Cancerians are allocated a lot of Moon songs, while Leo is nearly all Sun-themed. Notably: the Gemini album has several tracks with “wind” in the lyrics – Blowing In The Wind, Cast Your Fate To The Wind etc. Each zodiac sign album featured ten orchestral versions of well-known songs that supposedly “embodied” their sign. I’ll explain how I discovered this in a moment but first: aside from the style impact, the albums were not musically creative. Or was it? This is not widely, if at all, known but Maya Angelou – yes, the Maya Angelou – wrote at least some of the astrological content. Maya Angelou Wrote The Album NotesĪnd the astrologer was the then widely syndicated Carroll Righter.
Look up his work on Tumblr or something and you’ll realize – or re-appreciate – the extent to which everyone copies him. With his Sun conjunct Mercury and a Venus, Mars + Uranus conjunction, he was a walking Zeitgeist, a moment waiting to happen. They were photographed by the iconic Capricorn Francesco Scavullo, renowned for his pioneering Cosmopolitan mag covers and proto-cool high-society/sub-cultural hybrid portraits. He had Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo and a special genius for flamboyant ballgowns, powdery floral bomb perfumes and inaugration frocks for first ladies. There were 12 distinct albums for each zodiac sign, with fashion by the opulent Oscar de La Renta, a suave Cancerian success story. It was clearly brilliant timing and not only because it was on-trend at the time: Jupiter was also conjunct Uranus, one of the best possible astro-configs for commercially successful launches of unconventional phenoms.
YSL RUSSIAN COLLECTION 1976 SERIES
The Astromusical album series was released in 1969, in the wake of Woodstock, the “ Aquarius song” and neo-bohemian, baby-boomer ultra-hippie astrology revival.
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