Theda Bara: The Original Vamp
Sun: Leo
Ascendant: Taurus
Moon: Pisces
Today sees the Birthday of two of the biggest sex symbols of the Silent Film era: Theda Bara, The Original Vamp, and Clara Bow, The First “It” Girl and quintessential flapper. Leos are known for their sexy personas, but once in a couple they can be quite traditional [...]

Louise Brown, World’s First Test Tube Baby
Sun: Leo
Asceandant: Taurus
Moon: Aries
It seems hard to believe that the world’s first test tube babe is only 30 years old. We take these kind of procedures for granted these days. Louise is a Leo, and Leo rules the 5th house of child-bearing and fertility. As a test tube baby, [...]

Zelda Fitzgerald, Writer, Flapper, and Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sun: Leo
Ascendant: Leo
Moon: Cancer
Leo women aren’t shrinking violets, and they have a strong gusto for life and living large. Even in the days before feminism, Leo women had the ability to live their life on their own terms (like men) without falling into the polemics of [...]

Slash: Guns and Roses Guitarist
Sun: Leo
Ascendant: Unknown
Moon: Taurus
Stephanie Seymour: Model Who Marries Well
Sun: Leo
Ascendant: Unknown
Moon: Cancer
I never really understood the appeal of Guns and Roses, they were seen as the Messiah’s of Rock and Roll, and to me they just seemed kind of cheesy in a This Is Spinal Tap kind of way. I think [...]

Edward Hopper: Painter
Sun: Cancer
Ascendant: Unknown
Moon: Libra
Today is one of those cusp-y days. People born today could either be Cancer or Leo, depending on the year, and sometimes even time of day.
Opinion differs on what it means to be born on a cusp, which means the days when the Sun is changing signs. Some astrologer feels [...]

Ernest Hemingway: Literary Genius, Conflicted Male, and Suicide
Sun: Cancer
Ascendant: Virgo
Moon: Capricorn
Hart Crane: Literary Genius, Conflicted Male, and Suicide
Sun: Cancer
Ascendant: Pisces
Moon: Capricorn
It is really interesting that two of the brightest lights of 20th century literary America were both born on the same day, same year, both had hang-ups with their masculinity and both committed suicide. They [...]

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, [...]

David Hasselhof: Actor and Popstar (Germany only)
Sun: Cancer
Ascendant: Leo
Moon: Cancer
If Hitler had won the war and the German aesthetic had become the world-wide dominant cultural influence, we could all have grown up with the joys of songs like this one. The highest point of the Hof’s chart, the mid-heaven and cusp of the 10th house [...]

Orville Redenbacher: Popcorn Entrepreneur
Sun: Cancer
Orville Redenbacher died in a Jacuzzi in a Californian condo at age 88. It’s going to take a while for my mind to process that info. Orville Redenbacher was not just a brand, but an actual agrarian who embarked on a passionate quest as a child to discover the best popping [...]

Ian Curtis: Musician, Joy Division
Sun: Cancer
Ascendant: Unknown
Moon: Scorpio
Other July 15 Birthday Twins
Ponce de Leon, Conquistador in Search of Fountain of Youth: 1458
Rembrandt van Rijn, Painter: 1606
Clement C Moore: Author of Twas the Night Before Christmas: 1779
Thomas Bulfinch, Mythologist: 1796
Iris Murdoch, Author: 1919
Jacques Derrida, Philosopher: 1930
Alex Karras, Football Player and On-screen Father of Webster: 1935
Millie Jackson, [...]