Paul van Ostaijen, 1896–1928 (Belgian poet and writer)

* Paul van Ostaijen earned the nickname 'Mister 1830,' derived from his habit of walking along the streets of Antwerp clothed as a dandy from that year. His poetry shows influences from Modernism, Expressionism, Dadaism and early Surrealism, but Van Ostaijen's style is very much his own.

An active flamingant (a supporter of Flemish independence), he had to flee to Berlin after WW2. In Berlin—-one of the centers of Dadaism and Expressionism—-he met many other artists. He also struggled through a severe mental crisis. Upon returning to Belgium, Van Ostaijen opened an art gallery in Brussels. He died of tuberculosis on 18 March 1928 in a sanatorium in Miavoye-Anthée, in the Wallonian Ardennes.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Leopoldus Andreas van Ostaijen, 22 February 1896, 22:30 (10:30pm) GMT (+0), Antwerp, Belgium (51n13, 4e25). ASC: 1 Scorpio. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Kroniek van Paul van Ostaijen, 1896-1928 by Gerrit Borgers (Scheltens & Giltay, 1975), p. 7: "1896 22 februari Leopoldus Andreas (Paul) van Ostaijen geboren, 's avonds half elf, in de Lange Leemstraat 47 (thans 53) te Antwerpen, als laatste der zeven kinderen van Hendrik Pieter van Ostaijen, loodgieter, en Maria Catharina Engelen."

Translation: '1896, February 22: Leopoldus Andreas (Paul) van Ostaijen was born in the evening at half past ten at 47 Lange Leemstraat (now 53) in Antwerp, the last of the seven children of Hendrik Pieter van Ostaijen, plumber, and Maria Catharina Engelen.'

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Pimp C, 1973-2007 (American rapper, singer, and producer)

* Pimp C was best known for his work with best friend Bernard "Bun B" Freeman as a founding member of the Underground Kingz (UGK). Their third album, Ridin' Dirty, reached #2 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

n January 2002, Pimp C was sentenced to eight years in prison for violating his probation by ignoring his sentence to community service stemming from an earlier aggravated assault charge. While he was in prison, Rap-A-Lot Records released Sweet James Jones Stories in 2005, most of which consisted of unreleased freestyle recordings. Pimp C was released on 30 December 2005 and placed on parole until December 2007.

Pimp C was found dead in a hotel in West Hollywood, California, on 4 December 2007.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Chad Lamont Butler, 29 December 1973, 23:37 (11:37pm) CST (+6), Port Arthur, Texas, USA (29n53, 93w55). ASC: 28 Virgo. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Sweet Jones: Pimp C's Trill Life Story by Julia Beverly (Shreveport Ave, 2015): "[In] Port Arthur ... At 11:37 PM that night, December 29, 1973, Chad Lamont Butler entered the world a month early."

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Fumihito, Prince Akishino (Japanese Prince)

* Prince Fumihito is the second son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko and currently second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Since his marriage to Kiko Kawashima on 29 June 1990, he has held the title of Akishino-no-miya (generally translated into English as Prince Akishino) and headed his own branch of the imperial family. Prince and Princess Akishino have two daughters and one son. Prince Fumihito received a PhD degree in ornithology from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in October 1996. He conducted field research in Indonesia in 1993 and 1994, in Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China. When the current Emperor was still Crown Prince, he introduced tilapia to Thailand as an important source of protein. Tilapia can be easily cultured and Prince Fumihito, who is also known as "catfish specialist," has managed to maintain and expand the aquacultural studies with the people of Thailand. He is a big fan of the Beatles and an avid tennis player.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 30 November 1965, about 00:15 (12:15 AM) JST (-9), Tokyo, Japan (35n42, 139e46). ASC: About 19 Virgo. RR: A (from news report). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "New Japanese Prince," Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 1965, p. 13: "Tokyo (AP). Japan's Crown Princess Michiko gave birth to a boy just after midnight this morning, and both are doing well, a palace spokesman announced."

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Guy Martin (British motorcycle racer, lorry mechanic, TV presenter)

* Guy Martin primarily competed in road racing events such as the Isle of Man TT, Ulster Grand Prix and North West 200. Widely regarded as an amiable and "colourful" character, Martin has at times found it difficult to concentrate on his racing, primarily as a consequence of the media attention he attracts, not least at the Isle of Man TT.

Martin has also courted a certain degree of controversy, both with race officials and team principals. Since 2011, Martin has also found success as the front man of several television programmes focusing on his passions of engineering, motor vehicles and speed.

He has Uranus unaspected in the last degree of Scorpio.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 4 November 1981, 22:05 (10:05 PM) GMT (+0), Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England (53n35, 0w05). ASC: 8 Leo. RR: B (Autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from his book, Guy Martin: My Autobiography (Virgin Digital, 2014): "in Grimsby, in 1981. I was born in the maternity hospital in Nunsthorpe . . . at eight at night the midwife told them nothing would happen until midnight, so Dad . . . missed me being born at just gone ten. . . On 4 November 1981, the Martin family, now with . . . a day old baby boy, left hospital. . ."

N.B. This indicates that he was born on 3 November but all other references including the "About the Author" blurb in his book state he was born on 4 November.

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Adrienne Bailon (American singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, TV personality)

* Adrienne Bailon rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the American Disney group The Cheetah Girls (2003-2008). The group was made famous by the eponymous Disney Channel film and its sequels, The Cheetah Girls 2 and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The group released three studio albums, Cheetah-licious Christmas, In Concert: The Party's Just Begun Tour, and TCG and several RIAA certified Platinum albums including, The Cheetah Girls, The Cheetah Girls 2, and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The group has launched a clothing line, several perfume collections, doll lines, room decor, a book series, and a video games line. The Cheetah Girls group has sold over 3.6 million records worldwide.

Bailon has Leo rising ruled by an angular Sun in the first degree of Scorpio conjunct its ruler Pluto. Just goes to show that a Sun-Pluto personality can thrive in leadership of a feline entity. You don't have to play a lioness, tapping into the cheetah archetype will do!

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Adrienne Eliza Bailon, 24 October 1983, 00:10 (12:10 AM) EDT (+4), Manhattan, New York, USA (40n46, 73w59). ASC: 5 Leo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites an email from Kevin Cee quoting a Tweet and Instagram post by her on her birthday in 2014: "I was born today at 12:10am in The Lower East Side of NYC" https://twitter.com/Adrienne_Bailon/status/525498238821236736

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Joseph Pilates (German-American bodybuilder, inventor of the "Pilates" method)

* Joseph Pilates (1883–1967) invented and promoted the Pilates method of physical fitness. His birth certificate has been published online revealing 12:30 a.m. as his time of birth. (The writing says "halb ein uhr" (half to one) rather than "halb vier uhr" (half to four) if we compare with the hand-writing of "neunten" in the same document). Pilates had health-conscious Uranus rising in Virgo and a control-freak triple conjunction of Pluto-Chiron-Saturn, with Pluto in the last degree of Taurus, the sign of the physical body. The Pilates method was first called "Contrology" by Mr. Pilates, based on the idea of muscle control. His Moon is in muscular Aries sextile his Saturn and Part of Fortune.

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Jimmy Duncan, 1927-2011 (American songwriter, singer, composer, author)

* Jimmy Duncan is best known for his 1957 song "My Special Angel," a No.1 country/western hit for Bobby Helms. Duncan also co-wrote "String Along", which charted in 1960 for Fabian and in 1963 for Ricky Nelson; and "Everybody Knows", a minor hit in 1964 for Steve Lawrence. In the late 1960s Duncan owned a rock club in Houston named "The Living Eye"; nationally known groups such as the Electric Prunes and ? and the Mysterians played there, as well as local groups such as Lemon Fog. In 1970 Duncan built a recording studio called "Soundville" in Houston and launched his own label, Soundville.

Wally Armendarez, 1933-1996 (American orquesta musician)

* Wally Armendarez first recorded some songs for Ideal Records when he was fifteen. He played with Beto Villa's orchestra, the Paulino Bernal Orquesta and backed up some of the major artists recording for Ideal. Armendarez's 1959 recording of the polka, "Las Cuatro Milpas" proved a good seller. In 1960, he formed his own group. 

The Moon in Gemini tucked into the 12th House can make for a versatile back-up musician.

Bobbie Nelson (American pianist and singer)

* Bobbie Nelson is the sister of Willie Nelson. At age sixteen she married Bud Fletcher, who formed his own band, The Texans. She joined on the piano, while her brother joined on vocals and guitar. The band was dissembled in 1955 after she divorced Fletcher. In 1973 she joined Willie Nelson on the piano during his sessions with Atlantic Records, that produced The Troublemaker, Shotgun Willie, Phases and Stages and Red Headed Stranger. The same year she joined Willie's band, The Family, full time and began touring with her brother. In 2008, she released her solo debut album, Audiobiography.. Bobbie's Taurus Moon is conjunct Willie's Chiron and her Capricorn Saturn is conjunct his Ascendant (see his chart here). Good solid synastry for this sister-brother duo!

Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, 1486–1502 (English royal)

* Arthur Tudor was the first son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. He died suddenly, at age fifteen. When Henry VII later died, Arthur's younger brother, Henry, became king as King Henry VIII.

The times of birth of Arthur and his sister, Margaret (see her chart), were recorded in the Beaufort Book of Hours, a family chronicle inherited by Henry VIII’s grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. While the date of birth of the future Henry VIII was recorded in the book, his time of birth was not recorded, because he was the third born of Henry VII's children and thus he did not rank highly enough.

According to the Book, "in the morning afore one of the clock after midnight was born Prince Arthur at Winchester."

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 20 September 1486, about 00:50 (12:50 a.m.) LAT (-0:04:22), Winchester, England (51n04, 1w19). ASC: about 9 Leo. RR: AA (from family chronicle). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes The Beaufort Book of Hours, a chronicle inherited by Henry VIII’s grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, which states that on 20 September 1486 (Julian Calendar) "in the morning afore one of the clock after midnight was born Prince Arthur at Winchester." http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/henryviii/birthaccdeath/beaufort.

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Puyi, 1906–1967 (Chinese monarch)

* Puyi — the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing Dynasty and the last Emperor of China — had the North Node conjunct the MC both in royal Leo, opposed and ruled by the Sun on the South Node and IC — all in anti-royal Aquarius. The Sun was trined from the 8th house by Pluto, the ruler of his Scorpio Ascendant: PuYi was a prisoner of power, ruling in name only and ultimately powerless. Chosen by Empress Dowager Cixi (see her chart) on her deathbed, PuYi ruled as a child emperor, 1908-1912, as a nominal emperor in 1917, and as the emperor of the Japanese-controlled puppet state of Manchukuo, 1934-1945. After the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, Puyi was imprisoned as a war criminal for 10 years and wrote his memoirs.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 7 February 1906, 23:59 (11:59 p.m.) LMT (-7:45:40), Beijing, China (39n55, 116e25). ASC: 7 Scorpio. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Harry Hussey, Venerable Ancestor: The Life and Times of Tz'u Hsi, 1835-1908 (New York: Doubleday, 1949), p. 330: "Tz'u Hsi reminded those present that when P'u Yi was born, on midnight of the fourteenth day of the First Month of the thirty-fourth year of the reign of Kuang Hsu, a great flame appeared above the roof of the palace of his parents." NB: According to an online Chinese Calendar calculator this date equates to 7 February 1906, the data of birth given in various biographies.

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Harry Nilsson, 1941–1994 (American singer-songwriter)

* Double Grammy Award winner, Harry Nilsson, was a uniquely talented and original singer-songwriter. In the late 1960s and early 1970s when huge concert tours and festivals abounded, Nilsson broke the mould by achieving significant commercial success while shunning live performance and producing masterfully crafted studio recordings. Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favourite group." A gifted composer, Nilsson wrote songs for the Ronettes, the Yardbirds, the Monkees, and more, yet his own biggest hits were almost all written by other songwriters. His producer Richard Perry described him as "the finest white male singer on the planet," but toward the end of his life, Nilsson's career was marked by voice-damaging substance abuse. All these adjectives might describe the Sun in the enigmatic Aquarian decan of paradoxical Gemini — which Nilsson had on the cusp of his 3rd House and at the apex of a T-Square involving an opposition between his Ascendant ruler, Mars in Pisces, and its ruler, musically-inspired but unfortunately all too often drugged-out Neptune.

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WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994) achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson. He is known for the hit singles "Everybody's Talkin'" (1969), "Without You" (1971), and "Coconut" (1972). Nilsson also wrote the song “One” made famous by the rock band Three Dog Night. He was awarded Grammys for two of his recordings; best male contemporary vocal in 1969 for "Everybody's Talkin'", a prominent song in the Academy Award-winning movie Midnight Cowboy, and best male pop vocal in 1972 for "Without You."

Read more from his extensive Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Harry Edward Nilsson, 15 June 1941, 02:15 (2.15 a.m.) EDT (+4), Brooklyn, Kings, New York (40n38, 73w56). ASC: 22 Aries. RR: AA (from birth certificate quoted in a biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Alyn Shipton, Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter (Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 1: "Harry Edward Nilsson was born at Bushwick Hospital in Brooklyn, at 2.15 a.m. on June 15, 1941. His father, also Harry Nilsson and also Brooklyn born, was twenty-four years old, and his occupation was listed on the birth certificate as 'painter.'"

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Boxcar Willie, 1931–1999 (American country music singer)

* Country music legend, Boxcar Willie, sold more than 100 million recordings, profiting from his unaspected and tight triple-conjunction of Neptune, Venus and the Sun. Born Lecil Travis Martin, he took his nickname from a boxcar, the North American term for an enclosed railroad freight car typically with a square end. Fittingly, Boxcar Willie had a distinctive Grand Square or "box" pattern in his chart, plus "iron horse" planet Jupiter unaspected in the Sagittarius decan and duad of Leo. Not to mention the Uranus-Moon conjunction in the Sagittarius decan of Aries forming the handle of his Bucket shape. A strong Jupiter and a prominence of Sagittarius can indicate the potential for country music stardom.

www.boxcarwillie.com

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WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Boxcar Willie, born as Lecil Travis Martin (September 1, 1931 – April 12, 1999), was an American country music singer, who sang in the "old-time hobo" music style, complete with dirty face, overalls, and a floppy hat. "Boxcar Willie" was originally a character in a ballad he wrote, but he later adopted it as his own stage name.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Lecil T[ravis] Martin, 1 September 1931, 00:35 (12:35 AM) CST (+6), Ovilla, Texas, USA (32n31, 96w53). ASC: 27 Gemini. RR: (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes birth certificate on file.

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Lucien Pissarro, 1863-1944 (French-born British artist)

* Lucien Pissarro - noted for his landscape paintings of the French and English countrysides - had earthy Saturn in artistic Libra in quincunx aspect with his Pisces Sun, ruler of his Leo MC. A very creative astrological combination, not to mention Pluto in rural Taurus ruling his Ascendant and squaring his MC.

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WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted a few still lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Britain.

He was the oldest of seven children of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie Vellay Pissarro (see her chart).

In 1916, Lucien Pissarro became a British citizen. While in Britain he was one of the founders of the Camden Town Group of artists. From 1922 to 1937 he painted regularly in the south of France, interspersed with painting expeditions to Derbyshire, south Wales and Essex. From 1934 to 1944 he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. He died in Hewood, Somerset.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Lucien Camille Pissarro, 20 February 1863, 23:00 (11 p.m.) LMT (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 2e20). ASC: 2 Scorpio. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes birth certificate no. 382 in the Paris archives, 9e arr.

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Gabrielle Renard, 1878–1959 (French nanny, artist's model)

* In this painting by Auguste Renoir, Gabrielle Renard plays with his son Jean. As both nanny and artist's model, Renard here embodies her Venus in Cancer - which rises in her chart and conjuncts the horizon of Jean Renoir's chart. Gabrielle and Jean not only shared the same Ascendant sign, they shared a lifelong bond. Her Moon is on his IC: their bond was nurtured by her loving influence over him. She took the young Jean to see his first movie. One day he would become an acclaimed filmmaker.

See their data and charts below.

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WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Gabrielle Renard (August 1, 1878 – February 26, 1959) was a French woman who became an important member of the family of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, first becoming a nanny and subsequently, a frequent model for the artist. Upon her marriage in 1921 she became Gabrielle Renard-Slade.

Born in Essoyes in the Aube departement of France, she was a cousin of Aline Victorine Charigot Renoir, who had married the painter, Pierre-Auguste. The village was the birthplace of Aline also. At age sixteen, Gabrielle Renard moved to Montmartre to live and work as a nanny in her cousin's household, where the second of the three Renoir sons was about to be born. Renard became the subject of a number of Renoir's portraits, many of her with the children.

Gabrielle Renard developed a strong bond with the infant, Jean Renoir, that would last throughout their lives. She introduced him to the Guignol puppet shows that were held in the Montmartre. Gabrielle was fascinated by the new motion picture invention and when Jean Renoir was only a few years old, Gabrielle took him to see his first film. He became a renowned film maker.

Read more from her Wikipedia biography.

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Photo Credit:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gabrielle et Jean, 1895-96. Musée de l'Orangerie.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Fernande Gabrielle Renard, 1 August 1878, 02:00 (2 a.m.) LMT (-0:18:08), Essoyes, France (48n04, 4e32). ASC: 7 Cancer. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes birth certificate no. 12 at the Aube archives.

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Gabrielle Renard's natal chart

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Jean Renoir's natal chart
Jean Renoir: 15 September 1894, 23:00 (11 p.m.) (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 2e20). RR: AA. Source: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes birth certificate no. 4360 in the Paris archives, 18e arr. Also see Jean Renoir and Randolph Weaver, "Renoir, My Father" (New York Review, 2001), p. 255: "I was born in the Château des Brouillards on September 15, 1894, shortly after midnight."

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Yvette Guilbert, 1865–1944 (French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque)

* Yvette Guilbert ― who "broke and rewrote all the rules of music-hall with her audacious lyrics" ― had lyrical Mercury on her IC, ruled by Saturn in the first degree of raunchy Scorpio, and sextile the Moon in the same sexy sign. Not to mention the Sun in the first degree of rule-breaker Aquarius.

Yvette Guilbert: Wikipedia Biography

Born into a poor family as Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, Yvette Guilbert began singing as a child but at age sixteen worked as a model at the Printemps department store in Paris. She was discovered by a journalist. She took voice and acting lessons on the side that by 1886 led to appearances on stage at smaller venues. Guilbert debuted at the Variette Theatre in 1888. She eventually sang at the popular Eldorado club, then at the Jardin de Paris before headlining in Montmartre at the Moulin Rouge in 1890.

For her act, she was usually dressed in bright yellow with long black gloves and stood almost perfectly still, gesturing with her long arms as she sang. An innovator, she favored monologue-like "patter songs" (as they came to be called) and was often billed as a "diseuse" or "sayer." The lyrics (some of them her own) were raunchy; their subjects were tragedy, lost love, and the Parisian poverty from which she had come. During the 1890s she appeared regularly alongside another star of the time, Kam-Hill, often singing songs by Tarride. Taking her cue from the new cabaret performances, Guilbert broke and rewrote all the rules of music-hall with her audacious lyrics, and the audiences loved her. She was noted in France, England, and the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century for her songs and imitations of the common people of France.

She was a favorite subject of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who made many portraits and caricatures of Guilbert and dedicated his second album of sketches to her. Sigmund Freud attended performances, including one in Vienna, and called her a favorite singer. George Bernard Shaw wrote a review highlighting her novelty.

Read more from her Wikipedia biography.

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Picture Credit: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Yvette Guilbert Greeting the Audience (Yvette Guilbert salut a public). Musee Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, 20 January 1865, 23:00 (11 p.m.) LMT (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 02e20). ASC: 11 Libra. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes birth certificate no. 149 at the Paris archive, 3e arr.

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Soame Jenyns, 1704–1787 (English writer)

* Soame Jenyns ― who wrote against cruelty to animals like the "majestic bull" ― had angular Neptune ruling the Moon in sensitive Pisces, both in the 6th house of animals. And almighty Jupiter virtually unaspected in the sign of the bull.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

For the measure of literary repute which he enjoyed during his life Soame Jenyns (1 January 1704 – 18 December 1787) was indebted as much to his wealth and social standing as to his accomplishments and talents, though both were considerable. His poetical works, the Art of Dancing (1727) and Miscellanies (1770), contain many passages graceful and lively though occasionally verging on licence.

The first of his prose works was his Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1756). This essay was severely criticized on its appearance, especially by Samuel Johnson in the Literary Magazine. Johnson condemned the book as a slight and shallow attempt to solve one of the most difficult of moral problems. Jenyns, a gentle and amiable man in the main, was extremely irritated by his review. He put forth a second edition of his work, prefaced by a vindication, and tried to take vengeance on Johnson after his death by a sarcastic epitaph.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 1 January 1704 OS, 00:01 (12:01 a.m.) LMT (+0:00:40), London, England (51n30, 00w10). ASC: 14 Libra. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Charles Nalson Cole, ed., The Works of Soame Jenyns (London: T. Cadell, 1793), p. xv: "SOAME JENYNS, Esq. the author of these volumes, was born at twelve o'clock at night, in Great Ormond-street, in London, in the year 1703/4. . . . The hour of his birth he often mentioned; sometimes adding . . . it was still more difficult to ascertain the day of his birth, and he added farther, in his pleasant manner, that as that question had not been determined, he considered himself at liberty to choose his birth-day, and preferring the birth of the year to the day of its death, he had chosen New Year's Day, which in all civilized countries was celebrated as a day of great festivity."

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