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Ron Howard

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Ron Howard astrology chart

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Birth Data

Birth Date: 3/1/1954 (Mar. 1, 1954)
Birth Time: 09:03 (9:03 AM) CST (+6:00)
Birth Place: Duncan, OK
Latitude / Longitude: 34 N 30 / 97 W 57
Rodden Rating / Source: AA / Quoted BC/BR
Source Notes: Contemporary American Horoscopes.
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Interpretive Reports

I was curious to see if computer reports would pick up Ron Howard’s wholesomeness. Here’s what I found:

Cosmic Patterns - Merlin
This is from the Merlin report.

Aries rising: You meet life head on and throw yourself into new experiences with zest and enthusiasm. You are direct, straightforward, assertive, and usually completely aboveboard in all your dealings. Candid and incapable of guile, insincerity or phoniness, you project a confident and sometimes arrogant appearance to others. You often lack tact and sensitivity, and can be completely oblivious to others' needs, and inadvertently selfish. You are self-reliant and don't depend upon social approval and reinforcement as much as other people do. You like to be original and do not mind going it alone. You may feel that you do not fit into groups very well, and that you do not naturally blend in and cooperate with others very easily. You like to be either a leader or a loner.

You are a doer and thrive on freedom, challenge, and activity. You tend to think in clear, black and white terms, and to be somewhat simplistic in your outlook, which enables you to act in a very decisive and self-assured manner. When inspired with an idea, you feel such a sense of urgency and excitement about it that you will often charge ahead and try to implement it in a rather bold but poorly planned and crudely executed way. Patience and careful attention to details are not your forte. However, you never accept defeat and will have brilliant and unprecedented successes and discoveries, as well as painful failures. To you it is far better to make mistakes than it is to play it safe and never try.

Aries rising and Sun in Pisces: Although you strive for honesty and candor, as described in the previous chapter, you are really very nonaggressive and kind, as discussed below. You often feel a great chasm between your idealism and the harsh realities that often require confrontation and sometimes conflict. However, you have a gift for being able to stand up by yourself with integrity, but without malice or vindictiveness. Your strength combined with your compassion can make you a leader who is deeply sensitive to the needs of others.

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Cosmic Patterns - Indra
This is from the Indra report.

Aries Rising: You have a very direct manner for dealing with others. You wish people would be able deal with you in a very direct way. Others come into your life in very diplomatic ways because you are so direct that it is hard for you to connect with others who are not prepared to do it all your way. You have abundant energy and accomplish much by acting on impulse. You throw yourself into activity but don't always have the patience or energy to finish your projects. Your natural environment is one where the work is completed swiftly. You like to move on to the new and pioneering side of a project and seldom are interested in sitting still for the rewards. You gain pleasure through movement: physical, emotional and mental. People are attracted to your spark of enthusiasm and your genuine and direct mannerisms. Relationships tend to stay simple with you because none are at loss to discover where they stand with you

Neptune Opposition the Ascendant and in the 7th House and unafflicted: You are always looking for a transcendent ideal in other people. There is a deeply inspirational quality in you and when you are accessing this quality directly in yourself, you stop being disappointed with others. The gentle side of your nature, the giving side of your personality expresses itself most directly when you are in love or have a job that gives full expression to your desire to be of service.

Sun in Pisces: You are the most sympathetic and self-sacrificing of souls. You have a good imagination and good receptivity to others. You have a poetic otherworldliness which can come out in some creative or idealistic channel. You have a deep, emotional understanding of others and a real will to serve. You need to be careful that you aren't so suggestible that you fall into self-pitying and avoidance behavior. Try to develop concentration and discipline without losing your easygoing demeanor. Once you are determined to reach a goal, your faith in life, the universe and yourself can give you the strength of character to renounce anything that gets in the way.

Sun Conjunct Venus: You have a magnetic charm to which people are naturally attracted. People like you. Your inner knowledge of people aids greatly in getting along with others. Because you have a second sense for what to say to people, you need to guard against mere people-pleasing, which can reduce your diplomatic skills to some form of self-seeking manipulation. You are aesthetic and have a certain inclination toward all that is beautiful. You were thought of as a cute child; if your interests in self refinement are cultivated in your adult years, you become a truly beautiful person.

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Here are two other reports to compare:
Astrolabe – Professional Natal Report
Matrix - The Sky Within

Computer produced reports are more accurate than you think.

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Biography

American child actor and adult film director, writer and producer. Howard was named Best Director by the Director’s Guild of America for his work on Apollo 13. It has grossed over $335,000,000 worldwide and was nominated for nine Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards; winning two Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound. Additionally, Apollo 13 was chosen Favorite Motion Picture and Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture by the People’s Choice Awards, Best Picture by the Chicago Film Critics Awards and Best Cast and Best Supporting Actor (Ed Harris) by the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

From an acting family in the traditional sense, his dad Rance, an actor, director and writer, always knew his son Ron would be an actor as well. Ron's mom, Jean, an actress, said he was born with a four-leaf clover behind his ear. His younger brother Clint has appeared with him in front of and behind the camera. Howard's first time on film was at the age of 18 months, but his part in "Frontier Woman" in 1956 was not credited. He was age two when his dad directed a summer stock production of "The Seven Year Itch" at the Hilltop Theater in Baltimore and he began to mimic the actors. Playing the game with his dad was fun for the Norman Rockwell-looking blue eyed, freckled, red headed kid. Acting in earnest started with TV's "Playhouse 90" and "General Electric Theater" when he was five. His dad always prepared him and he never blew his lines.

A down to earth person from a very stable family background, Howard went to public school and was always given the opportunity to turn down work if he was not enjoying it. His life was more normal than most Hollywood kids as his parents had a clause put into his contracts that he did not have to do publicity tours. The "Andy Griffith Show" debuted on 10/3/1960 with little Ronnie Howard as the adorable, popular tyke, Opie Taylor. During the first year of filming when he got cranky during a scene, his dad picked him up, spanked him and told him people were trying to work and he needed to be responsible. Later Ron learned that the relationship on the show between Griffith and him was based on his own relationship with his dad. He still winces when someone shouts, "Hey, Opie."

In 1962 he played the younger brother of Marion the librarian in the movie "The Music Man." He noted in 1966 that his two heroes, pitchers Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax of the LA Dodgers, held out for contracts worth $100,000 each and he was also going to make that much the same year. In 1973, Howard became a bona fide star with the success of the movie "American Graffiti."

Ron's next important role was the affable Richie Cunningham on ABC's "Happy Days" which debuted 1/15/1974. Within the first month they had a 30% viewing share. During the 1975-76 season, Henry Winkler as Arthur Fonzarelli took the spotlight. Howard and Winkler were not competitive; both worked for the good of the show and they remain friends today. The title role in "Huckleberry Finn" on 5/25/1975 allowed Howard to work with his entire family.

He attended John Burroughs High School in Burbank, CA and took off work for nine months one year when he made the "B" basketball team. This allowed him to go on road games with them. He graduated in 1972. Howard then enrolled in the University of Southern California's cinema arts department but quit as he thought he could learn more from actual experience.

Howard's behind the camera work started when he was 15. He won a national Kodak Film Contest with a Super 8mm film he had shot. In 1976 he made "Eat My Dust" for Roger Corman in exchange for the chance to become one of the youngest directors in Hollywood history. At 24, Howard surprised everyone when he made "Grand Theft Auto" in 1977, completing the film in four weeks on a budget of $602,000. The film made $15 million. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting role in 1977 for "The Shootist," starring John Wayne. Howard stopped acting when he started losing his hair at age 26. Now he is seldom seen without a hat.

He regards what he does simply as a job, not a craft or art. He has made several films that have been nominated for various awards and they have taken him onto the second tier of powerful directors alongside Clint Eastwood, Robert Zemeckis and Francis Ford Coppola. His films have been very popular and high grossing. He has always retained his squeaky clean, wholesome image and feels that life has been very good to him. Smart, funny, introspective and ambitious, he is a non-threatening person when he is in control, and a fine collaborator with no ego problems. With a down to earth attitude and extraordinary stability, he never takes success for granted and has a good working relationship with others. In a competitive business he knows you sometimes have to be tough, you can't be thin-skinned or a wimp, and sometime you have to hurt people's feelings. He doesn't see himself as a religious person, but he does believe in a power or a God pulling strings behind the scenes. He likes codes of conduct, rules and philosophy. Ron Howard Productions on the 20th Century Fox lot holds his sparsely furnished office that is half as large as the reception area. One of his favorite toys, a full size video game, is there to help release tension.

After his "Apollo 13" was so successful in 1996, he shared an Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries in 1998 for "From the Earth to the Moon."

Married life seems to agree with Howard as he and his high school sweetheart, Cheryl Alley, were wed on 6/07/1975 and remain in a loving relationship. Cheryl has appeared in most of her husband’s films in non-speaking roles. They moved from the San Fernando Valley in California, where they had lived all their lives, to Connecticut with their four children, Bryce Dallas born in 1981, twin girls Paige Carlyle and Jocelyn Carlyle in 1985 and son Reed in 1987, all redheaded. They also keep a house in California. The family love to go on car trips and watch movies together twice a week.

In 2001, Howard outdid himself with the winning film, “A Beautiful Mind.” It told the story of mathematician John Forbes Nash (born 6/13/1928, Bluefield, WV), portrayed by New Zealand actor Russell Crowe (born 4/07/1964). Ron claims that he is a “recovering workaholic” who is now trying to give himself more downtime.

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What Do You Think?

Are you ready for some “Happy Days”?

  1. My first question revolves around his ability to project such an unadulterated wholesome image. For many of us he still looks like Opie or Richie Cunningham despite the hair loss (Have you ever noticed that he in every interview he is always wearing a baseball cap?). The movies he plays, directs and produces all have a sincerity and humanity that makes us feel good about the world. He even married his high school sweetheart. It’s not a projection. He’s the real deal. What is it his chart that makes Ron Howard an icon of dependably wholesome character?
  2. Ron calls himself a “recovering workaholic.” Indeed his first acting role was at 18 months. He worked all through childhood except one year when he took off to play high school basketball. His life is swimming with projects. What makes his the chart of a hard worker and child actor?
  3. Ron Howard has five retrograde planets. What do you think this means? Astrological tradition claims that retrograde planets indicate delay in that area of a person’s life. Lois Rodden finds that retrograde planets manifest early in the life, after which the person draws back from the matters symbolized by that planet until they are ready to pick it up again on the level of a conscious adult.

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