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Thursday, 12 May 2016

Alain Leroy Locke, 1885-1954 (American writer, philosopher, educator, patron of the arts)

* Distinguished as the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Alain Leroy Locke was the philosophical architect —the acknowledged "Dean"— of the Harlem Renaissance. As a result, popular listings of influential African-Americans have repeatedly included him. On 19 March 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed: "We're going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe."

Locke was gay, and may have encouraged and supported other gay African-Americans who were part of the Harlem Renaissance. However, he was not fully public in his orientation and referred to it as his point of "vulnerable/invulnerability", taken to mean an area of risk and strength in his view.

After his retirement from Howard University in 1953, Locke moved to New York City. He suffered from heart disease, and after a six-week illness died at Mount Sinai Hospital on 9 June 1954.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 13 September 1885, about 10:30 (10:30 AM) LMT (+5:00:39), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (39n57, 75w09). ASC: About 17 Scorpio. RR: B (from auto/biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy by Christopher Buck (Kalimat, 2005), p. 12: "In the Alain Locke Papers, there is a note in Locke's handwriting that reads: 'Alain Leroy Locke--Alan registered as Arthur (white) Phila Vital Statistics owing prejudice of Quaker physician Isaac Smedley to answering question of race. [B]orn 13 So. 19th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Sunday between 10 and 11 A.M. September 13, 1885. Called Roy as a child[,] Alain from 16 on. [illegible] First born son. 2nd brother born 1889—lived 2 months. Named Arthur first selected for me.' A city hall note by the chief clerk of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Charities (1909?) confirms 1885 as the year of his birth."

Monday, 18 January 2016

Matthew Pavlich (Australian rules football player)

* Matthew Pavlich plays for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A versatile player, Pavlich is widely regarded as one of the premier AFL centre half-forwards of the modern era, achieving All-Australian selection six times in the years between 2002 and 2008, twice representing Australia in the International Rules Series and representing the Dream Team in the 2008 Hall of Fame Tribute Match.

Pavlich has played his AFL entire career at Fremantle where he is a six time best and fairest winner, eight time leading goal kicker and was the club captain between 2007 and 2015. He is the first and only player from a Western Australian-based club to play over 300 AFL games. Born in South Australia, he made his AFL debut in 2000 and wears guernsey number 29.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Matthew Pavlich, 31 December 1981, 23:45 (11:45pm) ACDT (-10:30), Adelaide, SA, Australia (34s55, 138e35). ASC: 10 Virgo. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in Purple Heart by Matthew Pavlich (Pan Macmillan, 2015): "I was born on New Year's Eve 1981 at 11.45 pm... I was expected to be Adelaide's first New Year baby."

Monday, 21 December 2015

Cassandra Wilson (American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter)

* Cassandra Wilson incorporates blues, country, and folk music into her work. Her ancestry includes Fon, Yoruba, Irish and Welsh. Between her mother’s love for Motown and her father’s dedication to jazz, Wilson’s parents sparked her early interest in music.

Wilson has won two Grammy Awards: her 1996 album New Moon Daughter won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, and in 2009 she earned the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Loverly.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Cassandra Wilson, 4 December 1955, 08:30 (8:30 am) CST (+6), Jackson, Mississippi, USA (32n17, 90w11). ASC: 3 Capricorn. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her in an interview: "I was born at 8:30 a.m." ("Cassandra Wilson revives 'Blue Light 'Til Dawn'" by Richard Scheinin, San Jose Mercury News, 6 May 2014 [online]). Date, year and place from Jazzwomen: Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians by Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse (Indiana University Press, 2004), p. 339.

Sunday, 15 November 2015

Otto Sander, 1941–2013 (German film, theatre, and voice actor)

* Otto Sander's best-known film roles include the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire (1987) and its sequel Faraway, So Close! (1993) by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (1981). Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter.

Sander died, aged 72, in Berlin on 12 September 2013, having battled cancer for several years.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 30 June 1941, 20:08 (8:08pm) CEDT (-2), Hanover, Germany (52n24, 9e44). ASC: 17 Sagittarius. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Otto Sander: ein Hauch von Anarchie darf schon dabei sein by Klaus Dermutz and Karin Messlinger (Henschel, 2002), p. 11: "Der ersehnte Stammhalter erblickte am Montag, den 30. Juni 1941, um 20 Uhr 08 in der Landesfrauenklinik Hannover das Licht der Welt."

Translation: The longed-for son and heir was born on Monday, 30 June 1941, first seeing the light at 20:08 in the national women's clinic at Hannover.

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Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Marie-Luise Marjan (German actress)

* Marie-Luise Marjan is best known for her role as Helga Beimer in the German Television Series Lindenstraße (created by Hans W. Geißendörfer in 1985). She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz). In the German Version of Murder, She Wrote, Immer wenn sie Krimis liest (1994), she has portrayed a detective, Anita De Winter, like Angela Lansbury. In Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 Marie-Luise Marjan is the German voice of Queen Lilian (Julie Andrews). In 2010, she was presented with the Cross of Merit, First class of the Federal Cross of Merit.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marlies Lause Marjan, 9 August 1940, 13:00 (1pm) CEDT (-2), Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51n28, 7e01). ASC: 27 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her discussing her 75th birthday in an interview: "Ich bin ein Sommerkind, ich bin auch an einem 9. August an einem Sonntag geboren um 13 Uhr, und genau zwei Stunden später werde ich meine Geburtstagsfeier beginnen." ("Marie-Luise Marjan zum 75. Geburtstag" by Birgitt Schippers, domradio.de, 9 August 2015).

Translation: 'I am a summer child. I was born on 9 August, a Sunday, at 13:00, and exactly two hours later I'm going to start my birthday party.' NB: 9 August 1940 was actually a Friday.

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Steven Severin (English musician, songwriter, composer, bass guitarist)

* Steven Severin (photographed in 1986, at left) was a co-founding member of English rock band, Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976-1996), along with vocalist Siouxsie Sioux.

Known as 'Steve Havoc' when he joined the Banshees, he took the name 'Severin' from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character that is the subject of the Velvet Underground song "Venus in Furs."

After the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1996, Severin began a solo career and created his own label RE.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Steven John Bailey, 25 September 1955, 04:00 (4 AM) BST (-1), Highgate, London, England (51n34, 0w08). ASC: 00 Virgo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an onlne interview: "25-9-1955 4.00 a.m. LONDON (Highgate) - Sun sign Libra, Virgo rising, Moon in Capricorn."

Friday, 24 July 2015

Lil' Mo (American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer)

* Lil' Mo debuted on the music scene as Missy Elliott's protégée and contributed guest vocals to some of Elliott's work, most notably the record-breaking "Hot Boyz". Under the wing of Elliott, Lil' Mo would land a contract deal with Elektra Records and release charting singles of her own, including "Ta Da", "Superwoman Pt. II", "4Ever", "Hot Girls", and her debut single "5 Minutes".

In addition to her solo work and collaborative efforts with Missy Elliott, Lil' Mo worked with former associate Ja Rule, with whom she penned chart-topping hits like "Put It on Me" and "I Cry". Thereafter, Lil' Mo would go on to release four studio albums, eleven music videos and over fourteen hit singles. Mo would also be largely responsible for bringing then-unknown rapper Fabolous to mainstream media attention. Aside from her work as a solo vocalist, Mo has contributed production and backing vocals to numerous artists' records throughout the years including: Nicole Wray, Jay-Z, Tamar Braxton, Gerald LeVert, Faith Evans, among many others.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Cynthia Karen Loving, Jr, 19 November 1978, 23:49 (11:49 PM) EST (+5), Long Island, New York, USA (40n50, 73w00). ASC: 4 Virgo. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Taming Lil' Mo by Cynthia Loving (Next Level, 2014): "At exactly 11:49 p.m. on November 19th, I opened my eyes for the very first time."

Sunday, 19 July 2015

B. C. Forbes, 1880–1954 (Scottish-American financial journalist, publisher)

* B. C. Forbes emigrated to New York City in 1904 where he worked as a writer, financial editor, and syndicated columnist, eventually founding Forbes magazine in 1917.

Forbes is a business magazine which features original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. It also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, and law. The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and rankings of world's top companies (the Forbes Global 2000). The motto of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool."

B. C. Forbes had powerful planetary combinations in his chart: Pluto conjunct Sun (ruler of the Leo Ascendant) and Mars conjunct Moon (with Mars ruling Saturn on a 29° Aries MC). Not to mention a stellium of six planets in business-oriented Taurus high in the sky. Oh, and unaspected Jupiter in Aries.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Bertie Charles Forbes, 14 May 1880, 10:30 (10:30 AM) GMT (+0), New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (57n30, 2w12). ASC: 19 Leo. RR: AA. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested data from Caroline Gerard who quotes birth record sighted in July 2015.

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Gabe Saporta (Uruguayan American musician)

* Gabe Saporta is the lead singer and primary creative force behind the synthpop band Cobra Starship which he formed in 2005 after taking a trip to the deserts of Arizona.

He was previously the lead singer, bassist, and lyricist for the pop punk band Midtown.

Saporta is a vegetarian and an active member of PETA.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Gabriel Eduardo Saporta, 11 October 1979, about 10:15 (10:15 AM) BZ2D (+2), Montevideo, Uruguay (34s53, 56w11). ASC: Sagittarius. RR: C (Accuracy in question). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "Libra, Sag Rising, Cancer Moon" handwritten by him as his "Zodiac sign" and "Montevideo, Uruguay" as his place of birth in a questionionnaire published online on 12 September 2014. A speculative time of 10:15am gives mid Sagittarius (15 degrees) rising.

Friday, 26 June 2015

Eric Bogle (Scottish-Australian folk singer-songwriter)

* Eric Bogle emigrated to Australia in 1969. On 25 January 1987, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his work as a singer-songwriter. In May 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named his song, "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Bogle has a Taurus Midheaven ruled by unaspected Venus in Libra.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 23 September 1944, 03:55 (3:55am) BST (-1), Peebles, Scotland (55n39, 3w12). ASC: 28 Leo. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record, requested by Sy Scholfield.

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Anna Moffo, 1932–2006 (American opera singer, TV personality, actress)

* The Sun tends to amplify the qualities of any planet that enters its rays by conjunction. Ann Moffo had the Sun conjunct Venus (both in Cancer and on the Ascendant) at the end of her 12th House. The Sun added a warm and radiance to her soprano voice and reinforced the beauty of "La Bellissima" as she was known.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Anna Angelina Moffo, 27 June 1932, 06:00 (6 AM) EDT (+4), Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA (40n03, 75w23). ASC: 10 Cancer. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Anna Moffo by Mario G. Genesi (Litografica Orione, 2002), p. 13: "A Wayne, piccolo centro di circa 4.000 abitanti negli outskirts di Philadelphia, nasce, alle ore 6 antimeridiane del 27 giugno del 1932, la più illustre componente del gruppo: Anna Angelina Moffo."

Translation: The most prominent member of the group, Anna Angelina Moffo, was born at 6 o'clock in the morning of 27 June 1932 at Wayne, a small town of about 4,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

Friday, 28 November 2014

Baccio Bandinelli (Italian Renaissance sculptor, draughtsman and painter)

* Pluto and its sign Scorpio are associated with intense jealousy. Baccio Bandinelli had Pluto in Scorpio opposite his Ascendant (smack-bang on his 7th cusp) ruling the Sun in the last degree of Scorpio (also in the 7th). Notorious for his envy (of other artists), he obsessively imitated the works of Michelangelo whom he saw as a rival, and he tried to sabotage Benvenuto Cellini's career. Bandinelli's Venus (arts, values, relationships) ruled his Ascendant from Pluto's domain: the 8th House. His Venus was also conjunct Michelangelo's Ascendant.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Bartolommeo Brandini, 12 November 1493 OS, 15:25 (3:25 PM) LMT (-0:45), Florence, Italy (43n46, 11e15). ASC: 8 Taurus. RR: B (from biography, but birth records are indicated). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites birth documents quoted in "Baccio Bandinelli and art at the Medici court: a corpus of early modern sources, Volume 251" by Louis Alexander Waldman (American Philosophical Society, 2004), p. 7: "born in Florence (an hour before sunset) and baptized the following day . . . In the earlier literature BB's birthdate was often given as 1488, based on the erroneous assumption that the baptismal record of his uncle, Bartolomeo di Viviano di Bartolomeo, dated 7 October 1488 (Doc. 11), referred to him. In the 'Libri d'età' of the Archivio delle Tratte, however, the correct birthdate is corroborated: 'Messer Bartolomeo di Michelagnolo di Viviano Bandinelli adì 12 di novembre 1493' (ASF, Tratte, 81 [ex 444bis], fol. 9). 21. 1493, November 13." Scholfield calculates sunset at 4:25pm so an hour earlier makes 3:25pm.

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Margaret Tudor, 1489–1541 (Queen consort of Scotland)

* Margaret Tudor's birth was recorded in the Beaufort Book of Hours, a royal family chronicle inherited by Henry VIII’s grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort (after whom Margaret was named). According to the Book, Margaret Tudor was born "at Westminster at night after the ninth hour a quarter."

Margaret's Ascendant was in Leo, the sign of royalty, and she had Neptune-Mars and her North Node in a Leo decan in the 5th, the royal house.

Upon her marriage to James IV, she became Queen of Scotland.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Margaret Tudor (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541), born at Westminster Palace, was the elder of the two surviving daughters of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the elder sister of Henry VIII. In 1503, she married James IV, King of Scots. James died in 1513, and their son became King James V. She married secondly Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. Through her first and second marriages, respectively, Margaret was the grandmother of both Mary, Queen of Scots, and Mary's second husband, Lord Darnley. Margaret's marriage to James IV foreshadowed the Union of the Crowns - their great-grandson, King James VI of Scotland, the child of Mary and Darnley, became King of England and Ireland on the death of Margaret's fraternal niece, Elizabeth I of England.

Monday, 26 August 2013

Jennifer Carpenter (American actress)

* Jennifer Carpenter first attracted critical attention for her performance in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, taking home the 2006 MTV Movie Award for 'Best Frightened Performance.' Yet Carpenter is best known for her current role as the homicide detective, Debra Morgan, on the hit Showtime TV drama series Dexter, for which she won a Saturn Award in 2009.

Carpenter has killer/sleuth planet Pluto rising and ruling her scream-queen conjunction of Mercury and Uranus in Scorpio.

Carpenter's ex-husband, Michael C. Hall, plays her serial-killer brother on Dexter. His 8th-house Uranus is conjunct her Ascendant, and her Sun-Neptune is conjunct his MC-Venus (see his chart here).

Friday, 16 August 2013

Chris "Orbit" Brown (American magician)

* Chris "Orbit" Brown is a young Californian magician. He invented his first Algorithm when he was 23 after meeting Kim Peek, the original 'rain man.' Brown calls it, “The Rainman Algorithm” — in under 5 seconds after telling him your birthday he can tell you what day you were born on, what day you’ll turn 65, what it will be this year, and what it would have been 100 years prior. Brown presents many of his tricks on YouTube. He has Jupiter, Moon and Sun all in mathematical Pisces, all squared by uncanny Saturn in Sagittarius. The Sun (around which each planet of our star system makes its orbit) rules his Leo Ascendant.

theorbitbrown.com

Photo Credit: Unattributed promotional photo from Wonderland Artists & Events

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Christopher Douglas Brown, 9 March 1986, 15:53 (3:53 p.m.) PST (+8), Santa Clara, California, USA (37n20, 121w15). ASC: 22 Leo. RR: B (from official website biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Brown's official website: "Chris Brown was born at 3:53 pm during a raining Sunday afternoon on March 9th, 1986 from parents Martha and Jim Brown in Santa Clara, CA at Kaiser Hospital." http://theorbitbrown.com/site/chris-orbit-brown/. Full name from the California Birth Index.

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Larry Levis, 1946–1996 (American poet)

* Larry Levis ― remembered and admired for the "generous spirit and sardonic humor"¹ in his poems ― had benevolent Jupiter in cynical Scorpio square the cusp of his 12th house, the domain of poetry.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Larry Patrick Levis won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum for his first book of poems, Wrecking Crew (1972), which included publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The American Academy of Poets named his second book, The Afterlife (1976) as Lamont Poetry Selection. His book The Dollmaker's Ghost was a winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. Other awards included a YM-YWHA Discovery award, three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship. His poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and in many other anthologies. Larry Levis died of a heart attack in Richmond, Virginia on May 8, 1996, at the age of 49.

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