EDITH AND HELMUTH WANGEMANN

The NCGR Memberletter of December, 2000 notes:

"We were saddened to learn of the recent passing on September 19, 2000, of Edith Wangemann, internationally recognized German cosmobiologist.

With her husband, Helmuth, she founded Astro-Magazine and Sein Und Werden magazine. She also ran the Cosmobiosophical Society in Germany for 23 years. Over a lifetime she won numerous honors and awards for her work, among them the Marc Edmund Jones Award given to her at a NASO Conference. Hers was a distinguished career."

In the AFAN Newsletter, Autumn 2000, Renee Goodale writes:

"To meet Edith at any time was to meet Jupiter. Though diminutive in size, her smile and the twinkle in her eyes matched the encouraging lilt in her voice; she exuded a sense of goodness, positive energy and unrestrained high spirits, all of which were contagious.

"I first met Edith at a conference in Aalen, Germany in 1972, after which she invited me to visit in Wuppertal, her home town. From then on our paths crossed at different conferences in the US. We met again at a conference in the summer of 1983 in a castle in Germany. The purpose of the visits was always to arrive at a better understanding of what Edith had to teach.

"It was Edith's magnetic and loveable personality, her unusual knowledge (planetary distances and the coffelations between characteristics of the face and constellations of the natal chart, to mention only two of her favorite topics), and her unique way of seeing things that attracted students of astrology to her side. She was also very lively and entertaining company.

"How can you call Saturn a malefic when it gives you the ground you stand on, the skeleton that helps you to stand up, and the skin that keeps you together? How can you sit without Saturn?" she would say, pointing to the board with a stick she had found in the woods on one of our many walks.

"Our last meeting was in 1989. We'd all been together in upstate NY for a weeklong workshop in August 1988, arranged by Henry Weingarten. The following October Edith came to Atlanta for a workshop during which time she asked me to come to Germany to help her "translate" some of her ideas. On her request I flew over in April of 1989 and stayed with her for two weeks in Wuppertal. The pear trees were in bloom. "Now we go up to Heaven," she said as she greeted me at the door. She had given over her house to a family and had retained the 3rd floor - a steep climb.

"Those two weeks were 14 days of laughter amid frustration. We worked very hard, but Edith found it hard to relinquish her gems. Was it sheer possessiveness or was it that she had difficulty in remembering? I can't honestly say, but to hammer out a paragraph that made sense was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.

Some of Edith's Gems, from Rene Goodale:

"If you know the Saturn in your chart, it will become Jupiter."

"In my way of thinking, the first thing you want to accomplish in a reading is to guide the person into an understanding of his strength (worth, value, talents, gifts) and of how to use them in the most positive way."

"You must use things in your chart like vegetables. If you don't use them, they spoil."

"Special dates in history illustrate clearly the power of Pluto to change things. Pluto near the Earth (100%-90%) forces outer social change by the masses. Examples of this: the French and American revolutions. Pluto far from the Earth (O%-10%) involves inner change, inner resources, and inner strengths. Freud was born with Pluto at 3%."

BIRTH AND DEATH DATA: AstroDatabank gives her birth information as August 29, 1917 at 9:45 PM in Magdeburg, Germany. As published in the Autumn, 2000, AFAN Newsletter, German astrologer, Klaus Bonnert spoke with Edith's daughter, Regine Bartsch, who read from the birth certificate 10:00 PM. She also read from a chart printed by Edith herself the rectified time of 9:53 PM. Edith died on September 19, 2000.

Helmuth Wangemann: The husband of astrologer Edith Wangeman, he was born February 2, 1899 at 12:00 AM MET in Dresden, Germany, 13° E 44' 51° N 03', death data unknown. (Source: Taeger Reseach Institute web site.) He was a professional astrologer, a student of Friedrich Schwickert ('Sindbad'), friend of the astrologer Frank Glahn. Co-founder with Edith of the 'Kosmobiosophische Gesellschaft'. Advocate of a scientific, esoteric and humanistic oriented astrology.

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