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Saturday, 21 September 2013

Peter Masterson (American actor, director, producer, writer, sailor)

* Since appearing in 1975's The Stepford Wives as Walter Eberhart, Peter Masterson has concentrated mostly on directing and producing. His daughter is actress Mary Stuart Masterson, who appeared with her father in The Stepford Wives as one of the Eberhart's daughters. Masterson's most well known and critically recognized work is The Trip to Bountiful. He co-wrote (with Larry L. King) the books for the hit musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and its short-lived sequel The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public.
Masterson has a triple conjunction of the Moon, North Node and Ascendant all in the Gemini (writing) decan of Aquarius.

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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

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!

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Sunday, 28 July 2013

Barron Hilton (American billionaire, business magnate, philanthropist)

* Barron Hilton — a rare "Triple Libran" with Sun, Moon and Ascendant in the sign of the Scales — has struck a good balance between giving and receiving. Pluto on his MC manifested in his inheritance of his father Conrad's Hilton Hotels Corporation, and he has since pledged to donate 97% of his estate (several billion dollars no less) to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, his father's charity which is dedicated to "relieve the suffering, the distressed, and the destitute." Barron Hilton has an interesting conjunction of generous Jupiter and humanitarian Uranus making the handle of a Bucket shape. He can certainly afford to give away buckets of money — literally!

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

William Barron Hilton I (born October 23, 1927) is an American business magnate, socialite, and hotel heir. He is the former co-chairman of the Hilton Hotels chain. He is one of the sons of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels).

In 1966, Hilton assumed the presidency of the Hilton Hotel chain.

On December 25, 2007, Hilton announced that, in addition to donating the funds found in the W. Barron Hilton Charitable Remainder Unitrust, upon his death he will follow his father's footsteps by leaving about 97% of his estate, estimated in 2007 at $2.3 billion, to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Included was an immediate pledge of $1.2 billion, the proceeds of the sale of Hilton Hotels Corporation and Harrah's Entertainment Inc., which was placed in a Charitable remainder unitrust that will be donated to the Foundation upon Hilton's death at whatever value the trust is worth at that time. The remainder of the funds that constitute Hilton's pledge to donate 97% of his estate will come from his $1.1 billion in personal assets.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: William Barron Hilton, 23 October 1927, 05:30 (5:30 a.m.) CST (+6), Dallas, Texas, USA (32n47, 96w48). ASC: 14 Libra. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes birth certificate on file.

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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.

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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.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr., 6 July 1926, 03:00 (3 a.m.) CST (+6), Dallas, Texas, USA (32n47, 96w48). ASC: 8 Gemini. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes birth certificate on file.

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Friday, 19 July 2013

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.

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.

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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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.

Saturday, 22 June 2013

North West (American celebrity baby, newsmaker)

* North West ― newborn daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West ― seems to have been named by them after a compass direction. The MC signifies one's direction in life, and North West has the ruler of her MC conjunct the MC in its own decan of its sign: Neptune at 5° Pisces.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: North West, 15 June 2013, 05:34 (5:34 a.m.) PDT (+7), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA (34n04, 118w22). ASC: 21 Gemini. RR: AA (from birth certificate). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes birth certificate on file, posted on various websites, including TMZ and CBSNews.com.

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Thursday, 20 June 2013

Bindi Irwin (Australian teen celebrity, newsmaker)

* 14-year-old Bindi Irwin was the subject of a death hoax on Twitter that trended online this week while transiting Saturn at 5° Scorpio in her natal 8th house semi-sextiled house-ruler natal Pluto at 5° Sagittarius. Solar Arc Jupiter at 12° Aries is currently exactly square her natal Mars at 12° Cancer, ruler of her natal first-degree-of-Aries wildlife-warrior Ascendant.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Bindi Sue Irwin (born 24 July 1998) is an Australian teen actress, television presenter, and daughter of The Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin, and Terri Irwin. Irwin is a child celebrity who has been involved in acting, singing, songwriting, dancing, rapping, and a fitness DVD. She shares the same conservationist philosophy as her parents.

Her first name comes from the name of her father's favourite female crocodile at the Australia Zoo, and her middle name is from the family's dog Sui, Sue. According to her father, Bindi is an Australian Aboriginal word that means "young girl."

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Kaffe Fassett (American-born English artist)

* Kaffe Fassett ― widely acknowledged as a visionary in the use of colour ― has Venus in the first degree of Sagittarius in the 2nd House, her natural domicile.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Kaffe Fassett (born 1937) (rhymes with 'safe asset') is an American-born artist who is best known for his colourful designs in the decorative arts — needlepoint, patchwork, knitting, painting and ceramics. "Colour is his very medium, whatever the substance he uses."

He is the great-grandson of the wealthy businessman, lawyer and United States Congressman Jacob Sloat Fassett, and it was his great-great grandparents who founded the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. He received a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the age of 19, but shortly left school to paint in London and moved there to live in 1964.

Fassett's work attracts a considerable following. His work was the subject of a 1988 one-man show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the first time a living textile artist had such a show there. The show toured nine countries.

Being more concerned with colour and design, Fassett has collaborated with quilter and teacher, Liza Prior Lucy, on the construction side of things since the 1980s. Working as a team has enabled Kaffe to design quilts, fabric, stage sets, and costumes for the Royal Shakespeare Company, while staying engaged in making rag rugs, knitting, tapestries, and mosaics.

Author of more than 30 books, Fassett concentrates on teaching the colour and design stages of craftwork rather than the construction stage. In addition to books, he has hosted craft-related television and radio programmes for the BBC and Channel 4, including his own showGlorious Colour.

His fabric prints are largely for the patchwork market along with Indian stripes fabric and shot cotton fabric range.

An exhibition of Fassett's quilts, knitting and needlepoint at the Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium in 2007, followed a multimedia solo show in 2006 at the Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, Sweden. He made a workshop tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Frank Havrah Fassett, 7 December 1937, 02:47 (2:47 a.m.) PST (+8), San Francisco, California, USA (37n46, 122w25). ASC: 20 Libra. RR: A/B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Kaffe Fassett, Kaffe Fassett: Dreaming in Color: An Autobiography (New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2012), p. 13: "I was born on December 7, 1937, at 2:47 a.m., at the Children's Hospital in San Francisco." Full name from the online California birth index.

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Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Newsmaker: Cooper Hefner (American businessman, Playboy heir).

* This month, Cooper Hefner will start running Playboy enterprises with the continued help of his 87-year-old father, Hugh Hefner.

Cooper is the youngest son of Playboy creator Hugh Hefner. Following his graduation in film production studies in May 2013, Cooper will inherit Playboy enterprises and start running the company with the continued help of his father and advisors. The younger Hefner sees this as his chance to re-introduce the magazine to a modern audience.

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