Hunter S Thompson: Gonzo Journalist
Sun: Cancer
Ascendant: Unknown
Moon: Sagittarius

If you want to look for journalistic talent in a chart, you want to look at the 3rd house, Mercury and Gemini. In Hunter Thompson’s solar chart, we find druggy, fantastical Neptune in the 3rd house making a Grand Trine with Jupiter and Uranus in the earth signs, giving him a kind of grounded eccentricity. He possessed both the rigor necessary for great journalism, and the ground-breaking individualism to truly stretch the boundaries of the genre and infuse it with a trippy surrealism. This new movie about him, in the clip above, looks pretty interesting.

Looking at other birthday twins today, we see, yet again, more super-wealthy entrepreneurial Cancers in the way of Steve Forbes and Richard Branson. Cancer rules the fourth house and often gets pigeon-holed with the home-body stereotype, but they can be quite brave, determined adventurers, such as Molly Brown, Branson or pioneering astronaut John Glenn.

Interesting trivia, too. Dion of Dion and the Belmonts, was booked to fly on the plane with Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens, but couldn’t afford the 30 dollar air fare. He therefore wasn’t on board the fatal flight.

Other July 18 Birthday Twins:

William Makepeace Thackeray, Author: 1811
The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Titanic Surviver: 1867
Machine Gun Kelly, Gangster: 1895
Chill Wills, Actor: 1903
Clifford Odets, Writer: 1906
Lupe Velez, Actress: Actress 1908
Andrei Gromyko, Former Soviet President: 1909
Hume Cronyn, Actor: 1911
Red Skelton, Comedian: 1913
Nelson Mandela, South African President: 1918
John Glenn, Astronaut: 1921
Kurt Masur, Conductor: 1927
Dick Button, Figure Skater and Newsman: 1929
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Singer: 1929
Paul Verhoeven, Director: 1938
Dion, Singer, Dion and the Belmonts: 1939
James Brolin, Actor: 1940
Martha Reeves, Singer: 1941
Steve Forbes, Rich Guy: 1947
Richard Branson, Entrepreneur: 1950
Glenn Hughes, Leather Guy from the Village People: 1950
Nick Faldo, Golfer: 1957
Elizabeth McGovern, Actress: 1961
Vin Diesel, Actor: 1967
Kristen Bell, Actress: 1980
Ryan Cabrera, Musician: 1982
Chance Crawford, Actor: 1985

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