Edgar Cayce Readings Finder, All 14,301 by Date, Place and Topic
Every dot below is one of the 14,301 trance readings we counted, stacked in the column of the year he gave it. Filter the field by type, place, topic or years, jump to a number, or find the ones given on your birthday. The finder holds numbers only. For the words themselves it points you to the A.R.E., where members can read every one.
One dot per reading, earliest at the bottom left of its year. Tap or hover a dot. Arrow keys step along the matches.
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What 294-5 means
14,301counted here. The A.R.E. count is 14,306
Our count comes from a 2001 copy of the complete readings text that the A.R.E. had online. We have not found which five are absent from ours, so we give the gap as it is.
- The first number is the series. One series is one person or one group who asked. There are 5,786 of them, and 3,964 have a single reading. Series 900 runs longest at 468, then 257 at 254 and 294 at 212.
- The second number tells you which of theirs. Reading 294-5 is the fifth one given for series 294. Typing only 294 into the jump box shows the whole series.
- Dates. 14,098 carry a date and 202 do not. One of those dates is in 1947, long after he died on January 3, 1945. We treat that as an error in the record and file the reading with the undated, so the last column of the dot field holds 204.
- Types are our own sort. The line read to him before he began usually decides it: health 9,050, life 1,914, other 1,935, business 578, dream 549. Series 262 is all study, series 254 is all work and series 3976, which opens with a 1921 relief committee, is all world. A different sorter would move some.
- Topics are word rules. Each of the 56 topics is a set of words and phrases run over the text of the reading itself, leaving out later editorial notes. A hit means the words are there. It does not mean the reading is mostly about them, and we checked samples of every rule for false matches.
The table view
The same dots, counted by year
| Year | Readings | Health | Life | Other kinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1903 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1904 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1908 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1910 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 39 |
| 1911 | 97 | 10 | 0 | 87 |
| 1912 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1913 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 1918 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1919 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1920 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 1921 | 58 | 37 | 0 | 21 |
| 1922 | 240 | 202 | 0 | 38 |
| 1923 | 348 | 253 | 11 | 84 |
| Year | Readings | Health | Life | Other kinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 482 | 131 | 28 | 323 |
| 1925 | 634 | 198 | 63 | 373 |
| 1926 | 688 | 335 | 52 | 301 |
| 1927 | 491 | 266 | 40 | 185 |
| 1928 | 438 | 292 | 23 | 123 |
| 1929 | 573 | 408 | 37 | 128 |
| 1930 | 742 | 590 | 62 | 90 |
| 1931 | 509 | 336 | 83 | 90 |
| 1932 | 437 | 262 | 45 | 130 |
| 1933 | 475 | 301 | 61 | 113 |
| 1934 | 702 | 434 | 97 | 171 |
| 1935 | 733 | 479 | 107 | 147 |
| 1936 | 653 | 424 | 113 | 116 |
| 1937 | 622 | 392 | 96 | 134 |
| 1938 | 664 | 423 | 105 | 136 |
| 1939 | 685 | 502 | 130 | 53 |
| 1940 | 568 | 390 | 125 | 53 |
| 1941 | 606 | 426 | 110 | 70 |
| 1942 | 557 | 398 | 94 | 65 |
| 1943 | 1,008 | 748 | 201 | 59 |
| 1944 | 1,002 | 750 | 222 | 30 |
| No date | 204 | 202 with no date, one with a date we treat as an error | ||
Questions
About the numbers
How many Edgar Cayce readings are there?
We counted 14,301 in the complete text the A.R.E. had online in 2001. The A.R.E. count is 14,306, so five are missing from our copy and we have not found which. In ours, 14,099 carry a date, the first on December 12, 1902 and the last on December 17, 1944.
What do the two numbers in a reading number mean?
The first is the series, which stands for the person or group who asked. The second tells which one of that series it is, so 294-5 is the fifth in series 294. Most series are a single reading: 3,964 of 5,786.
Can I read the readings on this page?
No. The finder carries counts, dates, places, types, lengths and topics, and no reading text. Each result links to the A.R.E., whose members can read every reading in full.
When did he give the most readings?
In 1943 and 1944, with 1,008 and 1,002 dated readings, about 14 percent of all the dated readings in two years. Before that no year passed 742, which was 1930.
Why are most of them health readings?
By our sort, 9,050 of the 14,301 are health, about 63 percent, because most people asked about their health. Life readings come next at 1,914. The sort is ours, made from the request read to him before he began, so a different sorter would move some.
Is there a reading for my birthday?
Yes. Every one of the 366 calendar days has at least one reading in the dated record. January 13 has the most at 60 across the years, and December 25 has only one.
Sources
- Counts, dates, places, series and lengths: our own count of the 14,301 readings in the full text as the A.R.E. had it online in 2001. The A.R.E. figure of 14,306 is from edgarcayce.org, where members can look up and read any of them.
- Life dates (born March 18, 1877, died January 3, 1945): Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Types and topics: our own sort and word rules, described above. No reading text is published here.