My esteemed Australian colleague, astrologer and author Jo Tracey, who writes a great blog, interviewed me for her Catching Stars feature this month. If you’re interested in finding out more about what makes this site tick, head over there and read it.
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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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Today’s musician: George Harrison, the most sensitive Beatle, the one who found God and made a garden — for more on his astrology, click here. He was born either on February 24 or 25, give or take half an hour. But the 24th gives him a Rising Moon. Harrison’s only planet in Pisces is his Sun. What’s remarkable about his chart is the beautiful patterns of the aspects between the planets. As the youngest Beatle, Harrison didn’t get a chance to flex his songwriting muscle as much as he might have done. But when he did, he made this.
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Imagine a time when the Thames was the busiest highway in London, and the king’s barge a most glorious water-borne rolls-royce of golden curlicues. What could be a lovelier accompaniment to a balmy summer evening bobbing along the river than music wafting across the water. King George I commissioned the most fashionable composer in London, George Friedrich Handel, to write just such a piece. The Water Music premiered on July 7, 1717 at around 8pm. It was a hit. The king asked for the suites to be played repeatedly on the trip from Whitehall to Chelsea and back again. Handel is, of course, much […]
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We are already into the energy of the eclipse on March 9. As soon as the Sun moved into Pisces, you may have felt it in your “waters”. Something big is giving way. It may feel like ice breaking under your feet as you crunch over a puddle that could turn out to be a well, or it may be a building tidal wave of emotion. This looks like an important eclipse — even if it’s not visible from where you are. Just to clarify. Mercury, Neptune, Ceres, Sun, Moon and Chiron in Pisces oppose Jupiter in Virgo (the eclipse is lop-sided […]
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English singer-songwriter James Blunt must have been eating Neptune crackers when he made this unbelievably Piscean video for his huge hit You’re Beautiful. He’s soaking wet for most of the performance, his shoes seem to play a central role and it ends with a dip in the ocean. He was born on February 22, 1974 with — New Moon in Pisces conjunct Mercury. When this single was released in 2005, Uranus, the awakener, and Mars had just sailed over Blunt’s Pisces planets.
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Nina Simone — singer, composer and activist — was born on February 21, 1933 in North Carolina. She has Moon in Capricorn — a singer’s placement (read more on this here), Sun, North Node, Mercury and the Part of Fortune in Pisces in the first house of self and cusp of second house of talent. Simone truly was extraordinarily gifted: her piano-playing alone is brilliant. But add to that a composer’s understanding of the mechanics of music, an unforgettable voice, and the emotional truth of Moon-Pluto, and you get genius. I went to see her a long time ago at the […]
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Kurt Cobain, lead singer and songwriter for the group Nirvana, probably doesn’t need much introduction. He died at 27 from a heroin overdose after making some of the most angst ridden, crazy, intense music of the late 20th century. How many Pisces things in that paragraph? Nirvana, crazy and overdose… His Sun is at 1° Pisces, since he was born on February 20th. But his Mercury, Venus and Saturn are at the other end of Pisces, opposite his generation’s angry Uranus-Pluto conjunction in Virgo. Here he is. I had to include the lead singer of Spirit, Randy California, also born on February […]
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Pisces, ruled as it is by Neptune, the planet of pure music, is a sign stuffed full of singers, composers, songwriters and probably maraca players and backing singers too. Starting today, I’ll try and find a Pisces for each day of this sign this year and see if we can hear a silvery fishy sound threading through. With Pisces you don’t necessarily get the big voices of Capricorn, or the mellow sounds of Taurus, or the precise wordsmithing of Virgo or Gemini. What you get is a feeling — sometimes quite a vague one, and sometimes overwhelming, as you’ll hear later […]
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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” Mercury and Sun in Aquarius It’s Toni Morrison‘s birthday today. She’ll be 85. The Nobel Prize-winning author (Mercury in Aquarius conjunct MC) and teacher (Saturn-Venus in the 9th) has Aquarius Sun, Pisces Moon, Taurus Rising, Saturn in Capricorn. She’s got staying power. “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” Pisces Moon opposite Neptune in Virgo, Jupiter in Cancer “At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” […]
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