Cosmobiology
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The field of astrology called Cosmobiology is a system based on the early research of the Hamburg School surveyor/astrologer Alfred Witte (1878-1941), to whom its origins should properly be credited. After Witte's death in 1941, the German physician/astrologer Reinhold Ebertin (1901-1988) took Witte's research and used it as the foundations for his School of Cosmobiology. Cosmobiology also took the 4th-harmonic "90° dial" developed by the Hamburg School as a major tool in its extensive astrological research, including substantial study of medical astrology.
Cosmobiology continued Alfred Witte's later emphasis on the use of astrological midpoints along with the following 8th-harmonic aspects in the natal chart because he considered them to be the most potent in terms of personal influence: conjunction (0-15°), semi-square (45°), square (90°), sesquiquadrate (135°), and opposition (180°). Sometimes the semi-octile (22.5°) and its multiples (45°, 67.5°, 90°, 112.5°, 135°, 157.5°, etc.) are also used but this is increasingly rare in modern practice.
In cosmobiological analysis, planets are inserted into a special type of horoscope often referred to as a cosmogram (a 90° dial chart) and delineated.
After World War II, Witte's Hamburg School continued to develop in parallel with Cosmobiology, and its more strongly research-oriented members developed the Schule von Uranische Astrologie (School of Uranian Astrology), or Uranian Astrology. The major difference between Uranian Astrology and Cosmobiology has been the controversial use of Trans-Neptunian objects, now known as astronomical realities due to recent space research technology, but sharply denied by the Cosmobiologists for many years.
The primary reference/research text for Cosmobiology was first published in 1940 by the German astrologer Reinhold Ebertin. The name of the book is The Combination of Stellar Influences. The original German title is Kombination der Gestirneinflusse.
References:
Brau, Jean-Louis: Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology, McGraw-Hill Books, New York, 1977.
Ebertin, Reinhold: Combination of Stellar Influences, Ebertin-Verlag, Aalen, 1972.
Ebertin, Reinhold: Astrological Healing, Samuel Weiser Books, York Beach ME, 1989.
Witte, Alfred: Regelwerk für Planetenbilder, Ludwig Rudolph Verlag, Hamburg, 1928.
Witte, Alfred: Der Mensch, Ludwig Rudolph Verlag, Hamburg, 1975.
