Tag: music

Pisces Musicians: Handel

by Christina • February 23, 2016

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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Pisces Musicians: James Blunt

by Christina • February 22, 2016

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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Pisces Musicians: Nina Simone, Gifted and Black

by Christina • February 21, 2016

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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Pisces Musicians: Seal

by Christina • February 19, 2016

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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Music To Set The Mood For Love

by Christina • February 14, 2016

Love songs for Valentine’s Day — these have passed the test of time. The singers are chosen by sun sign, naturally. Happy Valentine’s Day. Aries Sarah Vaughn: Aries Taurus Ella Fitzgerald: Taurus Gemini Brian Wilson, Gemini Cancer The Wannadies’ lead singer Par Wiksten is a Cancer Leo Isaac Hayes, Black Moses — all Leo Virgo All the Virgo angst in one package: Van Morrison Libra John Lennon, Libra Scorpio Diana Krall gives this song the full Scorpio intensity. Sagittarius Frank Sinatra, Sagittarius Capricorn David Bowie — Capricorn, of course. Aquarius Juliette Greco, Aquarius Pisces Nina Simone, Pisces […]

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Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll

by Christina • January 16, 2016

How appropriate in a week when we are playing Bowie back to back with Motorhead. The Oxford Astrology Group is hosting another set of lectures at Trinity College, Oxford on February 13. The subject looks fun: sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Neptune’s going to come into that, I believe. There are three speakers — Teresa Moorey, John Green and John Etherington: each taking on one aspect of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll. There will be a panel discussion at the end of the day. I expect the recent passing of Bowie and Lemmy will come up. Previous events with Lynn Bell, Bernadette Brady, Dick Van Der […]

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Astrology of Now: Facing The Music

by Christina • December 8, 2015

If you know your astrological symbolism, you will have realised that The Eagles of Death Metal*, who were playing at the Bataclan in Paris when it was attacked last month, are a Scorpio band. The eagle is one of the symbols of Scorpio, along with the scorpion and the snake. It is also used as the symbol for St John the Evangelist, and along with the angel (Luke), the Bull (Matthew) and the Lion (Mark), you will see this eagle in churches the world over. Those are, of course, also the symbols for the four fixed signs of the Zodiac. Scorpio is the […]

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Chrissie Hynde, Leader of the Band

by Christina • September 16, 2015

“Now, let me assure you that, technically speaking, however you want to look at it, this was all my doing and I take full responsibility.” — Chrissie Hynde could be talking about her whole life in that one sentence. Everyone had that album: the Pretenders first. Pictured: a line up — sulky Chrissie Hynde in a ketchup-coloured jacket with the three male members of the band in black, variously posing. There she is, just one of the band — and at the same time, so startlingly different. Hynde was no floaty hippie chick, like the women in Fleetwood Mac or even Grace Slick; she wasn’t […]

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Fiery, Inspired

by Christina • January 20, 2015

There’s a ring of inspirational fire energy around the zodiac until June. It’s burning long and bright. Uranus the awakener in Aries, Saturn the teacher in Sagittarius, Jupiter the joyous, in Leo. A Gift I Woke: — Night, lingering, poured upon the world Of drowsy hill and wood and lake Her moon-song, And the breeze accompanied with hushed fingers On the birches. Gently the dawn held out to me A golden handful of bird’s-notes. – Leonora Speyer Leonora Speyer was a virtuoso violinst before winning a Pulitzer prize for her poetry in 1926. Note the fiery trine from music and […]

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Ethereal Woman vs Material Girl

by Christina • September 10, 2014

Did you know that popmamas Madonna and Kate Bush were born within a few weeks of each other? Oh astrological joy! The English mystic and the queen of consumerism…. let’s check it out. Kate Bush shimmered on to the music scene with an astonishingly original sound when she was just a teenager back in 1978. Unbelievably, here, she was the first woman to get to number one with a self-penned song, Wuthering Heights — a catchy tune about a Victorian novel. About six years later, along came Madonna with her bangles, her bleached hair, her brilliant producer Nile Rogers, and a song […]

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