Who may tell the lily to represent beauty? Who may tell the violet to blush, even in the shady dell? Who may tell the stars or the sun and moon to worship God? The entity has seen, has found those things that answer within. Would that all would do likewise.
4065-1
Who may tell the rose how to be beautiful? Who may tell the stars or the moon in its course how to raise in the heart and soul of man the longing to know the Creator of all? `
2600-2
As the sun, the moon, the stars would be given for signs, for seasons, for days, for years in man’s experience—then it would not be amiss that these would indicate the symbols as they were represented in those stages or phases of experience in the earth.
288-50
Study also astrological subjects, not as termed by some, but rather in the light of that which may be gained through a study of His word. For, as it was given from the beginning, those planets, the stars, are given for signs, for seasons, for years, that man may indeed (in his contemplation of the universe) find his closer relationships.
5124-1
Train the entity in higher mathematics as will have to do with the electronics and dealing with the forces of the spheres. For the astronomy in the study of light, the study of the rays that are a part of each individual planet, each individual star, each individual asteroid are all a part of the forces in universal activities.
4081-1
He is the Alpha and Omega, the bright and morning star …
792-1
Hence we look out and see the heavens, the stars; and, as the psalmist has said: “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handiwork, as day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge.”
262-56
Star Clusters: Stellar Jewelboxes and Beehives
As mentioned earlier in this chapter, stars are typically born into families ranging from double- and multiple-sun systems to much larger groupings known as star clusters. Cayce mentions the latter in one reading: “… when the priest then began to show the manifestations of those periods of reckoning the longitude (as termed now), latitude, and the activities of the planets and stars, and the various groups of stars, constellations, and the various influences that are held in place, or that hold in place those about this particular solar system.” (294-150) It should be mentioned here that star clusters and constellations are two different types of celestial object; the former are gravitationally bound systems, moving through space together, while the latter with few exceptions are unassociated chance alignments of stars moving in different directions. Also, many well-known star patterns like the Big Dipper are not in themselves actually constellations, as widely believed, but rather are “asterisms.” These are distinctive figures making up only a part of a constellation—in the case of the Big Dipper, Ursa Major, or the Great Bear.
Of the two basic types of star groupings, “open clusters” contain several hundred to more than a thousand members. And of this type undoubtedly the most famous of all is the magnificent Pleiades Star Cluster, more popularly know as the “Seven Sisters.” It lies above the constellation Orion in the winter sky and appears as a misty little dipper-shaped cloud of stars to the unaided eye. Binoculars transform it into a wonder of the night, its stars appearing like blue-white sparkling diamonds against black velvet! (Incidentally, such glasses can reveal every major type of celestial object—ranging from the mountains, craters and valleys of our Moon, the four bright Galilean satellites of Jupiter, and comets to star clusters, nebulae, and even many of the brighter galaxies, including the majestic starclouds of our own Milky Way Galaxy.)
Edgar Cayce was certainly well aware of the Pleiades and mentioned it more than a dozen times in his readings (all within astrological contexts). In addition to that already given in 311-2 concerning Arcturus, here are a few of the more interesting references to this starry commune:
In entering the earth’s plane, we find the entity comes under the influence of Mercury, Jupiter, and of Mars, with the Pleiades and the Orion in the benevolent influence of the life.
5454-3
In taking the position in the present plane, we find the urges, and the manifest and latent, are from those of Jupiter, with Venus, Mercury, Mars, and of the Pleiades.
2698-1
In entering the earth’s plane in the present life, we find the entity comes under the influences of Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, with the adverse influences of Venus and Saturn; the assistance in the influence of Uranus and of the Pleiades.
2675-4
In taking the position in the present earth’s plane, we find under the influence of Jupiter and Venus, with Mercury and Uranus in the distance. In the adverse influence then of Vulcan and of the Pleiades.
569-6
In coming to the present earth plane, we find the entity taking its position from that of Venus, with those of the Pleiades, Jupiter and of Mercury, and with the benevolent influence of Saturn’s forces in the degree that is seldom seen in the earth’s plane. One with the adverse influence in Mars and in Vulcan’s forces.
780-6
As these reading indicate, Cayce saw the astrological influence of the Pleiades as being mainly benevolent. This brings to mind Tennyson’s famous lines about this lovely stellar jewelbox in his poem Locksley Hall:
Many a night from yonder ivied casement,
Ere I went to rest,
Did I look on great Orion, sloping slowly
to the west.
Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
rising thro’ the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fireflies
tangled in a silver braid.
Also, note in the last two readings Edgar Cayce’s reference to “Vulcan.” This is the name astronomers centuries ago gave to a planet believed to lie in the same orbit as the Earth but on the opposite side of the Sun from us—and, therefore, which could never be seen from here. From many lines of evidence (including spacecraft that have actually been there!) we know that Vulcan doesn’t exist. But here’s what Cayce surprisingly had to say about this mythical planet:
(Q) Is there a planet anciently known as
