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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.

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Bill Ayers (American political activist)

* Bill Ayers is an elementary education theorist and a former leader in the counterculture movement who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism and his current work in education reform, curriculum and instruction. In 1969, he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group with the intent to overthrow imperialism, that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings (including police stations, the US Capitol Building, and the Pentagon) during the 1960s and 1970s in response to US involvement in the Vietnam War.

He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 US Presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with candidate Barack Obama. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather Underground. They have two sons, Zayd and Malik and they also raised Chesa Boudin.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: William Charles Ayers, 26 December 1944, 00:10 (12:10 AM) CWT (+5), Oak Park, Illinois, USA (41n53, 87w47). ASC: About 25 Virgo. RR: B (Autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him relating the story of his birth in Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist by William Ayers (Beacon Press, 2009), p. 9: "while [my parents] drove off to Oak Park Hospital . . . I missed [being born on] Christmas by minutes, but that never diminished the intensity of this foundational myth — I was the best Christmas present ever, my life achieved against great danger and risk."

Monday, 29 February 2016

Hank Williams Jr., AKA Bocephus (American singer-songwriter and musician)

* Hank Williams Jr.'s musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country. He is the son of legendary country music singer Hank Williams and the father of Hank Williams III, Holly Williams, Hilary Williams, Samuel Williams, and Katie Williams.

Williams began his career by following in his famed father's footsteps, singing his father's songs and imitating his father's style. Williams's own style slowly evolved as he struggled to find his own voice and place within the country music industry. This trend was interrupted by a near-fatal fall off the side of Ajax Peak in Montana on 8 August 1975. After an extended recovery, he challenged the country music establishment with a blend of country, rock, and blues. Williams enjoyed much success in the 1980s, from which he earned considerable recognition and popularity both inside and outside the country music industry.

As a multi-instrumentalist, Williams's repertoire of skills include guitar, bass guitar, upright bass, steel guitar, banjo, dobro, piano, keyboards, harmonica, fiddle, and drums.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Randall Hank Williams, 26 May 1949, 01:45 (1:45 AM) CST (+6), Shreveport, Louisiana, USA (32n31, 93w45). ASC: 24 Pisces. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from I Saw The Light: The Story of Hank Williams by Colin Escott (Hachette UK, 2015): "Audrey gave birth to Randall Hank on May 26, 1949. ... At 3:51 a.m., Hank excitedly telegrammed Fred and Lorene Rose: '10 lb boy borned this morning at 145. Both doeing fine.'"

Friday, 12 February 2016

Percy Sutton, 1920–2009 (American political and business leader, civil-rights activist and lawyer)

* Prominent African-American civil-rights activist Percy Sutton became one of America's best-known lawyers during the 1950s and 1960s. He represented many controversial figures, such as Nation of Islam leader, Malcolm X. After the murder of Malcolm X in 1965, Sutton and his brother Oliver helped to cover the expenses of his widow, Betty Shabazz.

Sutton was the highest-ranking African-American elected official in New York City when he was Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, the longest tenure at that position. He later became an entrepreneur whose investments included the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

In 1971, Sutton cofounded the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation which purchased New York City's WLIB-AM, the city's first African-American-owned radio station.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Percy Ellis Sutton, 25 November 1920, 00:00 (12 AM) CST (+6), San Antonio, Texas, USA (29n25, 98w29). ASC: 29 Leo. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth records. The handwritten time on the original record clearly states "AM" on 25 November but the numeral is indistinct, seems to be "12" which is consistent with a birth time of midnight between 24th and 25th, considering that the amendment filed by his mother in 1967 states his birth date as the 24th [https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2YW-4QR].

Saturday, 6 February 2016

Dorian Leigh, 1917–2008 (American supermodel)

* Texan beauty, Dorian Leigh, was one of the earliest modelling icons of the fashion industry. She is considered one of the first supermodels, and was well known in the United States and Europe.

In 1952, when she was 35 years old, Richard Avedon photographed her for Revlon's most famous advertising campaign, Fire and Ice.

Her New York Times obituary noted that Leigh "combined pristine blue eyes, curling eyelashes, an arresting intelligence and intoxicating sexuality to become one of history’s most photographed models." The Guardian praised her "aerodynamic eyebrows."

Her stellium of planets in Taurus (including Sun, Moon and Venus) apparently manifested in exceptional good looks while Aries rising propelled her pioneering spirit.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker, 23 April 1917, 05:00 (5 AM) CST (+6), San Antonio, Texas, USA (29w25, 98w29). ASC: Aries. RR: AA (from birth record in hand). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from birth certificate.

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Loki Bruckman, 1903-1995 (Dutch magic realist painter).

* Loki Bruckman lived and worked in the Netherlands, the United States, and Mexico.

Bruckman painted figuratively, forest views, and other still lifes with fruit, flowers, shells, eggs, feathers and towels. His style can be described as realistic, surrealistic or magic realistic. Museum de Oude Wolden in the village of Bellingwolde has a permanent exhibition of his paintings.

His life partner Evert Zeeven died on 30 November 1993. One and a half years later, Bruckman died on 24 April 1995 in Leeuwarden, at the age of 91.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Lodewijk Karel Bruckman, 14 August 1903, 13:30 (1:30pm) (-0:19:32), Den Haag, Netherlands (52n06, 4e18). ASC: 21 Scorpio. RR: AA (from birth record on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate n° 4048 from the Den Haag archives: "des namiddags ten half twee uur" (at half past one in the afternoon). (twin brother of Karel Lodewijk born 9:30am; n° 4047).

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Vítězslava Kaprálová, 1915-1940 (Czech composer and conductor)

* Vítězslava Kaprálová conducted the Czech Philharmonic in 1937 and a year later the BBC Symphony Orchestra in her composition "Military Sinfonietta," to much critical acclaim. Her husband was the Czech writer Jiří Mucha, whom she married two months before she died. Despite her untimely death, allegedly from miliary tuberculosis, in Montpellier, France at the age of 25, Kaprálová created an impressive body of work. There is no doubt that, had she lived, she would have become one of the most important women composers in Europe.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 24 January 1915, 17:45 (5:45pm) CET (-1), Brno, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) (49n12, 16e37). ASC: 17 leo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from The Kaprálová Companion by Karla Hartl (Lexington, 2011), pp. 121/140: "1915. Sunday, January 24 (6:00 p.m.)--Vítězslava Kaprálová is born in Brno . . . In a curriculum vitae of Vitezslava Kapralova, written after the composer's death by her mother, Viktorie, for the musicologist Jaroslav BuZga of the National Museum in Prague, Viktorie Kapralova mentions that her daughter was born at 6:00 pm. In her reminiscence written for a collection of texts ..., however, she indicates 5:30 p.m. as the hour of birth."

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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."

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Siouxsie Sioux (English singer, songwriter, musician, producer)

* Siouxsie Sioux (photographed at the Edinburgh Tiffany's, 1980; at left) is best known as the lead singer of rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996) and its side project The Creatures (1981–2005). Siouxsie and the Banshees released 11 studio albums and several UK Top 20 singles including "Hong Kong Garden", "Happy House", "Peek-a-Boo" plus a Billboard Top 25 hit "Kiss Them for Me". With The Creatures, Siouxsie recorded four studio albums and the hit single "Right Now". She has also sung with artists such as Morrissey and John Cale. In the mid-2000s, she began a solo career and released Mantaray in 2007.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Susan Janet Ballion, 27 May 1957, 21:12 (9:12 PM) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 9 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her friend Budgie in an online interview giving Siouxsie Sioux's and his own data: "Siouxsie: 27.05.57 - 21.12 hrs - London UK. Budgie: 21.08.57 - 11.00 hrs - St Helens UK."

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Kate Bornstein (American author, playwright, performance artist, gender theorist)

* Having been designated male at birth and then received sex reassignment surgery in 1986, Kate Bornstein identifies as gender non-conforming, saying "I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man", and prefers the gender neutral pronouns "ze/hir" in place of "she/her" or "he/him".

Bornstein has written about having anorexia, being a survivor of PTSD and being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Bornstein has chronic lymphocytic leukemia and in September 2012 was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Bornstein and partner Barbara Carrellas live in New York City with three cats, two dogs and a turtle.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: born Albert Bornstein, 15 March 1948, about 06:00 (6 AM) EST (+5), Neptune, New Jersey, USA (40n13, 74w02). ASC: Pisces. RR: C. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, Or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein (Psychology Press, 1998), p. 121: "I'm a double Pisces with a Taurus Moon. I was born in 1948, the Year of the Rat;" and Bornstein on Twitter: "I'm Pisces with Pisces rising and Taurus moon."

Jaime Murray (English actress)

* Jaime Murray plays Stacie Monroe in the BBC series "Hustle" and Lila West in the Showtime series "Dexter."

She is also known for her recurring roles as Gaia in Starz' "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," as Olivia Charles in The CW's "Ringer" and as Helena G. Wells in "Warehouse 13."

Murray also stars as Stahma Tarr in the Syfy series "Defiance."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jaime Erica Murray, 21 July 1976, about 15:30 (3:30pm) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: Scorpio. RR: C. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Murray on Twitter: "Im a Cancer with Scorpio rising." A speculative time of 3:30pm gives mid Scorpio (16 degrees) rising. Birth name from index of England & Wales Births 1837-2006.

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."

Saturday, 25 October 2014

Casey Wilson (American actress, comedian, screenwriter)

* Casey Wilson has a rare Slingshot shape in her chart (All the planets are in less that 120° of the circle - actually less than 90° - except for a conjunction of Moon-Chiron in Taurus which is practically unaspected bar an opposition with Mercury in Scorpio). Wilson has laugh-out-loud Jupiter (in the 9th, the house of comedy) conjunct Saturn, ruler of her Capricorn Ascendant. She excels as a comedian, having shot to fame with a two-season stint as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2008 to 2009. She was the first SNL cast member to have been born in the 1980s. Her most memorable work on SNL included celebrity impressions of Rachael Ray, Elizabeth Dole, Elizabeth Taylor, Katy Perry, Jennifer Aniston (and so on), as well as sexed-up original characters such as Dusty Velvet, "the paralyzed stripper" and Toni Ward, co-host of "The Cougar Den."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Cathryn Rose Wilson, 24 October 1980, 13:20 (1:20 PM) EDT (+4), Alexandria, Virginia, USA (38n48, 77w03). ASC: 15 (?) Capricorn. RR: C (approximate time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her in an interview: "I ... saw an astrologer (I'm a Scorpio sun, Capricorn rising, which explains a lot)." ("Casey Wilson: Yes, I Slept With My Boss" by Casey Wilson, Cosmopolitan, 14 October 2014 http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a32092/casey-wilson-slept-with-boss-essay/). Date and place of birth from articles sourced through her Wikipedia entry. Note: A speculative time of 1:20pm gives mid Capricorn (15 degrees) rising.

Adrienne Bailon (American singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, TV personality)

* Adrienne Bailon rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the American Disney group The Cheetah Girls (2003-2008). The group was made famous by the eponymous Disney Channel film and its sequels, The Cheetah Girls 2 and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The group released three studio albums, Cheetah-licious Christmas, In Concert: The Party's Just Begun Tour, and TCG and several RIAA certified Platinum albums including, The Cheetah Girls, The Cheetah Girls 2, and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The group has launched a clothing line, several perfume collections, doll lines, room decor, a book series, and a video games line. The Cheetah Girls group has sold over 3.6 million records worldwide.

Bailon has Leo rising ruled by an angular Sun in the first degree of Scorpio conjunct its ruler Pluto. Just goes to show that a Sun-Pluto personality can thrive in leadership of a feline entity. You don't have to play a lioness, tapping into the cheetah archetype will do!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Adrienne Eliza Bailon, 24 October 1983, 00:10 (12:10 AM) EDT (+4), Manhattan, New York, USA (40n46, 73w59). ASC: 5 Leo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites an email from Kevin Cee quoting a Tweet and Instagram post by her on her birthday in 2014: "I was born today at 12:10am in The Lower East Side of NYC" https://twitter.com/Adrienne_Bailon/status/525498238821236736

Sunday, 17 August 2014

Nawal El Saadawi (Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, psychiatrist)

* Nawal El Saadawi has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She has a stellium of planets in genital Scorpio (including surgical Mars) all ruled by mutilator Pluto in feminist Cancer high in the sky.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 27 October 1931, 04:00 (4AM) EET (-2), Banha, Egypt (30n28, 31e11). ASC: 5 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites her retelling of her grandmother's account of her birth in "A Daughter of Isis: The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi" by Nawal El Saadawi (Spinifex, 2000), pp. 18-20: "With the first light of dawn creeping through the night of that month of October, before the sun came up ... with the last stroke of four dropping like a dying gasp from the ancient clock on the wall, rose a cry ... of a woman in labour which went through the night just once. Then there was a long heavy silence, as though both the woman and the child had died. ... after that one and only shriek ... the dark obstinate head thrust out slowly ... [and the baby went] out into the world as quickly as it could."

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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.

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Saturday, 21 September 2013

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.

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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Bobbie Nelson (American pianist and singer)

* Bobbie Nelson is the sister of Willie Nelson. At age sixteen she married Bud Fletcher, who formed his own band, The Texans. She joined on the piano, while her brother joined on vocals and guitar. The band was dissembled in 1955 after she divorced Fletcher. In 1973 she joined Willie Nelson on the piano during his sessions with Atlantic Records, that produced The Troublemaker, Shotgun Willie, Phases and Stages and Red Headed Stranger. The same year she joined Willie's band, The Family, full time and began touring with her brother. In 2008, she released her solo debut album, Audiobiography.. Bobbie's Taurus Moon is conjunct Willie's Chiron and her Capricorn Saturn is conjunct his Ascendant (see his chart here). Good solid synastry for this sister-brother duo!

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