AstroDataBlog: Sagittarius Sun

Showing posts with label Sagittarius Sun. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 1915–2006 (German-British soprano and voice teacher)

* Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was among the foremost singers of lieder, and was renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta. She starred in five feature films for Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, in which she acted, sang and played the piano. After retiring from the stage in 1971, she was a voice teacher internationally. Schwarzkopf died in her sleep during the night of 2–3 August 2006 at her home in Schruns, Vorarlberg, Austria, aged 90. Her reputation has remained tarnished by what seems to have been an active Nazi party membership.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, 9 December 1915, 16:00 (4PM) CET (-1), Jarocin, Poland (51n59, 17e31). ASC: 23 Gemini. RR: A (From memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites an account of her birth written by her father: "Der 9. Dezember 1915 Nachmittag ca. 4h wurde unsere Elisabeth geboren, in Jarotschin, Breslauerstr. 7, im 2. Stock, in dem grossen Schlafzimmer, das nach der Strasse zu lag..." Translation: 'On 9 December 1915 at four o'clock in the afternoon our Elisabeth was born in Jarotschin, Breslauerstr. 7, 2nd floor, in the large bedroom, which faced the road...' (The account is quoted from the newsletter of Schubertiade Schwarzenberg/Hohenems, December 2015) [www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/elisabeth-schwarzkopf].

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."

Friday, 12 February 2016

Percy Sutton, 1920–2009 (American political and business leader, civil-rights activist and lawyer)

* Prominent African-American civil-rights activist Percy Sutton became one of America's best-known lawyers during the 1950s and 1960s. He represented many controversial figures, such as Nation of Islam leader, Malcolm X. After the murder of Malcolm X in 1965, Sutton and his brother Oliver helped to cover the expenses of his widow, Betty Shabazz.

Sutton was the highest-ranking African-American elected official in New York City when he was Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, the longest tenure at that position. He later became an entrepreneur whose investments included the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

In 1971, Sutton cofounded the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation which purchased New York City's WLIB-AM, the city's first African-American-owned radio station.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Percy Ellis Sutton, 25 November 1920, 00:00 (12 AM) CST (+6), San Antonio, Texas, USA (29n25, 98w29). ASC: 29 Leo. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth records. The handwritten time on the original record clearly states "AM" on 25 November but the numeral is indistinct, seems to be "12" which is consistent with a birth time of midnight between 24th and 25th, considering that the amendment filed by his mother in 1967 states his birth date as the 24th [https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2YW-4QR].

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Phillip Hughes, 1988–2014 (Australian cricketer)

* Phillip Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman.

In March 2009, he became the youngest cricketer in history to score centuries in both the first and second innings of a Test match. On 11 January 2013, he became the first Australian batsman in the history of ODI cricket to score a century on debut.

On 25 November 2014, Hughes was hit in the neck by a bouncer, during a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, causing a vertebral artery dissection that led to a subarachnoid haemorrhage. He was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, where he underwent surgery, was placed into an induced coma and was in intensive care in a critical condition. He died in the afternoon of 27 November, having never regained consciousness, three days before his 26th birthday.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Phillip Joel Hughes, 30 November 1988, 16:50 (4:50pm), Macksville, New South Wales, Australia (30s43, 152e55). ASC: 4 Taurus. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography" by Malcolm Knox and Peter Lalor (Pan Macmillan, 2015), p. 6: "Phillip Joel Hughes was born at 4.50 pm on Wednesday, 30 November 1988, in Macksville District Hospital."

Saturday, 26 December 2015

Tomson Highway (Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author)

* Tomson Highway is best known for his plays "The Rez Sisters" and "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing," both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award.

Highway has also published a novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998), which is based on the events that led to his brother René Highway’s death of AIDS. He also has the distinction of being the librettist of the first Cree language opera, The Journey or Pimooteewin.

He was artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto from 1986 to 1992, as well as De-ba-jeh-mu-jig theatre group in Wikwemikong.

He currently divides his time between residences in Noelville, Ontario and in France with Raymond Lalonde, his partner of 31 years.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Tomson Highway, 6 December 1951, 04:00 (4 AM) CST (+6), Brochet, Manitoba, Canada (57n53, 101w40) ASC: 21 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an interview: "my mother went into labour and they had to pitch a tent in the snow and I was born that night at four o'clock in the morning." ("Tomson Highway Has A Surprisingly Positive Take On Residential Schools" by Joshua Ostroff, Huffington Post, 15 December 2015 [online]).

Monday, 21 December 2015

Cassandra Wilson (American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter)

* Cassandra Wilson incorporates blues, country, and folk music into her work. Her ancestry includes Fon, Yoruba, Irish and Welsh. Between her mother’s love for Motown and her father’s dedication to jazz, Wilson’s parents sparked her early interest in music.

Wilson has won two Grammy Awards: her 1996 album New Moon Daughter won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, and in 2009 she earned the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Loverly.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Cassandra Wilson, 4 December 1955, 08:30 (8:30 am) CST (+6), Jackson, Mississippi, USA (32n17, 90w11). ASC: 3 Capricorn. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her in an interview: "I was born at 8:30 a.m." ("Cassandra Wilson revives 'Blue Light 'Til Dawn'" by Richard Scheinin, San Jose Mercury News, 6 May 2014 [online]). Date, year and place from Jazzwomen: Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians by Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse (Indiana University Press, 2004), p. 339.

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Kirsi Kunnas (Finnish poet, children's literature author and translator)

* Kirsi Kunnas has an extensive oeuvre consisting of poems, fairy tale books, drama, translations (e.g. Lewis Carroll, Federico García Lorca) and non-fiction. Her books have been translated into Swedish, English, German, French, Hungarian, and Estonian. She has received several prizes and awards in Finland for her life's work.

Kunnas is married to author Jaakko Syrjä. The lead singer and songwriter Martti Syrjä and guitarist Mikko Syrjä of Eppu Normaali are their sons.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Kirsi Marjatta Kunnas, 14 December 1924, 12:00 (12 Noon) EET (-2), Helsinki, Finland (60n10, 24e58). ASC: 13 Aquarius. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Kirsi Kunnas - Sateessa ja tuulessa by Leena Kirstinä (WSOY, 2014): "Helsingissä Eiran sairaalassa syntyi 14. joulukuuta 1924 kello 12 pieni tyttö, sunnuntailapsi."

tr Translation: 'At Eira Hospital in Helsinki a little girl, a Sunday child, was born on 14 December 1924 at 12:00 o'clock.'

Monday, 16 November 2015

Hayley Okines,1997–2015 (English girl with progeria, an extremely rare aging disease)

* Hayley Okines was known for spreading awareness of progeria, a genetic disease that caused her to age eight times faster than the average person.

Although the average life expectancy for sufferers is 13 years, Hayley was part of a drug trial that had seen her surpass doctors' predictions of her projected lifespan.

However, she died on 2 April 2015 at the age of 17 due to complications of pneumonia, having lived four years beyond doctors' initial predictions.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Hayley Leanne Okines, 3 December 1997, 14:50 (2:50 pm) GMT (+0), St Leonards-on-Sea, England (50n51, 00e34). ASC: 21 Taurus. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her mother in Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines, and Alison Stokes (Accent, 2011): "1997 ... at Hastings Conquest Hospital ... I will never forget the moment - 2.50 p.m. on Wednesday December 3 - when Rita the midwife laid my baby on my tummy."

Friday, 26 June 2015

Max Meldrum, 1875–1955 (Scottish-Australian painter)

* Max Meldrum is known as the founder of Australian Tonalism, a representational style of painting that emerged in Melbourne during the 1910s, as well as for his portrait work, having won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940.

Meldrum's unique theory of painting (Uranus on MC) was based on "the importance of tonal values and objective optical analysis, resulting in simple representational works characterised by a 'misty' or atmospheric quality" (nebulous Neptune is exactly opposite his Ascendant).

This pioneering artist also had the zero degree of Scorpio on his Ascendant and six planets (including Pluto opposite and ruling Jupiter-Mercury in Scorpio) all in a Fixed Grand Cross. Meldrum's "published theories of art created a storm in the Australian art world, and his school of painting attracted equally passionate followers and critics."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Duncan Max Meldrum, 3 December 1875, 04:30 (4:30 AM) GMT (+0), Edinburgh, Scotland (55n57, 3w13). ASC: 00 Scorpio. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record ("Born 4.30 and I’m fairly sure it was am"), requested by Sy Scholfield.

If you're enjoying these posts, please consider making a donation by Paypal toward the upkeep of this blog and the further acquisition of birth records. Thank you for supporting astro-data collecting.

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Joseph Mohr (Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer)

* Joseph Mohr wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night" [German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht"]. He had Mercury unaspected in Capricorn in the 10th House. The song was first performed by a choir with Mohr on guitar because the local church organ wasn't working. An 1820 manuscript of the song surfaced publicly in 1995, having been held in a private collection for 175 years. Written by Mohr, it states that he wrote the words in 1816. They were put to music in 1818. The U.S. copyright office has registered 733 versions of the song, recognized as the best known and most popular of carols. Unaspected planets can work in weird and wonderful ways.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 11 December 1792, 12:00 (12 noon) LMT (-0:52:08), Salzburg, Austria (47n48, 13e02). ASC: 11 Pisces. RR: AA (from quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!: die Erfolgsgeschichte eines Weihnachtsliedes" by Wolfgang Herbst (Atlantis-Musikbuch-Verlag, 2002), p. 22: "Joseph Mohr wurde am 11. Dezember 1792 mittags 12 Uhr in Salzburg geboren und wenige Stunden später im Dom getauft. Sein Name steht beim Erzbischöflichen Konsistorial- archiv Salzburg im selben Taufbuch, in dem sich auch der Name Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus [lat. Amadeus] Mozart befindet. Allerdings ist das Kind Josephus Franciscas der Eltern Franz Moor und Anna Schoiberin im Anhang bei den unehelichen Kindern aufgeführt. Im Taufbuch IX/2 (1756-1814) der Salzburger Dompfarre kann man als letzte Eintragung für das Jahr 1792 folgenden mit lateinischen Abkürzungen versehenen Vermerk finden . . . Dezember 12 Uhr mittags geboren und 4 Uhr nachmittags getauft worden ist Joseph Franz, natürliches Kind [Filius Naturalis] Franz Moor, Musketier und Anna Schoiber, beide ledigen..."

Translation: Joseph Mohr was born on 11 December 1792 at 12 o'clock noon in Salzburg, and baptized in the cathedral a few hours later. His name is recorded in the Archbishop's Konsistorial- archive in Salzburg in the same parish register which records the name Joannes Chrysostom Wolfgangus Theophilus [lat. Amadeus] Mozart. However, the child Josephus Francisca's parents Franz Moor and Anna Schoiberin are listed in the Annex for illegitimate children. In the baptismal register IX / 2 (1756-1814) of the Salzburg Cathedral Parish [it] can be found as the last entry for the year 1792: ... On December 12 was born at noon and baptized at 4 clock in the afternoon: Franz Joseph, natural child [Filius Naturalis] of Franz Moor, Musketeer and Anna Schoiber, both unmarried...

If you're enjoying these posts, please consider making a donation by Paypal toward the upkeep of this blog and the further acquisition of birth records. Thanks kindly.

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."

If you're enjoying these posts, please consider making a donation by Paypal toward the upkeep of this blog and the further acquisition of birth records. Thanks kindly.

Robin Roberts Natal Chart

Robin Roberts Transits 29 December 2013

Conditions of use: My data collection is the result of thousands of hours of volunteer research work, not to mention the associated financial costs. Links via social media are always welcome but my research data must not be distributed commercially and must never be sold by other parties. Use of my data is available in fairness to anybody who follows the conditions of use, so exclusive rights to publication are never granted. Attribution to "Sy Scholfield" as the collector should be given and a hyperlink or URL for this blog should be included in source notes. Please provide me with a complimentary copy of any book, software, app, etcetera, or the URL of any website in which you publish my research data. Thank you for supporting astro-data collecting.

Thursday, 21 November 2013

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.

Click here to see the astro-data and chart »

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Darrell Glenn, 1935-1990 (American singer-songwriter)

* Darrell Glenn made his mark in the music business with his 1953 recording of "Crying In the Chapel", written by his dad, Artie Glenn. His early recordings included "I Think I'm Falling In Love With You". "Crying in the Chapel" was covered by June Valli, Sonny Til & the Orioles and Elvis Presley; all versions becoming major hits. In 1959, Glenn re-recorded "Crying in the Chapel" for National Recording Corporation as the title track of an album of inspirational songs. The album has been re-released on CD by NRC. Glenn penned the Elvis release "Indescribably Blue".

"Crying In the Chapel"?? The Sun is in religious Sagittarius exactly conjunct the Ascendant, squared by teary Neptune high in the sky.

Click here to see the astro-data and chart »

Monday, 23 September 2013

Michael Brown (American producer and writer of songs and books)

* Michael Brown is most widely known for several children's storybooks he has written about Santa Mouse. Santa Mouse was originally printed in 1966 but since then it has been reprinted many times. In the stories, Santa Mouse becomes one of Santa's helpers. Brown has Jupiter and Saturn conjunct in Virgo, the sign of the helper. Brown has served several terms as a member of the board of the Songwriters Guild of America.

Click here to see the astro-data and chart »

Sunday, 22 September 2013

Tom Archia, 1919–1977 (American jazz tenor saxophonist)

* Tom Archia took "Texas Tom" as his marquee name. He played with Mit Larkin's band in Chicago, taking up a residency at the Rhumboogie Club from August 1942 to May 1943. From 1943 to 1944 he was a member of the Roy Eldridge orchestra and the Rhumboogie "Dream Band." In 1945, Archia went to Los Angeles to join Howard McGhee's combo. Returning to Chicago in 1946, he became a headliner at Leonard Chess's club, the Macomba Lounge, until 1950, and recorded extensively for Aristocrat Records, the predecessor to Chess Records, during 1947 and 1948. He retired to Houston in 1967, playing Houston clubs for the rest of his life.
With the Sun in Sagittarius and an equally-fiery triple Leo conjunction of the Ascendant, Neptune and Jupiter, Archia would have had plenty of energy to burn.

Click here to see the astro-data and chart »

Charlie Applewhite, 1932-2001 (American singer)

* Charlie Applewhite was a baritone known as "the little man with the big voice." He had some minor hits for Decca in the mid-1950s, including "Put Your Heart Next to Mine" and "No One But You." He had a 1957 album release, Love Affair (and a lovely conjunction of the Moon and Venus in the 1st House). Applewhite appeared regularly on TV's Milton Berle and Ed Sullivan shows.

The exact square from Mercury to its ruler Jupiter explains the "little man with the big voice" tag.

Click here to see the astro-data and chart »

Friday, 20 September 2013

John Hillerman (American actor)

* John Hillerman is probably best remembered for his role as former British Army Sergeant Major Jonathan Quayle Higgins III ("Higgins") on the American TV series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988). The Texas-born Hillerman learned to do the upper-class English accent of Higgins by watching and listening to the performances of Laurence Olivier (Hillerman and Olivier both have Gemini rising and their Moons in Virgo). Hillerman co-starred with Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I.. Selleck's Uranus is smack-bang on Hillerman's Ascendant.

Click here to see the astro-data and chart »

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Margaret Tudor, 1489–1541 (Queen consort of Scotland)

* Margaret Tudor's birth was recorded in the Beaufort Book of Hours, a royal family chronicle inherited by Henry VIII’s grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort (after whom Margaret was named). According to the Book, Margaret Tudor was born "at Westminster at night after the ninth hour a quarter."

Margaret's Ascendant was in Leo, the sign of royalty, and she had Neptune-Mars and her North Node in a Leo decan in the 5th, the royal house.

Upon her marriage to James IV, she became Queen of Scotland.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Margaret Tudor (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541), born at Westminster Palace, was the elder of the two surviving daughters of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the elder sister of Henry VIII. In 1503, she married James IV, King of Scots. James died in 1513, and their son became King James V. She married secondly Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. Through her first and second marriages, respectively, Margaret was the grandmother of both Mary, Queen of Scots, and Mary's second husband, Lord Darnley. Margaret's marriage to James IV foreshadowed the Union of the Crowns - their great-grandson, King James VI of Scotland, the child of Mary and Darnley, became King of England and Ireland on the death of Margaret's fraternal niece, Elizabeth I of England.

Monday, 26 August 2013

Jennifer Carpenter (American actress)

* Jennifer Carpenter first attracted critical attention for her performance in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, taking home the 2006 MTV Movie Award for 'Best Frightened Performance.' Yet Carpenter is best known for her current role as the homicide detective, Debra Morgan, on the hit Showtime TV drama series Dexter, for which she won a Saturn Award in 2009.

Carpenter has killer/sleuth planet Pluto rising and ruling her scream-queen conjunction of Mercury and Uranus in Scorpio.

Carpenter's ex-husband, Michael C. Hall, plays her serial-killer brother on Dexter. His 8th-house Uranus is conjunct her Ascendant, and her Sun-Neptune is conjunct his MC-Venus (see his chart here).

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.

www.AstroDataBlog.com

Welcome to AstroDataBlog!

Over the past 15+ years, Sy Scholfield has provided the global astrological community with thousands of timed astro-data (over 15,000 in AstroDatabank). The result of his meticulous research ― as evidenced by their scholarly source notes ― these data pertain to people from many historical periods, geographical regions and walks of life. On this official blog, Sy continues his endeavour, posting new, updated and newsmaker data and charts from his vast collection of astrological information ― for your reference, study and enjoyment. Please feel free to share these data and charts with appropriate acknowledgment.