Phillip Hughes, 1988–2014 (Australian cricketer)

* Phillip Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman.

In March 2009, he became the youngest cricketer in history to score centuries in both the first and second innings of a Test match. On 11 January 2013, he became the first Australian batsman in the history of ODI cricket to score a century on debut.

On 25 November 2014, Hughes was hit in the neck by a bouncer, during a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, causing a vertebral artery dissection that led to a subarachnoid haemorrhage. He was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, where he underwent surgery, was placed into an induced coma and was in intensive care in a critical condition. He died in the afternoon of 27 November, having never regained consciousness, three days before his 26th birthday.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Phillip Joel Hughes, 30 November 1988, 16:50 (4:50pm), Macksville, New South Wales, Australia (30s43, 152e55). ASC: 4 Taurus. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography" by Malcolm Knox and Peter Lalor (Pan Macmillan, 2015), p. 6: "Phillip Joel Hughes was born at 4.50 pm on Wednesday, 30 November 1988, in Macksville District Hospital."

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Blaise Cendrars, 1887–1961 (Swiss-French novelist and poet)

* Blaise Cendrars was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement. He was the first modernist poet, not only in terms of expressing the fundamental values of Modernism but also in terms of creating its first solid poetical synthesis. In 1912, in New York, he wrote his long poem, "Les Pâques à New York" (Easter in New York), his first important contribution to modern literature. He signed it for the first time with the name 'Blaise Cendrars.'

Back in Paris, Cendrars became an important part of the artistic community in Montparnasse; his writings were considered a literary epic of the modern adventurer. He was a friend of the American writer Henry Miller, and, in 1918, his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait. He died on 21 January 1961.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Frédéric-Louis Sauser, 1 September 1887, 19:45 (7:45pm)(-0:29:44), La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (47n06, 6e50). ASC: 12 Aries. RR: AA (quoted birth certificate). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites birth record quoted in Blaise Cendrars: Homme libre, poète au coeur du monde by Jean Bühler (Éditions du Panorama, Fischbacher, 1960), p. 9: "Blaise Cendrars est né le 1er septembre 1887, à 19 heures 45, à La Chaux-de-Fonds. Son père Georges Frédéric Sauser le déclara à l'état-civil sous les prénoms de Frédéric Louis. "

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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.

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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."

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Madame Fraya, 1871-1954 (French chiromancer)

* Madame Fraya (born Valentine Dencausse) was probably the most famous chiromancer in Paris during the first half of the 20th century.

Her clients included important French artists and politicians of the time, such as the Princess of Saxe-Meningen (sister of emperor Wilhelm II of Germany), to whom she reportedly predicted World War I and the defeat of Germany. She was subsequently called into the French Ministry of War, where she assured the government that the marching German troops would not reach Paris (they were in fact stopped at the First Battle of the Marne).

The abilities displayed by Valentine Dencausse were studied by prominent scientists such as Alfred Binet, Eugene Osty, and Albert von Schrenck-Notzing.

She died on 16 February 1954 at 12:30pm in Paris.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marie Marguerite Cécile Clotilde Valentine Dencausse, 20 May 1871, 22:00 (10PM) LMT (+0:01:12), Villeneuve-de-Marsan, France (43n5338, 0w1819). ASC: 3 Capricorn. RR: (from birth record on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate N° 12 in the Landes archives (p. 5), noting however that she states her birth data as 21 May 1871 at 11pm in "Une voyante à l'Élysée: Madame Fraya" by Simone Dupont de Tervagne (Éditions Garancière, 1984), p. 21: "Je suis née sous le signe des Gémeaux, à onze heures du soir, le 21 mai 1871, à Villeneuve-de-Marsan, dans les Landes. Mon nom véritable est Valentine Dencausse."

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Sonny Fisher, 1931-2005 (American singer, songwriter, guitarist)

* Sonny Fisher was one of America's pioneering rockabilly artists. He never achieved anything more than regional stardom in the US during the 1950s yet, when London's Ace Records reissued his 1956 recordings in 1979, he found himself proclaimed king of the rockabilly revival. 

Michael Brown (American producer and writer of songs and books)

* Michael Brown is most widely known for several children's storybooks he has written about Santa Mouse. Santa Mouse was originally printed in 1966 but since then it has been reprinted many times. In the stories, Santa Mouse becomes one of Santa's helpers. Brown has Jupiter and Saturn conjunct in Virgo, the sign of the helper. Brown has served several terms as a member of the board of the Songwriters Guild of America. 

John Hillerman (American actor)

* John Hillerman is probably best remembered for his role as former British Army Sergeant Major Jonathan Quayle Higgins III ("Higgins") on the American TV series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988). The Texas-born Hillerman learned to do the upper-class English accent of Higgins by watching and listening to the performances of Laurence Olivier (Hillerman and Olivier both have Gemini rising and their Moons in Virgo). Hillerman co-starred with Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I.. Selleck's Uranus is smack-bang on Hillerman's Ascendant. 

Piero Manzoni, 1933–1963 (Italian artist)

* Piero Manzoni ― who thumbed his nose at the art-world establishment ― had Saturn rising in Aquarius opposite Venus in Leo. His most famous artwork, "produced" in 1961, consists of ninety 30g tin cans, filled with his faeces, and labelled Artist's Shit in Italian, English, French, and German. Manzoni had Neptune unaspected in anal Virgo on his Vertex.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. Manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object, directly prefiguring Conceptual Art. His work eschews normal artist's materials, instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to "tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values".

His work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing Italian society (the Italian economic miracle) after World War II. Italian artists such as Manzoni had to negotiate the new economic and material order of post-war Europe through inventive artistic practices which crossed geographic, artistic, and cultural borders.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Piero Manzoni, 13 July 1933, 21:25 (9:25 p.m.) CET (-1), Soncino, Italy (45n24, 09e52). ASC: 19 Aquarius. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes GraZia Bordoni by email (10 July 2013) for data by letter from the registrar.

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Douglas Glover (Canadian writer)

* Douglas Glover ― "the most eminent unknown Canadian writer alive" ― has Uranus retrograde at 29 degrees of the writing sign, Gemini, exactly opposite Jupiter, planet of eminence, high in the sky in its own sign.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario. Canada) was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario. He has published five short story collections, four novels (including Elle which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), two books of essays, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son and Attack of the Copula Spiders, and The Enamoured Knight, a book-length meditation on Don Quixote and novel form. His 1993 novel, The Life and Times of Captain N., was edited by Gordon Lish and released by Alfred A. Knopf.

Since the early 1990s, Glover has lived in Wilton, New York teaching at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Skidmore College, Colgate University, and the University of Albany. He was the 2005 McGee Professor of Writing at Davidson College. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Lethbridge and Utah State University. From October, 1994, to October, 1996, he was host of a weekly radio interview program called The Book Show at WAMC in Albany, NY. From 1994 to 2006, he edited the annual anthology Best Canadian Stories. He writes regularly for international affairs magazine Global Brief. In 2010, he founded the online literary magazine, Numéro Cinq.

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TRIVIA

Glover was born on the same day as Charles, Prince of Wales.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 14 November 1948, 15:30 (3:30 p.m.) EST (+5), Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (42n50, 80w18). ASC: 19 Aries. RR: A/B (from him in his autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Douglas H. Glover, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son (Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1999), p. 148: "I was born at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Sunday, 14 November, 1948, in Simcoe, Ontario."

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Raymond A. Palmer, 1910-1977 (American editor, sci-fi icon)

* Raymond A. Palmer ― who famously believed that he could remember events that occurred while he was in the womb ― had Neptune in Cancer in a boomerang pattern.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Raymond Arthur Palmer [sic] (August 1, 1910-August 15, 1977) was the influential editor of Amazing Stories from 1938 through 1949, when he left publisher Ziff-Davis to publish and edit Fate Magazine, and eventually many other magazines and books through his own publishing houses, including Amherst Press and Palmer Publications. In addition to magazines such as Mystic, Search, and 'Flying Saucers," he published numerous spirtualist books, including Oahspe: A New Bible, as well as several books related to flying saucers, including "The Coming of the Saucers," co-written by Palmer with Kenneth Arnold. Palmer was also a prolific author of science fiction and fantasy stories, many of which were published under pseudonyms.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Raymond Alfred Palmer, 1 August 1910, 17:00 (5 p.m.) CST (+6), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (43n02, 87w54). ASC: 2 Capricorn. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Richard Toronto, War Over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013), p. 12: "He was born Raymond Alfred Palmer on August 1, 1910, the same year Mark Twain shed his mortal coil. For the astrologers among you, this particular Raymond A. Palmer was born at 5 PM in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Roy and Helen Palmer . . . in a . . . house at 3009 St. Paul Street."

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Ray Manzarek, 1939-2013 (American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer)

* The Doors' keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, has his Sagittarius Ascendant conjunct Jim Morrison's Sun, while Morrison's Aquarius Ascendant was conjunct Manzarek's Sun. The two men co-founded the legendary band in 1965.

Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., known as Ray Manzarek (born February 12, 1939), is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, and co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, Nite City from 1977–1978 and Manzarek-Krieger since 2001.

In 1962–1965, he studied in the Department of Cinematography at UCLA, where he met film student Jim Morrison. Forty days after finishing film school, thinking they had gone their separate ways, Manzarek and Morrison met by chance on Venice Beach in California. Morrison said he had written some songs, and Manzarek expressed an interest in hearing them, whereupon Morrison sang a rough version of "Moonlight Drive." Manzarek liked the songs and co-founded the Doors with Morrison at that moment.

The Doors lacked a bassist, so Manzarek usually played the bass parts on a Fender Rhodes piano. His signature sound is that of the Vox Continental combo organ, an instrument used by many other psychedelic rock bands of the era.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

See Manzarek & Morrison's charts below.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., 12 February 1939, 03:30 (3:30 a.m.) CST (+6), Chicago, Illinois, USA (41n51, 87w39). ASC: 24 Sagittarius. RR: A (from him in his autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Ray Manzarek, Light My Fire: My Life With the Doors (Berkley Boulevard, 2000): "Chicago, Illinois, the city of my birth -- on February 12, 1939 . . . My time of arrival on this planet was 3:30 A.M., smack dab in the middle of the hour of the wolf, and on Abraham Lincoln's birthday to boot."

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Jim Morrison chart: Frank Clifford quotes Birth Registration Card on file (RR: AA)

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