Suited & Connected Issue #25

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a Corsican-born French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful military campaigns across Europe from 1796 to 1815.

Napoleon Bonaparte, born Aug. 15, is Jack of Clubs/4Hearts, and his parents (upper left) father Carlo Maria Bonaparte-, born Mar. 27, a 9Clubs/King of Hearts and (upper right0 mother Maria-Letizia Bonaparte,, born Aug. 24, a 2Clubs/King of Clubs. Napoleon’s parents each had a King for their respective astrological ruling cards.

This photo shows Pablo Picasso in 1962. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker ceramcist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped to develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and the anti-war Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Through his painting of ‘Guernica’ in 1937, Picasso expressed courageous opposition to Francisco Franco (Spain), Adolf Hitler (Germany) and Benito Mussolini (Italy) when the three fascists coordinated the bombing of the leftist-held city in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso Guernica featuresgrey, black, and white painting, on a canvas 3.49 meters (11 ft 5 in) tall and 7.76 meters (25 ft 6 in) across. It portrays the suffering wrought by violence and chaos. Prominently featured in the composition are a gored horse, a bull, screaming women, a dead baby, a dismembered soldier, and flames.

(Bottom) Pablo Picasso, born Oct. 25, is a 10 of Hearts/Ace of Hearts, while his father Don José Ruiz y Blasco, born April 12, is a 9Diamond/King of Clubs, and Pablo’s mom, Maria Picasso y Lopez, born June 17, is a King of Clubs/Jack of Diamonds. Pablo’s parents each had a King of Clubs —the father in his astrological ruling card, the mother in her birth card.

Picasso’s ‘Old Guitarist’ (1903). You could say Picasso, born in 1881 and died in 1973, lived to be an ‘old artist’ forever young, inventive and inspiring.

A Mozambique postage stamp depicts the ‘thrilla’ in Manila’ boxing bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

Muhammad Ali, seen here when his name was “Cassius Claym”taunting opponent Sonny Liston, after knocking him to the canvas in the first round of their heavyweight bout in 1965. Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing. He converted to Islam and refused to serve in the Vietnam War, and became an emblem of strength, eloquence, conscience and courage. Ali was an anti-establishment showman who transcended borders and barriers, race and religion. His fights against other men became spectacles, but he embodied much greater battles.

,  (Bottom) Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., was born Jan. 17, a 10Diamonds/5Hearts. (Top left) Father Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., born Nov.11, is a 9Clubs/King of Hearts, and (top right) mother Odessa Gray Clay, was born Feb. 12, a King of Diamonds/6Diamonds. The boxing champ’s parents each had a King among their respective birth and astrological ruling cards.

Michael Douglas is an American actor and film producer. He has received two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.

19 years after his son Michael was born, Kirk Douglas, a handsome A-list actor in 1963, posed for this photo. That same year, Kirk Douglas starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael, who, as a producer, turned it into an Oscar-winning film.

Parents of Michael Douglas (born in 1944) — Diana Douglas with Kirk Douglas — in 1948. They acted together several times, including in a film shot long after their divorce in 1951. Photo credit to Ed Widdis/Associated Press.

Michael Douglas (bottom), born Sept. 25, is the Queen of Hearts/8Diamonds; (upper left) Michael’s father, Kirk Douglas, born ‘Dec. 9, is the 9Clubs/King of Diamonds, and Michael’s mother, Diana Douglas (top right) is 5Diamonds/King of Clubs. Michael’s parents each have a King for their respective astrological ruling card.

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American romantic psychological thriller. It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer.. It follows a married man's one-night stand coming back to haunt him when the scorned mistress begins to stalk him and his family. The film grossed over $320 million worldwide and became the second highest-grossing film of the year in 1987 in the United States.

Wall Street is a 1987 American dram film directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (C. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

The Kominsky Method is an American comedy-drama television series, created by Chuck Lorre that premiered on November 16, 2018, on Netflix and stars Michael Douglas, with Alan Arkin co-starring. The Kominsky Method follows Sandy Kominsky (Douglas), an actor who years ago had a brief fling with success and is now a revered Hollywood acting coach. Arkin plays his agent. This was Arkin’s final TV project, before he passed away in June 2023 at the age of 89.

William Wrigley, Jr., born in 1861, began working for his father in selling soap, and then baking soda. Eventually he’d start selling chewing gum. As baking powder’s popularity used to surpass that of the soap, so did the chewing gum packages offered with every baking powder became more popular than the baking powder itself.

A newspaper ad from 1920 for three types of Wrigley’s gum

Chew on This: William Wrigley, Jr., was born Sept. 30, making him a 7Hearts/5Spades. His father (upper left) William M. Wrigley was born Nov. 11, so he is a 9Clubs/King of Hearts, while his mother Mary Ann Wrigley (upper right), born Dec. 5, is a King of Clubs/2Spades. The chewing gum magnate’s parents each had a King amongst their respective birth and astrological ruling cards.