So I get
obsessed with music, with certain songs, artists and albums. I can listen to
albums on loop for hours and days until I absorb the songs into my skin. Could
it be because of my moon in Scorpio or my Libra rising? Could it be because of
both?
I first fell
in love with the music of Ryan Adams in 2004 when I heard “Dance Tonight” off
of some Vanity Fair compellation CD. I was hooked. Perhaps his moody Scorpio
Sun spoke to my dark Scorpio Moon.
I am also a
fan of Taylor Swift. No matter where I am in my life, her music manages to
resonate with that cheeky, lovelorn teenage girl that I was.
A few weeks
ago, while slogging around in that ruthless Eclipse fog that was February 2017,
I downloaded Ryan Adam’s album version of “1989”. I was totally immersed, and
might actually love his version more than Tay-tay’s.
The
astrologer in me wondered why this alt-rock dude would decide to take on this
musical project. I wondered what was going on in his life that this album
resonated with him, and why he would use Taylor Swift’s music to express
himself?
After doing
some digging, I found this great Rolling Stones article about this album http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ryan-adams-on-his-full-album-taylor-swift-cover-you-just-have-to-mean-it-20150921
and found that it explained everything. Ryan’s marriage to Mandy Moore had
fallen apart, and he was feeling at sea. Perhaps Taylor Swift’s “1989” was a
point of light for him in the dark.
More
heartbreaking than the original, a reflection of his current pain, a pain he
could protect behind the mask of someone else’s words, so no one else could
know how he truly felt about the personal pain in his life.
You see,
when Ryan Adam’s marriage had come to a close and the genesis of this musical
project took root Saturn had just left Scorpio. Saturn had been passing over
Ryan Adam’s Sun in Scorpio, as well as his Venus and Mars in Scorpio. As anyone
who has lived through Saturn making a conjunction to any of the personal
planets (Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars) it’s a time of painful scrutiny. It’s a time
where much of your life falls apart, and it can be stunning in how specific the
downfall can be.
When Saturn
hits your Sun, it can be impossible to figure out who you are…impossible to
fully express who you are becoming and what you feel.
Instead of
falling apart, Ryan Adams took his pain and transformed an already awesome
album into a beautiful expression of his transformation that he may not have
had the words yet of how to express himself.
Ryan Adams
took his pain, and transformed it…and allowed it to transform him. I’m pretty
sure that Saturn approved.
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