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Friday, 18 September 2015

Jackie Wilson, 1934–1984 (American soul singer-songwriter and performer)

* Jackie Wilson was a tenor with a four octave vocal range. Nicknamed "Mr. Excitement," he was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. Wilson was considered a master showman, and one of the most dynamic and influential singers and performers in R&B and rock 'n' roll history.

Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, he went solo in 1957 and recorded over 50 hit singles that spanned R&B, pop, soul, doo-wop and easy listening. This included 16 R&B Top 10 hits, including 6 R&B # 1's. On the Billboard Hot 100, he scored 14 Top 20 Pop hits, 6 of which made it into the Pop Top 10. During a 1975 benefit concert, he collapsed on stage from a heart attack and subsequently fell into a coma that persisted for nearly nine years until his death on 21 January 1984, at the age of 49.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jack Leroy Wilson, Jr., 9 June 1934, 05:30 (5:30 AM) EST (+5), Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan (42n24, 83w05). ASC: 25 Gemini. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Susan Carmichael emailed Sy Scholfield quoting from "Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops by Tony Douglas (Routledge, 2005), p. 14: "born at 5.30 a.m. on Saturday, 9 June 1934 at the Herman Kiefer Hospital in Highland Park, Michigan."

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Saturday, 6 June 2015

Lili St. Cyr, 1917-1999 (American burlesque striptease artiste)

* Lili St. Cyr was one of the most recognized acts in striptease in the 1940s and 1950s (along with Gypsy Rose Lee and Ann Corio). St. Cyr's name popped-up regularly in 1950s tabloids in stories about her many husbands (she married six times), brawls over her, and her attempted suicides.

Her acts had names like "The Wolf Woman", "Afternoon of a Faun", "The Ballet Dancer", "In a Persian Harem", "The Chinese Virgin", as well as "Suicide" (where she tried to woo a straying lover by revealing her body), and "Jungle Goddess" (in which she appeared to make love to a parrot). Lili was known not only for props like her bathtub, but elaborate sets of vanities, mirrors, and hat racks. She variously performed as Cinderella, a matador, a Salome, a bride, a suicide, Cleopatra and Dorina Grey.

St. Cyr retired from the stage in the 1970s, whereupon she began a lingerie business in which she would retain an interest until her death in Los Angeles, California on 29 January 1999, aged 81.

Born "Marie Frances Van Schaack," she had glamorous Neptune rising in Leo, high-class Saturn (also on the Ascendant) in Cancer ruled by a scandalous Scorpio Moon, sexy Pluto unaspected, dramatic Sun also unaspected, and "exotic dancer" Uranus in Aquarius at the apex of a fixed T-square.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marie Frances Van Schaack, 3 June 1917, 08:00 (8 AM) CST (+6), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (44n58, 93w15). ASC: 28 Cancer. RR: AA (birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate, obtained on 6/6/2015.

Monday, 17 November 2014

Hallam Tennyson, 1852-1928 (British peer, biographer)

* Hallam Tennyson served as the second Governor-General of Australia, 1903-1904. His rising Mars in Libra (hidden in the 12th) and unaspected Pluto were put to the challenge when tensions developed with the Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, over the ambiguity of Tennyson's position. Unknown to the public, Deakin did not encourage Tennyson to seek an extension of his one-year term and Tennyson left Australia in January 1904 to universal expressions of approval.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 11 August 1852, 09:30 (9:30 AM) GMT (+0), Twickenham, England (51n27, 0w20). ASC: 8 Libra. RR: A (from father's memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes his father's letter to Mrs Browning (dated 11 August 1852) transcribed in "Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Memoir" by Hallam Tennyson (Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 357: "my wife was delivered of a fine boy at 9.30 a.m. this day."

Friday, 19 April 2013

Charles E. Burchfield, 1893-1967 (American painter, watercolourist)

* On his 18th birthday, Charles E. Burchfield wrote in his diary: "Eighteen years ago, a calamity befell this family—a squalling calamity—eighteen years ago on a Sunday, I was born—at six o'clock in the evening." Recently described as "the mystic, cryptic painter of transcendental landscapes, trees with telekinetic halos, and haunted houses emanating ectoplasmic auras," he fittingly had Pluto closely conjunct Neptune and Pluto quincunx and ruling Uranus in Scorpio.

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9, 1893 - January 10, 1967) was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. The largest collection of Burchfield's paintings, archives and journals are in the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York. His paintings are in the collections of many major museums in the USA and have been the subject of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as other prominent institutions.