Mick Fanning (Australian professional surfer)

* Mick Fanning has recently become a triple world surfing champion, having won the 2007, 2009 and 2013 ASP World Tours.

His Taurus Ascendant is ruled by Venus (conjunct Mercury) in watery Cancer, indicating a love of the ocean. Venus is in mutual reception with the Moon in Libra, surely keeping him balanced on his surfboard. Fanning is nicknamed "White Lightning" because his style is lightning fast: electrical Uranus in powerful Scorpio squares and rules his MC.

Check out the awesome pipeline and rip-curl shots on his website (www.mickfanning.com.au).

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Michael Eugene Fanning, 13 June 1981, 04:21 (4:21 a.m.) AEST (-10), Penrith, Sydney, Australia (33s45, 150e42). ASC: 17 Taurus. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes data from a photo of Fanning's baby card in the book, "Surf For Your Life - the Biography of Mick Fanning" by Mick Fanning & Tim Baker (Random House Australia, 2009).

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Doug Brown (American professional skateboarder)

* Doug Brown has vocal Mercury in sporty Leo on his Midheaven.

Now aged 40, he continues his career as a pro-skateboarder while working as a motivational speaker at schools and detention centres. His Grand Fire Trine gives him plenty of energy to burn. Jupiter in Aquarius (opposite his Mercury) makes his Grand Trine into a Kite pattern, helping him to harness this energy and soar.

Check out his autobiography and website for more info (www.dougbrownskate.com).

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Douglas Brown, 10 July 1973, 14:14 (2:14 p.m.) EDT (+4), Columbus, Ohio, USA (39n57, 82w59). ASC: 23 Libra. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "Doug Brown: Beyond the Board" by him (Mustang, OK: Tate Publishing, 2010), p. 12: "I was born on July 10th, 1973, at Mount Carmel Medical Center at 2:14 p.m. in Columbus, Ohio."

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Grayson Perry (English artist)

* Grayson Perry, CBE, is known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as "Claire", his female alter-ego, often appear. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003, the first time it was given to a ceramic artist. He attended the award ceremony dressed as Claire, wearing a little girl party frock. Perry has Taurus rising, ruled by Venus in Pisces in the offbeat 11th House. Double-identity Mercury is conjunct his Venus and both are ruled and trined by Neptune in Scorpio on the Descendant, explaining the sexually explicit content of much of his work.
Data for his chart comes from his autobiography (details below, courtesy of Andrea Miles).

Joseph Pilates (German-American bodybuilder, inventor of the "Pilates" method)

* Joseph Pilates (1883–1967) invented and promoted the Pilates method of physical fitness. His birth certificate has been published online revealing 12:30 a.m. as his time of birth. (The writing says "halb ein uhr" (half to one) rather than "halb vier uhr" (half to four) if we compare with the hand-writing of "neunten" in the same document). Pilates had health-conscious Uranus rising in Virgo and a control-freak triple conjunction of Pluto-Chiron-Saturn, with Pluto in the last degree of Taurus, the sign of the physical body. The Pilates method was first called "Contrology" by Mr. Pilates, based on the idea of muscle control. His Moon is in muscular Aries sextile his Saturn and Part of Fortune.

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Sachin Tendulkar (Indian cricketer)

* Sachin Tendulkar is widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of his generation. The doctor who delivered him on 24 April 1973 reveals in an interview that Tendulkar was born at 1 p.m.
The "god of cricket" has the sporty/religious Sagittarian decan of Leo on his Ascendant ruled by the masterly Sun on the MC.

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Charles Albright (American serial killer, "The Eyeball Killer")

* In March 1991, Charles Albright was arrested and charged with 3 counts of murdering women in Dallas, Texas. On 18 December of that year a jury found him guilty only of the murder of one of the women, based on forensic evidence. He is known variously as The Dallas Ripper, The Dallas Slasher, and The Eyeball Killer, because he allegedly removed the eyes of his victims with surgical precision. Albright has serial-killer Pluto at the apex of a T-square involving an opposition between the Moon in Aries on the Descendant and its ruler, surgical Mars on the Ascendant. Uranus (which I associate with the eyes) is also involved in the T-square (in bloody Aries too).

Conrad O. Johnson, 1915–2008 (American music educator)

* Conrad O. Johnson, who was long associated with the city of Houston, was inducted into the Texas Bandmasters Hall of Fame in 2000. Johnson was a proficient musician in his own right and, at one point, played with Count Basie. He made his lasting contribution to music by forming the Kashmere Stage Band, a renowned school orchestra that won a number of awards during its decade-long run. The Conrad O. Johnson School of Fine Arts at Kashmere High School is named after him.