SABIAN SYMBOLS
The universe is the bride of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elsie May Wheeler - Spiritualist Medium With a Gift for the World
Elsie Wheeler was born Elsie May Wheeler on September 3, 1887 at 9.39 pm in Norris City, Southern Illinois. Not a great deal is known about her life, but the legacy she left behind lives on through the gift that is the Sabian Symbols. Severely afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis, apparently she spent her entire life in a wheelchair.
Even though her birthday Sabian Symbol is Virgo 12: A Bride With Her Veil Snatched Away, Elsie never married nor had children. It seems she may have been "wedded" to a higher spiritual purpose. Her "Veil" seems to be firmly in place as not much has been recorded or written about her.
Elsie, born in 1887, was the youngest of 5 children. Her siblings' names were Ada, Cora, Edward and Charles. The family lived in Mayberry in Hamilton County,and also in Norris City in White County. Her mother's name was Louisa and her father's name Willis. Her mother She was left an orphan after her mother died in 1891 and her father in 1894. Her sister, Cora, died in 1902, Cora's husband, Henry Wakeford died in 1905 and their daughter (Elsie's niece) died in 1900. Cora, however, had another child, Suzanne, who became very close to Elsie in her later years.
She was confined to a wheelchair her entire life with rheumatoid arthritis, and in the 1900, 1910 and 1920 US Census, Elsie is listed as being at the Bethesda Hospital and Home for the Incurables in St. Louis, Missouri; which means she must have been in the Home for the Incurables for at least 20 years. She moved to San Diego some time early in the 1920's, from my research it seems she moved there in 1923 (when she was 36) living with a man listed in the 1930 Census as being her uncle - Frank W. Baxter. From the San Diego City records, Frank and Elsie lived in India Street, Washington and Market Street at various times. In the 1930 Census, Frank was listed as being a barber and Elsie a spiritualist medium. Although Frank was described as her uncle in the 1930 Census, it appears that he was not really her uncle as there is no family connection that can be found. My feeling is that they were listed as neice and uncle as this made their relationship sound more respectable - times then being what they were around these kinds of issues.
Elsie lived with Frank in San Diego from around 1923 until her death in 1938.
She spent many of her days at the San Diego Indoor Sports Club, which is located in the beautiful Mission Hills district. It has been in existence since the early 1900's and is still operating today. It was described as "providing social mixing for people with disabilities."
Elsie become quite famous in San Diego through being a spiritualist medium. At the time of her death, her progressed Sun was at Scorpio 2: A Broken Bottle and Spilled Perfume… she could stand the pain no longer and she left her physical body.
The beauty and grace with which she lived her life is enhanced by the gift she has given to the world. Indeed, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said "To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom".
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