Cosmically Chic

Renee Alway

The birthday girl for April 29 is Renee Alway.

Alway was a contestant on “America’s Next Top Model.”  Just a moment ago while clicking through some of her photos it occurred to me that I associate dirty blonde hair with the sign of Taurus.  Or maybe I even associate brown hair highligted by warm blonde tones with the sign of Taurus.

Now I can think of dozens of Taurus icons who have possessed different hair colors, but that doesn’t really bother me.  There’s something about the warmth of this color that suits this sign perfectly — just like peroxide blonde hair suits the sign of Gemini and flaming red hair suits the sign of Aries.  It’s just the way it goes.

Bruce Willis

The birthday boy for March 19 is Bruce Willis.

Astrologically, I believed that Bruce Willis and Demi Moore made a terrific couple.  I was shocked when they broke up.  I wasn’t shocked at all when Moore broke up with Ashton Kutcher because I forecasted bad things for the Scorpio/Aquarius pair.  I won’t be surprised if Willis’ relationship with Emma Heming, a Gemini, ends soon.  Squares are the toughest of all bad sun sign aspects to overcome.  Relationships don’t live and die on sun-sign compatibility, but they don’t thrive because of these tense aspects, either.

I guess we’ll all see if I’m going to have to eat my words in the not-too-distant future.

Benji & Joel Madden

The birthday boys for March 11 are Benji and Joel Madden.

Like the Gemini Olsen twins, the Maddens seem to suit the signature style of their sign.  I don’t expect Pisces natives to follow the rules of fashion whatsoever; nothing a Pisces individual does surprises me.  However, it is surprising that there are two of them.  Pisces is the only sign beside Gemini represented by a dual symbol: two fish swimming in opposite directions, joined by a cord.  Here’s a rather wordy, yet perceptive explanation of the two-fish symbol:

The dualism implicit in [Pisces'] symbolism is a weakening principle, because the fishes strain against each other rather than support each other’s motion.  This adds an element of vacillation to the way a Piscean thinks and acts, but it also suggests the ability to receive influences from multiple sources which, whilst tending to undermine self-will, gives the capacity for rounded awareness and instinctive understanding of how gain in one area results from loss in another.  (source)

“The ability to receive influences from multiple sources” is one of the qualities that defines this sign.  I’ve always claimed that Pisces style is “in the mix.”  The Maddens mix hard-core elements with more nostaligic items to achieve a look that brings the counter-culture to the mainstream without the deliberate political posturing of a sign like Sagittarius or the ego-driven attention seeking of Aries.

There is an authenticity to the innate dualism of Pisces because — as the passage above indicates — they possess a “rounded awareness and instinctive understanding” of who they are.  It’s second nature for them to be themselves by wearing whatever they want and mixing without matching.  Matching would require a commitment to the notion of fashion itself that counteracts the “vacillation” that defines this sign.

Seal

The birthday boy for February 19 is Seal.

I was surprised as anyone else when Seal and Heidi Klum announced their separation.  However, I don’t believe that I had ever looked up Seal’s zodiac sign before.  Now that I know he’s a Pisces, the breakup makes a little more sense.

Klum is a Gemini.  The zodiac only has two signs represented by a “dual” symbol, and both of those signs can seem rather schizophrenic at times.  Although their marriage appeared ideal from the outside looking in, it was probably rather crowded with all four personalities vying for attention.  I haven’t looked elsewhere in their natal charts to see if there were other factors involved, but the sun sign match isn’t one I’d recommend.  Still, I hope they get back together.  They keep getting photographed with their wedding rings still on, so maybe there’s hope.

Jimi Hendrix

The birthday boy for November 27 is Jimi Hendrix.

I often say that Sagittarius natives can get away with anything when they get dressed.  The more open-minded they are to the power of fashion, the more likely they are to use fashion to enrich their lives.

Jimi Hendrix died far too soon for anyone like me to make definitive conclusions about his sense of style.  In the three or four years that he was in the public eye, his personal sense of style didn’t really have the chance to evolve beyond the contemporary trends.  As a Sagittarius, he likely would have dabbled in a little of everything if he had lived a little longer.  Yet by dying young, he inadvertantly created an iconic image that will always be associated with him.  Most memorable Sagittarians, however, project an image that goes on to represent the times in which they live.  Geminis also adapt in this manner, but they’re much trendier than Sagittarians.  Looking back, a Sagittarius will be able to say “that’s how we used to dress,” while a Gemini will ask “did we really dress like that?”

On that note, Lenny Kravitz is a Gemini.

Roseanne Barr

The birthday girl for November 3 is Roseanne Barr.

What intrigues me the most about Barr is her changeability; she’s undergone some very notable transformations throughout her career.  The sign of Scorpio is synonymous with the word “transformation,” but Barr takes that word to another level altogether.  For that reason, I decided to look up her natal chart, expecting to see a Gemini moon or rising sign.  Of course, her moon is in Gemini, opposite Mercury in Sagittarius.

What this tells me is that we haven’t seen the last of Barr’s transformations.  She broadens the scope of her career by taking on different personae.  What’s most interesting, however, is her attitude toward those changes.  She doesn’t really care what people think of her and her many incarnations.  The indifference she shows toward the press — even while they’re interviewing her — shows that she’s a Scorpio through and through.

Jason Alexander

The birthday boy for September 23 is Jason Alexander.

There was nothing about George Costanza to remind me that Jason Alexander was a Libra.  His character on “Seinfeld” had to have something more manic about him, so I expected to find either a strong irrational Pisces influence in his chart or a stellium in neurotic Virgo, because there aren’t a lot of sitcom actors who can make a living playing characters so unlike themselves.

Looking at his natal chart, I didn’t find any planets in Virgo besides Pluto.  However, I did discover that Alexander has a Pisces rising.  He also has a Gemini moon which can explain a few more things about the mercurial George Costanza.

In person, Alexander seems calm and rather dignified — just like a Libra native.  Yet he didn’t have to go very far within himself to access the parts of his chart that helped to make him a star.

Charlie Sheen

Today’s birthday boy is Charlie Sheen.

I just looked at Charlie Sheen’s natal chart to compare it to yesterday’s birthday boy, Keanu Reeves.  While Reeves’ chart is well-grounded, Sheen’s is sort of a mutable mess.  The most-pronounced feature in his chart is his Gemini ascendant; it sticks out like a sore thumb.

I like to think of the sign of Gemini as two sides of the same coin.  Yet that coin is spinning around so fast that you can see a little of each side all the time.  It’s never just heads or tails, but both.  To me, that’s Charlie Sheen.  He’s likeable enough to make me understand how he became the highest-paid actor on television, but not likeable enough to make me understand how his career wasn’t over the minute he began to misbehave off-set.  Nevertheless, he’s all Charlie Sheen, all the time.  It’s not like he’s pretending to be anything else.  That’s the Gemini in him.

Elizabeth Berkley

Today’s birthday girl is actress Elizabeth Berkley.

While looking at the bio of Berkley, I was reminded that the actress won the 1995 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in a Motion Picture for her role in “Showgirls.”  Serendipitously, I also discovered that in thirty-one years of giving out the awards, the Razzie has been awarded to a Leo actress ten times.  That statistic becomes even more alarming when it’s noted that in the two years that the Worst Actress Razzie was awarded to an ensemble cast (The Spice Girls for “Spice World“; the cast of “Sex and the City 2“) each group included a Leo (Geri Halliwell and Kim Cattrall, respectively).

To put these stats into perspective, I’ve compiled a list of Razzie winners according to their zodiac signs, not including the aforementioned years when an ensemble cast won the award and including two actresses that tied for the 2002 awards (thirty awards in total):

Aries: Mariah Carey.

Taurus: Pia Zadora (two awards).

Gemini: Brooke Shields.

Cancer: Lindsay Lohan.

Leo: Madonna (five awards); Melanie Griffith; Elizabeth Berkley; Jennifer Lopez, Halle Berry; Sandra Bullock.

Virgo: None.

Libra: Heather Locklear.

Scorpio: Bo Derek (three awards); Sean Young; Demi Moore (two awards); Jenny McCarthy.

Sagittarius: Britney Spears.

Capricorn: Heather Donahue.

Aquarius: Linda Blair; Paris Hilton.

Pisces: Liza Minelli; Sharon Stone (two awards).

So what does all this mean?  It undoubtedly means that Leos make the worst actresses, followed by Scorpios.  Virgos no doubt make the best actresses.  I’d better let Virgo superstar Beyoncé know about this so that she can do us all a favor and stop making awful records while she concentrates on her promising acting career instead.  My sixth sense tells me that there are many, many awards in her future . . .

Meredith Baxter

Today’s birthday girl is Meredith Baxter.  While I was poking around the web today, looking for celebrity birthdays, I realized that Baxter and Michael Gross share the exact same birthday: June 21, 1947.  As the parents on the classic sitcom “Family Ties,” the two actors crafted their characters to appear very well-suited to one another, but perhaps the stars also played a role in their onscreen chemistry.  Unfortunately, I was only able to ascertain that Baxter is a Gemini.  There’s about a one-in-four chance that Gross is a Cancer.

It’s one of those things that’s going to bug me until I know the truth, one way or the other.