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Saturday, 29 June 2013

Julia Gillard (Australian former Prime Minister, newsmaker)

* Julia Gillard ― the Welsh-born first woman Prime Minister of Australia ― resigned her position on 27 June 2013 after losing leadership of the Labor Party in a spill the previous day. Gillard lacks fire in her chart but her Solar Arc moon moved into Leo soon after she became Prime Minister and at 2° 50" Leo on the day she stood down was closely quincunx natal Chiron (2° 46" Pisces), ruler of her Virgo MC.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian politician who was the Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013. She was the first woman to hold either position.

Gillard became the first female Deputy Prime Minister of Australia upon Labor's victory in the 2007 federal election, also serving as Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. On 24 June 2010, after Rudd lost the support of his party and resigned, Gillard was elected unopposed as the Leader of the Labor Party, thus becoming the 27th Prime Minister of Australia. The subsequent 2010 federal election saw the first hung parliament since the 1940 federal election. Gillard was able to form a minority government with the support of a Green MP and three independent MPs. On 26 June 2013, after a leadership spill, Gillard lost the leadership of the Labor Party to Kevin Rudd. Her resignation as Prime Minister took effect the following day.

Newsmaker: Rolf Harris (Australian entertainer)

* Rolf Harris has been named by British media as the Australian arrested and questioned last month over historic sex abuse allegations. The ABC states that the reports are unverified. Solar Arc Pluto is opposing Harris's natal Mercury-Sun conjunction; Solar Arc Jupiter is exactly conjunct his natal Neptune; and Solar Arc Neptune is quincunx his natal Venus.

Rolf Harris, AO, CBE (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian entertainer. He is a musician, a singer-songwriter, a composer, a painter, and a television personality. He has lived in the UK for more than five decades, residing in Bray, Berkshire.

Harris, who was born and grew up in Perth, Western Australia, was a champion swimmer before studying art. In 1952, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he started to draw animations for television programmes. Harris soon afterwards began a musical career, initially singing and playing the piano accordion. In 1957, he wrote "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport", which later became a Top 10 hit in Australia, the UK and the United States. While performing in Canada he introduced a longstanding, popular routine around his song "Jake the Peg". Harris often uses unusual instruments in his performances: he plays the didgeridoo, is credited with the invention of a rhythmic percussion instrument, the wobble board, and is associated with the Stylophone, a small electronic keyboard instrument.

During the 1960s he became a popular television personality, later presenting shows including Rolf's Cartoon Club, Animal Hospital and various programmes about serious art. In 2005 he painted an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, which was the subject of a special episode of Rolf on Art.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo by Zuzanna Neziri, Flickr: Rolf Harris.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Solar Arc Pluto at 7 Libra in the 8th House is forming a Cardinal Grand Cross with his natal Saturn in Capricorn, Moon-Mercury-Sun-Uranus in Aries, and Vertex in Cancer.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 30 March 1930, about 03:15 (3:15 a.m.) AWST (-8), Perth, WA, Australia (31s57, 115e51). ASC: about 26 Aquarius. RR: A (from him). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Dennis Sutton who writes that Harris gave his data to Susan Alexander stating he was born between three and three-thirty in the morning. Sutton uses 3 a.m. (ASC: 23 Aquarius). Birth notice from the West Australian 31 March 1930, p. 1: "HARRIS--On March 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Crom. Harris, of Reserve-street, Wembley Park--a son. Both well."

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Saturday, 29 June 2013

Julia Gillard (Australian former Prime Minister, newsmaker)

Friday, 19 April 2013

Newsmaker: Rolf Harris (Australian entertainer)