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In the Key of Pisces: Léo Delibes

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No matter how many times you hear the Flower Duet from Lakmé — and how often it’s used to sell airlines, cars or shampoo — the song still weaves a magic spell. It is so very lovely. And composer Leo Delibes’ chart is something of a magical net too, with a beautiful Grand Trine in water, rescued from mere ease by a perfect T-square with Neptune, the composer’s planet on its apex. Of course, he wrote many other works. He was tremendously prolific but this is the one. Here are two Cardinals, “La Stupenda” Joan Sutherland (Libra) and the Marilyn Horne (Capricorn) giving […]

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In the Key of Pisces: Astor Piazzolla

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Thanks to Rachel for suggesting Astor Piazzolla, the late great Argentinian maestro of tango. Loss, plangent longing, melancholy love — so romantic — that’s one side of Piazolla’s work. Uncompromisingly avant-garde, experimental and cutting edge — there’s an utterly different side too. Piazzolla was a composer and multi-intrumentalist, but the sound he’s most associated with is that of the bandoneon — a kind of accordion that’s essential to the distinctive tango sound. Interestingly, like James Taylor, he has a powerful Mercury-Uranus contact, and again he has incredible speed and dexterity.  But his musical choices are also so daring, so revolutionary. He mixes jazz […]

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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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PROGRESSIONS ONE Begins the week of March 7th

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  Progressions One Begins the Week of March 7th I am going to be honest with you.  I don’t know how any astrologer can consciously give counsel without using the progressed chart.  Without knowledge of progressions, the progressed chart may be a bit of a mystery.  If I was born with my Ascendant in Leo, […]

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Pisces Musicians: Kurt Cobain and Randy California

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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 Musicians: Seal

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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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Progressions One Up Next

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  Hi Folks, Just letting all those who inquired know that Progressions One will be up next, beginning in March.  Details will follow.  If you would like your name put on the list, email me at alcuin9@gmail.com. Thanks.

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