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Sunday, 17 April 2016

Ángel Gurría (Mexican economist and diplomat)

* Ángel Gurría is the current Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1 June 2006.

Gurría served as the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1994–1997) and as Secretary of Finance (1998–2000) in the Ernesto Zedillo administration. In Foreign Affairs he opposed the Helms-Burton Act and while serving in Treasury, he restructured the foreign debt. He also negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and requested financial aid during the 1994 crisis.

Gurría has also been President and CEO of the National Development Bank of Mexico (Nafin) and President and CEO of the Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext). From 2003 to 2005 he was a chair member of the Inter-American Development Bank's External Advisory Group.

He was the architect of the Mexican economic stabilization, partially by cutting government spending six times during the Zedillo administration. The effect of his work has been felt during Vicente Fox's administration who nominated him to lead the OECD in July 2005.

He has also served, since 2010, as a Commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development which leverages broadband technologies as a key enabler for social and economic development. Since 2014, Gurría has served as a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.

Gurría speaks six languages: Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Italian and German.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: José Ángel Gurría Treviño, 8 May 1950, 09:30 (9:30 AM) CST (+6), Tampico, Mexico (22n13, 97w51). ASC: 9 Cancer. RR: AA. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from birth record.

Friday, 15 April 2016

Jérôme Jarre (French entrepreneur, internet personality)

* Thanks to Marc Brun (merci beaucoup!) we have the data for Jérôme Jarre (né Jérôme Chappelet), who was the fourth most followed individual on Vine, as of June 2014 (currently he has over 8 million followers and a mind-boggling 1,406,962,445 Loops). The same month he became one of the first Snapchat celebrities. After starting several businesses in China and Canada, Jarre started posting videos on Vine the day of its launch. Thereafter he left his business to completely focus on Vine. In May 2013, he co-founded GrapeStory, a talent agency for Vine and Snapchat stars.

After being featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen asked him to cover the Red Carpet ceremony of the 86th Academy Awards, where he made multiple vines with Hollywood actors. Later he was hired by Canal+ to cover 2014 Cannes Film Festival. At the Tribeca Film Festival 2014, he was one of the jurors of the 6 second films competition. Jarre has made vines with several Hollywood artists including Robert De Niro, Pharrell Williams, Ashton Kutcher, Ben Stiller, Ansel Elgort, and Kristen Bell.

Jarre was strongly criticized by the Vine community for posting a Vine in which he played a kiss prank on John Stamos and Stamos returned the kiss. The vine was posted in June 2014, and the commenters "accused" him of being gay and threatened to unfollow him for it. Jarre posted a follow-up Vine video the next day to call out these individuals directly. In it, he claimed he's not gay, then proceeded to kiss a fellow Vine star Nicholas Megalis on the mouth to show support for the LGBT community.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jérôme Robert Alexis Chappelet, 12 June 1990, 07:55 (7:55 AM) CEDT (-2), Albertville, Savoie, France (45n41, 6e23). ASC: 18 Cancer. RR: AA. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested the birth certificate from Marc Brun who obtained and emailed him the birth record.

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).

Friday, 26 June 2015

Hugh Ramsay, 1877-1906 (Australian artist)

* Hugh Ramsay was one of Australia's leading portraitists. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia in 1878. A trip to Europe in September 1900 led to study in Paris, France, but suffering from tuberculosis, he soon returned to Australia where he died aged 28. Ramsay's major works include The Sisters and Lady with a Fan.

He had Cancer rising ruled by Moon in intimate Scorpio: "He was close to his family and, of his large output from ten years of active work, they are often his subjects."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 25 May 1877, 06:30 (6:30 AM) GMT (+0), Govan, Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 4w15). ASC: 13 Cancer. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record, requested by Sy Scholfield.

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Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Biz Stone (American businessperson, computer programmer, blogger)

* Biz Stone is one of the four co-founders of Twitter which started in 2006 and today has more than 500 million users. His two Grand Air Trines explain his knack for channelling his computer and information technology skills into a successful business career. One trine involves Moon-Uranus, Mercury and Saturn, and the other includes Pluto, Venus and Mars.

Chiron is often prominent in the charts of vegetarians and Stone, who is a vegan involved in animal welfare and environmental causes, has Chiron high in the sky.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Christopher Isaac Stone, 10 March 1974, 13:17 (1:17 PM) EDT (+4), Boston, Massachusetts, USA (42n22, 71w04). ASC: 16 Cancer. RR: AA (Quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested the data from Roman Craft who quotes from birth certificate.

Saturday, 6 June 2015

Lili St. Cyr, 1917-1999 (American burlesque striptease artiste)

* Lili St. Cyr was one of the most recognized acts in striptease in the 1940s and 1950s (along with Gypsy Rose Lee and Ann Corio). St. Cyr's name popped-up regularly in 1950s tabloids in stories about her many husbands (she married six times), brawls over her, and her attempted suicides.

Her acts had names like "The Wolf Woman", "Afternoon of a Faun", "The Ballet Dancer", "In a Persian Harem", "The Chinese Virgin", as well as "Suicide" (where she tried to woo a straying lover by revealing her body), and "Jungle Goddess" (in which she appeared to make love to a parrot). Lili was known not only for props like her bathtub, but elaborate sets of vanities, mirrors, and hat racks. She variously performed as Cinderella, a matador, a Salome, a bride, a suicide, Cleopatra and Dorina Grey.

St. Cyr retired from the stage in the 1970s, whereupon she began a lingerie business in which she would retain an interest until her death in Los Angeles, California on 29 January 1999, aged 81.

Born "Marie Frances Van Schaack," she had glamorous Neptune rising in Leo, high-class Saturn (also on the Ascendant) in Cancer ruled by a scandalous Scorpio Moon, sexy Pluto unaspected, dramatic Sun also unaspected, and "exotic dancer" Uranus in Aquarius at the apex of a fixed T-square.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marie Frances Van Schaack, 3 June 1917, 08:00 (8 AM) CST (+6), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (44n58, 93w15). ASC: 28 Cancer. RR: AA (birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate, obtained on 6/6/2015.

Sunday, 24 May 2015

Diana Vreeland, 1903–1989 (French-American magazine editor and fashion journalist)

* Wikipedia gives at least two different dates of birth for Diana Vreeland (29/7/1903 and 29/9/1903) and her birth certificate gives another (29/12/1903), but the certificate is dated 2 October 1903. Clearly the December date is an impossibility: the clerk made a mistake and should have written "29 September," which is the date specified in her birth notice published in The Times [London, England] on 2 October 1903.

Many thanks to Marc Brun for acquiring the birth certificate for us!

Vreeland is a fashion icon: Neptune on her Ascendant rules Jupiter in Pisces on her MC. From 1936 until her resignation in 1962, she ran a column for Harper's Bazaar called "Why Don't You?". She was editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine from 1963 until 1971. Vreeland advised First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in matters of style and she is credited with inventing the word "pizzazz."

Neptune on the Ascendant can also bring confusion about the circumstances of a person's birth but in Vreeland's case the mystery surrounding her date of birth has now been solved!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Diana Dalziel, 29 September 1903, 22:30 (10:30 PM) (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 02e20). ASC: 12 Cancer. RR: AA (birth certificate in hand). SOURCE: Birth certificate obtained by Marc Brun, dated 2 October 1903 and mistakenly stating date of birth as 29 December. Date of birth confirmed by her birth notice found by Sy Scholfield in The Times, 2 October 1903, p. 1: "DALZIEL.--On the 29th ult., at 5 Avenue de Bois de Boulogne, Paris . . . a daughter."

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.

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Anna Moffo, 1932–2006 (American opera singer, TV personality, actress)

* The Sun tends to amplify the qualities of any planet that enters its rays by conjunction. Ann Moffo had the Sun conjunct Venus (both in Cancer and on the Ascendant) at the end of her 12th House. The Sun added a warm and radiance to her soprano voice and reinforced the beauty of "La Bellissima" as she was known.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Anna Angelina Moffo, 27 June 1932, 06:00 (6 AM) EDT (+4), Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA (40n03, 75w23). ASC: 10 Cancer. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Anna Moffo by Mario G. Genesi (Litografica Orione, 2002), p. 13: "A Wayne, piccolo centro di circa 4.000 abitanti negli outskirts di Philadelphia, nasce, alle ore 6 antimeridiane del 27 giugno del 1932, la più illustre componente del gruppo: Anna Angelina Moffo."

Translation: The most prominent member of the group, Anna Angelina Moffo, was born at 6 o'clock in the morning of 27 June 1932 at Wayne, a small town of about 4,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Jimmy Giuffre, 1921-2008 (American musician)

* Jimmy Giuffre was a jazz clarinet and saxophone player, composer and arranger. He is notable for his development of forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.

Free improvisation? How about Uranus on the Part of Fortune, and Moon in Sagittarius ruling a Cancerian Ascendant?!

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Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Albert Collins, 1932–1993 (American electric blues guitarist and singer)

* Albert Collins had a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and capo.

His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster."

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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.

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Juke Boy Bonner, 1932–1978 (American blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist)

* Juke Boy Bonner was influenced by Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, and Slim Harpo. He described the bleak prospects of black urban existence in songs like "Life is a Nightmare", "Struggle Here in Houston" and "Going Back to the Country", accompanying himself on guitar, harmonica and drums in the self-sufficient one-man band mode of Joe Hill Louis and Dr. Ross.

Bonner had Pluto in the 1st House in close trine with Mars in Pisces on the 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.

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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Vanessa L. Williams (American singer, actress, producer, fashion model)

* In 1983, 20-year-old Vanessa L. Williams became the first African-American woman crowned Miss America, but a scandal arose when Penthouse magazine bought and published nude photographs of her. Saturn conjunct Venus in the 8th house can put great obstacles in the path of the most talented of beauties but these obstacles can, in turn, pave the way for well-deserved success. Williams relinquished her Miss America title and rebounded from this early setback by launching a career as a singer and actor, earning multiple Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominations in the process. She is probably the most successful Miss America winner to have entered the entertainment field.

In their mother-and-daughter biography, Helen Williams writes, "On the front of Vanessa's birth announcement there's a drawing of a smiling baby girl wearing a big crown and holding a scepter. It reads, 'Here she is—Miss America.'" The book includes a photo of the prophetic baby card, showing Vanessa's middle name as "Lynne" and a birth time of 11:28 a.m. Due to copyright restrictions I won't publish this image but it can be viewed here on the Amazon Books website. Romy Ransom did brilliant work obtaining the same data, including the birth time, from Williams three decades ago in the early days of Williams' career.

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Vanessa Williams released her debut album The Right Stuff in 1988, which spawned the hits "The Right Stuff", a No. 1 on Hot Dance Songs, and "Dreamin'" a No. 1 on R&B and No. 8 on Billboard Hot 100. Her second studio album The Comfort Zone in 1991 topped the Billboard R&B Album Chart, which spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit "Save the Best for Last". In 1994 she debuted on Broadway in the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. In 1995 she recorded "Colors of the Wind", the Oscar-winner for Best Original Song from the Disney animated feature film Pocahontas, which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Williams's first major film role was as the star of the feature film Eraser in 1996. She also starred in the movies Soul Food, Dance with Me, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Shaft and Johnson Family Vacation. From 2006 to 2010, she played the role of the scheming, self-absorbed diva and former supermodel Wilhelmina Slater in the ABC comedy series Ugly Betty, for which she received three Emmy Awards nominations. In 2009, Williams released her eighth studio album, The Real Thing. From 2010 to 2012, she starred in Desperate Housewives as spoiled rich woman Renee Perry. She starred in the supernatural drama series 666 Park Avenue in 2012.

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Gabrielle Renard, 1878–1959 (French nanny, artist's model)

* In this painting by Auguste Renoir, Gabrielle Renard plays with his son Jean. As both nanny and artist's model, Renard here embodies her Venus in Cancer - which rises in her chart and conjuncts the horizon of Jean Renoir's chart. Gabrielle and Jean not only shared the same Ascendant sign, they shared a lifelong bond. Her Moon is on his IC: their bond was nurtured by her loving influence over him. She took the young Jean to see his first movie. One day he would become an acclaimed filmmaker.

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Gabrielle Renard (August 1, 1878 – February 26, 1959) was a French woman who became an important member of the family of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, first becoming a nanny and subsequently, a frequent model for the artist. Upon her marriage in 1921 she became Gabrielle Renard-Slade.

Born in Essoyes in the Aube departement of France, she was a cousin of Aline Victorine Charigot Renoir, who had married the painter, Pierre-Auguste. The village was the birthplace of Aline also. At age sixteen, Gabrielle Renard moved to Montmartre to live and work as a nanny in her cousin's household, where the second of the three Renoir sons was about to be born. Renard became the subject of a number of Renoir's portraits, many of her with the children.

Gabrielle Renard developed a strong bond with the infant, Jean Renoir, that would last throughout their lives. She introduced him to the Guignol puppet shows that were held in the Montmartre. Gabrielle was fascinated by the new motion picture invention and when Jean Renoir was only a few years old, Gabrielle took him to see his first film. He became a renowned film maker.

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