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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Joe Tex, 1933-1982 (American musician)

* Joe Tex gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of country, gospel and rhythm and blues. He recorded his first hit, "Hold What You've Got", in 1964, and went on to have three million-selling hits, "Hold What You've Got" (1965), "Skinny Legs and All" (1967) and "I Gotcha" (1972). Tex's style of speaking over the background of his music helped to make him one of the predecessors of the modern style of rap music. 

Helen Wagner, 1918–2010 (American actress)

* Helen Wagner is best known for her long-running role as Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera As the World Turns. Wagner was also the longest serving actor on an American soap opera. Wagner also played the role of Trudy Bauer during the initial TV years of Guiding Light in the early 1950s. She also appeared on the early soap Valiant Lady, as well as on 1950s primetime programs including The World of Mr. Sweeney, Mister Peepers, Inner Sanctum, and the Philco-Goodyear Playhouse. Wagner died from cancer on May 1, 2010, at the age of 91. 

Wagner had Venus and Saturn conjunct her Leo Moon (all on the MC), adding extra appeal and longevity to her popularity as an actress. 

Clarence Swensen , 1917-2009 (American actor)

* Clarence Swensen was one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Swensen was not allowed to attend a public school until he was nine, because of his size. At 4ft 6ins, he played one of the 25 Munchkin soldiers in the 1939 film. He also appeared in The Terror of Tiny Town as a preacher. Many of his "Oz" co-stars were cast members of this Western musical film.

After suffering a stroke in 2005, he was unable to walk and ended up in a wheelchair as a result. He suffered from poor health then after but still attended many events with the other surviving Munchkins, including the presentation of the Munchkins' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. Swensen died on February 25, 2009. 

He had a Pluto Boomerang. 

Karen Sharpe (American film and television actress)

* Karen Sharpe-Kramer appeared on screen from 1952 to 1966. She is the surviving third wife of producer/director Stanley Kramer, to whom she was married from 1966 until his death in 2001. She has since been the caretaker of the Kramer estate and legacy. Sharpe's luminaries, along with Mercury and jupiter, are all in the 12th house of film. She established the Stanley Kramer Award at the Producer's Guild and the Stanley Kramer Fellowship Award in Directing through the University of California, Los Angeles. Both designations honor the works of socially-conscious young filmmakers. 

James N. Harrell, 1918–2000 (American actor)

* James N. Harrell appeared in over 75 film and TV productions. He had roles in such films as JFK, Varsity Blues, Michael, Hope Floats, Leap of Faith, Paper Moon, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Flesh and Bone, and Noon Wine. Harrell taught acting at the Dallas Theater Center and had leading roles in numerous productions. He also taught stage and film acting at Southwest Texas State University for 24 years, retiring in 1994 as an Associate Professor.  

His talent in the dramatic arts is indicated by the Sun on the Mc ruling the Moon in Leo.

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).

Read more from her Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jennifer Leann Carpenter, 7 December 1979, 03:00 (3 a.m.) EST (+5), Louisville, Kentucky, USA (38n15, 85w45). ASC: 16 Libra. RR: A/B (from her in an interview). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes name, date and county of birth from the online Kentucky Births Index [mother is Catherine M. Mitchell, Vol: 114, File: 56546]; specific city from internet sources; and time of birth from her in an online interview: "JENNIFER CARPENTER: I didn't say it turned on at three o'clock in the morning. I was born at three o'clock in the morning..." ("Interviews: Dealing with the Possessed, a Q&A with Actress Jennifer Carpenter." Posted by: jmauceri on Friday, September 09, 2005 - 01:38 AM. Reported by Joseph B. Mauceri. FEARSmag.com).

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Lucien Pissarro, 1863-1944 (French-born British artist)

* Lucien Pissarro - noted for his landscape paintings of the French and English countrysides - had earthy Saturn in artistic Libra in quincunx aspect with his Pisces Sun, ruler of his Leo MC. A very creative astrological combination, not to mention Pluto in rural Taurus ruling his Ascendant and squaring his MC.

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WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted a few still lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Britain.

He was the oldest of seven children of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie Vellay Pissarro (see her chart).

In 1916, Lucien Pissarro became a British citizen. While in Britain he was one of the founders of the Camden Town Group of artists. From 1922 to 1937 he painted regularly in the south of France, interspersed with painting expeditions to Derbyshire, south Wales and Essex. From 1934 to 1944 he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. He died in Hewood, Somerset.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Lucien Camille Pissarro, 20 February 1863, 23:00 (11 p.m.) LMT (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 2e20). ASC: 2 Scorpio. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes birth certificate no. 382 in the Paris archives, 9e arr.

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