Showing posts with label Mercury rising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercury rising. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 May 2016

Tech N9ne (American rapper)

* Tech N9ne has sold over two million albums and has had his music featured in film, television, and video games. In 2009, he won the Left Field Woodie award at the mtvU Woodie Awards.

His stage name originated from the TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, a name given to him by rapper Black Walt due to his fast-rhyming Chopper style. Yates later applied a deeper meaning to the name, claiming that it stands for the complete technique of rhyme, with "tech" meaning technique and "nine" representing the number of completion.

Yates is known for his dynamic rhyme schemes and speed rap abilities known as the Chopper style. He stated that he purposely creates flow patterns in order to sound like a percussion while he raps. After hearing an instrumental he would come up with different kinds of patterns and then "fill in" the actual lyrics.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Aaron Dontez Yates, 8 November 1971, 09:00 (9am) CST (+6), Kansas City, Missouri, USA (39n05, 94w34). ASC: 10 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Facebook (28 December 2015): "I was born in November 8th day nineteen seventy first y'all. Nine o'clock in the mornin a Christian girl in Kansas city gave birth y'all"


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Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Elvira Pagã, 1920-2003 (Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer and painter)

* Elvira Pagã was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to have cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she broke the status-quo and faced the reigning "machismo" with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s, where she lived with determination and courage. Pagã retired from public life, wrote and painted in her later years, dying a recluse on 8 May 2003, aged 82, in Rio de Janeiro.
NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, 6 September 1920, 06:00 (6am) BZT2 (+3), Itararé, São Paulo, Brazil (24s07, 49w20). ASC: 4 Virgo. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Uma Mulher Chamada Elvira PagÃ" by Thiago De Menezes (Clube de Autores, 2010), p. 18: "Elvira nasceu no dia 06 de setembro de 1920 às 6:00 horas. Foi a terceira filha do casal José Cozzolino, um descendente de italianos nascido nos estados Unidos, mais precisamente no Brooklin e de Regina Maria Olivieri, natural de Castro, Paraná... nasceram em Itararé."

Translation: Elvira was born on 6 September 1920 at 6:00 am. She was the third daughter of the couple José Cozzolino, a descendant of Italians born in the United States, more precisely in Brooklyn, and Regina Maria Olivieri, born in Castro, Paraná ... born in Itararé.


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Monday, 27 April 2015

Geri Jewell (American actress, motivational speaker, and disability & diversity consultant)

* Geri Jewell was the first person with a disability to have a regular role on a prime time American TV series, when she played Cousin Geri, on the sitcom The Facts of Life from 1980 to 1984. The title of her autobiography, I’m Walking As Straight As I Can refers to both Jewell’s lesbianism and cerebral palsy.

Uranus in a chart can indicate how a person handles their difference (and other people's reactions to it). Jewell has Uranus personalised in dramatic Leo through a conjunction with Venus, the ruler of her Libran Ascendant. She has seen two sides of Uranus: "the relentless discrimination and abuse she suffered at the hands of people she trusted" in show business, and the joy of becoming an outspoken advocate for people with disabilities.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 13 September 1956, 08:34 (8:34 am) EDT (+4), Buffalo, New York, USA (42n53, 78w52). ASC: 9 Libra. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her in "I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond" by Geri Jewell, Ted Nichelson, and Patty Duke (ECW Press, 2011): "In 1956 . . . My mother was rushed to the Sisters Hospital in Buffalo . . . On the morning of September 13 at 8:34 a.m., I came into the world with a faint heartbeat..."


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Friday, 7 November 2014

Renato Russo, 1960-1996 (Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician)

* Renato Russo was born right on an Aries New Moon with both luminaries aspected by Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. His first band, the punk rock group with the Plutonic name "Aborto Elétrico" (Electric Abortion) eventually split into two different bands: "Capital Inicial" and "Legião Urbana". Under Russo's leadership and the good fortune of his Jupiter and Neptune, Legião Urbana sold around 20 million albums during Russo's lifetime.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Renato Manfredini, Jr., 27 March 1960, 04:00 (4 AM) BZT (-3), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (22s53, 43w0613). ASC: 8 Pisces. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Renato Russo: O filho da Revolução" by Carlos Marcelo (Rio de Janeiro, Agir, 2012): "Nove meses depois daquela noite de junho de 1959, no dia 27 de março, Renato Manfredini Júnior nasceu às quatro da manhã na Clínica Santa Lúcia, bairro do Humaitá."

Translation: Nine months after that night in June 1959, Renato Manfredini Jr. was born on 27 March [1960] at four o'clock in the morning at the Santa Lucia Clinic in the neighborhood of Humaita.


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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Darrell Glenn, 1935-1990 (American singer-songwriter)


* Darrell Glenn made his mark in the music business with his 1953 recording of "Crying In the Chapel", written by his dad, Artie Glenn. His early recordings included "I Think I'm Falling In Love With You". "Crying in the Chapel" was covered by June Valli, Sonny Til & the Orioles and Elvis Presley; all versions becoming major hits. In 1959, Glenn re-recorded "Crying in the Chapel" for National Recording Corporation as the title track of an album of inspirational songs. The album has been re-released on CD by NRC. Glenn penned the Elvis release "Indescribably Blue". 


"Crying In the Chapel"?? The Sun is in religious Sagittarius exactly conjunct the Ascendant, squared by teary Neptune high in the sky. 

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Camille du Gast, 1868-1942 (French celebrity of the Belle Epoque)

* Camille du Gast ― pioneering feminist, "Amazon" and arguably "the greatest sportswoman of all time" ― had both Mars and Pluto all but unaspected in the 11th House. Competitive Mars ruled Jupiter and Neptune in trail-blazing Aries in the 10th House of accomplishments.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Camille du Gast, Marie Marthe Camille Desinge du Gast, Camille Crespin du Gast (30 May 1868 – 24 April 1942) was one of a trio of pioneering French female celebrities of the Belle Epoque, together with Hélène de Rothschild (Baroness Hélène van Zuylen) and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (the duchesse d’Uzès). She was known as one of the richest and most accomplished widows in France, being a balloonist, a parachute jumper, an accomplished sportswoman, fencer, tobogganist, skier, rifle and pistol shot, horse trainer, concert pianist and singer. She was the second woman to compete in an international motor race.

Read more from her Wikipedia biography.


Photo Credit: Camille du Gast - c.1900 publicity photograph for a piano recital.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marie Marthe Camille Desinge, 30 May 1868, 05:00 (5 a.m.) LMT (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52,02e20). ASC: 23 Gemini. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes birth certificate no. 2393 at the Parisian archives, 10e arr.


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Friday, 28 June 2013

Ellen Glasgow, 1873-1945 (American novelist)

* Family testimony reveals that Ellen Glasgow was born "precisely at four o'clock in the morning." The first degree of Aries was rising, with Mars in Scorpio ruling from the 8th in a Fixed Grand Cross. My favourite Glasgow quote: “The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south.

As the United States women's suffrage movement was developing in the early 1900s, Glasgow marched in the English suffrage parades in the spring 1909. Later she spoke at the first suffrage meeting in Virginia. Glasgow felt that the movement came "at the wrong moment" for her, and her participation and interest waned. Glasgow did not at first make women’s roles her major theme, and she was slow to place heroines rather than heroes at the centers of her stories. Her later works, however, have heroines who display many of the attributes of women involved in the political movement.

In 1941 she published In This Our Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. In addition, it was quickly bought by Warner Brothers and adapted as a movie by the same name, released in 1942.

Her autobiography, The Woman Within, published after her death, details her progression as an author and the influences essential for her becoming an acclaimed Southern woman writer.

Read more from her Wikipedia biography.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, 22 April 1873, 04:00 (4 a.m.) LMT (+5:09:51), Richmond, Virginia, USA (37n33, 77w27). ASC: 00 Aries. RR: A (from family testimony). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Ellen Glasgow, "The Woman Within (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1954), p. 5: "There has always been a confusion, or simple inaccuracy, concerning the hour and date of my birth. All through my childhood Mother celebrated my birthday on the 22nd of April. I still accept her authority, though I discovered a few years ago, when we consulted the old family Bible, which is now in the possession of my sister, Rebe Tutwiler, that Father had recorded the unhappy event as occurring on April 21st. As I came into the world precisely at four o'clock in the morning, by the testimony of all concerned, I suppose Father had considered it was still night, while Mother, a more sanguine spirit, who welcomed ten children with joy, had dreamed of the more confident morning. But we still made another discovery in the Bible adventure. It appeared, by the record in faded ink, that I was born, not in 1874, as I had always assumed, but in 1873. Many years ago, in filling in a first slip for Who's Who, my sister Cary must have, inadvertently, counted back from January, instead of April."


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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Edward Snowden (American newsmaker)

* Edward Snowden ― the source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the National Security Agency's history ― has eight planets in two wedge patterns, one involving a close Pluto-Saturn conjunction. In AstroCartoGraphy, his 'Ceres IC' line runs by Hong Kong, where he has taken temporary refuge. Will his actions drive a wedge between the USA and the UK? And between the USA and China?

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American former technical contractor and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), before leaking details of classified NSA mass surveillance programs to the press. Snowden shared classified material on a variety of top-secret NSA programs, including the interception of U.S. telephone metadata and the PRISM surveillance program, primarily with The Guardian, which published a series of exposés based on Snowden's disclosures in June 2013. Snowden said his disclosure of PRISM and FISA orders related to NSA data capture efforts was an effort "to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."

Disclosures linked to Snowden rank among the most significant breaches in the history of the NSA. Matthew M. Aid, an intelligence historian in Washington, said disclosures linked to Snowden have "confirmed longstanding suspicions that NSA's surveillance in this country is far more intrusive than we knew."

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.


HOROSCOPE NOTES

Mars in Gemini suggests a whistleblower, particularly when opposed by Neptune, conjunct the Sun in the last degree of Gemini, and trined by a Pluto-Saturn conjunction.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Edward Joseph Snowden, 21 June 1983, 04:42 (4:42 a.m.) EDT (+4), Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA (36n18, 76w13). ASC: 12 Gemini. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Birth certificate on file, acquired by Eric Francis Coppolino. Thanks to Tem Tarriktar for the heads up.


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Monday, 10 June 2013

Papa Spyk (Belgian sportsman, model, stuntman)

* Papa Spyk had a sudden heart attack but happily lived to tell his tale. Saturn in Aquarius on his MC is trine his Mercury-Venus-Ascendant in Gemini.

Papa Spyk is a former professional rugby player, model, and Hollywood stuntman.

He appeared in films such as American Ninja, Tropical Heat and Red Scorpion, and he has charted his experiences in his book, A Naughty Thing Called Life. On 13 July 1997, he had a massive heart attack:

"At the hospital they discovered that I had had a severe heart attack and rushed me into surgery. They opened me up, taking out my ribcage, in which I still have the staples in. They saw that my aorta had exploded in half and had split from my heart all the way down to my legs. The Doctors told my Parents that they had to amputate both my legs because they had died due to the loss of blood flow to them. The reason that all this happened to me, was that I used steroids throughout my rugby career and it caused my blood pressure to go through the roof until my heart basically exploded. The steroids along with the recreational drugs such as cocaine, used in the entertainment industry caused a lethal cocktail, hence my heart attack."

To read about his recovery see his blog/website.


HOROSCOPE NOTES

A massive heart attack caused by steroids and recreational drugs? Papa Spyk has Eris-Jupiter in the Leo (heart) decan of Aries at the apex of a Yod involving Mars (steroids) and Neptune (drugs).


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Edouard Gheur, 28 June 1963, 03:45 (3:45 a.m.) CET (-1), Liege, Belgium (50n38, 05e34). ASC: 24 Gemini. RR: A/B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Papa Spyk, A Naughty Thing Called Life (Xlibris Corporation, 2011), p. 13: "I was born in Liege, Belgium at 3:45am on the 28th of June 1963."

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Henri Duveyrier, 1840–1892 (French explorer)

* Henri Duveyrier, the French explorer of the Sahara - one of the hottest regions on the planet - had Saturn in the Leo decan of Sagittarius close to his MC. One can imagine the harshness of the Sun beating down on him.

Henri Duveyrier (28 February 1840 – 25 April 1892) was a French explorer of the Sahara born in Paris. In 1857 and 1858, he spent some months in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan. At the age of nineteen Duveyrier, who had already learned Arabic, began a journey in the northern parts of the Sahara which lasted nearly three years. In 1864, two years after returning to France, he published Exploration du Sahara: les Touareg du nord (Exploration of the Sahara: Tuaregs of the North), for which he received the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society. In the war of 1870 he was taken prisoner by the Germans. Subsequently he made several other journeys in the Sahara, adding considerably to the knowledge of the regions immediately south of the Atlas, from the eastern confines of Morocco to Tunisia. He also examined the Algerian and Tunisian shats and explored the interior of western Tripoli. Duveyrier devoted special attention to the customs and speech of the Tuareg people, with whom he lived for months at a time, and to the organization of the Senussi. In 1881 he published La Tunisie, and in 1884 La confrérie musulmane de Sîdî Mohammed ben Alî-Senoûsi et son domaine géographique en l'année 1300 de l'Hégire.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.


Photo from Josef Chavanne, Die Sahara: oder Von Oase zu Oase (A. Hartleben, 1879).


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 28 February 1840, 07:00 (7 a.m.) LMT (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 2e20). ASC: 13 Pisces. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes René Pottier, Un prince saharien méconnu: Henri Duveyrier (Paris: Plon, 1938), p. 14: "il était né le 28 février 1840, à 7 heures du soir, 48, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin." NB: Lois Rodden's AstroDatabank quoted Jacques de Lescaut for data from birth record, unconfirmed and rated C. This new reference (which names the street and number of the house where Duveyrier was born) raises the rating to B.

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Thursday, 25 April 2013

Henri-Edmond Cross, 1856–1910 (French painter and printmaker)

* Henri-Edmond Cross, "most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism," had the masterly Sun in the last degree of artistic Taurus in the impressionistic 12th House.

Henri-Edmond Cross (20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910) played an important role in shaping the second phase of the Neo-Impressionism movement. He was very influential to Henri Matisse and many other artists, and his work was an instrumental influence in the development of Fauvism.

In 1891, Cross began painting in the Neo-Impressionist style, and exhibited his first large piece using this technique in an Indépendants show. That painting was a divisionist portrait of Madame Hector France, née Irma Clare, whom Cross had met in 1888 and would marry in 1893. Robert Rosenblum wrote that "the picture is softly charged with a granular, atmospheric glow".

Cross's paintings of the early- to mid-1890s are characteristically Pointillist, with closely and regularly positioned tiny dots of color. Beginning around 1895, he gradually shifted his technique, instead using broad, blocky brushstrokes and leaving small areas of exposed bare canvas between the strokes. The resulting surfaces of the paintings resembled mosaics, and the works may be seen as precursors to Fauvism and Cubism.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.


HOROSCOPE NOTES

Venus is either unaspected or widely conjunct both Uranus and Pluto at their midpoint, all in artistic Taurus.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Henri-Edmond Delacroix, 20 May 1856, 05:30 (5:30 a.m.) LMT (-0:12:16), Douai, France (50n22, 03e04). ASC: 22 Gemini. RR: AA (from birth certificate). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes the birth certificate at the online Nord archives, #233.

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Monday, 25 March 2013

Ian Frazer (New Astrology data and chart)

* Scottish-Australian Ian Frazer co-developed and patented the basic technology behind the first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer. Many thanks to Caroline Gerard for his data from birth certificate.

Ian Hector Frazer, AC (born 6 January 1953) is a Scottish-born Australian Scientist and the CEO and Director of Research of the Translational Research Institute. In parallel with researchers at the National Cancer Institute, Georgetown University, and University of Rochester, Frazer and his colleagues developed and patented the basic technology behind the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer; the second cancer preventing vaccine, and the first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer. (Two are marketed as Gardasil and Cervarix).

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo by Graeme Bartlett.


HOROSCOPE NOTES

The co-developer of a cervical cancer vaccine? Pluto in 8th House square and ruling Scorpio MC.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ian Hector Frazer, 6 January 1953, 08:25 (8.25 a.m.) GMT (+0), Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 04w15). ASC: 7 Capricorn. RR=AA (from birth certificate). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Caroline Gerard in an email (10/02/2007) for full name and data from birth certificate.

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Sunday, 24 March 2013

F. R. Scott (New Astrology data and chart)

* Canadian poet F.R. Scott's father wrote in his diary that his son was born at "5:50" and that he slept that afternoon so presumably the birth happened in the morning.

Francis Reginald Scott, CC, commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott (August 1, 1899 – January 30, 1985), was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party. He won Canada's top literary prize, the Governor General's Award, twice, once for poetry and once for non-fiction. He was married to artist Marian Dale Scott.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.


HOROSCOPE NOTES

When I hear the words "poet" and "social democrat" I think "Neptune." Here Neptune is conjunct the Part of Fortune and sextile the Ascendant.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 1 August 1899, O5:50 (5:50 a.m.), EST (+5), Quebec, Canada (46n49, 71w14). ASC: 23 Leo. RR=AA (from father's diary). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Sandra Djwa, The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987), p. 14: "ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1899, the Reverend F.G. Scott wrote in his diary:'Little Boy born at 5.50. Slept in afternoon. Dinner to Do-bell's.'" NB: His father did not state a.m. or p.m. but 5:50 p.m. would have been late afternoon not leaving much time for afternoon sleeping so presumably his son was born in the a.m.

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Thursday, 21 March 2013

Craig Ferguson (Upgraded Astrology data and chart)


* I had an inkling about this guy's data. In his autobiography, late-night TV-host Craig Ferguson states he was born at 6:10 a.m. (RR=B). However, Scottish data collector Caroline Gerard has checked the birth certificate to find 6.10 p.m. (RR=AA), adding that it "[w]asn’t a very clear letter, if he [Ferguson] was looking at his birth entry, but I had the advantage of being able to see other entries by the same Registrar." We can therefore upgrade the Rodden Rating from "B" (6:10 a.m.) to "AA" (6:10 p.m.). Where possible, we should always check the original source (and follow our intuition)!

Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice artist. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS. In addition to hosting that program and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir. He became a citizen of the United States in 2008.

Before his career as a late-night television host, Ferguson was best known in the United States for his role as the office boss on The Drew Carey Show, Nigel Wick (1996–2003). He also wrote and starred in three films, directing one of them.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.


HOROSCOPE NOTES

If we were to take Ferguson by his word (6:10 a.m.), we would see that the ever loquacious TV host has Mercury in Gemini exactly conjunct his Ascendant, but using the birth certificate data (6:10 p.m.), we find that the ex-punk comedian with the stage name 'Bing Hitler' has mercury in the 8th House at the apex of the T-square. With Neptune conjunct Moon on his Ascendant it seems he is mistaken about his birth time. Neptune-Moon also bespeaks the 'Unlikely Patriot' subtitle of his autobiography. Both charts are below.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

CHART 'A' BIRTH DATA: Craig Ferguson, 17 May 1962, 06:10 (6:10 p.m.) BST (-1), Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 04w14). ASC: 25 Libra. RR=AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Caroline Gerard in an email (21 March 2013) for data from birth certificate: "Born at 6.10 PM at 133 Balornock Road," the address of Stobhill Hospital.

CHART 'B' BIRTH DATA: Craig Ferguson, 17 May 1962, 06:10 (6:10 a.m.) BST (-1), Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 04w14). ASC: 17 Gemini. RR=B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), p. 21: "I was born at 6:10 a.m. on May 17, 1962, in Stobhill Hospital in Springburn, at the northern end of Glasgow."



Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Louise Leung Larson (New Astrology data and chart)

* Chinese-American reporter Louise Leung Larson recounts her birth data in her memoir, Sweet Bamboo.

Sweet Bamboo is the vivid and absorbing memoir of a Chinese American family who lived in Los Angeles since the first years of the twentieth century. Lovingly recounted by the second daughter, Louise Leung Larson, who went on to become the first Asian American reporter for a major American newspaper, this account illuminates the many changes that occurred in the family as members increasingly became integrated into American society. While much of the attention given to Chinese immigrants has focused on the struggles of working class people, this book sheds new light on a different kind of immigrant experience--that of privileged Chinese parents and their children living in relative affluence in a predominantly white neighborhood.


HOROSCOPE NOTES

Lots of Cancerian Moon folk revel in researching and writing up their family histories. Larson has channelled her Cancer Moon -- via a quincunx with Mercury in Aquarius on her Ascendant -- into the book, Sweet Bamboo, a vivid and absorbing memoir of her Chinese American family resident in Los Angeles since the first years of the twentieth century.


NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 16 February 1905, 06:15 (6:15 a.m.) PST (+8), Los Angeles, California, USA (34n03, 118w14). ASC: 18 Aquarius. RR=B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Louise Leung Larson (et al)'s book, Sweet Bamboo: A Memoir of a Chinese American Family 1989 (University of California Press, 2001), pp. 51 + 225: "I was born at 6:15 a.m. on the morning of February 16, 1905 . . . in Los Angeles."