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Wednesday, 23 March 2016

John Paul Young (Scottish-born Australian pop singer)

* John Paul Young had a 1978 worldwide hit with the single, "Love Is in the Air", which peaked at No. 3 on the Australian charts, No. 7 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and No. 5 in the UK singles chart. The associated album, Love Is in the Air reached the top 40 on the Australian albums chart. European chart success for "Love Is in the Air" included No. 2 in Norway and Sweden, No. 3 in Austria and Germany, No. 5 in Switzerland and No. 9 in the Netherlands. The song peaked at No. 2 in South Africa. As a result of his popularity in Australia he was crowned 'King of Pop' in October 1978.

Baz Luhrmann's internationally successful film Strictly Ballroom (released in 1992) featured a new version of "Love Is in the Air" and Young's single once again peaked at No. 3 on the Australian Singles Charts and became a top 50 hit in the UK. In 2000, he played to his largest audience as a featured performer at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: John Inglis Young, 21 June 1950, 08:15 (8.15am) BST (-1), Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 4w15). ASC: 9 Leo. RR: AA (birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested the data from Caroline Gerard who quotes birth certificate (20 March 2016).

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."

Sunday, 2 August 2015

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.

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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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."

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Madame Fraya, 1871-1954 (French chiromancer)

* Madame Fraya (born Valentine Dencausse) was probably the most famous chiromancer in Paris during the first half of the 20th century.

Her clients included important French artists and politicians of the time, such as the Princess of Saxe-Meningen (sister of emperor Wilhelm II of Germany), to whom she reportedly predicted World War I and the defeat of Germany. She was subsequently called into the French Ministry of War, where she assured the government that the marching German troops would not reach Paris (they were in fact stopped at the First Battle of the Marne).

The abilities displayed by Valentine Dencausse were studied by prominent scientists such as Alfred Binet, Eugene Osty, and Albert von Schrenck-Notzing.

She died on 16 February 1954 at 12:30pm in Paris.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marie Marguerite Cécile Clotilde Valentine Dencausse, 20 May 1871, 22:00 (10PM) LMT (+0:01:12), Villeneuve-de-Marsan, France (43n5338, 0w1819). ASC: 3 Capricorn. RR: (from birth record on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate N° 12 in the Landes archives (p. 5), noting however that she states her birth data as 21 May 1871 at 11pm in "Une voyante à l'Élysée: Madame Fraya" by Simone Dupont de Tervagne (Éditions Garancière, 1984), p. 21: "Je suis née sous le signe des Gémeaux, à onze heures du soir, le 21 mai 1871, à Villeneuve-de-Marsan, dans les Landes. Mon nom véritable est Valentine Dencausse."

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Alex Norton (Scottish television and film actor)

* Glaswegian actor Alex Norton played Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Matt Burke in the popular Scottish Television detective drama series Taggart from 2002 to 2010.

Burke has been described as "a man who could probably scare away a rottweiler just by looking at it."

No doubt Norton tapped into Pluto in his first house to perfect that look!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Alexander Hugh Norton, 27 January 1950, 16:30 (4:30pm) GMT (+0), Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 4w15). ASC: 6 Leo. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "There's Been a Life!: My Autobiography" by Alex Norton (Black & White: 2014): "[I]n Brock Road, Househillwood . . . I was born in my granny's wee back bedroom on 27 January 1950 at half past four in the afternoon."

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Lou Diamond Phillips (American actor and director)

* Lou Diamond Phillips' big breakthrough came when he starred in the 1987 film La Bamba as the Chicano rock 'n' roll star Ritchie Valens. Phillips earned a supporting actor Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as a gangster in Stand and Deliver (1988) and a Tony Award nomination for his role as the King in The King and I (1996). In 2007, Phillips joined the touring troupe for Lerner and Loewe's Camelot in the role of King Arthur.

Phillips is very close to the Native American community. In 1990, he was adopted by the Sioux tribe, although he is Cherokee by blood. "Star Keeper" is his Sioux name.

Phillips has an overload of solar energy in his chart which reflects his success in regal roles (and perhaps the choice of his stellar Sioux name): Moon in Leo in the 12th (the house of film), Leo North Node right on his Leo Ascendant, and Uranus in Leo ruling and opposing his Sun from the 1st house (in Mutual Reception).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Born: Lou Diamond Upchurch, 17 February 1962, 17:17 (5:17pm) AWST (-8), US Naval Base Subic Bay, Olongapo, Zambales, Philippines (14n50, 120e16). ASC: 18 Leo. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate no. 431, on file.

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Albert Collins, 1932–1993 (American electric blues guitarist and singer)

* Albert Collins had a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and capo.

His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster."

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Sunday, 22 September 2013

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.

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Friday, 20 September 2013

Nancy Gates (American film and TV actress)

* Nancy Gates starred or co-starred in 34 films and serials, many of which were westerns or sci-fi movies, with her in the leading role as the heroine. She also made a total of 55 television appearances. The Sun and Neptune are the planets most associated with acting. Gates has the Sun on her MC, conjunct Jupiter and conjunct Mercury, the latter ruling her Gemini Ascendant. The Sun rules Neptune in Leo on her IC.

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Monday, 12 August 2013

Cixi, 1835-1908 (Chinese Empress Dowager)

* Empress Dowager Cixi was a powerful and charismatic woman who unofficially but effectively controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908. Known as the 'Dragon Lady,' she had Saturn rising in Scorpio (as did 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher). If we take at face value the time of birth of "four o'clock in the morning" given in a biography, then CiXi had 29° Libra rising. And indeed, she was adept at consolidating her political power through the manipulation of her close relations.

An imperial concubine in her adolescence, Cixi gave birth to the emperor's son, known as the Tongzhi Emperor, in 1856. On the emperor's death in 1875, she ousted a group of regents appointed by him and assumed regency over the Tongzhi Emperor. Cixi then consolidated control over the dynasty when, at the death of her Emperor son, contrary to the rules of succession, she installed her nephew as the Guangxu Emperor in 1875. She died a day after Guangxu.

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

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.

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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.

Sunday, 28 July 2013

Conrad Hilton Jr., 1926–1969 (American socialite, hotel heir)

* Handsome hotel heir, Conrad Hilton Jr., had maidenly Venus in Gemini smack-bang on his Ascendant and with no close aspects except for a sextile to its ruler, Mercury in glamour-puss Leo. He liked the ladies and he is remembered for his short marriage to one beautiful future star in particular. Not the beauty queen Zsa Zsa Gabor, with whom he had an affair in his teens while she was his step-mother. And not the second of his two 18-year-old brides, oil heiress Patricia McClintock, but the other young lady: the budding screen legend Elizabeth Taylor. When he died young, at the age of 42, Hilton was fated to be identified in headlines as "ONCE WED TO LIZ TAYLOR." A renowned playboy and gambler, Hilton had philandering punter Jupiter on his MC opposite majorly boozy Neptune in Leo on his IC (and its ruler the Sun conjunct do-or-die Pluto). His death from a heart attack was brought about by many years of hitting the bottle.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton, Jr. (July 6, 1926 – March 31, 1969) was an American socialite, hotel heir, businessman, and TWA director. He was one of the sons of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels).

Hilton was born in Dallas, Texas. His father was Conrad Nicholson Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels, and his mother was Mary Adelaide (Barron). Hilton grew up with three siblings: William Barron Hilton, Eric Michael Hilton, and Constance Francesca Hilton. He was the great-uncle of Paris and Nicky Hilton, the latter sharing his nickname. He attended New Mexico Military Institute.

Hilton had an affair with his step-mother, Zsa Zsa Gabor, in 1944. He was Elizabeth Taylor's first husband (May 6, 1950 – January 29, 1951) with the marriage ending in divorce. In 1958, Hilton married oil heiress Patricia "Trish" McClintock. They had two sons: Conrad Nicholson Hilton III and Michael Otis Hilton.

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.

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Samuel F. Pickering (American professor of English)

* Sam Pickering ― whose unconventional teaching style was one of the inspirations for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society ― has Uranus in the first degree of Gemini quincunx Williams' first-degree Scorpio Ascendant. Pickering's Uranus is retrograde: he has eschewed publicity raised by the film.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Samuel F. Pickering (born September 30, 1941) is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. In addition to teaching, he has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.

One of Pickering's students at Montgomery Bell Academy, Tom Schulman, later wrote the script for the film Dead Poets Society, basing the pedagogy of Robin Williams' character very loosely on Pickering's eccentric style. Pickering has eschewed publicity raised by the film and has since regarded the unorthodoxy of his classroom behavior as more goalless than that depicted in Dead Poets Society, in which unorthodoxy is employed deliberately as a way to preach the values of non-conformity and carpe diem. Instead, Pickering has commented that "I did such things not so much to awaken students as entertain myself."

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