in the interpretings of those things prompted by listening to the voice within, and of the activities of things pertaining to spiritual attitude—as the listening not only to the promptings from without but to the music of the spheres, or of the stars, or of nature itself.
2700-1
For the entity turned to nature, to nature’s mysteries, to nature’s beauty, to the songbirds, to flowers, to music of rain patter on the roof, as well as the music of the spheres for its inspiration.
3201-2
Faint not because of oppositions, but do keep the music of the spheres, the light of the stars, the softness of the moonlight upon the water as upon the trees. For nature in its song, as the birds, as the bees make music to their Creator, contributed to man
5265-1
The astronomical, the numerological, the environs of the creations in the vibrations from metals, from stones, from those of every form, have—through the experience of the entity at times had their influence; and thus bear for the entity something that must be used as an omen, or as an experience that may aid the entity in making the proper interpretations of those things that to many an one are not lawful to be spoken in materiality—hence come only to those who have eyes to see, through the spiritual realms, or who have ears to hear the music of the spheres, the growing or the beauty in all the relationships to man that make for expressions of the divine that may be, and is, a portion of man’s experience.
No man, no physical matter, has ever seen God at any time; only the manifestations of Him.
707-1
Such references to the music of the spheres and the stars singing to us (however moving and lovely they may be) have for the most part been taken only figuratively and as “poetic license.” However all celestial objects—including the Sun, Moon, and planets of our solar system, all of the stars, and even other galaxies, including our Milky Way—give off radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. And this includes not only ultraviolet, infrared (or heat), and visible light, but for many of these bodies radio waves as well. The radio emissions themselves can be converted to sound waves, making it possible to actually “listen” to the cosmos with our ears as well as look at it with our eyes.
Much of what is received for the most part sounds like static, hissing, or beeps (in the case of pulsars—spinning neutron stars). However, thanks to today’s amazingly sensitive, huge radio telescopes, the incredible number-crunching capability of Cray supercomputers, and very sophisticated Moog electronic synthesizers, radio astronomers have found that some of the stars are emitting cyclic harmonic vibrations—not radio “noise” or random static—into space. This means that they in a sense are “singing” to us! Here, of course, we’re talking about using giant “radio ears” and elaborate equipment to physically perceive it. But apparently it’s possible to hear the celestial music without their use, for these modern marvels obviously didn’t exist in Johannes Kepler’s day—and yet he heard the music of the spheres! So did a number of the people for whom Edgar Cayce gave readings. In this regard, note especially what he had to say in some of the readings above concerning tuning into this music spiritually as well as physically. And just for the record here—I have had many people tell me at conferences where I was speaking that they have also heard the stars singing to them!
More About Stars
Before discussing entire families of suns, here are a few more of the author’s favorite excerpts from the many psychic discourses by Edgar Cayce that mention stars:
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