Edward Abbey, 1927–1989 (American author and essayist)

* Edward Abbey was noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire (1968) which describes his stay in the canyonlands of southeastern Utah from 1956-1957. Desert Solitaire is regarded as one of the finest nature narratives in American literature.

Edward Abbey died on 14 March 1989, at the age of 62, in his home in Tucson, Arizona.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Edward Paul Abbey, 29 January 1927, 22:30 (10:30 PM) EST (+5), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA (40n37, 79w09). ASC: 9 Libra. RR: AA (quoted birth records). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites birth certificate and baby book quoted in Edward Abbey: A Life by James M. Cahalan (University of Arizona, 2003), p. 3.

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J. Alexander, AKA Miss J (American model, reality TV personality and runway coach)

* J. Alexander (AKA Miss J) is best known for his work on television program America's Next Top Model. He travels extensively for the fashion and modelling industries, and currently lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

As a teenager he turned to modelling when he met the president of Elite Model Management, Monique Pillard. Pillard was so impressed with his look that she signed him to her agency, and he walked for designer Jean Paul Gaultier in New York City. Alexander met Tyra Banks backstage at a runway show, and he began to give her walking lessons. Banks coined Alexander's title "Queen of the Catwalk".

He has been coaching and casting models since 1991, including supermodel Naomi Campbell and model Kimora Lee Simmons. He has helped with casting and coaching models for well-known designers such as Hervé Léger, Bill Blass, Valentino, John Galliano, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, and Nina Ricci.

Alexander is openly gay and has a son named Boris. Both Alexander and his ex-boyfriend donated sperm to a French lesbian who wanted a child, and Alexander's ex is the biological father. Alexander has said that he has a "very active role" in Boris' life.

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BIRTH DATA: Alexander Jenkins, 12 April 1958, 10:10 (10:10 am) EST (+5), Bronx, New York, USA (40n51, 73w54). ASC: 13 Cancer. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an interview: "I was born April 12 at 10:10 a.m., and I moved straight into our family home on Clinton Ave. in the Bronx." ("J. Alexander, Miss J of 'Top Model,' reveals how he learned to walk so tall - his mom," by J. Alexander, [New York] Daily News, 13 November 2009 [online]). Same date plus year in a news report, "Miss J. Alexander -- Taking It in (His/Her) Stride" by Malcolm Harris, Huffington Post, 27 April 2012 [online].

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Steve 'Hizzy' Hislop, 1962–2003 (Scottish motorcycle racer)

* Steve Hislop won the Isle of Man TT eleven times, won the British 250cc Championship (1990) and won the British Superbike championship (1995 and 2002).

Hislop died when piloting his small, Robinson R44 helicopter on 30 July 2003. He was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in March 2010.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Robert Steven Hislop, 11 January 1962, 19:55 (7:55 PM) GMT (+0), Hawick, Scotland (55n25, 2w47). ASC: 1 Virgo. RR: B (Biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Hizzy: The Autobiography of Steve Hislop by him and Stuart Barker (Willow, 2012): "I was born at 7.55pm on 11 January 1962 at the Haig Maternity Hospital in Hawick in the Scottish borders."

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Max Meldrum, 1875–1955 (Scottish-Australian painter)

* Max Meldrum is known as the founder of Australian Tonalism, a representational style of painting that emerged in Melbourne during the 1910s, as well as for his portrait work, having won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940.

Meldrum's unique theory of painting (Uranus on MC) was based on "the importance of tonal values and objective optical analysis, resulting in simple representational works characterised by a 'misty' or atmospheric quality" (nebulous Neptune is exactly opposite his Ascendant).

This pioneering artist also had the zero degree of Scorpio on his Ascendant and six planets (including Pluto opposite and ruling Jupiter-Mercury in Scorpio) all in a Fixed Grand Cross. Meldrum's "published theories of art created a storm in the Australian art world, and his school of painting attracted equally passionate followers and critics."

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BIRTH DATA: Duncan Max Meldrum, 3 December 1875, 04:30 (4:30 AM) GMT (+0), Edinburgh, Scotland (55n57, 3w13). ASC: 00 Scorpio. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record ("Born 4.30 and I’m fairly sure it was am"), requested by Sy Scholfield.

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Tex Beneke, 1914–2000 (American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader)

* Tex Beneke's career is a history of associations with bandleader Glenn Miller and former musicians and singers who worked with Miller. His band is also associated with the careers of Eydie Gorme, Henry Mancini and Ronnie Deauville. Beneke also solos on the recording the Glenn Miller Orchestra made of their popular song "In The Mood" and sings on another popular Glenn Miller recording, "Chattanooga Choo Choo". Jazz critic Will Friedwald considers Beneke to be one of the major blues singers who sang with the big bands of the early 1940s. "One of the major blues singers"?? That's Saturn rising in Gemini ruled by Mercury in Pisces talking!

Jerry Haynes, 1927–2011 (American actor, "Mr. Peppermint")

* Jerry Haynes is most well known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's shows in television, the Dallas-based Mr. Peppermint (1961–1969), which was retitled Peppermint Place for its second run (1975–1996). He also had a long career in local and regional theatre and appeared in more than 50 films. A 1944 graduate of Dallas' Woodrow Wilson High School, he was the father of musician and lead singer Gibby Haynes of the group Butthole Surfers. 

Haynes had a stellium of planets in peppermint-cool Aquarius, including the Sun, ruler of his Leo Ascendant. 

Hank Locklin, 1918–2009 (American country music singer-songwriter)

* Hank Locklin ― one of country music's early honky tonk singers ― had Neptune in Leo at the head of a Kite pattern.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Lawrence Hankins Locklin (February 15, 1918 – March 8, 2009), better known as Hank Locklin, was a member of the Grand Ole Opry for nearly 50 years. Locklin had a long recording career with RCA Victor and scored big with the hits, "Please Help Me, I'm Falling", "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" and "Geisha Girl" from 1957–60. His singles charted from 1949–71. In 2007 he was inducted in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

He had 70 chart singles, including six number ones on Billboard's country chart. Locklin's biggest hits included "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On", "Geisha Girl" and his signature "Please Help Me, I'm Falling", which went to number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart. Billboard's 100th anniversary issue listed it as the second most successful country single of the rock and roll era. Other hits for Locklin included "Happy Journey" (1961), "Happy Birthday To Me" (1962) and "The Country Hall Of Fame" (1968).

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Lawrence Hankins Locklin, 15 February 1918, 01:30 (1:30 a.m.) CST (+6), McClellan, Florida, USA (30n59, 86w53). ASC: 8 Sagittarius. RR: A (from him). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes date, place and time from an interview with Locklin in Michael Streissguth's book, Voices of the Country: Interviews With Classic Country Performers (New York: Routledge, 2004), p. 104: "You were born in McClellan, Florida ...[Locklin:] I was born at 1:30 a.m., I believe, on the 15th of February." Year of birth from various biographies.

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