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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]