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Saturday, 20 February 2016

Trina Gulliver (English professional darts player)

* Trina Gulliver MBE is the ten-time Women's World Professional Darts Champion of the British Darts Organisation. Her nickname is Golden Girl and in 2003 she was named as the BBC Midlands Sports Personality Of The Year.

The daughter of publicans, she trained as a carpenter and joiner, and later taught carpentry and joinery at Mid-Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa.

From the introduction of the BDO Women's World Championship in 2001, Gulliver remained undefeated in the competition until her defeat in the 2008 Championship. She has the 8 highest winning 3 dart averages in the Women's World Championship including 3 winning average higher than 90.

She lives in Cheddar, Somerset with her England ladies' darts colleague and partner Sue Gulliver. They married in a civil partnership in July 2010.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Catrina Elizabeth Gulliver, 30 November 1969, 03:15 (3:15 AM) BST (-1), Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England (52n18, 1w31). ASC: 7 Libra. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Golden Girl: The Autobiography of the Greatest Ever Ladies' Darts Player by Trina Gulliver (John Blake, 2008): "I was born at 3.15 a.m. on 30 November 1969 at the Warneford Hospital in Leamington Spa."

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Natalie Clifford Barney, 1876–1972 (American playwright, poet and novelist)

* Natalie Clifford Barney lived as an expatriate in Paris. Her salon was held at her home at 20 rue Jacob in Paris' Left Bank for more than 60 years and brought together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures in French literature along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation. She worked to promote writing by women and formed a "Women's Academy" (L'Académie des Femmes) in response to the all-male French Academy while also giving support and inspiration to male writers from Remy de Gourmont to Truman Capote.

She was openly lesbian and began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900, considering scandal as "the best way of getting rid of nuisances" (meaning heterosexual attention from young males). In her writings she supported feminism and pacifism. She opposed monogamy and had many overlapping long and short-term relationships, including on-and-off romances with poet Renée Vivien and dancer Armen Ohanian and a 50-year relationship with painter Romaine Brooks. Her life and love affairs served as inspiration for many novels, ranging from the salacious French bestseller Sapphic Idyll to The Well of Loneliness, the most famous lesbian novel of the twentieth century.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 31 October 1876, 09:00 (9 AM), Dayton, Ohio, USA (39n45, 84w11). ASC: 7 Sagittarius. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from George Wickes' biography, The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney (Putnam, 1976), p. 100.

Monday, 13 July 2015

Casey Legler (French swimmer, model, artist)

* Casey Legler has been described as the "world's first female male model" after becoming the first woman to exclusively sign on the men's books of Ford Models.

She was born in the South of France, attended school in Florida, and began competitive swimming at the age of 12. She competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics at the age of 19.

Legler came out as lesbian when she was 21.

She is currently writing a memoir about her swimming career, due for release next year.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Casey Edelle Legler, 26 April 1977, 19:30 (7:30 PM) CEDT (-2), Fréjus, Var, France (43n26, 6e44). ASC: 26 Libra. RR: AA (Quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield has a letter on file obtained by Marc Brun from the Frejus mayor's office quoting original birth record.

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Thursday, 26 March 2015

Beccy Cole (Australian country music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist)

* Beccy Cole has released eight albums, with three reaching the ARIA Albums Chart top 40: Little Victories (20 January 2003), Preloved (3 September 2010) and Songs & Pictures (10 October 2011). Cole has received nine Golden Guitar trophies at the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia.

In July 2012 Cole revealed that she is a lesbian on ABC-TV series, Australian Story. In October 2013 she was the inaugural ambassador for the Adelaide-based Feast Festival and in the following month she presented her show, The Queer of Country.

Cole reveals in her autobiography that she was born at 11:05 pm at Glenelg Hospital in Adelaide. She thus has the first degree of Cancer on her Ascendant ruled by the Moon in Cancer on her South Node in the first house.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Rebecca Diane Thompson, 27 October 1972, 23:05 (11:05 pm) ACST (-9:30), Glenelg Hospital, Adelaide, Australia (34s59, 138e31). ASC: 00 Cancer. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Poster Girl" by Beccy Cole (Hachette: 2015), p. 9: "Mum soon went back to singing but in 1972 she took more time away from the stage to have baby Rebecca on October the twenty-seventh - and I was bang on time for the last time in my life at 11:05 p.m. ... [at] Glenelg Hospital." Extract available online here.

Thursday, 20 November 2014

May Swenson, 1913–1989 (American poet and playwright)

* May Swenson is considered one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century. She channelled her rising Mars in Aries into the creation of poetry showing a strong use of imagery and eroticism. Some of her poems express intense love between women, written at a time when female homoeroticism was rare in poetry. Mars rules her Venus in Aries (in the First House) which is the only planet to aspect her Pluto.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Anna Thilda May Swenson, 28 May 1913, 02:30 (2:30 AM) MST (+7), Logan, Utah, USA (41n44, 111w50). ASC: 10 Aries. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Body My House: May Swenson's Work and Life" by Paul Crumbley and Patricia M. Gantt (Utah State University Press, 2006), p. 8: "May 28, 1913: Anna Thilda May Swenson . . . born at 2:30 AM Wednesday at a house . . . in Logan, Utah."

Saturday, 11 January 2014

Robin Roberts (American television broadcaster)

* Robin Roberts – anchor of the TV show Good Morning America – has communicator Mercury on her MC. Just over a week ago she came out on her Facebook profile, by mentioning her "long time girlfriend, Amber," on the day that the transiting Moon crossed her natal Sun, and transiting Venus retrograded on her natal Ascendant. Last Monday, as transiting Venus exactly conjunct her Pallas-Ascendant, Roberts shared the first public photo of Amber. Roberts has been treated for breast cancer and for myelodysplastic syndrome. She has Pluto – the survivor planet – on her North Node, sextile Mercury, ruler of her 6th House of health issues.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Robin René Roberts, 23 November 1960, 10:30 (10:30 AM) CST (+6), Pass Christian, Mississippi, USA (30n19, 89w15). ASC: 25 Capricorn. RR: A (from news report/memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Roberts in a Factiva transcript of "Introduction to the 7:30 Half-Hour," ABC News: Good Morning America, 24 November 2010: "I know, one day. Oh, by the way, I was born at 10:30 in the morning" in response to George Stephanopoulos' comment, "Well, you're 50 [years old] plus one [day] now."

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Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Hélène van Zuylen, 1863-1947 (French socialite, author, sporting figure in Parisian life)

* Hélène van Zuylen (née de Rothschild) ― the first woman to compete in an international motor race (in 1898) ― had Mars high in the sky ruling the Aries Decan of Sagittarius on her Ascendant and Neptune in Aries on her IC.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Baroness Hélène van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar or Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt de Haar, née de Rothschild (21 August 1863 – 17 October 1947), was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. Her main creative writing period was from 1902 through 1907 when she collaborated on stories and poems with her lesbian partner Renée Vivien.

Together with Camille du Gast and Duchesse d’Uzès Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Baroness Hélène van Zuylen was one of a trio of French female motoring pioneers of the Belle Epoque. She entered the 1898 Paris–Amsterdam–Paris Trail using the pseudonym Snail, thus becoming the first woman to compete in an international motor race.

An only child, the daughter of Salomon James de Rothschild, she was disinherited for marrying a Catholic, Baron Etienne van Zuylen of the old Dutch noble family Van Zuylen van Nievelt. Thus, her childhood home, the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, was bequeathed to the French government by her mother. Her extensive refurbishments to the van Zuylen ancestral home Kasteel de Haar near Utrecht turned it into one of the foremost Gothic Revival castles in the Netherlands.

She was nicknamed La Brioche, and used the pseudonym Snail for motor racing whilst her husband, Baron Etienne van Zuylen, competed as Escargot (French for snail). In collaborations with Renée Vivien she used the nom de plume Paule Riversdale.

Friday, 22 March 2013

Audre Lorde (New Astrology data and chart)

* Lesbian-feminist author, Audre Lorde — State Poet of New York from 1991 to 1992 — wrote that she was "born around 9pm on 2/18/34."

Audre Lorde (born Audrey Geraldine Lorde, February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer and civil rights activist.

Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines. During this time, she was politically active in civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements. Her first volume of poetry, The First Cities (1968), was published by the Poet's Press and edited by Diane di Prima, a former classmate and friend from Hunter College High School. Dudley Randall, a poet and critic, asserted in his review of the book that Lorde "does not wave a black flag, but her blackness is there, implicit, in the bone."

Her second volume, Cables to Rage (1970), which was mainly written during her tenure at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, addressed themes of love, betrayal, childbirth and the complexities of raising children. It is particularly noteworthy for the poem "Martha", in which Lorde poetically confirms her homosexuality: "[W]e shall love each other here if ever at all." Later books continued her political aims in lesbian and gay rights, and feminism. In 1980, together with Barbara Smith and Cherríe Moraga, she co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of colour. Lorde was State Poet of New York from 1991 to 1992.

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