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Barbara Castle is a politician, journalist, diarist (United Kingdom).
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, (née Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history. Regarded as one of the most significant Labour Party politicians, Castle developed a close political partnership with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and held several roles in the Cabinet. She remains to date the only woman to have held the office of First Secretary of State. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Castle worked as a journalist for both Tribune and the Daily Mirror, before being elected to Parliament as MP for Blackburn at the 1945 election. During the Attlee government, she was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Stafford Cripps, and later to Harold Wilson, marking the beginning of their partnership.
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| Born | 6 October 1910 |
| Profession | politician, journalist, diarist |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Educated at | St Hugh's College, Bradford Girls' Grammar School |
| Spouse | Edward Castle |
| Awards | Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Libra |
| Nakshatra | Vishakha (Pada 2) |
| Sun Sign | Virgo |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Sagittarius |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 385 politicians with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 32 of them (8%) have the Moon in Libra, like Barbara Castle, and 7 (2%) share the Vishakha Nakshatra — the #26 most common Moon Nakshatra among politicians, where Uttara Bhadrapada leads with 25 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Barbara Castle was born on 6 October 1910. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Barbara Castle's Moon sign (Rashi) is Libra and the Nakshatra is Vishakha, pada 2, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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