Author: Christina

In the Key of Pisces: Kiri Te Kanawa Sings Villa-Lobos, Segovia Plays & A Bonus

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I think we’re beginning to get a feeling for the weaving, watery, complex Piscean sound. The work of Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5), probably Latin America’s most famous 20th century composer, exemplifies this in many works. Many of his compositions are so woven into the soundtracks of our lives that you may know them without knowing you know them. These are subtle, beautiful, melodious, haunting, limpid. Villa-Lobos has the classic composer’s signature, Neptune Rising. The Piscean planet are pulled forward and put to work by Venus and Mercury in Aries. Kiri Te Kanawa (March 6) will make your hair stand on end with this […]

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In the Key of Pisces: Tre Italiani

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Thanks to my friend and reader, Sabrina, for pointing out that the late-lamented Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla was born on March 4, 1943. He has a solo Sun in Pisces with other planets extraordinarily evenly spread through his chart. Sun does make a lovely trine to Jupiter in sentimental nostalgic Cancer. Here he is singing about Enrico Caruso, perhaps the greatest Italian tenor before Pavarotti — and another Pisces, born on February 25, 1873. But I had another Italian popster lined up for this day too. Umberto Tozzi, who is most famous outside Italy for this huge euro-hit of the 1980s, which […]

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In the Key of Pisces: Miriam Makeba

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Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba. Born on March 4, 1932. Makeba, along with her husband Hugh Masakela, was one of the most prominent artistic exiles from South Africa during the apartheid era. Although South Africa revoked her passport, 10 other countries stepped in to offer her citizenship. So she was truly a citizen of the world. She finally returned to South Africa – after three decades in exile – when Nelson Mandela was released. Sun, Mercury and Mars in Pisces. The action planet in the sign of feet and music often makes for a smooth dancer. Makeba’s music is certainly irresistibly dancey. […]

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In the Key of Pisces: Chris Martin

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“I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?” said Pisces singer-songwriter and Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin. There you have it. The sound of Coldplay has woven its way into the fabric of the past decade and a half — and it’s the words of Chris Martin we’re hearing. He is the band’s main songsmith, and it’s no wonder, he has Virgo Rising — a real wordsmith ascendant — so Mercury in Pisces rules this chart. Mercury is at 0° Pisces, which gives it an extra dose of dreamy poetry. […]

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In the Key of Pisces: Bedrich Smetana

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This first fortnight of March is composers’ week. Yesterday was Chopin’s birthday; today the “father of Czech music”, Bedrich Smetana, was born in 1824. Smetana was a Czech patriot and one of the generation that rose up against the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Revolutions of 1848. The musicologist Rosa Newmarch says Smetana’s three influences were “nationalism, realism and romanticism”. And his chart reflects this assertion beautifully. Smetana was born with the Jupiter-Neptune oppostion — quite helpful for a musician. Jupiter is in tribal Cancer; Neptune is in realistic Capricorn. Together they rule his Sun and Moon in romantic Pisces. On the morning of October […]

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In The Key Of Pisces: Chopin

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Beauty, mystery, melancholy, passion, melody: let Chopin’s music take you into a wordless place. There is some dispute about his birthday, but I am sure it is today, March 1. Of course, his work endures for all time and all cultures — Neptune conjunct Saturn. His music makes private emotion universal.  The depth and beauty of emotion: Pluto, Sun Venus in Pisces on the Descendant. The skill? Virgo Rising, Moon in Capricorn. This month Saturn is on Chopin’s natal Saturn, and the eclipse with all its crazy energy is across his Ascendant/Descendant axis. Let his music help you through the […]

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In The Key Of Pisces: Johnny Cash and Erykah Badu

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Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash. Pisces Rising, Pisces Sun-Mercury-Mars opposite Neptune in Virgo. It was all about the music. The drink nearly killed him. Love saved him. He hurt. Oh and that black shirt? Moon in Scorpio — so deep and yet so simple. Born February 26, 1932. Erykah Badu — much much more than a soul singer:  creator of dreams, excavator of African-American spirituality. No birth time for her, but possibly Moon in Pisces and definitely Sun-Mercury in Pisces squaring a super-philosophical conjunction of Neptune and Jupiter in Sagittarius. No wonder her first album was called […]

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In The Key Of Pisces: Abida Parveen

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So far, we’ve been looking at a musician (or two) for the correct day of the Pisces, but today we’ll digress a little. Yesterday’s musician, George Harrison, is credited with popularising Indian music in the West. One of his most beautiful compositions My Sweet Lord, is a musical and religious blend of East and West. The song weaves together the words hallelujah, my sweet lord, hare Krishna in a way that’s reminiscent of a South Asian devotional song. This set me thinking about certain musical styles which seem Piscean — a kind of repetitive, loose, weaving sound — and classical Indian music […]

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