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Sunday, 8 May 2016

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 1915–2006 (German-British soprano and voice teacher)

* Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was among the foremost singers of lieder, and was renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta. She starred in five feature films for Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, in which she acted, sang and played the piano. After retiring from the stage in 1971, she was a voice teacher internationally. Schwarzkopf died in her sleep during the night of 2–3 August 2006 at her home in Schruns, Vorarlberg, Austria, aged 90. Her reputation has remained tarnished by what seems to have been an active Nazi party membership.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, 9 December 1915, 16:00 (4PM) CET (-1), Jarocin, Poland (51n59, 17e31). ASC: 23 Gemini. RR: A (From memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites an account of her birth written by her father: "Der 9. Dezember 1915 Nachmittag ca. 4h wurde unsere Elisabeth geboren, in Jarotschin, Breslauerstr. 7, im 2. Stock, in dem grossen Schlafzimmer, das nach der Strasse zu lag..." Translation: 'On 9 December 1915 at four o'clock in the afternoon our Elisabeth was born in Jarotschin, Breslauerstr. 7, 2nd floor, in the large bedroom, which faced the road...' (The account is quoted from the newsletter of Schubertiade Schwarzenberg/Hohenems, December 2015) [www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/elisabeth-schwarzkopf].

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.

Sunday, 22 November 2015

Louis Royer, 1793–1868 (Flemish sculptor)

* During his lifetime Louis Royer (AKA Lodewyk Royer) was the most important sculptor in the Netherlands. He was known as the "Canova of the Netherlands" and later was simply referred to as "the sculptor."

In 1823, Royer was the first sculptor to win the Dutch version of the Dutch Prix de Rome, which allowed him to study in Rome where he came under classicist influences. He gained a lot of admiration for his portrait of Pope Leo XII, whom he portrayed from life.

In 1827, he returned from Rome and settled in The Hague, an important artistic centre after the royal family had moved there from Amsterdam. He was soon appointed court sculptor and he made portraits of all members of the royal family in busts of marble. Shortly afterwards he was also appointed director of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam.

After moving to Amsterdam in 1837, Royer received many public commissions for statues of leading personalities from Dutch history, such as the statues of Rembrandt and Joost van den Vondel in Amsterdam, William the Silent in The Hague and Michiel de Ruyter in Vlissingen.

He died in Amsterdam on 5 June 1868.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 1 August 1793 NS, 22:00 (10pm) LMT (-0:17:52), Mechelen, Belgium (51n02, 4e28). ASC: 24 Aries. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Bulletin du Cercle archeologique, litteraire et artistique de Malines, Volume 15 (H. Dessain, 1905), p. 202: "De meest geraadpleegde kunstgeschiedboeken geven een verkeer den geboortedatum van hem op. Hij kwam ter wereld te Mechelen, den 1" Augustus 1793, ten 10 uur des avonds."

Translation: "The most consulted art history books frequently discuss his birth. He was born in Mechelen on the 1st of August 1793 at 10 o'clock in the evening."

Saturday, 6 June 2015

James Hong (American actor and director)

* James Hong's acting career spans more than 61 years and includes more than 350 roles in film, television, and video games.

Hong's well-known screen roles include the immortal ghost sorcerer Lo Pan in John Carpenter’s cult classic Big Trouble in Little China, the eye manufacturer Chew in Blade Runner, Evelyn Mulwray's loyal and vigilant butler in Chinatown, and the maître d' in the well-known Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant."

Known as the "man of a thousand faces," Hong has Neptune opposite (and ruling) the Sun in Pisces in the 12th house, with the Sun also widely conjunct his Pisces Ascendant. Perhaps Neptune could be called the "planet of a thousand faces," especially when it's personalized along with its sign (Pisces) and house (12th)!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 22 February 1929, 07:30 (7:30 AM) CST (+6), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (44n58, 93w15). ASC: 13 Pisces. RR: AA (Birth certificate on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate, obtained on 6/6/2015.

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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, 18 February 2015

Alex Norton (Scottish television and film actor)

* Glaswegian actor Alex Norton played Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Matt Burke in the popular Scottish Television detective drama series Taggart from 2002 to 2010.

Burke has been described as "a man who could probably scare away a rottweiler just by looking at it."

No doubt Norton tapped into Pluto in his first house to perfect that look!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Alexander Hugh Norton, 27 January 1950, 16:30 (4:30pm) GMT (+0), Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 4w15). ASC: 6 Leo. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "There's Been a Life!: My Autobiography" by Alex Norton (Black & White: 2014): "[I]n Brock Road, Househillwood . . . I was born in my granny's wee back bedroom on 27 January 1950 at half past four in the afternoon."

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

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.

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Sunday, 22 September 2013

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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Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Peter Capaldi (Scottish actor and film director)

* It was announced on Sunday that Peter Capaldi will soon star in the new series of the British science fiction TV programme, Doctor Who, portraying the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor. Capaldi currently has Solar Arc Uranus high in the sky in the first degree of Libra, ruling his SA Saturn in Aquarius, which, in turn, is ruling the first degree of Capricorn on his SA Ascendant. Solar Arc Saturn is conjunct his natal Mars in Aquarius. A double ingress into cardinal signs: new beginnings indeed. Charts and data below.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) has had a large number of roles in film and television, and is maybe best known for his role as Malcolm Tucker in the BBC comedy series The Thick of It and its follow-up film In the Loop. In 1995, he won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, which he directed. He has also won a BAFTA Award, a Chlotrudis Award and two British Comedy Awards. On 4 August 2013, the BBC announced on live television that he will assume the lead role in the long-running TV series Doctor Who.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Peter Dougan Capaldi, 14 April 1958, 20:30 (8:30 p.m.) GMT (+0), Balornock, Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 4w14). ASC: 6 Scorpio. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Frank Clifford in his British Entertainers quotes Caroline Gerard for data from birth certificate.

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Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Bill Ackman (American hedge fund manager, billionaire, philanthropist)

* What makes a billionaire and a philanthropist? Bill Ackman has an exact 8th-House conjunction of Pluto and Uranus in Virgo trine an angular Mars-Sun conjunction in Taurus trine his Capricorn Ascendant: An acquisitive and materialistic Earth Grand Trine. Neptune in Scorpio on his MC makes this Grand Trine into an angular Kite pattern. Neptune can dissolve one's funds, so Ackman has acted wisely by becoming a signatory of The Giving Pledge: committing himself to give away at least 50% of his wealth to charitable causes.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

William A. "Bill" Ackman (born May 11, 1966) is the founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP.

Ackman has given to charitable causes such as the Center for Jewish History to preserve Jewish genealogy where he spearheaded a successful effort to retire their $30 million in debt personally contributing $6.8 million. Ackman's foundation donated $1.1 million to the Innocence Project in New York City and Centurion Ministries in Princeton, N.J. The two groups are dedicated to investigating the cases of people who have been wrongfully convicted.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: William Albert Ackman, 11 May 1966, 00:30 (12:30 a.m.) EDT (+4), Chappaqua [?], New York, USA (41n09, 73w45). ASC: 19 Capricorn. RR: B (from a news article). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Amanda Gordon, "Scene Last Night: Icahn, Ackman, Bruce Richards, Steinem," www.bloomberg.com, 13 May 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-13/scene-last-night-icahn-ackman-bruce-richards-steinem.html: "Bill Ackman celebrated his birthday by giving a present. Born at 12:30 a.m. on May 11 1966, the hedge-fund manager had already turned 47 when he told players at the R Baby Foundation’s third annual tennis tournament on Saturday that he’d match their bids in the Calcutta auction 'up to a hundred grand.'" NB: Various resources claim he was born in New York, possibly referring to the city or the state, while others mention he grew up in Chappaqua, New York.

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Bill Ackman's angular Kite pattern

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Aimé Césaire, 1913–2008 (Martiniquan poet, author and politician)

* Aimé Césaire ― "one of the founders of the Négritude [Negro-ness] movement in Francophone literature" ― had power-struggler Pluto in the last degree of literary Gemini ruling his Scorpio MC, and establisher Saturn in Gemini ruling his Capricorn Ascendant.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique. He traveled to Paris to attend the Lycée Louis-le-Grand on an educational scholarship. In Paris, Césaire created, with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas, the literary review L'Étudiant Noir (The Black Student). In 1936, Césaire began work on his long poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, a vivid and powerful depiction of the ambiguities of Caribbean life and culture in the New World and this upon returning home to Martinique.

In 1947 he was finally able to publish his book-length poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land), which had first been published in the Parisian periodical Volontés in 1939. The book mixes poetry and prose to express his thoughts on the cultural identity of black Africans in a colonial setting. French surrealist poet André Breton contributed a laudatory introduction to this 1947 edition, saying that the "poem is nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of our times."

Read more from Césaire's Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Poetic Neptune and prosaic Mercury straddle the Descendant all in the Piscean decan of Cancer.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Aimé Fernand David Césaire, 26 June 1913, 20:00 (8 p.m.) AST (+4), Basse-Pointe, Martinique (14n52, 61w07). ASC: 25 Capricorn. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes David Alliot, Aimé Césaire: Le nègre universel (Gollion, Switzerland: Infolio éditions, 2008), p. 24: "En 1911, peu après leur mariage, Marie Félicité met au monde Orner Césaire, le premier enfant de la famille. Le deuxième enfant du couple, Aimé Fernand David Césaire naît le 26 juin 1913 à Basse-Pointe vers huit heures du soir."

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Emily Carr, 1871–1945 (Canadian artist and writer)

* Emily Carr ― "an artist of stunning originality and strength"¹ ― had ingenious Uranus in the ultra powerful and creative first degree of Leo conjunct her MC, plus artistic Venus rising in forceful Scorpio.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a modernist and post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life. As she matured, the subject matter of her painting shifted from aboriginal themes to landscapes, and in particular, forest scenes. As a writer, Carr was one of the earliest chroniclers of life in British Columbia. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a "Canadian icon".

Monday, 17 June 2013

Clifford Bias, 1910-1987 (American psychic)

* Clifford Bias ― author of books on the Tarot and Qabalah ― had symbologist Chiron exactly on the Ascendant both in the last degree of Aquarius.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Clifford Bias was a prominent psychic in early 20th-century America. He claimed that since the age of five he had been able to communicate with people who had long since died. President Franklin D. Roosevelt counselled with him during the turbulent 1940's, as Bias was also a close friend of Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor.

Clifford Bias was ordained into the ministry in 1937 and served as a minister of churches in Jackson, Michigan; Buffalo, New York; Toledo, Ohio; St. Petersburg, Florida; and New York City. He helped organize the Spiritualist-Episcopal Church and the Universal Spiritualist Association and served as educational director and president of the Indiana Association of Spiritualists of Camp Chesterfield, Indiana. He was Dean of the Universal Spiritualist Institute, which held sessions each summer on various Mid-Western college campuses.

Clifford Bias organized a magical study group known as the Ancient Mystical Order of Seekers (A.M.O.S.) and he wrote and published a series of A.M.O.S. books, including The Probationer, L.V.X. The Book of Light, Sepher Yetzirah and the 32 Paths of Wisdom, The Neophyte, The Tarot – The Book of Thoth, The Way Back, The Western Mystery Tradition, and Qabalah, Tarot and the Western Mystery Tradition. His Ritual Book of Magic was published by Samuel Weiser in 1981. He is also featured in 'The Hierophant Of 100th Street.'

He retired in 1985 and settled in Anderson, Indiana, where he died in February 1987.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo Credit: Unattributed, from Open Library.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 19 March 1910, 05:30 (5:30 a.m.) EST (+5), Huntington, West Virginia, USA (38n25, 82w26). ASC: 29 Aquarius. RR: A (from him in a book). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Clifford Bias, Qabalah, Tarot & the Western Mystery Tradition. 1985. (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1997), p. xiv: "I was born at 5:30 AM on Saturday, March 19, 1910, in Huntington, West Virginia. I was the youngest son of Riley Monroe Bias and Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Bias."

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Friday, 5 April 2013

Paolo Tosti, 1846–1916 (composer, music teacher)

* Italian-British composer, Sir Paolo Tosti, born at "four in the monring," had melodic Venus in Pisces on his Ascendant.

Sir Paolo Tosti (April 9, 1846 – December 2, 1916) was an Italian, later British, composer and music teacher.

Tosti is remembered for his light, expressive songs, which are characterized by natural, singable melodies and sweet sentimentality. He is also known for his editions of Italian folk songs entitled "Canti popolari Abruzzesi".

His style became very popular during the Belle Époque and is often known as salon music. His most famous works are Serenata (lyrics: Cesareo), Good-bye! (lyrics: George J. Whyte-Melville) which is sometimes performed in Italian as Addio (lyrics: Rizzelli), and the popular Neapolitan song, Marechiare, the lyrics of which are by the prominent Neapolitan dialect poet, Salvatore Di Giacomo. Malia, Ancora and Non t'amo piu were and remain popular concert pieces.

Tosti wrote well for the voice, allowing, indeed encouraging, interpretation and embellishment from operatic singers. Most artists, therefore, specializing in the classical Italian repertoire have performed and recorded Tosti songs; yet Tosti never composed opera. Notable examples on record include Alessandro Moreschi (the only castrato who ever recorded) singing "Ideale", Mattia Battistini singing "Ancora", Nellie Melba singing "Mattinata" and Jussi Björling singing "L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra"

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

"Tosti is remembered for his light, expressive songs, which are characterized by natural, singable melodies and sweet sentimentality." Sounds like melodic Venus in sentimental Pisces very close to the Ascendant in the expressive 1st House!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 9 April 1846, 04:00 (4:00 a.m.) LMT (-0:57:36), Ortona, Italy (42n21, 14e24). ASC: 7 Pisces. RR=AA (birth certificate quoted in a biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Francesco Sanvitale and Andreina Manzo, Francesco Paolo Tosti, 1846-1916: The Song of a Life (Ashgate, 2004), p. 1: "Francesco Paolo Tosti was born at four in the morning on 9 April 1846 in his father Giuseppe's house, in the main square of Ortona, a small town in the province of Chieti, on the Adriatic coast in central Italy."

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