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Friday, 15 April 2016

Ariana Grande (American singer and actress)

* Ariana Grande is the first person in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart to have the lead single from each of her first three albums debut in the top 10. She released her debut studio album Yours Truly in 2013, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. The album's lead single, "The Way", reached the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100, with critics comparing her wide vocal range to Mariah Carey's. Grande's second studio album, My Everything (2014), also reached number one in the United States and charted well in various other countries. With the singles "Problem", "Break Free", "Bang Bang" and "Love Me Harder" from that album, she spent 34 continuous weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and had the most top 10 singles of any artist in 2014. In March 2016, she released "Dangerous Woman", the lead single from her upcoming third studio album of the same name. The album is set to be released in May 2016.

Grande's accolades include two American Music Awards, Music Business Association's Breakthrough Artist of the Year, an MTV Video Music Award, two MTV Europe Music Awards and two Grammy Award nominations. Grande has a large following on social media.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ariana Grande-Butera, 26 June 1993, 21:16 (9:16pm) EDT (+4), Boca Raton, Florida, USA (26n21, 80w05). ASC: 20 Capricorn. RR: A. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her father Edward 'Eddie' Butera on Twitter for "9:16pm" after being asked "exactly what time was she born?" Butera also tweeted "Her mother went into labor and we waited long hours for her to arrive, we watched Godfather 1 & 2" and "it went smooth... I cut the chord." Five minutes after he tweeted "9:16pm" a follower posted an image of a baby photo inscribed "Welcome Ariana Grande Butera 6/26/93 9:10PM," prompting another follower to remark, "is this [image] fake then?," to which Butera did not reply. Place given by her father in a tweet, "miss you too. Boca Raton!!!" in reply to Grande's tweet, "homesick again."

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Natalie Clifford Barney, 1876–1972 (American playwright, poet and novelist)

* Natalie Clifford Barney lived as an expatriate in Paris. Her salon was held at her home at 20 rue Jacob in Paris' Left Bank for more than 60 years and brought together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures in French literature along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation. She worked to promote writing by women and formed a "Women's Academy" (L'Académie des Femmes) in response to the all-male French Academy while also giving support and inspiration to male writers from Remy de Gourmont to Truman Capote.

She was openly lesbian and began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900, considering scandal as "the best way of getting rid of nuisances" (meaning heterosexual attention from young males). In her writings she supported feminism and pacifism. She opposed monogamy and had many overlapping long and short-term relationships, including on-and-off romances with poet Renée Vivien and dancer Armen Ohanian and a 50-year relationship with painter Romaine Brooks. Her life and love affairs served as inspiration for many novels, ranging from the salacious French bestseller Sapphic Idyll to The Well of Loneliness, the most famous lesbian novel of the twentieth century.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 31 October 1876, 09:00 (9 AM), Dayton, Ohio, USA (39n45, 84w11). ASC: 7 Sagittarius. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from George Wickes' biography, The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney (Putnam, 1976), p. 100.

Monday, 1 February 2016

Paul Kantner, 1941–2016 (American guitarist, singer and songwriter)

* Paul Kantner is known for co-founding Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era, and its more commercial spin-off band Jefferson Starship. Kantner led Jefferson Airplane through its highly successful late 1960s period.

Kantner had the longest continuous membership with Jefferson Airplane; at times he was the only founding member still in the band from the original lineup, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with other band members in 1996.

Kantner had three children; sons Gareth (a film producer), and Alexander (a musician who sometimes played with Jefferson Starship), and daughter China (a former MTV VJ and actress; his child with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship singer Grace Slick).

Kantner died in San Francisco at the age of 74 on 28 January 2016 due to multiple organ failure and septic shock after he suffered a heart attack days earlier.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Paul Lorin Kantner, 17 March 1941, circa 20:00 (8pm) PST (+8), San Francisco, California, USA (37n46, 122w25). ASC: Libra. RR: C (rectified from approximate time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Sun and Ascendant Signs ("Paul is Pisces, Libra rising") from "Paul Kantner interview by Patricia Kennealy/Morrison, Jazz & Pop, February 1971" [online version here]. Other data from California Birth Index. A speculative time of 8pm gives Libra rising.

Saturday, 16 January 2016

Phyllis Coates (American film and television actress)

* Phyllis Coates is perhaps best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men and in the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952) in which she was given equal billing with George Reeves (insisted upon by Reeves), even for episodes in which she did not appear. Her powerful "damsel in distress" scream was used to good effect in several episodes.

Coates's Superman fame has obscured the fact that she was one of Hollywood's most consistently employed actresses of the 1950s and '60s. She freelanced steadily, appearing in numerous low-budget features, many of them Westerns, as well as serials and a steady stream of TV appearances, both as a regular in several series and as a guest cast member in others.

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BIRTH DATA: Martha Rose Stell, 15 January 1927, 03:30 (3:30am) CST (+6), Harrisburg, Harris, Texas, USA (29n43, 95w16). ASC: 00 Sagittarius. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate.

Sunday, 20 December 2015

J. Alexander, AKA Miss J (American model, reality TV personality and runway coach)

* J. Alexander (AKA Miss J) is best known for his work on television program America's Next Top Model. He travels extensively for the fashion and modelling industries, and currently lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

As a teenager he turned to modelling when he met the president of Elite Model Management, Monique Pillard. Pillard was so impressed with his look that she signed him to her agency, and he walked for designer Jean Paul Gaultier in New York City. Alexander met Tyra Banks backstage at a runway show, and he began to give her walking lessons. Banks coined Alexander's title "Queen of the Catwalk".

He has been coaching and casting models since 1991, including supermodel Naomi Campbell and model Kimora Lee Simmons. He has helped with casting and coaching models for well-known designers such as Hervé Léger, Bill Blass, Valentino, John Galliano, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, and Nina Ricci.

Alexander is openly gay and has a son named Boris. Both Alexander and his ex-boyfriend donated sperm to a French lesbian who wanted a child, and Alexander's ex is the biological father. Alexander has said that he has a "very active role" in Boris' life.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Alexander Jenkins, 12 April 1958, 10:10 (10:10 am) EST (+5), Bronx, New York, USA (40n51, 73w54). ASC: 13 Cancer. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an interview: "I was born April 12 at 10:10 a.m., and I moved straight into our family home on Clinton Ave. in the Bronx." ("J. Alexander, Miss J of 'Top Model,' reveals how he learned to walk so tall - his mom," by J. Alexander, [New York] Daily News, 13 November 2009 [online]). Same date plus year in a news report, "Miss J. Alexander -- Taking It in (His/Her) Stride" by Malcolm Harris, Huffington Post, 27 April 2012 [online].

Saturday, 7 November 2015

Mary Ellis, 1897–2003 (British stage actress, opera singer, centenarian)

* Mary Ellis was a long-lived star of the British stage best known for her roles in the genre of musical theatre. After appearing with the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 1918, later appearing opposite Enrico Caruso, she acted on Broadway, creating the title role in Rose Marie. In 1930, she emigrated to England, where she gained additional fame and continued to perform into the 1990s. Ellis published her memoirs in 1982 under the title Those Dancing Years. A further autobiography Moments of Truth followed in 1986. She died in London on 30 January 2003, aged 105.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: May Belle Elsas, 15 June 1897, 07:00 (7 am) EST (+5), New York, New York, USA (40n46, 73w59). ASC: 27 Cancer. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Hollywood" by Sidney Skolsky, Washington Post, 28 March 1935, p. 16: "Mary Ellis ... New York born ... on June 15, 1901, at 7 o'clock in the morning." Actual birth name, date and year from 'New York, New York, Birth Index, 1878-1909' (Ancestry.com).

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Rose McGowan (American actress, model and singer)

* "Appearing as a cross between Betty Boop's evil sister and a very curvaceous Hell's Angel, actress Rose McGowan made an undeniably distinct impression on Hollywood in the late '90s. With her sharp tongue and brash sensuality, McGowan has been a source of both titillation and discomfort to an industry that still hasn't quite figured out what to do with women who are both unapologetically smart and sexual." This excerpt from McGowan's biography on AllMovie neatly encapsulates her unaspected conjunction of Uranus and Venus in Libra. This conjunction makes a Grand Air Trine with her Ascendant and MC.

McGowan was in a very public three and a half year relationship (1998-2001) with rock musician Marilyn Manson (see his chart). Her MC conjuncts his 7th cusp and her Uranus-Venus conjunction trines his 7th cusp.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Rose Arianna McGowan, 5 September 1973, 23:38 (11:38pm) CEDT (-2), Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy (43n33, 11e02). ASC: 14 Gemini. RR: AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes an email from GraZia Bordoni containing data from the official archives of Certaldo.

Kevin Cee points out that McGowan stated in a 1997 interview, "I’m a Virgo with Virgo ascendant" (read the interview here).

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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Louis Chevrolet, 1878–1941 (Swiss-American racecar driver, automotive engineer, founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company)

* Louis Chevrolet revelled in automobiles. He turned from mechanic to racecar driver to automotive engine designer to co-founder of an international car company bearing his name. The namesake of the 'Chevy' had the highly-driven combination of Mars in the first degree of Sagittarius trine his Leo Ascendant.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Louis Joseph Chevrolet, 25 December 1878, 18:30 (6:30 pm) LMT (-0:29:44), La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (47n06, 6e50). ASC: 1 Leo. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Louis Chevrolet: der Mann, der dem Chevy seinen Namen gab : die Geschichte des Rennfahrers und Autopioniers -- 1878 bis 1941" by Martin Sinzig (Huber, 2011), p. 25: "Am 25. Dezember 1878, um sechseinhalb Uhr nachmittags, wird Louis Joseph Chevrolet an der Rue Du Grenier 22a in La Chaux-de-Fonds geboren."

Translation: "On 25 December 1878 at six-thirty after noon, Louis Joseph Chevrolet was born at 22a Rue Du Grenierin La Chaux-de-Fonds."

Monday, 5 January 2015

Benedict Cumberbatch (English actor and film producer)

* A new biography of Benedict Cumberbatch gives his birth time as "12pm." If we take 12 a.m. as the start of the day, then 12 p.m. means noon. In which case, Cumberbatch has Pluto on the Ascendant - both in Libra - ruled by Venus in dramatic Leo.

Thanks to Frank Clifford for the book reference.

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BIRTH DATA: 19 July 1976, 12:00 (12 Noon) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 8 Libra. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Benedict Cumberbatch" by Nigel Goodall (London: Andre Deutsch, 2014), pp. 11-12: "Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born on Wednesday, 19 July 1976, at 12pm, in Hammersmith, west London."

Scholfield cannot find a birth notice in the British newspapers but has a media report of Cumberbatch's birth with no time or date ("Eee! It's Wanda's Little Wonder," Daily Mirror, 24 July 1976, p. 5.).

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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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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Monday, 23 September 2013

Euel Box (American music producer, composer, arranger, and trumpeter)

* Euel Box has written major film scores and radio jingles for major markets. For the composition of "Benji," Box and his wife earned a 1975 nomination for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award for best song.

Mercury in Capricorn rules Box's Gemini Ascendant, indicating success as a writer/composer.

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Sunday, 22 September 2013

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.

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Virginia Vale, 1920-2006 (American film actress)

* Virginia Vale starred in a number of B-movie Westerns but took a variety of other roles as well, notably in Blonde Comet (1941), in which she played a race car driver. After her film career, she became an executive secretary at Lockheed and also a competition judge for the US Figure Skating Association.

Vale had a triple conjunction of Ascendant, Neptune and Jupiter in dramatic and sporty Leo.

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Saturday, 21 September 2013

Grady Nutt, 1934–1982 (American humourist, TV personality)

* Grady Nutt was a Southern Baptist minister, humourist, television personality, and author.

His humour revolved around rural Southern Protestantism and earned him the title as "The Prime Minister of Humor."

Nutt had nutty Uranus on his MC in the 9th, the house of religion and humour.

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George "Spanky" McFarland, 1928–1993 (American child actor)

* "Spanky" McFarland was most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The Our Gang shorts were later syndicated to television as The Little Rascals. His nickname "Spanky" came from the term "a spanky child" which was late 19th century–early 20th century slang for an intelligent, gifted toddler. McFarland had a bright and sharp conjunction of Venus and Mercury on his Scorpio MC.

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L.Q. Jones (American character actor, film director)

* L.Q. Jones appeared in numerous films in the 1960s and 1970s. He became a member of Sam Peckinpah's stock company of actors, appearing in his Klondike television series (1960–1961), Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973). Jones also appeared in television, as recurring characters on such western programs as Cheyenne (1955), Gunsmoke (1955), Laramie, Two Faces West (1960–1961), and twenty-five times on The Virginian (1962) as ranch hand Andy Belden.
Jones had an exact conjunction of the Sun and Neptune in Leo, and an exact conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in Aries. Peckinpah's Jupiter was conjunct Jones's MC.

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Friday, 20 September 2013

Bill Camfield, 1929–1991 (American TV personality, a.k.a. "Icky Twerp")

* Bill Camfield was a popular TV personality in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as the goofy character, Icky Twerp (shortened from "Ichamore Twerpwhistle"), host of Slam Bang Theatre, an afternoon kids’ show which presented cartoons and Three Stooges comedies. Camfield had a slapstick conjunction of Mars and Neptune in entertaining Leo. The Pluto-rising Camfield also hosted the horror film series Nightmare in the guise of Gorgon, an eerie, black-caped character with a sinister laugh.

www.ickytwerp.net

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Allen Case, 1934–1986 (American television actor)

* Allen Case was most noted for the lead role of Deputy Clay McCord in NBC's The Deputy (1959–1961) opposite series regular Henry Fonda, who received top billing but appeared far less frequently. Case made more than thirty television appearances between 1958 and 1982, often in cowboy roles, such as on the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45. Case had cowboy Jupiter sextile and ruling his gun-slinging Sagittarius Ascendant.

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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

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."

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