Celeb Birthdays: May 12-13

• May 12

Actor Malcolm David Kelley (Lost) is 15. See Malcolm David Kelley's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actress Emily VanCamp (Everwood) is 21. See Emily VanCamp's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

As regular readers know, I hate to validate the "celebrity" status of reality TV personalities; however, because she seems to be ubiquitous, I grudgingly concede that Cheryl Burke (Dancing With the Stars) is 23.

Actor Jason Biggs (American Pie) is 29. See Jason Biggs's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Mackenzie Astin, a.k.a. the annoying kid from The Facts of Life who appeared at the same time as the mulleted George Clooney, is 34, while his co-star Kim Fields, a.k.a. Tootie, is 38. See Mackenzie Astin's birth chart (Astrotheme) ~ See Kim Fields' birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actress Jamie Luner (Melrose Place: The Sucky Years) is 36. See Jamie Luner's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actress Samantha Mathis is 37. Seriously, whatever happened to her? See Samantha Mathis' birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Near the bottom of the Baldwin food chain (it's a tough call between him and Billy), self-proclaimed actor Stephen Baldwin is 41. See Stephen Baldwin's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actor Emilio Estevez is 44. See Emilio Estevez's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall is 46.

Actor Ving Rhames is 48. See Ving Rhames' birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actor-director Gabriel Byrne, actor Bruce Boxleitner and rocker Billy Squier share a 57th birthday today. See Gabriel Byrne's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time) ~ See Bruce Boxleitner's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Buffy birthday, woot woot! Lindsay Crouse, a.k.a. evil Dr. Maggie Walsh from Season 4, turns 59 today. See Lindsay Crouse's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Traffic rocker Steve Winwood also turns 59 today. See Steve Winwood's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Actress Linda Dano (Another World) is 64.

Cantankerous comedian George Carlin hits 70 today, which ironically might mean that his cantankerousness will cease to seem edgy and subversive and merely become age-appropriate. See George Carlin's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Cheesetastic songwriter Burt Bacharach is 79. See Burt Bacharach's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Malapropping catcher Yogi Berra, who is evidently still alive (although I really fear I missed a memo on this one), is, if indeed he is still alive, 82 today. See Yogi Berra's birth chart (Astrotheme)

• May 13

Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown) hits 30 today. See Samantha Morton's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Darius Rucker, a.k.a. Hootie, is 40.

A great American hero, Stephen Colbert, Taurus for Truthiness, turns 43 today. See Stephen Colbert's birth chart (Exclsive to CelebAstroBlogy, no birth time) ~ Read CelebAstroBlogy's analysis of Stephen Colbert's horoscope

NBA star Dennis Rodman of, aptly enough, the Bulls is 46. See Dennis Rodman's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Actress-comedienne Siobhan Fallon also turns 46 today.

Boddhisatva Stevie Wonder is 57. See Stevie Wonder's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Author Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) is 63.

Badass actor Harvey Keitel is 68. See Harvey Keitel's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Sweet Valley High creator Francine Pascal is 69 today.

Birth dates from IMDB.com and/or Wikipedia. Please email me any corrections, additions or—especially appreciated!—exact birth times.

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Stephen Colbert, Taurus for Truthiness

As I was assembling celebrities for yesterday's birthday post, I saw that Stephen Colbert's chart was not available online and immediately decided that its absense was a disservice to America. Anyone with the cojones to stay in character satirizing the right wing with Bush eight feet to his right must have a pretty badass set of planets. So what is it that makes Colbert such a tireless soldier of truthiness?

See Stephen Colbert's birth chart - Exclusive to Media-Darling.com (sunrise chart, no birth time)

Stephen has Mercury, Mars and Jupiter conjunct in Taurus, with the Sun also in Taurus, which explains his bulldog-like tenacity and obstinacy. Taurus also rules values and morals, and however ironic his onscreen personality may be, he really does have strong and passionate beliefs that, with that Taurus stellium (huddle of planets), he can get pretty darn fired up about.

His Moon in split-personality Gemini, a sign also known for being verbal and witty, is an apt description of the way Stephen Colbert exists as two separate entities: his Colbert Report "character" and his genuine offscreen personality.

Another aspect worth noting in Stephen's natal horoscope is that Venus, ruler of all his Taurus planets, is very closely conjunct the North Node in Cancer. This reinforces the idea of a strong moral fiber, even a sense of being on a noble mission, as the North Node is strongly associated with one's positive karmic growth path. Stephen may be tongue-in-cheek about championing "truthiness," but he is seriously committed to speaking truth to power.

The chart shown here is a sunrise chart giving him a default Taurus Ascendant, but if I were to speculate about Stephen's rising sign, my first guess would be Virgo rising, which would describe his buttoned-up appearance and his acerbic, often critical personality. A Virgo Ascendant would also place his Uranus-Pluto conjunction in the first house, foregrounding in Stephen's personality the aspect that caused a generation to rebel against the status quo. (Uranus and Pluto joined forces in the mid-to-late 1960s to foment protest and progressive changes.) Uranus is opposed by Saturn, contributing to the tendency to challenge authority.

A chart for 2:00 PM EDT would put Uranus directly on his Ascendant and place the Taurus stellium in the 9th house, his Moon in the 10th. I could see the 9th/10th house influence fitting with his strong interest in political, international and religious issues and his delivery of some of the more intellectually sophisticated discourse on TV.

Happy Colberthday, Stephen! Keep on sticking it to The Man!

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