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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."

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."

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."

Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Gene Mingo (American football player)

* Gene Mingo played several positions including halfback, placekicker, and return specialist.

He is widely recognized as the first African American placekicker in American football.

On 14 September 2014, Mingo, along with Dan Reeves and Rick Upchurch, was inducted into the Broncos Ring of Fame.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Eugene L. Mingo, 22 September 1938, 09:00 (9 AM) EST (+5), Akron, Ohio, USA (41n04, 81w31). ASC: 00 Scorpio. RR: A/B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "What Have You Done Now, Eugene?" by Gene Mingo, Glen Strickland and Carol Strickland (iUniverse, 2012), p. 12: "At 9:00 AM on that warm September 22nd morning in 1938, I was born at 326 Berry Avenue, my family's rented house in Akron."

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Tuesday, 4 August 2015

UPDATE: Robert Millar (Scottish road racing cyclist)

* Robert Millar won the "King of the Mountains" competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall. Millar was the first rider from an English speaking country to have won the Mountains classification in the Tour de France. This success was the first time a British rider won a major Tour classification, and was unsurpassed as the highest Tour finish for a Briton until Bradley Wiggins was retrospectively placed third in the 2009 Tour de France. He is one of only four Britons to have won a Tour de France jersey competition along with Wiggins, Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish. He rode the Tour de France eleven times completing the race eight times.

His biography states he was born at 6:15 AM (no source given) but Caroline Gerard kindly looked up his birth entry in the registry which states 6:15 PM. Both sets of data and charts are displayed below. Either way, Millar is at least a quintuple Virgo - with both luminaries plus three planets in this sign. (Ironically, his biography is subtitled "Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain's Most Successful Tour de France Cyclist" yet this book leaves the reader wondering if "AM" is a typo or not, and if not, the exact nature of the source of this info).

NATAL DATA (from birth record) and ASTROLOGY CHART BIRTH DATA: Robert Charles Millar, 13 September 1958, 18:15 (6:15 PM) BST (-1), Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland (55°N53, 4w15). ASC: 2 Aquarius. RR: AA (Birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth entry in the registry.

NATAL DATA (from biography) and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 13 September 1958, 06:15 (6:15 AM) BST (-1), Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland (55°N53, 4w15). ASC: 14 Virgo. RR: B (Biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from In Search of Robert Millar by Richard Moore (HarperSport, 2008): "born [at] 4 Wellcroft Place in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, at 6.15 a.m. on 13 September 1958."

Sunday, 2 August 2015

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.

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.

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."

UPDATE: Robert Millar (Scottish road racing cyclist)

NATAL DATA (from biography) and ASTROLOGY CHART

Monday, 23 December 2013

Mick Fanning (Australian professional surfer)

* Mick Fanning has recently become a triple world surfing champion, having won the 2007, 2009 and 2013 ASP World Tours.

His Taurus Ascendant is ruled by Venus (conjunct Mercury) in watery Cancer, indicating a love of the ocean. Venus is in mutual reception with the Moon in Libra, surely keeping him balanced on his surfboard. Fanning is nicknamed "White Lightning" because his style is lightning fast: electrical Uranus in powerful Scorpio squares and rules his MC.

Check out the awesome pipeline and rip-curl shots on his website (www.mickfanning.com.au).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Michael Eugene Fanning, 13 June 1981, 04:21 (4:21 a.m.) AEST (-10), Penrith, Sydney, Australia (33s45, 150e42). ASC: 17 Taurus. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes data from a photo of Fanning's baby card in the book, "Surf For Your Life - the Biography of Mick Fanning" by Mick Fanning & Tim Baker (Random House Australia, 2009).

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Doug Brown (American professional skateboarder)

* Doug Brown has vocal Mercury in sporty Leo on his Midheaven.

Now aged 40, he continues his career as a pro-skateboarder while working as a motivational speaker at schools and detention centres. His Grand Fire Trine gives him plenty of energy to burn. Jupiter in Aquarius (opposite his Mercury) makes his Grand Trine into a Kite pattern, helping him to harness this energy and soar.

Check out his autobiography and website for more info (www.dougbrownskate.com).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Douglas Brown, 10 July 1973, 14:14 (2:14 p.m.) EDT (+4), Columbus, Ohio, USA (39n57, 82w59). ASC: 23 Libra. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "Doug Brown: Beyond the Board" by him (Mustang, OK: Tate Publishing, 2010), p. 12: "I was born on July 10th, 1973, at Mount Carmel Medical Center at 2:14 p.m. in Columbus, Ohio."

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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.

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Sachin Tendulkar (Indian cricketer)

* Sachin Tendulkar is widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of his generation. The doctor who delivered him on 24 April 1973 reveals in an interview that Tendulkar was born at 1 p.m.
The "god of cricket" has the sporty/religious Sagittarian decan of Leo on his Ascendant ruled by the masterly Sun on the MC.

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Monday, 2 September 2013

James Hird (Australian rules footballer, coach)

* Last week, former footballer and former coach James Hird started his 12 month ban from working at any Australian Football League (AFL) club in any capacity. The ban followed Hird's admission that he had brought the game into disrepute because of his involvement in the use of injected performance enhancing supplements by his team. Hird's solar arc Jupiter in Pisces and MC in Taurus are both quincunx his natal Pluto in Libra. Transiting Neptune is also conjunct his solar arc Jupiter.

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Saturday, 20 July 2013

Dee Caffari (British sailor)

* Dee Caffari — the double record-holding, round-the-world-non-stop, solo yachtswoman — has sailor Neptune in adventurous Sagittarius sextile solitary Pluto, the ruler of her indefatigable Scorpio Ascendant. Caffari has a bucket shape in her chart with Saturn in Gemini as the handle. In her case, the bucket calls to mind the hull of a yacht, with Neptune signifying the base of the mast and Saturn-the-singleton resembling the top of the mast. Meanwhile, Pluto in aspect to these planets-in-opposition makes a wedge pattern that evokes the triangle of the main sail.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Denise "Dee" Caffari, MBE (born in 1973) is a British sailor, and in 2006 became the first woman to sail single-handedly and non-stop around the world "the wrong way"; westward against the prevailing winds and currents. In February 2009, Caffari completed the Vendée Globe race and set a new record to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, around the world in both directions.

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Marc Edwards (American pro' football player)

* Marc Edwards - described as an "old-school battering ram of a Super Bowl champion" - has sporty Sagittarius rising and wham-bam-thankyou-ram Mars in Scorpio ruling Pluto on his MC. Interestingly, he has timelord Saturn in maternal Cancer exactly quincunx his Ascendant: according to his biography his mother's watch stopped at the exact moment he was born.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Marc Alexander Edwards (born November 17, 1974) last played in the NFL in 2005 for the Chicago Bears.

Edwards was named Ohio's Mr. Football in 1992 as the state's top player. He was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round (55th overall) of the 1997 NFL Draft. After two years in San Francisco, Edwards played the following two years for the Cleveland Browns from 1999 to 2000. He has also played for the New England Patriots from 2001 to 2002 and the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2003 to 2004. Edwards's high school retired his #44 Jersey on September 11, 2010. In October 2010, a book by Aaron M. Smith about Edwards's life, Odyssey: From Blue Collar, Ohio To Super Bowl Champion, was published.

Saturday, 6 July 2013

Connie Mack, 1862–1956 (American professional baseball player, manager, and team owner)

* Connie Mack ― "the Grand Old Man of baseball" ― was the longest-serving manager in Major League Baseball history. He was "born just before midnight" most probably with very late Virgo on his Ascendant. As a player he would needle batters to distract them, and as a manager he created a Code of Conduct for players (including the motto: "I will do my utmost to keep myself clean ― physically, mentally, and morally"). With Sun and Moon in a Capricorn stellium ruled by Saturn in Libra on the Ascendant, he was known as the "Tall Tactician."

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr (December 22, 1862 – February 8, 1956), better known as Connie Mack, holds records for wins (3,731), losses (3,948), and games managed (7,755), with his victory total being almost 1,000 more than any other manager. Mack managed the Philadelphia Athletics for the club's first 50 seasons of play, starting in 1901, before retiring at age 87 following the 1950 season, and was at least part-owner from 1901 to 1954. He was the first manager to win the World Series three times, and is the only manager to win consecutive Series on separate occasions (1910–11, 1929–30); his five Series titles remain the third most by any manager, and his nine American League pennants rank second in league history. However, constant financial struggles forced repeated rebuilding of the roster, and Mack's teams also finished in last place 17 times. Mack was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Camille du Gast, 1868-1942 (French celebrity of the Belle Epoque)

* Camille du Gast ― pioneering feminist, "Amazon" and arguably "the greatest sportswoman of all time" ― had both Mars and Pluto all but unaspected in the 11th House. Competitive Mars ruled Jupiter and Neptune in trail-blazing Aries in the 10th House of accomplishments.

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Camille du Gast, Marie Marthe Camille Desinge du Gast, Camille Crespin du Gast (30 May 1868 – 24 April 1942) was one of a trio of pioneering French female celebrities of the Belle Epoque, together with Hélène de Rothschild (Baroness Hélène van Zuylen) and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (the duchesse d’Uzès). She was known as one of the richest and most accomplished widows in France, being a balloonist, a parachute jumper, an accomplished sportswoman, fencer, tobogganist, skier, rifle and pistol shot, horse trainer, concert pianist and singer. She was the second woman to compete in an international motor race.

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