painful scenes of being among early Christians who were martyred for
the courage of believing in the Messiah. Regardless of specifics, you
are quite likely always to be dominated by a sense of expectancy and mystery.
In later lifetimes since the early Church period, you were probably celibate,
as a nun or monk of a leading religious order.
Noble, compassionate Jupiter and spiritual, mystical Neptune are the two
rulers or key symbols for the sign of Pisces. From Neptune comes the intuitive
forces, the mystical or mysterious influences in your experience, whether
you allow them to be mentally or consciously active or not. Another influence
of these planets as expressed through Pisces is that although you have
a great deal of compassion, you may be too passive in expressing your
personal energy and soul force. Also, it will probably be much easier
for you than for most people to suppress your sexual desires because of
the memory of one or more past lives when you set aside your personal
concerns for the good of the entire community. [816-3, 1506-1, 997-1]
Your Moon is in Taurus (Tropical zodiac).
Taurus' influence inclines you to be somewhat headstrong, with a very
set and determined manner. Hence you are not always understood in everything
you try to do, or in things which you know yourself to be true. Yet long-lasting
are the influences you make on others with whom you have deep associations
from previous lives.
Remember, success or accomplishment in life is not a matter of some great
force or influence. Just as taught by the Master, it is not the power
of the storm or of the earthquake or of great noises and the like. Rather
it is the still small voice speaking from within you which becomes the
influence through which movements of truly great forces really arise.
Since your childhood, being outdoors and living close to nature is probably
more significant to you than to most others. This love of nature and the
great outdoors is from one or more past lives spent on a farm or in nature
settings. For ages countries on the Mediterranean such as ancient Egypt,
Greece and virtually all of the ancient Mideast lived in close contact
with nature. So did the Native Americans of pre-Columbian America. And
surely you were one of them.
Farming, fishing and hunting then, are among your familiar pursuits (even
if they only involve occasional outdoor activities like gardening, boating
or indoors, tending flowers and plants). You also probably have greater
confidence in holistic, natural healing approaches than in modern medicine's
"advanced" yet artificial technology.
Now, Venus is the planet which rules or best symbolizes the essence of
the sign Taurus. Of course, Venus symbolizes the female sex. Centuries
ago in oriental cultures women were more feminine -- and experienced much
more respect -- than today. A lifetime in Asia and lands like China, then,
are also a likely part of your past life experiences.[1149-1, 1641-1]
Your Moon is in Aries (Sidereal zodiac).
From Aries are found inclinations often to be considered by others as
being headstrong. You may also be very hard to convince alongside judgments
you have made which have been the determining factors in your experience.
Yet once you are convinced of something, you become very determined in
that particular direction.
This tendency toward self-determination and being headstrong is probably
rooted in at least one lifetime in ancient Palestine. Your likely link
with the tribal nomads known as the Hebrews is expressed in your urge
either to be a powerful yet somewhat dogmatic leader or to be inclined
to follow someone with strong leadership qualities.
Also, living in large or extended family units dominated by a strong director
or leader (whether male or female), having special admiration for winners,
or even being totally submissive to another person who you feel is somehow
in charge of you and your life are characteristic inclinations from similar
experiences long ago.
Of course, Mars is the primary planet which symbolizes or rules the sign
of Aries. This makes Mars and martial urges of special significance to
you this lifetime. Therefore, depending on whether or not you apply your
will, responding to conflict situations with directness and force are
likely to be among your subconscious urges. These urges are from your
prior experiences in the realm of Mars and from one or more past lives
in the harsh, ancient desert culture of Israel and neighboring Arab lands.
Also from Mars, the Ram influence and this past lifetime in ancient Canaan
and Palestine you may feel a need not only to be a leader or director
but to excel in your career or in more physical endeavors like exercising
or a competitive activities such as sports.[279-4, 340-15, 1804-1]
Your Past Life Decanates
According to an ancient Vedic astrology method
still practiced in India, Past Life Planets are realms
in which you sojourned between earth lifetimes. They
are identified through the position of your sidereal
Sun and Moon in the decanates (a decanate is a one-
third division of a zodiac sign; each is ruled by a
planet). Any patterns involving these Past Life
Planets are therefore of special importance. Pay extra
attention, then, to any sections of your Report which
interpret these planets.
NOTE: If your Sun and Moon are both located in a
decanate which is ruled by the same planet, then
only the Sun position is interpreted; the Moon's
decanate position, being the same as the Sun's,
therefore does not need to be interpreted.
Your Sun
is in Pisces Decanate
Your sidereal Sun is in the decanate of Pisces, which is co-ruled by Neptune
and Jupiter. This points to prominent soul journeys in the interlife realms
of Jupiter and Neptune, and to one or more parallel lifetimes in which
you were dedicated to spirituality, humanitarian, healing-oriented and
spiritual, mystical endeavors. Your experiences then may have brought
you prominence or notoriety in spiritual causes ranging from the Essenes
and Gnostics around the time of Christ to Eastern temples and ashrams
and later, in medieval or modern monastic life.
Of likely special interest to you in your present life are mysticism,
spirituality and most movements toward Oneness and the mysteries of Life
and Nature, including dreams and mystical kinds of music and art. These
interests and urges are intensified from lifetimes where the sea or large
bodies of water played a large role, as well as from your soul experiences
between earth incarnations in the realms of Neptune and Jupiter.
Your Moon
is in Sagittarius Decanate
Your sidereal Moon is in the decanate of Sagittarius, which is ruled by
Jupiter. Jupiter as Past Life Planet points to a prominent soul journey
between earth incarnations in the realm of Jupiter, called Brahmaloka
in Vedic astrology. Your Jupiter sojourn demonstrates that you have reached
a high level of development toward a universal consciousness among all
men and women.
Your special Jupiter sojourn also indicates you have a strong inner commitment
to faith, optimism and group causes potentially affecting large numbers
of people. Past lives in humanitarian or spiritual service and ministry,
religious, royal and priestly affairs are likely, especially lifetimes
in Egypt and the Holy Land.
Sources Researched for Your Past Life Report
The primary source for your Past Life Report is Edgar Cayce's original
Past Life Astrology readings. The past life interpretations of your planetary
patterns identify by case number specific Cayce readings used (see references
below for researching these readings on your own). While as many as a
dozen readings might be used in one interpretation, a few interpretations
of particular planet combinations do not use the Cayce information. This
is because no one receiving a reading from Cayce which discussed those
planets also had the same planets in that particular combination at their
birth. Especially is this so with the fast moving Moon, as most readings
did not include the timed birth data necessary for calculating the Moon's
position. Also, Cayce seldom mentioned the Moon, thus further limiting
his readings as a resource for interpreting the Moon's influence. And
he referred to Pluto even less often, partly because it was not discovered
until nearly 20 years after he gave his first astrology reading (prior
to its actual discovery and naming by astronomers, Cayce, knowing clairvoyantly
of Pluto's existence, referred to it by the names Septimus and Vulcan).
Other sources used as the basis for your Past Life Report include, in
addition to the Cayce readings, Alda Marian Jangl's Astrological Prayerbook,
from which she and her publisher Samuel Weiser kindly granted permission
to quote. Also consulted were works by Isabel Hickey and Alan Carter for
their valuable insights into planet aspects.
Another important component of this Report includes Cayce's relatively
rare comments about the signs of the zodiac (his emphasis was almost entirely
on planets rather than signs) and past life settings for the Sun and Moon
in the zodiacal signs, tropical and sidereal. The past life geographical,
historical and cultural settings for the 12 zodiac signs are based in
part on a source who wishes to remain anonymous.
Finally, the Past Life Report includes interpretations of the sidereal
Sun and Moon in the 36 decanates, based on the planetary ruler of the
decanate (akin to a method still used in Hindu/Vedic astrology). These
decanate interpretations are in turn based on parallel decanate analyses
of the Cayce readings, a research method discussed at length with case
studies in Ry Redd's Toward A New Astrology: The Approach of Edgar Cayce
(available from the American Federation of Astrologers and the Association
for Research and Enlightenment or A.R.E., the organization founded by
Cayce). An additional source for the Cayce readings which you might like
to consult in looking further into readings used in your Past Life Report
is Astrology in the Edgar Cayce Readings, Library Series volumes 17 and
18 (A.R.E., Box 595, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; the Cayce readings are
open to the public in the A.R.E. Library in Virginia Beach).
www.are-cayce.com