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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, 12 August 2015

Marie-Luise Marjan (German actress)

* Marie-Luise Marjan is best known for her role as Helga Beimer in the German Television Series Lindenstraße (created by Hans W. Geißendörfer in 1985). She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz). In the German Version of Murder, She Wrote, Immer wenn sie Krimis liest (1994), she has portrayed a detective, Anita De Winter, like Angela Lansbury. In Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 Marie-Luise Marjan is the German voice of Queen Lilian (Julie Andrews). In 2010, she was presented with the Cross of Merit, First class of the Federal Cross of Merit.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marlies Lause Marjan, 9 August 1940, 13:00 (1pm) CEDT (-2), Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51n28, 7e01). ASC: 27 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her discussing her 75th birthday in an interview: "Ich bin ein Sommerkind, ich bin auch an einem 9. August an einem Sonntag geboren um 13 Uhr, und genau zwei Stunden später werde ich meine Geburtstagsfeier beginnen." ("Marie-Luise Marjan zum 75. Geburtstag" by Birgitt Schippers, domradio.de, 9 August 2015).

Translation: 'I am a summer child. I was born on 9 August, a Sunday, at 13:00, and exactly two hours later I'm going to start my birthday party.' NB: 9 August 1940 was actually a Friday.

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Sunday, 19 July 2015

B. C. Forbes, 1880–1954 (Scottish-American financial journalist, publisher)

* B. C. Forbes emigrated to New York City in 1904 where he worked as a writer, financial editor, and syndicated columnist, eventually founding Forbes magazine in 1917.

Forbes is a business magazine which features original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. It also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, and law. The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and rankings of world's top companies (the Forbes Global 2000). The motto of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool."

B. C. Forbes had powerful planetary combinations in his chart: Pluto conjunct Sun (ruler of the Leo Ascendant) and Mars conjunct Moon (with Mars ruling Saturn on a 29° Aries MC). Not to mention a stellium of six planets in business-oriented Taurus high in the sky. Oh, and unaspected Jupiter in Aries.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Bertie Charles Forbes, 14 May 1880, 10:30 (10:30 AM) GMT (+0), New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (57n30, 2w12). ASC: 19 Leo. RR: AA. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested data from Caroline Gerard who quotes birth record sighted in July 2015.

Sunday, 12 July 2015

Léopold Survage, 1879–1968 (Russian-born French painter)

* In 1913, Léopold Survage produced abstract compositions entitled Rythmes colorés which used colour and movement to evoke a type of musical sensation. From 1917, he shared a studio — and a penchant for alcoholic excesses — with Amedeo Modigliani in Paris. Survage later moved to Nice where he produced highly structured oils and works on paper linked together by a series of leitmotifs, repeating groups of symbolic elements — man, sea, building, flower, window, curtain, bird — as if they were protagonists in a series of moving images. He died on 31 October 1968.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Léopold Frédéric Sturzwage, 31 July 1879, 21:30 (9:30 PM) LMT (-2:30:20), Moscow, Russia (55n45, 37e35). ASC: 4 Aries. RR: AA (From quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites his baptismal record translated into French by the Imperial Russian Consulate in Nice in 1917 as quoted in Daniel Abadie's "Survage: les années héroïques" (Musée d'art moderne, Musée Matisse [Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France],1993), p. 120: "1879 31 JUILLET Naissance à Moscou à 9 heures et demie du soir de Léopold Frédéric Sturzwage, fils de Léopold Edouard, citoyen de Villmanstrand (actuellement Lappeenranta en Finlande) et de Marie Caroline Emma Eggholm (ainsi qu'en témoigne son acte de baptême traduit au Consulat impérial de Russie à Nice en 1917)."

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Grady Gaines (American musician)

* Grady Gaines is an American electric blues, Texas blues and jazz blues tenor saxophonist, who performed and recorded with Little Richard in the 1950s. He also backed other musicians such as Dee Clark, Little Willie John, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and Joe Tex. He has released three albums.

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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Tony Mendez (American spy, artist, author)

* Tony Mendez has an ideal chart for a CIA spy: a Sun-Mercury conjunction in Scorpio and Mars in the 8th (unaspected except for a wide square from Pluto — nobody will blow his cover). Mendez also has Neptune (ruler of his Pisces Ascendant) in a wedge with his luminaries: in his memoir, The Master of Disguise, Mendez reveals how he forged documents, created disguises and handled other graphical work related to espionage — cunning tricks and insights that helped save hundreds from deadly situations. He is played by Ben Affleck in the film Argo. Affleck's Pluto is conjunct Mendez's Neptune.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Antonio Joseph "Tony" Mendez (born 1940) is an American CIA technical operations officer, now retired, who specialized in support of clandestine and covert CIA operations. He has written three memoirs about his CIA experiences.

Mendez was decorated, and is now widely known, for his on-the-scene management of the "Canadian Caper" during the Iran hostage crisis, in which he exfiltrated six American diplomats from Iran in January 1980. They posed as a Canadian film crew, and as part of their cover, the diplomats carried passports issued by the Canadian government to document them as Canadian citizens.

After declassification of records, the full details of the operation were reported in a 2007 article by Joshuah Bearman in Wired magazine. This was loosely adapted for the screenplay and development of the Best Picture Academy Award winning 2012 American film Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, who also starred as Mendez. Mendez also attended the Golden Globes to give a speech, where the film was nominated (and later won) for Best Dramatic Motion Picture.

Mendez worked as a CIA officer in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. His work in the agency frequently dealt with forging documents, creating disguises and handling other graphical work related to espionage. He served in the CIA for 25 years. He was awarded the Intelligence Star on 12 March 1980.

Sunday, 21 July 2013

Carolyn Jones, 1930–1983 (American actress)

* Carolyn Jones — the beautiful actress remembered by many for her role as the sexy, sedate and sombre Morticia Addams in the mid-1960s TV series The Addams Family (seen here at left dressed in her trademark black tatters, sitting in her fan-back chair) — had her luminaries in sedentary Taurus in the 8th House trined by Saturn in Capricorn in the matriarchal 4th House. Pluto in Cancer opposes Saturn: Her name "Morticia" implies "death" (mors mortis is Latin for "death"), while Morticia's maiden name is "Frump." She has an older sister named Ophelia (also played by Jones).

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising actresses of 1959. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964 she began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the television series The Addams Family, receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination for her work.

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