ARCTURUS (Alpha Bootis). Among the very brightest of stars, shining with a soft orange light, Arcturus lights northern spring skies. It is one of three luminaries that partition the northern sky into very rough thirds, the others being summer's Vega and winter's Capella. Of the three, Arcturus, the Alpha star of the constellation Bootes, the Herdsman, is slightly the brighter, making it the brightest star of the northern hemisphere and the fourth brightest star of the entire sky, following only Sirius, Canopus, and Alpha Centauri.

Arcturus, the "Bear Watcher," follows Ursa Major, the Great Bear, around the pole, "arktos" being the Greek name for "bear," from which our word "arctic" is derived by reference with the constellation of the Greater Bear.

Arcturus is located at a distance of 37 light years, and became famous when its light was used to open the 1933 world's fair in Chicago, as that light had left the star at about the time of the previous Chicago fair in 1893.

It is a classic orange class K (K1) giant star with a precisely defined surface temperature of 4290 degrees Kelvin. To the eye, it shines 113 times more brightly than our Sun. Its lower temperature, however, causes it to radiate considerable energy in the infrared. When this infrared radiation is taken into account, Arcturus actually shines almost twice as brightly, releasing 215 times more radiation than our Sun, from which we find a diameter 26 times solar, about a quarter the size of Mercury's orbit.

Arcturus has a velocity relative to the Sun that is higher than other bright stars. Compared with the set of surrounding stars, which orbit the Galaxy on more or less circular orbits, it falls behind by about 100 kilometers per second (as do several others of the "Arcturus Group"). The lagging movement has long suggested that the star comes from an older population of the Galaxy.

Consistently, Arcturus is somewhat deficient in metals, having only about 20 percent as much iron relative to hydrogen as found in the Sun. A more intriguing suggestion is that the star actually comes to us from a small galaxy that merged with ours some 5 to 8 billion years ago.

As a giant, weighing in at around 1.5 times the mass of the Sun, it has ceased the fusion of hydrogen in its core. Though it is somewhat brighter than we would expect for a stable helium fusing star, helium fusion to carbon has probably already begun. Such stars are not expected to have magnetic activity like the Sun, but very weak X-ray emission suggests that Arcturus indeed is magnetically active and has a hard-to-observe "buried corona."

 

Written by Jim Kaler.
 

(Q)  The sixth problem concerns interplanetary and inter-system dwelling, between earthly lives.  It was given through this source that the entity Edgar Cayce, after the experience as Uhjltd, went to the system of Arcturus, and then returned to earth.  Does this indicate a usual or an unusual step in soul evolution?
(A)  As indicated, or as has been indicated in other sources besides this as respecting this very problem, - Arcturus is that which may be called the center of this universe, through which individuals pass and at which period there comes the choice of the individual as to whether it is to return to complete there - that is, in this planetary system, our sun, the earth sun and its planetary system - or to pass on to others.  This was an unusual step, and yet a usual one.

(5749-14)
 

(Q) From the information received from this source, I am from Arcturian influences.  What is this influence in my present experience?
(A)  As just indicated, and is as a part of that.  For Arcturus is that junction between the spheres of activity as related to cosmic force, and is that about which this particular environ or sphere of activity rotates, or is a relative source of activity.  The entity's appearance, then, is as a beginning, with those determining factors to be made. As those influences as first indicated in Atlantis were as a beginning, so Arcturus in the present might be termed as a beginning.

(263-15)
 

Not that the sun that is the center of this solar system is all there is.  For the entity has attained to that realm even of Arcturus, or that center from which there may be the entrance into other realms of consciousness.  And the entity has chosen in itself to return to the earth for a definite mission.

(2823-1)

In interpreting through the astrological aspects, or the interims of sojourn, - these we find apparent:

Arcturus comes in this entity's chart, or as a central force from which the entity came again into the earth-material sojourns.  For, this is the way, the door out of this system. Yet purposefully did the entity return in this experience.

(2454-3)
 

In color harmony - again - these often clash.  In the harmony of strength or might the entity falters.  This may be seen from the experiences of the entity.  In a word, MUCH has been made of the PRESENT experience, and it will lie within the own desire of the entity as to whether the return in earth's experience becomes necessary or not; for in Arcturus' forces, these become all magnified in will's force, and the conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer MANY worlds, and IS conquering those of OUR, or of our SUN'S own attributes.

(115-1)
 

Also we find the Sun and Arcturus, the greater Sun, giving of the strength in mental and spiritual elements toward developing of soul and of the attributes toward the better forces in earth's spheres.  This brings, especially, the conditions of these characters:

One that is exceptional in many ways, manners and faculties, especially in those of mental forces having great vision in every direction, especially those of the unseen elements, bringing then much psychic and occult forces to the body.

The highest conception of all domestic relations, the highest conceptions of honor.  The highest conceptions of respect.  The highest conceptions in every relation in friendship and in every element relating to others.

This brings the forces that give the greater elements in the life, yet with the undue influence by the Moon's forces, when square to Saturn and Mars, brings doubts within the body's mental forces.  In will's realm then must the entity bring the better forces when such conditions arise.

(137-4)
 

(Q)  In the analysis of my various lives given in the life reading, are they the only ones I have lived here, or are they just the outstanding ones?
 (A)  .... One lays up earthly treasures, then those are builded and they seek oft to gain again that which was left undone during that sojourn; for silver and gold, cattle or position, name or fame - these are but symbols of, an expression of, an individual entity attempting to make manifest ITS concept of ITS first creative energy in ITS position in the universal forces.  As an entity passes on, as has been given, from this present - or THIS solar system, THIS sun, THESE forces, it passes through the various spheres - leading first into that central force, through which - known as Arcturus - nearer the Pleiades, in this passage about the various spheres - on and ON - through the EONS of time, as called - or space - which is ONE in the various spheres of its activity; even passing into the inner forces, INNER sense, may they again - after a period of nearly ten THOUSAND years - may an entity enter into the earth to make manifest those forces gained in ITS passage.  In entering it takes on those forms that may be known in the dimensions of that plane which it occupies, there being not only three dimensions - as of the earth - but there may be as seven, in Mercury - or four, in Venus - or five, as in Jupiter.  There may be only one as Mars. There may be many more as in those of Neptune, or they may become even as nil - until purified in Saturn's fires.

(311-2)
 

(Q) Does the soul choose the planet to which it goes after each incarnation?  If not, what force does?
(A)  In the Creation, we find all force relative one with the other, and in the earth's plane that of the flesh.  In the developing from plane to plane becomes the ramification, or the condition of the will merited in its existence finding itself through eons of time.

In the illustration, or manifestation in this, we find again in the man called Jesus.

When the soul reached that development in which it reached earth's plane, it became in the flesh the model, as it had reached through the developments in those spheres, or planets, known in earth's plane, obtaining then One in All.

      As in Mercury pertaining of Mind.
      In Mars of Madness.
      In Earth as of Flesh.
      In Venus as Love.
      In Jupiter as Strength.
      In Saturn as the beginning of earthly woes, that to which all
          insufficient matter is cast for the beginning.
      In that of Uranus as of the Psychic.
      In that of Neptune as of Mystic.
      In Septimus as of Consciousness.
      In Arcturus as of the developing.

As to various constellations, and of groups, only these ramifications of the various existences experienced in the various conditions.

(900-10)
 

Role of Arcturus as an Energy Source
that was Amplified ("Raised")
and Transmitted by Crystals on Atlantis
 

(Q)  What is the best substance for induction, conduction, transmission of etheronic energy?
(A)  This is as raised power that would be produced from a combination of crystals.  This should be rather interesting to this body, for it is very much like that used by the body in the Atlantean sojourn!  Not that which caused the cosmic ray, or the death ray, or the healing ray - but the ray that came from setting of the prismatic influences from high heating - it may be from Arcturus or it may be from the Sun; though Arcturus would be nearer proper.  The Sun may be induced to make for destructive or constructive forces, either one.  It's a combination of those forces or rays that may be gathered in certain setting of prisms.  It would require a lot of detail in preparing same.  We would rather refer this to a later period, or seek other channels that may aid with the combination of these.

(440-3)