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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).

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."

Monday, 9 November 2015

John Jarratt (Australian television and film actor, producer, director)

* John Jarratt rose to fame through his work in the Australian New Wave. He is best known for portraying the main antagonist Mick Taylor in the "taboo-breaking" Wolf Creek horror film series.

Jarratt graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1973. His screen debut was in The Great Macarthy (1975). He also appeared in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Summer City (1977) with Mel Gibson. Jarratt had the lead role in the mini series The Last Outlaw playing Ned Kelly in 1979.

In the 1990s, Jarratt was a presenter on the lifestyle television show Better Homes and Gardens with then-wife Noni Hazlehurst. He joined the cast of McLeod's Daughters in 2001, and left the show in 2006.

In 2005, Jarratt had a major role in the Australian film Wolf Creek, playing the villain Mick Taylor. In February 2013, Jarratt reprised his serial-killer role, filming the sequel, Wolf Creek 2. The film was released on 20 February 2014.

On 1 October 2015, Jarratt released his autobiography, The Bastard from the Bush, revealing that he was born at 3:30 a.m.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: John Jarratt, 5 August 1952, 03:30 (3:30 AM) AEST (-10), Wollongong, NSW, Australia (34s25, 150e54). ASC: 20 Gemini. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from The Bastard from the Bush: An Australian Life by John Jarratt (Echo, 2015), p. 3: "I was born in Wollongong Hospital at 3:30 a.m. on 5 August 1952."

Friday, 26 June 2015

Megan Gale (Australian model, brand ambassador, fashion designer, actress)

* Aussie beauty, Megan Gale, has an English father and a mother of Maori descent. She won a modelling competition in Perth at 18, and later modelled for various Italian fashion houses and appeared in several Italian films. She was lauded in the Italian media as "The new Sophia Loren" (Gale and Loren each have Venus at 11° Virgo; i.e. exactly conjunct in their synastry!).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Megan Kate Gale, 7 August 1975, circa 01:00 (1 AM) AWST (-8), Perth, Western Australia, Australia (31s57, 115e51). ASC: Taurus. RR: C. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Gale for her rising sign in "Princess Diary," Sunday Telegraph [Sydney], 12 Nov. 2006: "I'm a Leo but I think my true self is more like my rising sign, Taurus. I find my Leo qualities emerge when I'm working: I'm more flamboyant, more ambitious, confident and driven. At home I'm more Taurean: a bit earthier, but always stubborn."

NOTE: Taurus was rising from 12am to 2:02am and from 11:36pm to 12 midnight. The time of 1am is speculative. The Moon was in Leo throughout these periods.

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Elizabeth Ann MacGregor (Scottish-Australian art museum director)

* Elizabeth Ann (AKA Liz Ann) MacGregor is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney, Australia (located at Circular Quay overlooking the Sydney Opera House).

MacGregor started her career in the arts by training as an art historian at Edinburgh University before joining the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1985. In 1989 she was appointed director of the Ikon Gallery, a contemporary arts institution in Birmingham.

In 1999, she took up the directorship of the MCA, introducing free admission and subsequently doubling attendance numbers. She also oversaw the redevelopment of the MCA building, increasing its size and internationalising the scope of exhibitions.

MacGregor's chart shows enormous personal drive: both luminaries in Aries; Scorpio Ascendant ruled by Pluto in the last degree of dramatic Leo on a workaholic Virgo MC: "She is known for her determination, tenacious work ethic and colourful wardrobe."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Elizabeth Ann MacGregor, 16 April 1958, 21:00 (9 PM), Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland (56n28, 2w53). ASC: 13 Scorpio. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record, requested by Sy Scholfield.

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.

Eric Bogle (Scottish-Australian folk singer-songwriter)

* Eric Bogle emigrated to Australia in 1969. On 25 January 1987, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his work as a singer-songwriter. In May 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named his song, "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Bogle has a Taurus Midheaven ruled by unaspected Venus in Libra.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 23 September 1944, 03:55 (3:55am) BST (-1), Peebles, Scotland (55n39, 3w12). ASC: 28 Leo. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record, requested by Sy Scholfield.

Sunday, 21 June 2015

Margaret Fulton (British-Australian food and cooking writer, journalist, author, commentator)

* In her early recipes Margaret Fulton encouraged Australian housewives to alter the Australian staple of "meat and three vegetables" and to be creative with food. She 'discovered' food from exotic places such as Spain, Italy, India and China.

In 2006, The Bulletin named Fulton in their list of 'The 100 most influential Australians,' writing that she is "Australia's original domestic goddess. No cookery writer since can claim her blanket influence... Fulton turned us into foodies."

The Sun in Australia's chart is at 10° Capricorn and the MC at 2° Aquarius. Fulton's Ascendant (9° Capricorn) and Moon (26° Capricoen) conjunct these points, cementing her status as an "Australian Living Treasure."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Margaret Isobel Fulton, 6 October 1924, 14:45 (2:45pm) Nairn, Scotland (57n35, 3w53). ASC: 9 Capricorn. RR: AA (Quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested the data from Caroline Gerard who quoted from Fulton's birth certificate. Wikipedia and other sources give the wrong date of 10 October. Fulton has stated: "Let me see, I was born 6/10/24" [https://cooked.com.au/thefeed/2014/10/02/10/58/margaret-fulton-90-birthday].

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Beccy Cole (Australian country music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist)

* Beccy Cole has released eight albums, with three reaching the ARIA Albums Chart top 40: Little Victories (20 January 2003), Preloved (3 September 2010) and Songs & Pictures (10 October 2011). Cole has received nine Golden Guitar trophies at the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia.

In July 2012 Cole revealed that she is a lesbian on ABC-TV series, Australian Story. In October 2013 she was the inaugural ambassador for the Adelaide-based Feast Festival and in the following month she presented her show, The Queer of Country.

Cole reveals in her autobiography that she was born at 11:05 pm at Glenelg Hospital in Adelaide. She thus has the first degree of Cancer on her Ascendant ruled by the Moon in Cancer on her South Node in the first house.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Rebecca Diane Thompson, 27 October 1972, 23:05 (11:05 pm) ACST (-9:30), Glenelg Hospital, Adelaide, Australia (34s59, 138e31). ASC: 00 Cancer. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Poster Girl" by Beccy Cole (Hachette: 2015), p. 9: "Mum soon went back to singing but in 1972 she took more time away from the stage to have baby Rebecca on October the twenty-seventh - and I was bang on time for the last time in my life at 11:05 p.m. ... [at] Glenelg Hospital." Extract available online here.

Sunday, 9 November 2014

Cate Blanchett (Australian actor)

* Cate Blanchett has stated that she has Taurus Sun, Taurus Moon and Taurus rising but it's not possible for her to have both the Moon and Ascendant in this sign on the date she was born. Her birth notice appeared in the local newspaper the day after her birth, which usually indicates a birth early in the day. The Moon did not move into Taurus until about 5:30pm the day she was born and it is unlikely that news of her birth was communicated to the newspaper that late in the day. A speculative time of 6:40 a.m. gives mid Taurus (15 degrees) on the Ascendant which seems the best approximation considering the info given.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Catherine Élise Blanchett, 14 May 1969, 06:40 (6:40 AM) AEST (-10), Melbourne, Australia (37s49, 144e58). ASC: 15 Taurus??. RR: C. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her birth notice and two statements from her to speculate an approximate time of birth. The birth notice gives the date and place: "BLANCHETT (Gamble)--To June and Bob--a daughter (Catherine Elise), at Jessie McPherson, on May 14th. Both well" (The Age [Melbourne], 15 May 1969, p. 17). Blanchett has stated, "I like the heroines. I'm a bull. I'm a Taurus. I think I've got something tragic like Taurus moon, Taurus sun, Taurus rising. I'm a complete bull" ("I won't do any nude scenes" by Clare Goldwin, Mirror, 26 Nov. 2003, p. 46.). She has also reportedly stated, "Apparently, I’m Taurus moon, Taurus sun and Taurus Rising. That’s pretty Taurus, eh? Which explains a lot, doesn’t it?" (20/2/2014: http://www.wisconsingazette.com/film/cate-blanchette-strives-to-balance-family-and-career.html). It is not possible for her to have Taurus rising and Taurus Moon. The birth announcement appeared the day after her birth which usually indicates a time of birth early in the day. The moon did not move into Taurus until about 5:30pm and it is unlikely that the news of her birth would have been phoned through to the newspaper that late in the day. A speculative time of 6:40 a.m. puts mid Taurus (15 degrees) on the Ascendant which seems the best approximation considering the info given. Scholfield emailed a family member on 7 April 2001 requesting her time of birth but did not receive a reply.

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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Monday, 16 September 2013

Robert Hoge (Australian writer, disability advocate)

* Robert Hoge has worked as a journalist, a speechwriter, a science communicator and a political advisor. His writings have been published in Australia and overseas. Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. He underwent regular, gruelling and often dangerous operations that made medical history and gradually improved his life. In infancy, his nose was built from cartilage in his toes.

Hoge has survivor/transformer planet, Pluto, at the apex of a T-square ruling his Scorpio Ascendant (signifying his reconstructed face). His memoir, Ugly, is about growing up ugly and disabled. Deformative and reformative Saturn is conjunct his Venus, the planet of beauty and values -- both planets in literary Gemini. Through his writings and website (www.roberthoge.com), Hoge advocates for the better treatment of people discriminated against because they are considered ugly. His Pluto is in the last degree of discriminative Virgo. The Sun in the first degree of Leo acts as Final Dispositor. The love and support of his family helped him to overcome incredible hardships.

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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, 29 June 2013

Julia Gillard (Australian former Prime Minister, newsmaker)

* Julia Gillard ― the Welsh-born first woman Prime Minister of Australia ― resigned her position on 27 June 2013 after losing leadership of the Labor Party in a spill the previous day. Gillard lacks fire in her chart but her Solar Arc moon moved into Leo soon after she became Prime Minister and at 2° 50" Leo on the day she stood down was closely quincunx natal Chiron (2° 46" Pisces), ruler of her Virgo MC.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian politician who was the Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013. She was the first woman to hold either position.

Gillard became the first female Deputy Prime Minister of Australia upon Labor's victory in the 2007 federal election, also serving as Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. On 24 June 2010, after Rudd lost the support of his party and resigned, Gillard was elected unopposed as the Leader of the Labor Party, thus becoming the 27th Prime Minister of Australia. The subsequent 2010 federal election saw the first hung parliament since the 1940 federal election. Gillard was able to form a minority government with the support of a Green MP and three independent MPs. On 26 June 2013, after a leadership spill, Gillard lost the leadership of the Labor Party to Kevin Rudd. Her resignation as Prime Minister took effect the following day.

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."

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