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Monday, 21 November 2016

Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand author)

* Witi Ihimaera was the first published Māori novelist. Ihimaera is of Māori descent (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki) and Anglo-Saxon descent through his father. His stories generally portray Māori culture in modern New Zealand. His work often focuses on problems within contemporary Māori society.

In 1995, Ihimaera published Nights in the Gardens of Spain, a semi-autobiographical work about a married father of two daughters coming out. He had come out to himself as gay in 1984 and began the work, but out of sensitivity to his daughters, did not finish or publish it then. Nights In The Gardens Of Spain was filmed in 2010 with changes to the book, making the central character Māori rather than Pākehā (European) to more closely reflect Ihimaera's life. His story The Whale Rider was also made into a film.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, 7 February 1944, 09:50 (9:50AM) NZST (-12), Gisborne, New Zealand (38s40, 178e01). ASC: 9 Aries. RR: B. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes date and time from "Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood" by Witi Ihimaera (Vintage, 2014): "7 February 1944 ... I was born on 7 February ... According to my mother, I was born around 9.50a.m."; and place from news article: "Gisborne was where he was born, at Cook Hospital, in 1944, and where his parents were farmers and shearers" ("Witi Ihimaera's charmed life" by Diana Dekker, 8 June 2013).

Sunday, 18 September 2016

Andie MacDowell (American actress and fashion model)

* Andie MacDowell made her film debut in 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). Since then she has appeared in several notable films, including Groundhog Day (1993) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). She has also starred in Green Card (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Michael (1996) and Multiplicity (1996). From 2013 to 2015, she starred in the drama series Cedar Cove. She has modelled for Calvin Klein Inc. and has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1986 celebrating 25 years with the company in 2011.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Rosalie Anderson MacDowell, 21 April 1958, 06:00 (6 AM) EST (+5), Gaffney, South Carolina, USA (35n04, 81w39). ASC: circa 3 Taurus. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her on Twitter: "born April 21 under the sign of Taurus ....somewhere close to 6 am as a mater of fact :-)", "I was born in big peach country ,I love the peaches from the Gaffney SC area", "Prince & I were the same age". NB: Prince was born in 1958.

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.

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Kirsi Kunnas (Finnish poet, children's literature author and translator)

* Kirsi Kunnas has an extensive oeuvre consisting of poems, fairy tale books, drama, translations (e.g. Lewis Carroll, Federico García Lorca) and non-fiction. Her books have been translated into Swedish, English, German, French, Hungarian, and Estonian. She has received several prizes and awards in Finland for her life's work.

Kunnas is married to author Jaakko Syrjä. The lead singer and songwriter Martti Syrjä and guitarist Mikko Syrjä of Eppu Normaali are their sons.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Kirsi Marjatta Kunnas, 14 December 1924, 12:00 (12 Noon) EET (-2), Helsinki, Finland (60n10, 24e58). ASC: 13 Aquarius. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Kirsi Kunnas - Sateessa ja tuulessa by Leena Kirstinä (WSOY, 2014): "Helsingissä Eiran sairaalassa syntyi 14. joulukuuta 1924 kello 12 pieni tyttö, sunnuntailapsi."

tr Translation: 'At Eira Hospital in Helsinki a little girl, a Sunday child, was born on 14 December 1924 at 12:00 o'clock.'

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."

Friday, 26 June 2015

Max Meldrum, 1875–1955 (Scottish-Australian painter)

* Max Meldrum is known as the founder of Australian Tonalism, a representational style of painting that emerged in Melbourne during the 1910s, as well as for his portrait work, having won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940.

Meldrum's unique theory of painting (Uranus on MC) was based on "the importance of tonal values and objective optical analysis, resulting in simple representational works characterised by a 'misty' or atmospheric quality" (nebulous Neptune is exactly opposite his Ascendant).

This pioneering artist also had the zero degree of Scorpio on his Ascendant and six planets (including Pluto opposite and ruling Jupiter-Mercury in Scorpio) all in a Fixed Grand Cross. Meldrum's "published theories of art created a storm in the Australian art world, and his school of painting attracted equally passionate followers and critics."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Duncan Max Meldrum, 3 December 1875, 04:30 (4:30 AM) GMT (+0), Edinburgh, Scotland (55n57, 3w13). ASC: 00 Scorpio. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record ("Born 4.30 and I’m fairly sure it was am"), requested by Sy Scholfield.

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Thursday, 20 November 2014

David Pogue (American technology writer, TV science presenter)

* David Pogue is a personal technology columnist for Yahoo Tech, a tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, a columnist for Scientific American and a former technology columnist for The New York Times. Venus in techno-savvy Aquarius rules his Taurus Ascendant. Pogue has written or co-written seven books in the For Dummies series (including Macintosh computers, magic, opera, and classical music). These books all have Neptunian themes: Pogue's angular Neptune rules and trines his Sun-Jupiter conjunction in Pisces. Perhaps Mercury in the first degree of Pisces explains his interest in numerology.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: David Welch Pogue, 9 March 1963, 09:09 (9:09 AM) EST (+5), Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA (41n28, 81w32). ASC: 14 Taurus. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "The World According to Twitter" by David Pogue (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009), p. 31: "Actually, the numerology coincidences revealed in my question is only part of the story. I was born at 9:09 a.m. on March 9, 1963 (note that 6 + 3 = 9). I weighed 9 pounds, 9 ounces. My parents had been married 9 years."

Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony

* Augustus II the Strong is famous for his great physical strength which earned him the nicknames "the Strong," "the Saxon Hercules" and "Iron-Hand." He lived up to his name by breaking horseshoes with his bare hands. That's certainly an interesting expression of Mars opposite Pluto. Augustus was also a voracious womanizer, bedding a string of mistresses over several decades and fathering as many as 382 children. His philandering Jupiter-Moon conjunction in Cancer is propelled by an opposition from Mars in Capricorn which also rules Venus in Aries on his North Node.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 12 May 1670 (OS), 08:30 (8:30AM) LMT (-0:54:56), Dresden, Germany (51n03, 13e44). ASC: 1 Leo. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "Geschichte der Bergstadt Geyer" by Johannes Falke (Burdach, 1863), p. 62: "Friedrich August (1.), geboren den 12. Mai 1670 Vormittags ½9 Uhr." Translation: Friedrich August I was born on 12 May 1670 in the morning at ½9 o'clock [8:30am].

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Friday, 22 November 2013

Grayson Perry (English artist)

* Grayson Perry, CBE, is known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as "Claire", his female alter-ego, often appear. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003, the first time it was given to a ceramic artist. He attended the award ceremony dressed as Claire, wearing a little girl party frock. Perry has Taurus rising, ruled by Venus in Pisces in the offbeat 11th House. Double-identity Mercury is conjunct his Venus and both are ruled and trined by Neptune in Scorpio on the Descendant, explaining the sexually explicit content of much of his work.
Data for his chart comes from his autobiography (details below, courtesy of Andrea Miles).

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Monday, 23 September 2013

Clint Ballard Jr., 1931–2008 (American songwriter)

* Clint Ballard Jr. wrote two Billboard Hot 100 number one hits. The first was "Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders in 1965. The second was the 1975 hit, "You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt (first sung by Dee Dee Warwick). He also wrote "I'm Alive" for The Hollies, which was number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1965; and also "Good Timin'" for Jimmy Jones which reached number one in the UK in 1960.
Why a songwriter? Ballard had the Sun in wordsmith Gemini (in the 3rd house) at the apex of a T-Square involving his Pisces Ascendant and its ruler, musical Neptune.

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Monday, 2 September 2013

James Hird (Australian rules footballer, coach)

* Last week, former footballer and former coach James Hird started his 12 month ban from working at any Australian Football League (AFL) club in any capacity. The ban followed Hird's admission that he had brought the game into disrepute because of his involvement in the use of injected performance enhancing supplements by his team. Hird's solar arc Jupiter in Pisces and MC in Taurus are both quincunx his natal Pluto in Libra. Transiting Neptune is also conjunct his solar arc Jupiter.

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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Elliott Smith,1969–2003 (American singer-songwriter, musician)

* Elliott Smith's heartbreaking songs were rendered all the more haunting by his tragic death.

He had Venus and the Moon in mutual reception with Venus ruling his Ascendant in the last degree of Taurus and the Moon conjunct his Ascendant.

Venus is squared by Pluto, Uranus and Jupiter, not to mention the quincunx from Mars: He came to fame with his song "Miss Misery."

Perhaps Mars in conjunction with Neptune, both descending, along with the Sun in Leo on the IC, brought him down and contributed to his undoing.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, the area in which he first gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient with piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures and harmonies.

After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994, with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars (KRS). In 1997, he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, the label for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery"—included in the soundtrack for the film Good Will Hunting—was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998.

Smith suffered from depression, alcoholism and drug dependence, and these topics often appear in his lyrics. At age 34, he died in Los Angeles, California from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted. At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was posthumously completed and released.

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Kim Fowley (American record producer, singer, impresario, songwriter, musician, filmmaker, radio actor)

* Kim Fowley is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and for managing the all-female rock band The Runaways in the 1970s. He has the very musical and female combination of Venus in Cancer in the 4th House (at the apex of a Cardinal T-square involving an opposition of the ruling Moon and Jupiter). Fowley has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll" and as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream." His tight T-square involves Mars in the last degree of Capricorn opposite Pluto in the first degree of Leo, all square Saturn in the first degree of Taurus. There's enough tension in that pattern alone to make for a very driven and compelling personality, not to mention Pluto conjunct Sun (his autobiography is called Lord of Garbage).

His website: www.kimfowley.net

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

* Read more about Kim Fowley's fascinating life at his very long Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Kim Vincent Fowley, 21 July 1939, 21:46 (9:46 pm) PST (+8), Los Angeles, California, USA (34n03, 118w14). ASC: 25 Pisces. RR: A/B (from him in an autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Kim Fowley, Lord of Garbage (New York: Kicks, 2012): "July 21, 1939. That was the day . . . KIM FOWLEY—Kim Vincent Fowley—did show up, kicking and screaming, ejected at precisely 9:46 PM from the loins of debutante-cum-starlet Shelby Payne, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Los Angeles. Shelby's first child. Doug Fowley's first son."

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Sunday, 7 July 2013

Yvette Guilbert, 1865–1944 (French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque)

* Yvette Guilbert ― who "broke and rewrote all the rules of music-hall with her audacious lyrics" ― had lyrical Mercury on her IC, ruled by Saturn in the first degree of raunchy Scorpio, and sextile the Moon in the same sexy sign. Not to mention the Sun in the first degree of rule-breaker Aquarius.

Yvette Guilbert: Wikipedia Biography

Born into a poor family as Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, Yvette Guilbert began singing as a child but at age sixteen worked as a model at the Printemps department store in Paris. She was discovered by a journalist. She took voice and acting lessons on the side that by 1886 led to appearances on stage at smaller venues. Guilbert debuted at the Variette Theatre in 1888. She eventually sang at the popular Eldorado club, then at the Jardin de Paris before headlining in Montmartre at the Moulin Rouge in 1890.

For her act, she was usually dressed in bright yellow with long black gloves and stood almost perfectly still, gesturing with her long arms as she sang. An innovator, she favored monologue-like "patter songs" (as they came to be called) and was often billed as a "diseuse" or "sayer." The lyrics (some of them her own) were raunchy; their subjects were tragedy, lost love, and the Parisian poverty from which she had come. During the 1890s she appeared regularly alongside another star of the time, Kam-Hill, often singing songs by Tarride. Taking her cue from the new cabaret performances, Guilbert broke and rewrote all the rules of music-hall with her audacious lyrics, and the audiences loved her. She was noted in France, England, and the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century for her songs and imitations of the common people of France.

She was a favorite subject of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who made many portraits and caricatures of Guilbert and dedicated his second album of sketches to her. Sigmund Freud attended performances, including one in Vienna, and called her a favorite singer. George Bernard Shaw wrote a review highlighting her novelty.

Friday, 28 June 2013

Soame Jenyns, 1704–1787 (English writer)

* Soame Jenyns ― who wrote against cruelty to animals like the "majestic bull" ― had angular Neptune ruling the Moon in sensitive Pisces, both in the 6th house of animals. And almighty Jupiter virtually unaspected in the sign of the bull.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

For the measure of literary repute which he enjoyed during his life Soame Jenyns (1 January 1704 – 18 December 1787) was indebted as much to his wealth and social standing as to his accomplishments and talents, though both were considerable. His poetical works, the Art of Dancing (1727) and Miscellanies (1770), contain many passages graceful and lively though occasionally verging on licence.

The first of his prose works was his Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1756). This essay was severely criticized on its appearance, especially by Samuel Johnson in the Literary Magazine. Johnson condemned the book as a slight and shallow attempt to solve one of the most difficult of moral problems. Jenyns, a gentle and amiable man in the main, was extremely irritated by his review. He put forth a second edition of his work, prefaced by a vindication, and tried to take vengeance on Johnson after his death by a sarcastic epitaph.

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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