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Friday, 19 June 2015

Hal Ashby, 1929-1988 (American film director and editor)

* Hal Ashby is associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He won the 1968 Oscar for Best Editing for the mystery drama In the Heat of the Night (1967) starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates.

Mercury (ruler of Ashby's Ascendant and his cinematic, angular Neptune-Sun conjunction) is conjunct Mars and opposite Uranus. His biography is subtitled "Life of a Hollywood Rebel" and he directed several acclaimed and popular films "about outsiders and adventurers traversing the pathways of life." These films include the off-beat romance Harold and Maude (1971), the social satires Shampoo (1975) and Being There (1979), and the Vietnam War drama Coming Home (1978) starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, both in Academy Award-winning performances.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: William Hal Ashby, 2 September 1929, 00:10 (12:10 AM) MST (+7), Ogden, Utah, USA (41n13, 111w58). ASC: 28 Gemini. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson (University Press of Kentucky, 2009), pp. 2+6: "I was born in Ogden, Utah ... Born at ten minutes past midnight on September 2, 1929."

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Sunday, 24 May 2015

Diana Vreeland, 1903–1989 (French-American magazine editor and fashion journalist)

* Wikipedia gives at least two different dates of birth for Diana Vreeland (29/7/1903 and 29/9/1903) and her birth certificate gives another (29/12/1903), but the certificate is dated 2 October 1903. Clearly the December date is an impossibility: the clerk made a mistake and should have written "29 September," which is the date specified in her birth notice published in The Times [London, England] on 2 October 1903.

Many thanks to Marc Brun for acquiring the birth certificate for us!

Vreeland is a fashion icon: Neptune on her Ascendant rules Jupiter in Pisces on her MC. From 1936 until her resignation in 1962, she ran a column for Harper's Bazaar called "Why Don't You?". She was editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine from 1963 until 1971. Vreeland advised First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in matters of style and she is credited with inventing the word "pizzazz."

Neptune on the Ascendant can also bring confusion about the circumstances of a person's birth but in Vreeland's case the mystery surrounding her date of birth has now been solved!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Diana Dalziel, 29 September 1903, 22:30 (10:30 PM) (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 02e20). ASC: 12 Cancer. RR: AA (birth certificate in hand). SOURCE: Birth certificate obtained by Marc Brun, dated 2 October 1903 and mistakenly stating date of birth as 29 December. Date of birth confirmed by her birth notice found by Sy Scholfield in The Times, 2 October 1903, p. 1: "DALZIEL.--On the 29th ult., at 5 Avenue de Bois de Boulogne, Paris . . . a daughter."

Monday, 17 June 2013

Raymond A. Palmer, 1910-1977 (American editor, sci-fi icon)

* Raymond A. Palmer ― who famously believed that he could remember events that occurred while he was in the womb ― had Neptune in Cancer in a boomerang pattern.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Raymond Arthur Palmer [sic] (August 1, 1910-August 15, 1977) was the influential editor of Amazing Stories from 1938 through 1949, when he left publisher Ziff-Davis to publish and edit Fate Magazine, and eventually many other magazines and books through his own publishing houses, including Amherst Press and Palmer Publications. In addition to magazines such as Mystic, Search, and 'Flying Saucers," he published numerous spirtualist books, including Oahspe: A New Bible, as well as several books related to flying saucers, including "The Coming of the Saucers," co-written by Palmer with Kenneth Arnold. Palmer was also a prolific author of science fiction and fantasy stories, many of which were published under pseudonyms.