Chad Johnson (American football player, social media personality)

* Chad Johnson, formerly Chad Ochocinco, is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft, and played for the Bengals for ten seasons. In 2011, Johnson was traded to the New England Patriots with whom he played in Super Bowl XLVI. In 2012, Johnson played for the Miami Dolphins during preseason but was released following his arrest for domestic violence. He played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 2014 to 2015.

On 25 October 2006, in honour of Hispanic Heritage Month, Johnson, whose jersey number was "85", announced that he would prefer to be called "Ocho Cinco," which is "eight five" in Spanish ("Eighty-five" would be "ochenta y cinco").

In April 2011, CNBC listed the then-Ochocinco as No. 1 on its list of "Most Influential Athletes In Social Media." He currently has 3.6 million followers on Twitter. Johnson is a six-time NFL Pro Bowler, was named to four All-Pro teams, and was voted as the number one wide receiver on the Bengals 40th Anniversary team.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Chad Javon Johnson, 9 January 1976, 05:56 (5:56 AM) EST (+5), Miami, Florida, USA (25n46, 80w11). ASC: 29 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "In 1976 when I was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital at 5:56 am," "I appreciate all the birthday wishes, it feels good to be 40" (posted on 9 January 2016). NB: Jackson Memorial Hospital is located in Miami, Florida. Wikipedia incorrectly has 1978.

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Bryan Cranston (American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer)

* Bryan Cranston is best known for portraying Walter White on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, Hal on the Fox comedy series Malcolm in the Middle, Tim Sacksky on the CBS comedy series King of Queens, and Dr. Tim Whatley on the NBC comedy series Seinfeld. For Breaking Bad, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008–2010, 2014), including three consecutive wins. After becoming one of the producers of Breaking Bad in 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice.

His role in Breaking Bad also earned him five Golden Globe nominations and one win in 2014, nine Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations with four wins, and six Satellite Awards nominations with four wins. In June 2014, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way on Broadway. He will reprise his role in the upcoming HBO television film of the same name. For the 2015 film Trumbo, he received widespread acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Bryan Lee Cranston, 7 March 1956, 10:52 (10:52 AM) PST (+8), Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, 4833 Fountain Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA (34n03, 118w14). ASC: 17 Gemini. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate, copy on file.

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Pavel Florensky, 1882-1937 (Russian Orthodox theologian)

* Pavel Florensky was a man of many talents: a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr.

In Moscow, on 26 February 1933, he was arrested on suspicion of engaging in a conspiracy to overthrow the state and restore with Nazi assistance a fascist monarchy. He defended himself vigorously against the imputations but was sentenced to ten years in the Labor Camps by the infamous Article 58 of Joseph Stalin's criminal code (clauses ten and eleven: "agitation against the Soviet system" and "publishing agitation materials against the Soviet system"). The published agitation materials were his monograph about the theory of relativity. His manner of continuing to wear priestly garb annoyed his employers. The state offered him numerous opportunities to go into exile in Paris, but he declined them.

He was imprisoned and eventually shot dead in St. Petersburg on the night of 8 December 1937 in a wood not far from the city.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky, 9 January 1882 OS, 19:00 (7pm) (-3.19), Yevlakh, Azerbaijan (40n37, 47e09). ASC: 23 Leo. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in "Souvenirs d'une enfance au Caucase" by Paul Florensky (L'AGE D'HOMME, 2007), p. 16: "Evlakh ... C'est donc là, en pleine steppe sauvage, que je suis né le 9 janvier 1882, le soir, vers sept heures, une heure que j'aime entre toutes."

Translation: Evlakh ... It was here, on the wild steppe, that I was born on 9 January 1882 in the evening about seven o'clock, the hour of the day that I love most of all.

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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.

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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.

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Lefty Frizzell, 1928-1975 (American country music singer, songwriter)

* Lefty Frizzell was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. 

Frizzell had C&W Sagittarius rising, with the Sun conjunct its ruler, Jupiter. 

Sonny Fisher, 1931-2005 (American singer, songwriter, guitarist)

* Sonny Fisher was one of America's pioneering rockabilly artists. He never achieved anything more than regional stardom in the US during the 1950s yet, when London's Ace Records reissued his 1956 recordings in 1979, he found himself proclaimed king of the rockabilly revival. 

Damita Jo DeBlanc, 1930–1998 (American actress, comedian, lounge music performer)

* Damita Jo DeBlanc was the featured vocalist on recordings from Steve Gibson and the Red Caps during the 1950s. Credited as simply Damita Jo, DeBlanc had some chart success in the early 1960s with two answer songs: 1960's "I'll Save the Last Dance for You" (an answer to "Save the Last Dance for Me") and 1961's "I'll Be There" (an answer to "Stand By Me"). Both songs were originally sung by Ben E. King and made the R&B top 20, and "I'll Be There" also reached number 12 on the pop chart. In 1962 she recorded "Dance With a Dolly (With a Hole in her Stocking", previously made famous by The Andrews Sisters and Bill Haley, for Mercury Records. In 1966 she had a minor hit with a cover of the Jacques Brel song "If You Go Away." She worked with Ray Charles, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton. And, in 1963, she released a recording for Mercury Records with Billy Eckstine and Bobby Tucker Orchestra. Damita Jo was later involved in comedy and toured with Redd Foxx. In 1998, she suffered a respiratory illness and died on Christmas Day in Baltimore, Maryland. 


DeBlanc had a moody Saturn-Moon conjunction in Capricorn on her MC.

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." 

James Clay, 1935-1994 (American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist)

* While in school James Clay played alto saxophone, became a professional musician, and played with local bands in Dallas, Texas, including with Booker Ervin. Later, he went to California, there he played in 1957 in Red Mitchell's quartet and on recordings with Lawrence Marable. at the end of 1957 he returned to his hometown of Dallas, and served in the Army in 1959. "Franklin Park" is on the Digital Praise PC game Guitar Praise. 

Jesse Belvin, 1932–1960 (American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter)

* Jesse Belvin was a popular recording artist in the 1950s, but his success was cut short by his death in a car crash aged 27.

Belvin had Uranus in Aries on his Ascendant, as did James Dean. Each died in a car accident.



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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.

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.

Irma P. Hall (American actress)

* Irma P. Hall is an African-American actress who has appeared in numerous films and television shows since the 1970s. She is best known for playing matriarchal figures in the films A Family Thing, Soul Food and The Ladykillers. 

Hall has the matriarchal Moon in her own sign Cancer operating as final dispositor in her chart. (Not to mention her stellium of Cancerian planets).

Don Cherry (American singer, sportsman)

* Don Cherry ― who earned a gold disc for his 1955 million-seller hit, "Band of Gold" ― has the golden Sun in the 5th, its natural house, closely quincunx and ruling Neptune in Leo. Also a former "pro" golfer, he has sporty Jupiter angular in Sagittarius.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Donald Ross Cherry (born January 11, 1924) is an American singer of traditional pop music, best known for his 1955 hit, "Band of Gold"; and a former amateur and professional golfer.

Cherry started as a big band singer in the orchestras of Jan Garber and Victor Young. In 1951 he recorded his first solo hits, "Thinking of You" and "Belle, Belle, My Liberty Belle". In 1955 came his biggest hit, "Band of Gold", which reached #5 on the Billboard chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The track peaked at #6 in the UK Singles Chart. He had three more hits in 1956 ("Wild Cherry", "Ghost Town" and "Namely You"), all backed by orchestra leader Ray Conniff. He was also the voice of the Mr. Clean commercials during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Throughout his singing career, Cherry was also a top-ranked amateur golfer, and was in contention to win the 1960 U.S. Open before eventually finishing tied for ninth along with Ben Hogan, four strokes behind winner Arnold Palmer. In 1962, Cherry decided to turn professional and "Pro" became his nickname among fellow entertainers. His volcanic temper on the golf course (which, according to Cherry, "...made Tommy Bolt look like a choir boy!") was in startling contrast to his velvety-smooth singing voice and pleasant stage persona.

Cherry is a good friend of Willie Nelson and has collaborated on three albums with him, Augusta (1995), The Eyes of Texas (2002), and It's Magic (2007). Cherry was married four times, once to 1956 Miss America Sharon Ritchie, before wedding his present wife, Francine Bond Smith, in 1993. They live in Las Vegas, Nevada. His son, Stephen, was a casualty of the 9/11 attacks when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower. Stephen left behind four sons.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Donald Ross Cherry, 11 January 1924, 22:00 (10 p.m.) CST (+6), Wichita Falls, Texas, USA (27s28, 153e02). ASC: 14 Virgo. RR: A (from his autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Don Cherry and Neil T. Daniels, Cherry's Jubilee: Singin' and Swingin' Through Life with Dino and Frank, Arnie and Jack (Chicago: Triumph, 2006), p. 3: "Donald Ross Cherry first came into the world at ten o'clock on a cold Friday night, January 11, 1924. . . . the Wichita Falls area of Texas. That's where I was born.""

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Rufus Bellamy (English author)

* Rufus Bellamy ― author of environmental books for children and young adults ― has youthful Mercury in the first degree of Cancer conjunct and ruling his IC in the last degree of bookish Gemini. Chiron the environmentalist rises in his chart.

BIOGRAPHY

Rufus Bellamy is an author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Rufus Bellamy include Saving Wildlife (Action for the Environment S.), Food for All (Action for the Environment S.), Protecting Habitats (Action for the Environment S.), and Clean Air (Action for the Environment). He is the son of David Bellamy, a British author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 8 June 1966, 02:00 (2 a.m.) BST (-1), Durham, England (54n47, 01w34). ASC: 28 Pisces. RR: A (from father's memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes date and time from David Bellamy's autobiography, A Natural Life (Random House, 2011), pp. 190-191: "Rufus appeared on 8 June 1966. . . As all appeared quiet, I was sent home just before midnight, only to be phoned a few hours later to be told that a baby boy had been born at 2 a.m." The place of birth is listed as Durham county in the UK Births Index.

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Marià Fortuny (Spanish, Catalan painter)

* Marià Fortuny ― noted for his "prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color" which "anticipates impressionist brushwork" ― had anticipatory Uranus on his MC in mutual reception with impressionistic Neptune.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Marià Fortuny i Marsal (June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Catalan painter of his day, with an international reputation. His brief career encompassed works on a variety of subjects common in the art of the period, including the Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, military painting of Spanish colonial expansion, as well as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.

The greater influence of travel on Fortuny was his subsequent fascination with the exotic themes of the world of Morocco, painting both individuals and imagined court scenes. He visited Paris in 1868 and shortly afterwards married Cecilia de Madrazo, the daughter of Federico de Madrazo, who would become curator of the Prado Museum in Madrid. Together, they had a son, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, who became a well-known fashion and tapestry designer.

Fortuny paintings are colorful, with a vivacious iridescent brushstroke that at times recalls the softness of Rococo painting but also anticipates impressionist brushwork.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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Photo Credit: Self portrait by Marià Fortuny (1863-73).

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal, 11 June 1838, 06:00 (6 a.m.) LMT (-0:04:28), Reus, Spain (41n09, 01e07). ASC: 10 Cancer. RR: AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Jean Charles Davillier, Life of Fortuny with His Works & Correspondence (Porter & Coates, 1885), pp. 9-10: "Mariano Fortuny was born at Reus, June 11th, 1838, at six in the morning ... Here is the literal translation of his baptismal certificate '... He was born at six o'clock, this morning. His parents were the married couple, Mariano Fortuny, cabinet maker, and his wife, Teresa Marsal.'"

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Kaffe Fassett (American-born English artist)

* Kaffe Fassett ― widely acknowledged as a visionary in the use of colour ― has Venus in the first degree of Sagittarius in the 2nd House, her natural domicile.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Kaffe Fassett (born 1937) (rhymes with 'safe asset') is an American-born artist who is best known for his colourful designs in the decorative arts — needlepoint, patchwork, knitting, painting and ceramics. "Colour is his very medium, whatever the substance he uses."

He is the great-grandson of the wealthy businessman, lawyer and United States Congressman Jacob Sloat Fassett, and it was his great-great grandparents who founded the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. He received a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the age of 19, but shortly left school to paint in London and moved there to live in 1964.

Fassett's work attracts a considerable following. His work was the subject of a 1988 one-man show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the first time a living textile artist had such a show there. The show toured nine countries.

Being more concerned with colour and design, Fassett has collaborated with quilter and teacher, Liza Prior Lucy, on the construction side of things since the 1980s. Working as a team has enabled Kaffe to design quilts, fabric, stage sets, and costumes for the Royal Shakespeare Company, while staying engaged in making rag rugs, knitting, tapestries, and mosaics.

Author of more than 30 books, Fassett concentrates on teaching the colour and design stages of craftwork rather than the construction stage. In addition to books, he has hosted craft-related television and radio programmes for the BBC and Channel 4, including his own showGlorious Colour.

His fabric prints are largely for the patchwork market along with Indian stripes fabric and shot cotton fabric range.

An exhibition of Fassett's quilts, knitting and needlepoint at the Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium in 2007, followed a multimedia solo show in 2006 at the Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, Sweden. He made a workshop tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Frank Havrah Fassett, 7 December 1937, 02:47 (2:47 a.m.) PST (+8), San Francisco, California, USA (37n46, 122w25). ASC: 20 Libra. RR: A/B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Kaffe Fassett, Kaffe Fassett: Dreaming in Color: An Autobiography (New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2012), p. 13: "I was born on December 7, 1937, at 2:47 a.m., at the Children's Hospital in San Francisco." Full name from the online California birth index.

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Hugh Clapperton, 1788–1827 (Scottish Explorer)

* Scottish traveller and explorer Hugh Clapperton had an interesting Kite pattern in his chart with the tail on the MC at 29° Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter on the IC at 29° Gemini at the head. He was the first European explorer in West Africa to return with a firsthand account of the region now known as northern Nigeria.

Hugh Clapperton (18 May 1788 – 13 April 1827) was the first European to make known from personal observation the Hausa states, which he visited soon after the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate by the Fula. In 1829 the Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa, &c., by Clapperton appeared posthumously, with a biographical sketch of the explorer by his uncle, Lieutenant-Colonel S. Clapperton, as a preface

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Photo from Eduard Schauenburg. Reisen in Central Afrika von Mungo Park bis auf Dr. Earth und Dr. Vogel. 2 vols. (Schauenburg: 1859-1865).

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

In his AstroCartoGraphy map, Clapperton has a Neptune line through the Chad-Nigeria area of Africa. Neptune rules his Pisces Ascendant.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Hugh Clapperton, 18 May 1788, 02:30 (2:30 a.m.) LMT (+0:13:04), Annan, Scotland (54n59, 03w16). ASC: 27 Pisces. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Jamie Bruce-Lockhart, A Sailor in the Sahara: The Life and Travels in Africa of Hugh Clapperton (London: I.B. Tauris, 2008), p. 2: "He was born on 13 May 1788 at half past two in the morning in the Clapperton home at 22 Butts Street, a small, low-ceilinged building with a crowded parlour, a kitchen and a couple of back rooms, located on a lane on the north side of Annan's main thoroughfare."

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