Tag: music

Astrology Talk Investigate: The Glastonbury Festival

The Glastonbury Festival, the pop music extravaganza held in bucolic south-west England every June is now part of the established summer season, along with the Proms, Glyndebourne and Henley Regatta. It started off as Pilton Festival on Michael Eavis’ farm just outside Glastonbury, Somerset back in 1970. In those days, you got free milk with […]

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Astrology & Music: Aspects in Charts of Musicians

DEGREE INFLUENCES IN MUSICIANS & COMPOSERS Peter Morrell writes: “In summary, from this we can see that any planets in Leo and Aquarius tend to be linked with musical ability, especially the middle and end degrees. We can also see … Rea…

Adele’s Saturn

One thing’s certain about the singer Adele: she likes Saturn. At her one-night only special in Los Angeles the other day, she sported ginormous, dangly Saturn earrings, flashed a tattoo of the ringed planet on her right forearm, and was otherwise clad in black head to foot — that’s Saturn’s colour. Oh and she sang […]

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Adele’s Saturn

One thing’s certain about the singer Adele: she likes Saturn. At her one-night only special in Los Angeles the other day, she sported ginormous, dangly Saturn earrings, flashed a tattoo of the ringed planet on her right forearm, and was otherwise clad in black head to foot — that’s Saturn’s colour. Oh and she sang […]

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Music: Venus and Her Tastes

My daughter was a teenager. Try as I might, I just didn’t like the music she was listening to in the era. I thought I could and should love whatever (and whoever) my kids loved but as it turned out, … Read More…

Mercury Opposite Pluto: Suspicious Minds

Mercury is opposing Pluto in Capricorn.  Pluto is conjunct my ascendant making this personal to me. I thought I should say something but I’ve resisted doing to. That’s an example of this energy right there. Pluto withholds! I’ve had s…

How The Media Programs Your Life

We’re slowing becoming aware of the media’s power to program our lives via music, films, memes, pictures, ads, gaming, etc.  How hard is it buck this system? I’ve been wondering this. Over the years, I’ve mentioned the profound …

Oh The Magnficence: Scott Walker

I sometimes feel I need to shake myself like a wet dog after listening to Scott Walker, and, maybe, watch the droplets turn into glorious rainbows, transform into hummingbirds. Two lines into a Scott Walker song and you are immersed, taken into another, magical dimension. His perfect diction, histrionic delivery and psychedelic imagery are somehow “drenching” — that is the word that occurs to me. Scott Walker’s work is both unashamedly intellectual and emotional at the same time. His art is profoundly cathartic — a gift to the listener. He passed yesterday, but he sang songs about this moment a long […]

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