Live Every Day - The Journey of a Horoscope - Day 5

by Oscar Cainer

In this series, Jonathan's nephew and astrological collaborator, Oscar explains how he helped his friend and musical colleague, Michael, to organise a tour in which he played a different venue, in a different place, once a day, every single day, for an entire year. Using his knowledge of astrology, Oscar helped select a start date and time for the venture and here, each day for the next few days, he tells the tale of how that all unfolded and how it all relates back to the horoscope of the tour itself.

For me the Ascendant complex in this chart shows the nature of how this project bore out. Whereas in it's conception the project was all about Michael travelling from one place to another, playing music every day and perhaps working on developing his own music style and solo career, in the end it became less about himself and more about others, as one would expect with a Libra Ascendant. As I have mentioned already, the social nature of his Ascendant was obviously active, he very only really able to feel like he achieved when he was connecting with other people: it was through those connections and interactions that he learned deeper lessons about himself. It also reinforced the lessons of compromise when it came to getting the best out of a situation and achieving his aims, which is illustrated by the square to his Sun Pluto conjunction and the fact his Descendant is in Aries.

With this project there is a sesquiquadrate connection between the Ascendant and Neptune conjunct Chiron in the 5th house, which is also interesting. The Neptune/Chiron conjunction also squares Venus, the chart ruler, which is conjunct the Moon. As this project developed, it became clear that one of the few constants in almost all the gigs was that there was a sense of healing in many of the shows. Sometimes directly, in case of playing in hospitals, and sometimes less obviously so, there seemed to be a consistency in this experience that was the most prevalent of all the recurring themes. There would be some sort of connection between Michael and the audience, often in the most unexpected places.

For example, Michael was playing at a little French café in an area of Miami known as 'Little Haiti'. There was a man in the café listening intently, unlike many of the audience who were enjoying the music but going about their business. Michael began to play a certain song, a Cuban folk song he knew, and the man began to sing along and at the end of the performance he wept.