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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].

Thursday, 20 August 2015

Brian Mulroney (Canadian businessman, politician and lawyer)

* Brian Mulroney was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from 17 September 1984 to 25 June 1993.

In his Memoirs he quotes his mother's diary for a birth time of 10:17pm, giving him a Scorpio ascendant, with its ruler Pluto trine his close Sun-Moon conjunction at 29 Pisces-00 Aries.

The Pluto factor probably facilitated his overseeing of the passage of the unpopular Goods and Services Tax.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Martin Brian Mulroney, 20 March 1939, 22:17 (10:17pm) EST (+5), Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada (49n13, 68w10). ASC: 19 Scorpio. RR: AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites mother's diary quoted by Mulroney in his Memoirs (McClelland & Stewart, 2011): "It was in Baie-Comeau, on March 20, 1939, that I was born at the Boisvert Hospital and was baptized Martin Brian. My mother chronicled my birth and early days in her faithful diary: 'Baby Brian arrived on Monday evening March 20th at 10:17...'"

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Friday, 12 July 2013

V. K. Krishna Menon, 1896-1974 (Indian nationalist, diplomat and statesman)

* V. K. Krishna Menon ― described as the second most powerful man in India by Time magazine (after Jawaharlal Nehru) ― had a powerhouse combination of Jupiter in early Leo in the 8th House ruling his Ascendant at 29° Sagittarius in the last degree of the Leo decan. Moreover, Pluto quincunxes and rules Saturn in Scorpio on his Part of Fortune.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was noted for his eloquence, brilliance, and forceful, highly abrasive persona. Menon inspired widespread adulation and fervent detraction in both India and the West; to his supporters, he was an unapologetic champion of India in the face of Western imperialism, who famously “taught the white man his place”; to his Western detractors, “Nehru’s evil genius”. US President Dwight Eisenhower characterised him as “menace (…) governed by an ambition to prove himself the master international manipulator and politician of the age”, while Indian President K.R. Narayanan eulogised him as a truly great man; decades after his death, Menon remains an enigmatic and controversial figure.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, 3 May 1896, 21:48 (9:48 p.m.) (-5:21), Calicut, India (11n15, 75e46). ASC: 29 Sagittarius. RR: AA (from famliy records quoted in a biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes T. J. S. George, Krishna Menon, A Biography (New York: Taplinger, 1965). p. 14: "V. K. Krishna Menon was born on May 3rd, 1896, at Panniankara in Calicut at 9.48 p.m. The birth was registered by the municipal authorities of Calicut. Some time later confusion crept into the records and today almost all available biographical references on him mention 1897 as his year of birth. Material put out by the Government of India itself has helped to establish the mistake. Menon's family records give precise details of the event. The karanavar of his father's household, Komathu Govinda Kurup, was a meticulous man who maintained a voluminous diary, notebook after notebook of family details written in Malayalam, his mother tongue, in a neat and steady hand on carefully lined pages. . . . in the entry under 25 Medam 1071 (Malayalam era), he wrote: 'Tonight at 7 o'clock a servant came from Vengalil house with information that nephew Kunji- Krishnan's wife Lakshmi Kutty gave birth to a male offspring on Sunday the 22nd of this month after sunset at 48 minutes past 9 o'clock under the sign of Uthratam."

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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.

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Aimé Césaire, 1913–2008 (Martiniquan poet, author and politician)

* Aimé Césaire ― "one of the founders of the Négritude [Negro-ness] movement in Francophone literature" ― had power-struggler Pluto in the last degree of literary Gemini ruling his Scorpio MC, and establisher Saturn in Gemini ruling his Capricorn Ascendant.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique. He traveled to Paris to attend the Lycée Louis-le-Grand on an educational scholarship. In Paris, Césaire created, with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas, the literary review L'Étudiant Noir (The Black Student). In 1936, Césaire began work on his long poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, a vivid and powerful depiction of the ambiguities of Caribbean life and culture in the New World and this upon returning home to Martinique.

In 1947 he was finally able to publish his book-length poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land), which had first been published in the Parisian periodical Volontés in 1939. The book mixes poetry and prose to express his thoughts on the cultural identity of black Africans in a colonial setting. French surrealist poet André Breton contributed a laudatory introduction to this 1947 edition, saying that the "poem is nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of our times."

Read more from Césaire's Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Poetic Neptune and prosaic Mercury straddle the Descendant all in the Piscean decan of Cancer.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Aimé Fernand David Césaire, 26 June 1913, 20:00 (8 p.m.) AST (+4), Basse-Pointe, Martinique (14n52, 61w07). ASC: 25 Capricorn. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes David Alliot, Aimé Césaire: Le nègre universel (Gollion, Switzerland: Infolio éditions, 2008), p. 24: "En 1911, peu après leur mariage, Marie Félicité met au monde Orner Césaire, le premier enfant de la famille. Le deuxième enfant du couple, Aimé Fernand David Césaire naît le 26 juin 1913 à Basse-Pointe vers huit heures du soir."

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Sunday, 14 April 2013

Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster (English landowner, politician, racehorse owner)

* Hugh Grosvenor, considered to be the richest man in Britain at his death, "was born at four in the morning" according to a biography.

Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster KG, PC, JP (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845 and Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869 and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.

He inherited the estate of Eaton Hall in Cheshire and land in Mayfair and Belgravia, London, and spent much of his fortune in developing these properties. Although he was a Member of Parliament from the age of 22, and then a member of the House of Lords, his main interests were not in politics, but rather in his estates, in horse racing, and in country pursuits. He developed the stud at Eaton Hall and achieved success in racing his horses, winning the Derby on four occasions. Grosvenor also took an interest in a range of charities. At his death he was considered to be the richest man in Britain.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Picture credit: John Hanson Walker.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

The 'master of the horse' had an exact conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Part of Fortune.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 13 October 1825, 04:00 (4:00 a.m.) LMT (+0:11:28), Eaton, Eccleston, Cheshire, England (53n08, 02w52). ASC: 24 Virgo. RR=B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Gervas Huxley, Victorian Duke: The Life of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor First Duke of Westminster (Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 3: "The Duke was born at four in the morning of 13 October 1825 at his grandfather's seat of Eaton in Cheshire."

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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013 (British stateswoman)

* The Times has described Margaret Thatcher as a "woman of contradictions" and "the most admired, detested, praised and vilified figure of the second half of the twentieth century" who "inspired blind hatred, swooning worship, anger and adoration [b]ut never indifference." The 'iron Lady' had indomitable Saturn rising in Scorpio trined by its ruler, take-no-prisoners Pluto.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts, 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Update: Caesar Rodney (American lawyer and politician)

* According to Caesar Rodney's father's diary - the future President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution - was born while "there was no sole with her [his mother] but myself--being I believe [at] just about midnight" on 7 October 1728. The biography in which the diary is transcribed does not seem to state the calendar used by the biographer for the date, but thankyou to Alois Treindl for pointing out that the date was probably Old Style. I have checked and this seems correct. The updated data and chart are below.

Caesar Rodney (October 7, 1728 – June 26, 1784) was an American lawyer and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, east of Dover. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

An officer of the militia: Mars sextile Pluto; a signer of the Declaration of Independence: Chiron (hands) sextile Saturn in Aquarius.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 7 October 1728 [OS], about 00:05 (12:05 a.m.) LMT (+5:02:56), East Dover Hundred, Delaware, USA (39n06, 75w44). ASC: 10 Leo. RR=AA (from father's diary). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Jane Scott, A gentleman as well as a Whig: Caesar Rodney and the American Revolution (University of Delaware Press, 2000), p. 16: "Caesar Rodney, the first child of Caesar Rodney, Sr. and Elizabeth Crawford Rodney was born shortly after midnight, on October 7, 1728. It is thought that his young parents were living in a small house owned by Elizabeth's father, not far from the Rodney farm at Byfield. According to Caesar Rodney, Sr.'s diary, the young father immediately sent for a midwife 'and other women,' but 'before aney came ye Child wass Born and it wass a Son.' As 'there was no sole with her but myself--being I believe just about midnight.'" NB: The calendar used is not specified, but the birth date of 7 october 1728 is stated as Old Style in Chase's Calendar of Events 2009 (McGraw Hill Professional, 2009), p. 497.

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Saturday, 23 March 2013

Linda Chavez (New Astrology data and chart)

* In her autobiography, Linda Chavez writes that she "was born at 6:50 PM on June 17, 1947, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Linda Lou Chavez (born June 17, 1947) is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor. She withdrew from consideration for the position when it emerged that she had employed an illegal immigrant.

Thursday, 21 March 2013

Doug Cameron (Newsmaker: New Astrology data and chart)

* Doug Cameron, the Scottish-born Australian politician and trade unionist, recently chaired the Labor-led committee that has criticised newspapers standing against Labor's media reforms. Many thanks to Caroline Gerard for his data.

Douglas Niven Cameron (born 27 January 1951) is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales.

Cameron was born in Bellshill, Scotland. He was first elected to the Senate at the 2007 federal election. He won Labor preselection by mounting a successful challenge to then incumbent Senator George Campbell. Cameron previously served as the national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography and parliamentary biography.

Photo by Bidgee.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Mercury in Capricorn ruling and quincunx the Gemini Ascendant from the 8th House has manifested in an outspoken and forthright speaker.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Douglas Niven Cameron, 27 January 1951, 12:00 (12 Noon) GMT (+0), Bellshill, Scotland (55n49, 04w01). ASC: 9 Gemini. RR=AA (from birth certificate). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Caroline Gerard in an email (21 March 2013) for data from birth certificate: "Born at 12 noon! In Calderbank House, Baillieston (a nursing home)."

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Hugo Chavez, 1954-2013 (Newsmaker: Astrology Data and Chart)

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until his death.

Following his own political ideology of Bolivarianism and "socialism of the 21st century", he focused on implementing socialist reforms in the country as a part of a social project known as the Bolivarian Revolution, which has seen the implementation of a new constitution, participatory democratic councils, the nationalization of several key industries, increased government funding of health care and education, and significant reductions in poverty, according to government figures.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

(Photo by Avala).

HOROSCOPE NOTES

A born leader, Chavez had a commanding and fatherly Leo sun and a Cancer Ascendant ruled by a first-house Cancer Moon involved in a quadruple conjunction with Jupiter, South Node, and Mercury at 14-15° Cancer.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 28 July 1954, 04:00 (4AM) VET (+4.30), Sabaneta, Venezuela (08n46, 69w56). ASC: 6 Cancer. RR=A. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Orlando Albornoz's book, Academic Populism: Higher Education Policies Under State Control (Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2005), p. 719: "In one unforgettable opportunity on state TV, the President's mother had to explain the time and the circumstances surrounding his birth. By the way, he was born at 4 am, in the middle of unusual rains and winds." .

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