[ART] Famous Black Voice Actors

Black voice actors…do I need to explain the awesomeness?

PHIL LAMARR

Phil Lamarr and just a few of his roles (longlivethebat-universe.tumblr)

Phil LaMarr was born on January 24, 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Phillip LaMarr. He is an actor and writer, known for Pulp Fiction (1994), Futurama (1999) and Samurai Jack (2001).

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CREE SUMMER

Cree Summer and just a few of her roles (nattygirls.tumblr)

Cree Summer was born on July 7, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Cree Summer Francks. She is an actress, known for Inspector Gadget (1983), A Different World (1987) and Tiny Toon Adventures (1990). She is married to Angelo Pullens. They have two children.

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KHARY PAYTON

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Khary Payton was born on May 16, 1972 in Augusta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Teen Titans(2003), Latter Days (2003) and Teen Titans Go! (2013). He is married to Stacy Reed Payton. They have two children.

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KEVIN MICHAEL RICHARDSON

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Well-known, king-sized actor and voice artist Kevin Michael Richardson was born in Bronx, New York. He is, perhaps, mostly recognizable for his deep voice, which he uses in many of his works. Richardson is a classically trained actor. He first gained recognition as one of only eight U.S. high school students selected for the National Foundation for the Arts’ “Arts ’82” program, later he earned a scholarship to Syracuse University.

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JONATHAN ADAMS

Jonathan Adams was born on July 16, 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for his work on American Dreams (2002), Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010) and Osmosis Jones (2001). He has been married to Monica Farrell since 1994. They have two children.

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BUMPER ROBINSON

Bumper Robinson was born on June 19, 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA as Larry C. Robinson II. He is an actor, known forBen 10: Omniverse (2012), Enemy Mine (1985) and Brother Bear (2003).

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SAMUEL L JACKSON

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Samuel L. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth (Montgomery) and Roy Henry Jackson. He was raised by his mother, a factory worker. Jackson was active in the black student movement. In the seventies, he joined the Negro Ensemble Company (together with Morgan Freeman).

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VIVICA A FOX

Vivica A. Fox was born in South Bend, Indiana, on July 30, 1964, and is the daughter of Everlyena, a pharmaceutical technician, and William Fox, a private school administrator. She is of Native American and African-American descent and is proud of her heritage.

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BILLY BROWN

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Billy Brown is an actor, known for Star Trek (2009),Cloverfield (2008) and Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004).

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GARY ANTHONY WILLIAMS

Gary Anthony Williams was born on March 14, 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor and director, known forThe Boondocks (2005), The Internship (2013) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). He is married to Leslie. They have one child.

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MICHAEL DORN

Michael Dorn was born on December 9, 1952 in Luling, Texas, USA as Michiel Dorn. He is an actor and director, known forStar Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996).

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ALEX DESERT

Alex Désert was born on July 18, 1968. He is an actor, known for Becker (1998), Swingers (1996) and High Fidelity (2000).

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AISHA TYLER

   

Aisha Tyler was born on September 18, 1970 in San Francisco, California, USA as Aisha Naomi Tyler. She is an actress and director, known for The Talk (2010), Whose Line Is It Anyway? (2013) and Talk Soup (1991). She has been married to Jeff Tietjens since May 1992

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HAKEEM KAE-KAZIM

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Actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim, classically trained in the UK at the highly regarded Bristol Old Vic and soon after graduation was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

in Voice Acting

 

Angela Bassett as…

  

Mildred – Meet the Robinsons // Six – Rainbow Six: Seige // Dr Kulinda – Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

 

Tommy Davidson as…

  

Oscar Proud – Proud Family // Cream Corn – Black Dynamite // Sammy Mantis – The Ren & Stimpy Show

 

  

Regina King as Riley & Huey Freeman – The Boondocks

 

 

Jordan Fisher as Matthew “Matt” – Until Dawn

 

 

Viola Davis as Helen Hanshaw – Sophia the First

 

 

Kyla Pratt as Penny Proud – Proud Family

 

 

Paula Jai Parker as Trudy Proud – Proud Family

 

 

Karen Malina White as Dijonay – Proud Family

 

[ART] Black Cartoon Characters

Happy Black History Month! Here’s some black characters in cartoons!

 

The Pizza Family from Steven Universe // Garnet from Steven Universe

A.J. from Fairly Odd Parents // Gerald Johanssen from Hey Arnold!

Penny, Sticky & Dijonay from Proud Family // Seven Days of Kwanzaa on Proud Family

Carver from the Weekenders // Anansi the Spider from Static Shock

Abigail (Numbuh 5) & Cree Lincoln  from KND: Kids Next Door // Keesha from The Magic School Bus

Tim from The Magic School Bus // Kwame from Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Kaldur’ahm (Aqualad) from Young Justice // Huey & Riley from The Boondocks

Thugnificent & Granddad from The Boondocks // Fillmore from Fillmore

Cyborg & Bumblebee from Teen Titans // Susie Carmichael from Rugrats

Storm from X-Men // Peppermint Patty from Doug

James “Rhodey” Rhodes  from Iron Man: Armored Adventures  // Libby Folfax from Jimmy Neutron

Aisha from Winx Club // Taranee Cook from W.i.t.c.h.

Monique & Wade from Kim Possible // Tucker Foley & Valerie Gray from Danny Phantom

Ms Grokte from Recess // Vincent Pierre “Vince” LaSalle from Recess

Trixie Carter from American Dragon: Jake Long // Agent Bubbles from Lilo & Stitch

Tessa & Vanessa from Pepperann // Franklin from Peanuts (Charlie Brown)

Miranda Killgallen & Darren Patterson from As Told by Ginger // Ashley Boulet from Recess

Nadine from Hey Arnold // Lola Mbola from Robotboy

Irwin & Dracula from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Raquel Ervin (Rocket) & Mal Duncan (Guardian) from Young Justice

Wyatt Williams from 6teen // Sunny Bridges from Class of 3000

DJ, Leshawna, and Katie from Total Drama Island

 

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AND TO ANY ONE’S I MISSED…

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[VIDEOGAMES] Classic OTP Couples

Romance abounds in videogames! So, let’s take a look at some of the most loved OTPs on Valentine’s Day!

Link x Zelda / Zelink

from the Legend of Zelda franchise

1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6

Lazy by default, Link goes to extreme lengths to save Princess Zelda and the land of Hyrule! Together in friendship and teamwork, what a great place for love to start!

Blogs/Posts for Shippers:

• Zelink: Classic Zelda Romance blog
• GreenieLovesZelink tumblr
• Zelink.org tumblr
• Zelink Fans tumblr

 

Mario x Princess Peach

from the Mario Franchise

1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6

Like Link, Mario would do anything for his princess!  Going across worlds, this plumber seems satisfied enough to just know Princess Peach is alright– plus this couple loves playing all types of games together!  Not as popular a pairing for fans, but what list would be complete without them?

Blogs/Posts for Shippers:

• Clo the Mario Lover tumblr
• The Biggest Mario Lover tumblr

 

Cloud x Tifa / Cloti

from Final Fantasy VII

1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6

Dramatic lovers for the ages!  As tumblr user strifelockhart says “Childhood friends that turned into so much more throughout their journey, these two made a promise that is never forgotten.”

Blogs/Posts for Shippers:

• Strifelockhart tumblr
• Cloti deviantart
• Because I Have You tumblr

 

and the newly fan-loved pair…

Chloe x Max / Pricefield

from Life is Strange

1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6

If you take this route in the game, you can be sure to get some romantic moments between protagonist Max Caulfield and bad girl Chloe Price.  Childhood friends with time spent apart, this is a story where they’re allowed to be together for awhile longer.

Blogs/Posts for Shippers:

• Ask Max and Chloe tumblr
• Shadowbeastiiiepaw tumblr
• Pricefield tumblr

[VIDEOGAMES] Black Characters, the Representation in Videogames

Happy Black History Month!

And although it ought to be celebrated everyday, every month, all the time, it’s important now more than ever to emphasize black representation in all aspects.  With a history of stereotype and , let’s celebrate how far we’ve come.  And let’s point out this journey of black representation in videogame characters.

As a black person myself, I know how important it is to find yourself in books, comics, movies, TV shows, videogames, history, etc.  in a way that you can relate to and appreciate and as someone who adds value to a narrative.  When it comes to the videogame industry, black people may not always be well represented, and I can’t claim that all of these characters are worth the endorsement, but all exposure is worth noting (whether to critique or to praise or to relate).

So, here’s some black, playable characters (followed by some NPCs) to show us that as the industry grows, black people will continue to gain visibility.

 

Nillin Cartier-Wells from Remember Me

 

…My name is Nilin Cartier-Wells. I am a memory hunter. I can know everything about you. And I can make you believe whatever I want. This is my gift. My legacy. – Nillin

rather sarcastic, capable and versatile martial artist, rebellious and tends to talk back, an experienced climber (source)

Lee Everett from Telltale’s The Walking Dead

That little girl’s in my care! We’ve been through more together than you can imagine. Anyone who tries to get between me and her – ANYONE! – is gonna wind up dead! You hear me?! – Lee

smart, independent, resourceful, reasonable, generally kind, easily agitated, overprotective, compassionate and selfless (source)

Clementine from Telltale’s The Walking Dead (Season 2)

I’m still. Not. Bitten. – Clementine

Reserved, shy, quiet, imaginative, incredibly, resourceful, hopeful, doesn’t get scared but will clam up if nervous, quite outspoken when she wants to be, caring and compassionate (source)

Matt from Until Dawn (2015)

 

There’s more to this guy than just bein’ a lean, mean, luggage lifting machine.- Matt

got a big heart, kind of a meat head, fiercely loyal, knows when to stay out of the way of situations, motivated, ambitious and athletic, even described as the good guy of the group (source)

 

Aveline de Grandpre from Assassin’s Creed III & IV

Though I may conceal my identity, one thing is certain: commit injustice in this world, and I’ll send you to the next. – Aveline

has learned to hide in plain sight, the Assassin, the Slave and the Lady, a Charm mechanic  (source)

Jacob Taylor from the iPhone game Mass Effect: Galaxy

 

 

Give him all the time in the galaxy. The man who did this doesn’t know right from wrong.- Taylor

highly experienced fighter, loyalty, calm and collected voice of reason, may have been romantically involved (source)

Sheva Alomar from Resident Evil 5

Don’t worry. I may not be as big as you, but I can still hold my own. – Alomar

extremely loyal, versatile fighter with extensive experience, follows her instincts (source)

Jacqueline Sonya “Jacqui” Briggs from Mortal Kombat X

No more tricks; just a straight-up beatdown. – Briggs

very protective of her family, but is easily annoyed whenever her father’s history of being Quan Chi’s slave is brought up, very serious and supports Cassie’s leadership (source)

Laura Matsuda from Streetfighter V

Boom! That’s how you start a fight and finish it quickly! – Laura

free spirited and energetic personality and enjoys thrills, has a desire to promote her family’s fighting style, likes to give advice to others,  very easy to befriend (source)

Holly Tanaka from Halo 5: Guardians

[We’re taking the long way down] Because it’s polite. Grew up on an indie colony like Meridian. Folks out here don’t take kindly to the UNSC landing in the middle of town. Tend to see it as an act of aggression. – Tanaka

quiet, self-reliant, unfazeable, skilled, dependable, and loyal member of their less-than-ideal society, lack of interest in socializing and inability to connect with others, deeply skilled with technology (source)

Jameson Locke from Halo 5: Guardians

I’m not so much hunting a Spartan as I am hunting the Spartan. – Locke

competent, approaches combat situations with caution and logic and inspires loyalty in those under his command (source)

Adéwalé from Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag: DLC Freedom Cry

Save your singing for Davy Jones, you jagabats. – Adéwalé

quiet confidence merged with his imposing figure to cast a long shadow over the charismatic cast of Black Flag, ability to communicate – with pirates, with Assassins, with the enslaved and disenfranchised, a warm, earthy quality to his voice (source)

Barrett Wallace from Final Fantasy 7

You can’t give up now! There ain’t no gettin’ off of this train we on! – Barrett Wallace

brash and sometimes violent attitude, a good heart, brash, gruff, short temper and a tendency to curse, describes life with train metaphors (source)

Sazh Katzroy from Final Fantasy 13

 

Just as I was getting used to things… – Katzroy

friendly, cheerful, quick to banter, keeps a mature perspective on matters, youthful, carefree, and lively, forgiving,  goodhearted, hopeful, selflessness, strong will of justice and is always willing to help his teammates (source)

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 Honorable Mentions / Non-Playable Characters

 

Riley from The Last of Us (2013) // Lucius Fox from Warner Bros. Games Montréal Batman Franchise // Daisy Fitzroy from Bioshock Infinite (2013) // Dimah Ali Umar al-Masri from Just Cause 3 (2015) // Spike from Dying Light (2015) // Dr Zere from Dying Light (2015)

 

Madame Vivienne de Fer from Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014) // Steve Cortez from Mass Effect 3 // Preston Garvey from Fallout 4 // Admiral David Anderson from Mass Effect // Achilles Davenport from Assassin’s Creed // Jolee Bindo from Knights of the Old Republic

 

Raina Temple from Star Wars: The Old Republic // Andronikos Revel from Star Wars: The Old Republic // Felix Iresso from Star Wars: The Old Republic // Koth Vortena from Star Wars: The Old Republic

 

Dynaheir from Baldur’s Gate // Valygar Corthala from Baldur’s Gate II // Hexxat from Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition // Star Paladin Cross from Fallout 3 // Ikora Rey from Destiny

 

CREDITS

Much thanks to tumblr user why-i-need-diverse-games and all those who re-posted this with characters!

[ART] 7 Things to Like about Jacob Lawrence

It’s Black History Month!  And that’s no excuse not to know some things about famous artists who exemplify Black Excellence! So let’s dive right in and talk about 7 things to like about Jacob Lawrence!!!

Jacob Lawrence by Robert W Kelley

ART STYLE : Expressionist / History Painter

“My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life – if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.” –Jacob Lawrence

 

Jacob Lawrence. The Migration Series. 1940-41. Panel 40: “The migrants arrived in great numbers.” Casein tempera on hardboard, 18 x 12″ (45.7 x 30.5 cm).

1.  In his art, he recorded historical and social aspects of black life.  From desegregation to the African-American migration from the south, Lawrence captured the energy and essence of a movement/transition/event.  According to the University of Washington, Lawrence “used his art to tell stories about black history — stories that were overlooked in the typical “American History” taught in schools.”  Who doesn’t like amazing, visual documents of history hardly taught?

 

“Young Jacob Lawrence at 6.”  (onlinenetworking)

2.  Lawrence faced many adversities from a very early age and throughout his life, and, despite it all, Lawrence succeeded to make meaningful, noteworthy art. As About.com states about his childhood: “He kept up painting when he could, but was forced to drop out of school to help support the family after his mother lost her job during the Great Depression.” How can you not like someone who has so much determination at such a day and age?

Jacob Lawrence. The Migration Series. 1940-41. Panel 58.

3.  He was an art educator, very much loved by his students (source).  He made art in the meantime but he left major impact on younger generations of artists under his tutelage.  Who wouldn’t rally for someone who contributes to the success of others?

 

 Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series No. 58.

4.  “Lawrence was the first African-American artist to exhibit in a mainstream New York gallery” (source). Breaking through the racial barrier into the more privileged white circles of society, he cleared the way for other black artists to be majorly featured.

 

The Butcher Shop, 1938

5.  His unique style still influences black art with its bold colors, nearly featureless faces, and the essentialized shapes aesthetic.”I think of him as one of the great figurative formalists of the century,” Spafford adds. “He really altered the art landscape of the Northwest, and his career blossomed here, although you wouldn’t expect that, coming from a hub like New York” (source).

 

Gwendolyn Knight // Gwen and Jacob

6.  He didn’t stifle his wife’s career.  Married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight, Lawrence benefited much from his wife’s artistic insights.

The Seattle Times Obituaries says that: “Until her husband’s death in 2000, Ms. Knight was both muse and creative partner to Lawrence, one of the premier American artists of the past century. Their partnership lasted 60 years. Ms. Knight continued making art, showing some of her strongest images in a 2003 retrospective at the Tacoma Art Museum.

Unlike her husband, whose intense focus on his painting came to him early in life, like a calling, Ms. Knight preferred to spread her creative energy around. She painted for pleasure, but even before she developed an interest in painting, Ms. Knight loved to sing and dance.”

 

Jacob Lawrence

7.  “Curator Beth Sellars, who organized the 1998 exhibition of Lawrence’s work at the Henry Art Gallery [says] “His kindness, thoughtfulness and generosity—both he and Gwen, actually, because I think of them as one. So much of what he accomplished was through her sheer strength.”” (source).

 

[ART] Sailor Moon INFLUENCE on American Cartoons

Sailor Moon may not have been the first anime to have done this, but it definitely popularized the magical, wardrobe transformation scene.  As one of the most well-known anime-cartoon tropes, this scene became noteworthy as a recurring event that would appear in most every episode of shows like Sailor Moon.  Different from the super hero reveal of his heroic alter-ego (ie Clark Kent to Superman), the multicolored magic girl transformation hints at softness, trendiness and vulnerability that cannot be interrupted until the character strikes a pose of final form.

Sailor Moon // 2 // 3 // 4

This is not to be confused with Disney’s transformation sequences (which appeared a couple years before Sailor Moon aired) nor with the typical boy-superhero transformation. Although all three styles use close-ups of body parts to emphasize what is changing, Walt Disney Animation Studio uses a golden light aesthetic to give the character an almost angelic-like quality.  Shows like Ben Ten and Danny Phantom, however, use a darker color palette with a very cold color glow to give the impression that the character’s transformation involves science or an aggressive element (like fire, for American Dragon).

 

Beauty and the Beast // Princess and the Frog // The Little Mermaid

Ben 10 // Danny Phantom // American Dragon

 

Needless to say, it’s popularity has majorly influenced Western media, and whether as an homage or as a satirical comment on the magical girl genre, American cartoon creators are fascinated enough to use it in their own shows.  So let’s see what shows recognize their premise and use Sailor Moon as their muse.

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Star Vs. The Forces of Evil

Obviously the creators drew influence from Sailor Moon while also creating as much distance from the anime as they could. The parallels between the show is that there’s a magic girl/princess with blond hair and blue eyes and she has a magical wand. In the scene shown above, creators chose to subvert the expectations of magical transformation, parodying it as if to say that they know how viewers expect this to fit neatly into the hyper-femininity of the magical girl genre.

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Steven Universe

The creators of Steven Universe pay tribute to the magical girl genre in the sense that the characters are reduced to their silhouettes and there’s a romantic aura/sparkles around them when they transform/regenerate with Pearl and with fusion.  However, the magical girl transformation trope is most obvious in the scene with Steven.  It emphasizes Steven as a character that does not conform to gender roles and is sensitive enough to be like Sailor Moon.

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My Little Pony

My Little Pony uses it too, which makes sense, because it’s a magical girl’s show but with ponies.  Unlike the other Western cartoons (non-anime shows) on this list that pokes fun at Sailor Moon, this one seems to take the transformation scene to enhance the magical, pretty element of the character.

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Teen Titans Go!

Teen Titans Go parodies the magical girl transformation in one of their episodes.  As seen with  Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Robin, the reference to Sailor Moon shows how even years later, Sailor Moon has left its impact in the cartoon world.

 

[Astrology] Authors (man edition) Part 3

Virgo

LEO TOLSTOY

Born:	September 9, 1828
In:	Tula (Russia)
Sun:	17°04′ Virgo	AS:	7°48′ Cancer
Moon:	22°34′ Virgo	MC:	29°52′ Aquarius
Dominants:		Virgo, Capricorn, Cancer Mars, Mercury, Moon Houses 4, 7, 2 / Earth, Water / Cardinal

Personal Quote:

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

If you want to be happy, be.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Excerpt:

Anna Karenina

I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.

JOHN GREEN

Born:	August 24, 1977
In:	Indianapolis (IN) (United States)
Sun:	1°22′ Virgo
Moon:	6°17′ Capricorn
Dominants:		Virgo, Cancer, Capricorn Mercury, Jupiter, Mars Earth, Water / Mutable

Personal Quote:

It’s just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Excerpt:

The Fault in Our Stars

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

ROALD DAHL

Born:	September 13, 1916
In:	Llandaff, Cardiff (United Kingdom)
Sun:	20°18′ Virgo
Moon:	11°37′ Aries
Dominants:		Leo, Aries, Virgo Neptune, Uranus, Moon Fire, Earth / Fixed

Personal Quote:

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.

Excerpt:

Matilda

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

STEPHEN KING

Born:	September 21, 1947
In:	Portland (ME) (United States)
Sun:	27°24′ Virgo	AS:	29°51′ Cancer
Moon:	16°15′ Sagittarius	MC:	12°30′ Aries
Dominants:		Libra, Cancer, Sagittarius Mercury, Mars, Moon Houses 3, 5, 4 / Air, Water / Cardinal

Personal Quote:

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Excerpt:

The Shining

The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I.

HG WELLS

Born:	September 21, 1866
In:	Bromley (United Kingdom)
Sun:	28°26′ Virgo	AS:	12°57′ Aquarius
Moon:	21°05′ Aquarius	MC:	9°31′ Sagittarius
Dominants:		Aquarius, Virgo, Cancer Uranus, Moon, Mercury Houses 7, 1, 5 / Air, Water / Fixed

Personal Quote:

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Excerpt:

The Time Machine

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

Libra

RL STINE

Born:	October 8, 1943
In:	Columbus (OH) (United States)
Sun:	14°30′ Libra
Moon:	8°31′ Aquarius
Dominants:		Gemini, Virgo, Libra Uranus, Mercury, Moon Air, Earth / Mutable

Personal Quote:

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called ‘Tales From The Crypt’ and ‘The Vault of Horror.’ They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Excerpt:

Welcome to Dead House

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident… something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn’t see it, didn’t realize… and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn’t a normal town anymore.

OSCAR WILDE

Born:	October 16, 1854
In:	Dublin (Ireland)
Sun:	22°27′ Libra	AS:	15°47′ Virgo
Moon:	15°03′ Leo	MC:	10°55′ Gemini
Dominants:		Gemini, Libra, Scorpio Neptune, Mercury, Saturn Houses 3, 2, 6 / Air, Water / Mutable

Personal Quote:

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Excerpt:

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Born:	September 25, 1930
In:	—
Sun:	01° 42′ Libra	AS:	—
Moon:	12° 11′ Scorpio	MC:	—

Personal Quote:

Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don’t think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain’t enough!

Excerpt:

The Giving Tree

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

F SCOTT FITZGERALD

Born:	September 24, 1896
In:	St Paul (MN) (United States)
Sun:	2°19′ Libra	AS:	3°52′ Aquarius
Moon:	4°28′ Taurus	MC:	28°51′ Scorpio
Dominants:		Libra, Scorpio, Gemini Uranus, Venus, Moon Houses 8, 9, 5 / Air, Water / Fixed

Personal Quote:

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Excerpt:

The Great Gatsby

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

Born:	October 22, 1946
In:	New Delhi (India)
Sun:	28°25′ Libra	AS:	17°29′ Pisces
Moon:	28°46′ Virgo	MC:	21°55′ Sagittarius
Dominants:		Scorpio, Libra, Pisces Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter Houses 8, 7, 4 / Water, Air / Mutable

Personal Quote:

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Excerpt:

The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads. 

Scorpio

BRAM STOKER

Born:	November 8, 1847
In:	Dublin (Ireland)
Sun:	15°31′ Scorpio
Moon:	19°47′ Scorpio
Dominants:		Scorpio, Aries, Libra Venus, Jupiter, Pluto Water, Fire / Cardinal

Personal Quote:

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Despair has its own calms.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Excerpt:

Dracula, Chapter 2, pg. 28

When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demonaic fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.

EZRA POUND

Born:	October 30, 1885
In:	Hailey (ID) (United States)
Sun:	7°43′ Scorpio	AS:	0°11′ Aries
Moon:	10°28′ Leo	MC:	0°06′ Capricorn
Dominants:		Leo, Scorpio, Aries Jupiter, Uranus, Mars Houses 6, 7, 9 / Fire, Water / Fixed

Personal Quote:

Literature is news that stays news.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Excerpt:

A Girl

The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast –
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.

Sagittarius

CS LEWIS

Born:	November 29, 1898
In:	Belfast (Ireland)
Sun:	7°21′ Sagittarius
Moon:	22°04′ Gemini
Dominants:		Sagittarius, Gemini, Leo Saturn, Neptune, Moon Fire, Air / Mutable

Personal Quote:

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Excerpt:

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been – if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

MARK TWAIN

Born:	November 30, 1835
In:	Florida (MO) (United States)
Sun:	7°34′ Sagittarius	AS:	9°42′ Scorpio
Moon:	15°37′ Aries	MC:	17°22′ Leo
Dominants:		Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aries Pluto, Mercury, Saturn Houses 1, 5, 2 / Fire, Water / Fixed

Personal Quote:

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Excerpt:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

[Astrology] Authors (man edition) Part 2

Taurus

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Born:	April 23, 1564 (Julian cal.)
In:	Stratford-Upon-Avon (United Kingdom)
Sun:	12°43′ Taurus	AS:	18°51′ Cancer
Moon:	7°59′ Libra	MC:	17°44′ Pisces
Dominants:		Cancer, Pisces, Gemini Pluto, Moon, Venus Houses 12, 11, 4 / Water, Air / Cardinal

Personal Quote:

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Excerpt:

Hamlet

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

Gemini

WALT WHITMAN

Born:	May 31, 1819
In:	Huntington Bay (NY) (United States)
Sun:	8°56′ Gemini	AS:	7°25′ Aries
Moon:	29°00′ Leo	MC:	3°55′ Capricorn
Dominants:		Aries, Pisces, Sagittarius Saturn, Mars, Neptune Houses 1, 12, 9 / Fire, Earth / Mutable

Personal Quote:

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Excerpt:

Leaves of Grass

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Born:	May 22, 1859
In:	Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
Sun:	0°33′ Gemini	AS:	23°15′ Gemini
Moon:	0°46′ Aquarius	MC:	10°38′ Aquarius
Dominants:		Gemini, Aquarius, Taurus Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn Houses 12, 9, 1 / Air, Earth / Mutable

Personal Quote:

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Excerpt:

The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Really, Watson, you excel yourself,” said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. “I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.”

Cancer

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Born:	July 21, 1899
In:	Oak Park (IL) (United States)
Sun:	28°32′ Cancer	AS:	7°34′ Virgo
Moon:	9°56′ Capricorn	MC:	3°22′ Gemini
Dominants:		Virgo, Sagittarius, Gemini Mercury, Uranus, Saturn Houses 4, 11, 12 / Fire, Earth / Mutable

Personal Quote:

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Excerpt:

The Sun Also Rises

You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.

PABLO NERUDA

Born:	July 12, 1904
In:	Parral (Chile)
Sun:	20°13′ Cancer	AS:	9°43′ Pisces
Moon:	18°07′ Cancer	MC:	7°15′ Sagittarius
Dominants:		Cancer, Pisces, Sagittarius Moon, Neptune, Venus Houses 5, 4, 2 / Water, Fire / Cardinal

Personal Quote:

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Excerpt:

Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Leo

HERMAN MELVILLE

Born:	August 1, 1819
In:	New York (NY) (United States)
Sun:	8°47′ Leo	AS:	27°08′ Capricorn
Moon:	13°27′ Sagittarius	MC:	20°40′ Scorpio
Dominants:		Sagittarius, Leo, Capricorn Sun, Pluto, Venus Houses 7, 11, 2 / Fire, Water / Mutable

Personal Quote:

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee. 

Excerpt:

Moby Dick, Chapter 16, pg. 67

‘He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in colleges, as well as ‘mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales.’

 

RAY BRADBURY

Born:	August 22, 1920
In:	Waukegan (IL) (United States)
Sun:	29°30′ Leo	AS:	22°41′ Capricorn
Moon:	15°56′ Sagittarius	MC:	18°04′ Scorpio
Dominants:		Leo, Scorpio, Virgo Mars, Saturn, Sun Houses 7, 8, 10 / Fire, Earth / Fixed

Personal Quote:

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Excerpt:

Fahrenheit 451

“Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so many years?”
“Because I like you,” she said, “and I don’t want anything from you.”

HP LOVECRAFT

Born:	August 20, 1890
In:	Providence (RI) (United States)
Sun:	27°27′ Leo	AS:	13°41′ Libra
Moon:	22°07′ Libra	MC:	16°05′ Cancer
Dominants:		Libra, Virgo, Leo Venus, Moon, Sun Houses 12, 1, 11 / Air, Fire / Cardinal

Personal Quote:

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.

Excerpt:

The Call of Cthulhu 

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

[Astrology] Authors (man edition) Part 1

Capricorn

JRR TOLKEIN

Born:	January 3, 1892
In:	Bloemfontein (South Africa)
Sun:	12°59′ Capricorn	AS:	6°00′ Virgo
Moon:	0°47′ Pisces	MC:	14°22′ Gemini
Dominants:		Gemini, Pisces, Capricorn Mercury, Neptune, Moon Houses 6, 9, 4 / Air, Earth / Mutable

Personal Quote:

Not all those who wander are lost.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Excerpt:

The Hobbit, Chapter 1, pg. 26

‘Well I should say that you ought to go East and have a look around. After all there is a side-door, and dragons must sleep sometimes, I suppose. If you sit on the door-step long enough, I daresay you will think of something.’

NICHOLAS SPARKS

Born:	December 31, 1965
In:	Omaha (NE) (United States)
Sun:	9°52′ Capricorn
Moon:	17°31′ Aries
Dominants:		Aquarius, Aries, Capricorn Saturn, Pluto, Uranus Earth, Air / Mutable

Personal Quote:

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

 I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Loving once and only once is possible – anything is possible.

Excerpt:

The Notebook

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..

EDGAR ALLAN POE

Born:	January 19, 1809
In:	Boston (MA) (United States)
Sun:	28°49′ Capricorn	AS:	3°32′ Scorpio
Moon:	9°33′ Pisces	MC:	10°42′ Leo
Dominants:		Pisces, Scorpio, Capricorn Uranus, Pluto, Sun Houses 3, 4, 5 / Water, Earth / Mutable

Personal Quote:

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Excerpt:

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door —
Only this, and nothing more.”

AA MILNE

Born:	January 18, 1882
In:	London (United Kingdom)
Sun:	28°22′ Capricorn
Moon:	11°41′ Capricorn
Dominants:		Capricorn, Taurus, Aquarius Saturn, Neptune, Venus Earth, Air / Cardinal

Personal Quote:

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Excerpt:

Winnie-the-Pooh

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.

JACK LONDON

Born:	January 12, 1876
In:	San Francisco (CA) (United States)
Sun:	22°07′ Capricorn	AS:	11°48′ Gemini
Moon:	15°05′ Leo	MC:	19°25′ Aquarius
Dominants:		Aquarius, Leo, Gemini Venus, Saturn, Uranus Houses 10, 3, 8 / Air, Fire / Fixed

Personal Quote:

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Excerpt:

The Call of the Wild

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

Aquarius

CHARLES DICKENS

Born:	February 7, 1812
In:	Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
Sun:	17°58′ Aquarius	AS:	18°46′ Virgo
Moon:	12°36′ Sagittarius	MC:	15°27′ Gemini
Dominants:		Pisces, Sagittarius, Capricorn Venus, Pluto, Mercury Houses 3, 6, 5 / Earth, Fire / Mutable

Personal Quote:

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Excerpt:

Great Expectations

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

LEWIS CARROLL

Born:	January 27, 1832
In:	Daresbury (United Kingdom)
Sun:	6°17′ Aquarius	AS:	3°09′ Sagittarius
Moon:	3°25′ Sagittarius	MC:	1°59′ Libra
Dominants:		Sagittarius, Aquarius, Capricorn Moon, Jupiter, Pluto Houses 1, 2, 3 / Fire, Air / Mutable

Personal Quote:

It’s too late to correct it: when you’ve once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?  My mind goes on working all the same.  In fact, the more head downwards I am, the more I keep inventing new things.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

Excerpt:

Alice in Wonderland

‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ said Alice. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.’

ROBERT BURNS

Born:	January 25, 1759
In:	Alloway (United Kingdom)
Sun:	5°08′ Aquarius	AS:	10°12′ Capricorn
Moon:	19°31′ Sagittarius	MC:	21°50′ Scorpio
Dominants:		Capricorn, Aquarius, Sagittarius Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn Houses 1, 11, 12 / Earth, Air / Fixed

Personal Quote:

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Excerpt:

Auld Lang Syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

JULES VERNE

Born:	February 8, 1828
In:	Nantes (44) (France)
Sun:	18°45′ Aquarius	AS:	6°44′ Gemini
Moon:	14°18′ Scorpio	MC:	7°21′ Aquarius
Dominants:		Aquarius, Scorpio, Capricorn Uranus, Mercury, Mars Houses 6, 10, 9 / Air, Water / Fixed

Personal Quote:

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Excerpt:

Journey to the Center of the Earth

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

Pisces

DR SEUSS

Born:	March 2, 1904
In:	Springfield (MA) (United States)
Sun:	11°43′ Pisces
Moon:	20°04′ Virgo
Dominants:		Aquarius, Aries, Pisces Mars, Neptune, Sun Fire, Air / Mutable

Personal Quote:

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Excerpt:

Cat in the Hat

And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!

JOHN STEINBECK

Born:	February 27, 1902
In:	Salinas (CA) (United States)
Sun:	8°26′ Pisces	AS:	3°08′ Leo
Moon:	11°29′ Scorpio	MC:	21°50′ Aries
Dominants:		Aquarius, Pisces, Leo Jupiter, Saturn, Sun Houses 7, 8, 6 / Air, Water / Fixed

Personal Quote:

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Excerpt:

The Pearl, Prologue, pg. I

And, as with all retold tales that are in people’s hearts, there are only good and bad things and bblack and white things and good and evil things and no in-between. If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it.

VICTOR HUGO

Born:	February 26, 1802
In:	Besançon (25) (France)
Sun:	7°39′ Pisces	AS:	2°10′ Scorpio
Moon:	24°43′ Sagittarius	MC:	11°05′ Leo
Dominants:		Pisces, Scorpio, Leo Pluto, Venus, Sun Houses 4, 10, 2 / Water, Fire / Mutable

Personal Quote:

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Excerpt:

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

 

Aries

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Born:	April 2, 1805
In:	Odense (Denmark)
Sun:	11°50′ Aries	AS:	18°01′ Sagittarius
Moon:	9°18′ Taurus	MC:	26°43′ Libra
Dominants:		Sagittarius, Libra, Aries Jupiter, Uranus, Venus Houses 3, 9, 12 / Fire, Air / Cardinal

Personal Quote:

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.

Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.

Every man’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers.

Excerpt:

The Snow Queen

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don’t you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.

ROBERT FROST

Born:	March 26, 1874
In:	San Francisco (CA) (United States)
Sun:	5°48′ Aries	AS:	0°11′ Taurus
Moon:	25°47′ Cancer	MC:	17°31′ Capricorn
Dominants:		Aries, Taurus, Cancer Neptune, Mars, Moon

Personal Quote:

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

The best way out is always through.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Excerpt:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Born:	March 26, 1911
In:	Colombus (MS) (United States)
Sun:	4°34′ Aries	AS:	24°59′ Capricorn
Moon:	12°14′ Aquarius	MC:	14°13′ Scorpio
Dominants:		Capricorn, Taurus, Scorpio Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn Houses 1, 3, 2 / Earth, Water / Fixed

Personal Quote:

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Excerpt:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

[Astrology] Women Authors

Capricorn

ZORA NEALE HURSTON 01/07

Personal Quote:

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

 Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Book Quote:

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter 1, pg. 2

These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.

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Aquarius

ALICE WALKER 02/09

Personal Quote:

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Book Quote:

The Color Purple, Part 3, pg. 124

Oh, Celie, there are colored people in the world who want us to know! Want us to grow and see the light! They are not all mean like Pa and Albert, or beaten down like ma was. Corrine and Samuel have a wonderful marriage. Their only sorrow in the beginning was that they could not have children. And then, they say, ‘God’ sent them Olivia and Adam.

 

AMY TAN 02/19

Personal Quote:

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Book Quote:

The Joy Luck Club, Chapter 1, pg. 21

Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.

TONI MORRISON 02/18

Personal Quote:

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.

Book Quote:

Beloved, Chapter 1, pg. 15

‘I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms. No more running — from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this earth. I took one journey and I paid for the ticket, but let me tell you something, Paul D Garner: it cost too much! Do you hear me? It cost too much.’

VIRGINIA WOOLF 01/25

Personal Quote:

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Book Quote:

Mrs Dalloway, 1.2

What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air.

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Pisces

ANAIS NIN 02/21

Personal Quote:

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Book Quote:

Delta of Venus, 84, Elena

Because he did not understand his nature, he had at first blamed her, put on her burden of his frigidity toward woman. He said it was because she was intelligent, and intelligent women mixed literature and poetry with love, which paralyzed him; and that she was positive, masculine, in some of her ways, and this intimidated him. She was so young at the time, she had readily accepted this and come to believe that slender, intellectual, positive women could not be desired.

ALICE HOFFMAN 03/16

Personal Quote:

Books may well be the only true magic.

After a while, the characters I’m writing begin to feel real to me. That’s when I know I’m heading in the right direction.

Even in times when it’s difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art – and books – always help.

Book Quote:

The Dovekeepers, Narrator Yael, part 1 paragraph 2

Everywhere I walked my fate walked with me, sewn to my feet with red thread. All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

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Aries

MAYA ANGELOU 04/04

Personal Quote:

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Book Quote:

Why the Caged Bird Sings, Chapter 2, pg. 10

Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

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Taurus

CHARLOTTE BRONTE 03/31

Personal Quote:

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Book Quote:

Jane Eyre, Chapter 1, pg. 5

She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie and could discover by her own observation that I was endeavoring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner–something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were–she really could must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.’

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Gemini

JAMAICA KINCAID 05/25

Personal Quote:

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

I think life is difficult and that’s that. I am not at all – absolutely not at all – interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

Book Quote:

A Small Place, pg. 7

How do they afford such a car? And do they live in a luxurious house to match such a car? Well, no. You will be surprised, then, to see that most likely the person driving this brand-new car filled with the wrong gas lives in a house that, in comparison, if far beneath the status of the car.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 06/14

Personal Quote:

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Book Quote:

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Chapter 2, pg. 18

‘Yes Eliza, it’s all misery, misery, misery! My life is bitter as wormwood; the very life is burning out of me. I’m a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that’s all. What’s the use of our trying to do anything, trying to know anything, trying to be anything? What’s the use of living? I wish I was dead!’

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Cancer

OCTAVIA BUTLER 06/22

Personal Quote:

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn’t bother me. It’s other people doing the calling that bothers me.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won’t let me get away with things.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

Book Quote:

Kindred, pg. 145

. . . the house-nigger, the handkerchief-head, the female Uncle Tom – the frightened powerless woman who had already lost all she could stand to lose, and who knew as little about freedom of the North as she knew about the hereafter.

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Leo

J.K. ROWLING 07/31

Personal Quote:

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

Book Quote:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I DON’T CARE!” Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. “I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANYMORE!”
“You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

DANIELLE STEEL 08/14

Personal Quote:

Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you’re famous.

Book Quote:

The Gift

Maybe some people just aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It’s like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that’s why they’re here. You’ll have that gift forever.

EMILY BRONTE 07/30

Personal Quote:

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Book Quote:

Wuthering Heights, Chapter 9, pg. 74

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it…Nelly, Iam Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

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Virgo

MARY SHELLEY 08/30

Personal Quote:

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Book Quote:

Frankenstein, Chapter 2, pg. 22-3

The world was to [him] a secret which [he] desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to [him], are among the earliest sensations [he] can remember . . . It was the secrets of heaven and earth that [he] desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied [him], still [his] inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in it highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

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Libra

ANNE RICE 10/04

Personal Quote:

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Book Quote:

Interview with a Vampire

Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.

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Scorpio

GEORGE ELIOT 11/22

Personal Quote:

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Book Quote:

Middlemarch

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

AMY LEVY 11/10

Personal Quote:

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Bitter indeed is Life, and bitter of Life the breath,
But give me Life and its ways and its men, if this be Death.

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths – and so marriage must go the way of God.

Book Quote:

The Romance of a Shop

For good or evil, these waifs on the great stream of London life had drifted together; how long the current should continue thus to bear them side by side- how long, indeed, they should float on the surface of the stream at all, was a question with which for the time being, they did not very much trouble themselves.

ANNE SEXTON 11/09

Personal Quote:

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children…. I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can’t build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

Book Quote:

To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Her Kind

I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.

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Sagittarius

JANE AUSTEN 12/16

Personal Quote:

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Book Quote:

Pride and Prejudice, Volume 2, Chapter 11, pg. 130

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

CORNELIA FUNKE 12/10

Personal Quote:

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Book Quote:

Inkheart

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn’t ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

EMILY DICKINSON 12/10

Personal Quote:

Forever is composed of nows.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Book Quote:

The Complete Works, A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.