This is some major dish.
With my mothers passing a year ago I inherited most of Her books. Many of them are from the ARE Press, the Edgar Cayce foundation.
The bulk of these are the soft cover pamphlets one of which I have been reading at random from these last 48 hours. It's titled 'Astrology and the Edgar Cayce Readings" by Margaret H. Gammon, A.R.E. Press, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1967.
Pluto was only discovered in 1930 just about 14 - 15 years before Edgar passed on. He did talk of it. Prior to it's discovery he referred to another planet yet to be know that He called Septimus. As the word Septimus means 'The Seventh' and as Pluto is the seventh planet out from the Earth. In reading # 826-8 Cayce made a categroical statement that Pluto nad the legendary/mythological planet 'Vulcan' were one and the same.
Margaret gives the differt opinions as to the actual attributes and influences of Pluto according to different 'authorities'stating that she found that it rules 'Change'...a change that marks the end of an old condition and the beginning of a new. Stating: "The changes brought about by Pluto, however, are not the sudden dynamic changes such as are brought about by Uranus. In fact they are often unappreciable for a long period, but they are definite ones."
She also gives that Saturn rules changes and Uranus extremes, impulses from both of which are testing periods for the soul-entity.
She writes further on Pluto in evaluating it's impact upon the individual:
"...to be considered good or bad according to the way in which you view schooling or hard lessons. In this sense, if Pluto means a shifting out of routines, and mass movements that negate the individual, Pluto would certainly be a 'malefic' by orthodox astrological standards. And it is so considered.
We prefer the word 'regeneration' with reference to Pluto, since it is a higher octave planet as are Uranus and Neptune. here, regeneration means a higher consciousness and closer to the ideal, the Christ Consciousness. There is some evidence for this in the Edgar Cayce readings."
The most significant statement encountered in the readings [according to Margaret H. Gammon] comes with this description of Plutos' influence in reading #1100-27:
"Q. Just what are the effects of Pluto, in conjunction with ones' ascendant?
A. this, as we find, is entirely amiss [different] from what we might call a physical expression; but, as we find indicated, these [influences] are a development that is occurring in the universe, or environs about the Earth-Pluto Not, as some have indicated, that it is gradually being dissipated. It is gradually growing, and thus is one of those influences that are to be a demonstrative activity in the future affairs or developments of man, towards the spiritual minded-influence, or those influences outside of himself.
These [individuals] in the present, as might be said, are merely the [ones] becoming aware of same. Rather, within the next hundred to two hundred years there may be a great deal of influence [of Pluto] upon the ascendancy of man; for it's closest of those to the activities of the Earth, to be sure, and is a developing influence, not one already established. [1000-27]"
Evidence for this to be so and that Septimus and Pluto represent the consumer, or the CEO...and that Septimus is Pluto and therefore spiritual consciousness, may be pondered in reading 900-10 in which the development of the soul that was Yeshua/Jesus as the perfect pattern is discussed.
"In the development, then, that man may be one with the Father, [it is] necessary that he soul pass-- with its' companion, the will--through all the various stages of development., Until the will is lost in Him, and He becomes one with the Father.
The illustration of this we find in the man called Jesus/Yeshua. This man, as man, makes the will of the Father; then becoming one with the Father, and the model of man.
When the soul reached that development in which it reached Earths' plane, it became the model in the flesh, as it had reached through developments in those spheres, or planets, known in the Earths plane, obtaining then the 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 s cast for the beginning
In that of Uranus as of the Psychic
In that of Neptune as of the Mystic
In Septimus [Pluto] as of Consciousness*
In Arcturus as of the developing
[reading #900-10]
*
IN PLUTO AS OF CONSCIOUSNESS..!!! AS CAYCE SAID, ALL THE SPHERES LESSONS AND INFLUENCES, THAT CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT, MUST BE EXPERIENCED AND ASSIMILATED INTO ONES BEING. THUS THE RESULT IS THAT ONES SOUL HAS REACHED THE STATE OF "ONE IN ALL", UNITY WITH GOD, THIS CAN ONLY MEAN, AS IMPLICITLY; PLUTO CONJ. THE ASC. AS THE ASC. IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS...WITH PLUTO CONJ., IT IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF TRANSFORMATION...!!!
Well, so it is that Edgar Cayce not only gave the date of birth but also the Asc. ...that is Pluto conj. Asc.
What more could anyone ask for?
There are some great sections of this pamphlet that I'm going to be putting in a thread in the near future.
The author actually found the birth dates of many individuals that were told which the dominate planet was in their natal chart, of any fixed star influences, This is fantastic, as i didn't know that such info was available. We can now get an understanding of what Edgar knew as to ruling Planets, proper attributes, influences etc. As I don't believe any of these charts gave a birth time, they will be all or for the most part Solar charts but I see this as a big leg up the ladder of Astrological knowledge.
But, then again, over the many years of reading about Edgar Cayce [three biographies] and the hundreds of readings I've read, I have grown to trust the Cayce material from any reading implicitly.