May CeleBaby RoundUp Featuring Story Goldberg

Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster, Sabrina the Teenage Witch) says her family is complete after she and her husband Jason Goldberg welcomed their fourth child on May 16th. “We started with our Poet and now our Story feels complete,” says the mom of four: Poet Sienna, Jagger Joseph Blue, Lyric Sonny Roads, and now Story!

With three planets in gentle Taurus and both his moon and Ascendant in graceful Libra, Story will certainly be the family's sweetheart! Taurus children tend to have a down-to-earth, peaceful and comfortable way about them that others find easy to be around, and with his Libra moon and rising, he'll get along easily with others, always finding a way to fit wherever he is and whomever he is with.

Libra is known as the peacemaker because it prefers harmony and excels at getting others to work together. Story will have this talent in spades especially because Venus is the strongest planet in his chart. Venus (planet of relating) is in one of its two home signs, Taurus, and in the 7th house of relationship. Not only that, but it rules his chart as Libra, Venus' other home sign, is Story's rising sign so it rules his chart. With Mercury retrograde in laid-back and often quiet Taurus, however, Story may not have many stories to tell but he'll certainly by the sweet happy ending to this family!

Mlle. Kiddie also congratulates these "star" parents on their bundles of joy:

• Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Shrek) welcomed baby girl Izzy Oona on May 3rd with girlfriend Paige Butcher.
• Nadia Bjorlin (Days of Our Lives) and husband Grant Turnbull welcomed their first child, baby boy Torin Mathias, at 7:03 am on May 4th.
• Costars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys (The Americans) are now coparents as well!  They welcomed their first child together in May.

• Ashley Jones (Bold and the Beautiful) and Joel Henricks welcomed their son Hayden Joel on May 24th at 7:06 pm.
• Marisa Ramirez (Blue Bloods) welcomed Violet Rae on May 29th.
• Sally and Ronnie Wood (guitarist for the Rolling Stones) welcomed twin daughters, Gracie Jane and Alice Rose on May 30th at 10:30 pm.
• Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) and his wife Sheila Hafsadi welcomed their second child on May 31st at 8:38 am, daughter Presley Bowie.
• Jena Malone (Hunger Games) and Ethan DeLorenzo welcomed a baby over the last weekend of May, son Ode Mountain.

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Image of Soleil Moon Frye by Nan Palmero from San Antonio, TX, USA - Soleil Moon Frye, CC BY 2.0

January CeleBaby RoundUp Featuring Florence May King

Candice Accola King

Candice Accola King (The Vampire Diaries) welcomed her first child, Capricorn daughter Florence May, with her husband Joe on Friday, January 15, 2016.

Florence has the Sun, Mercury, and Pluto all in Capricorn, so she may tend to be serious-minded and thinks carefully about what she is going to say and how she wants to say it before she expresses her opinions and ideas. Also, Mercury is in retrograde motion in her chart, which means that when Florence was born, Mercury appeared to be moving backward in its orbit through the sky. 

Of course, the planets don't change directions. We view the sky and its heavenly bodies from earth and we're orbiting the sun just like the other planets are so sometimes it looks like we're overtaking another planet on the solar system freeway. That can give us the visual impression that the planet we overtake is actually moving backward, when in fact, we're passing it as we both travel in our own orbit "lanes" around the sun.

Mercury represents our mind and our voice - how we think and how we communicate - and the sign it's in can describe the style in which we do that. When Mercury (or any planet) is retrograde, it expresses its symbolism in a chart a little differently than usual. If can often seem like it takes more time to mentally process what one thinks or wants to say. This isn't due to lack of intelligence or any serious setbacks necessarily--it can often simply be that this person thinks things through longer. 

Florence's Mercury is in a square to the planet Uranus in the impulsive and straightforward sign of Aries, which is also her moon sign. This can change Mercury's tune a little bit since Uranus in Aries tends to bring sudden bursts of energy - so watch out! When Florence is ready to be heard, she'll shout it from the rooftops!

Mlle. Kiddie also congratulates these Hollywood parents who welcomed new family members in January:

• Shannan Click and Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) welcomed their second child, a Capricorn son named Cypress Night Huston in mid-January.
• Louis Tomlinson (One Direction) and Briana Jungwirth had their first baby, an Aquarius son named Freddie Reign, on January 21st.


• Singer Michael Bublé and wife Luisana Lopilato welcomed their second baby, an Aquarius son named Elias, on January 22nd.
• Tyra Banks and her boyfriend Erik Asla welcomed a baby via gestational surrogate, an Aquarius (or Capricorn!?) son named York. Tyra announced the birth on January 27th.

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Since there is no birth time published for Florence, a noon chart has been used. However, an exact birth time must be known to calculate the houses and ascendant in a natal chart, so only planets in signs have been discussed.

Image of Candice Accola King By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0

Virgo Charlotte Grace Loves Books

At 19 months, Virgo Charlotte Grace (Freddie Prinze Jr. & Sarah Michelle Gellar) is already an avid lover of books, no doubt thanks to the entire family as mom, dad, and grandma read to her several times a day.

Charlotte has Mercury, the planet of the mind and learning, in Virgo, very close to the Sun (also in Virgo). Mercury is never terribly far away from the Sun, but when it's in a close conjunction, it indicates someone who identifies (Sun) with the planet Mercury and all that it represents. This can show up in various ways, depending on the sign, as someone who is highly verbal, intellectual, creative, analytical -- the list goes on and on. In Virgo, the mental capacity for taking in information and analyzing it will be strong in Charlotte.


Her Mercury is also retrograde, which means she was born when Mercury, because of its position in the sky in relation to Earth, appeared to be moving backward through the zodiac, instead of forward. When planets are retrograde, they tend to draw the energy inward, rather than outward. With this 'yin' Mercury, it's likely that Charlotte will be more soft-spoken, thoughtful, and developing more of an internal awareness of things and imagination. She is no doubt already highly observant, noting and remembering everything around her. With serious Saturn also close to this combination, her reading skills and interest may very well transfer to strong study skills and high intelligence.

Wonder when she'll get around to reading Charlotte's Web?

*Charlotte's birth time is not known. The chart shown is known as a sunrise, or solar, chart.