Music and Astrology are based on the same thing: frequencies of resonance. Though astro-logy gives us the ‘logic’ of the frequencies we are responding to, music recreates our emotional reactions to particular frequency combinations.

I’ve been creating music for as long I can remember. When I was 4 years old, I looked up at my father — I recall the exact room where we stood — and boldly announced, with the utmost conviction, that I was going to be a singer when I grew up.

He laughed at me. . . But I did it, just as I’d said.

Peggy Lee  |  ‘Fever’

Your talents are not embedded in you by your parents

But, rather, they are inherently within your mindstream at birth. You had chosen the parents who resonated with what you needed to experience for this life, to clear old harmful karmic imprints and to create new happier ones. And every parent instinctively resonates with each of his or her children differently. 

As a little kid, I would make up melodies all the time; and I did start learning to play guitar at age 10. And by 15, when Pluto hit my Midheaven, I was into massive song production. I’d compose and write usually 3 songs per night. I’d even imagine how I would produce them in a studio, in stereo.

My teachers at school never asked me why I wasn’t handing in all their assignments on time (or at all!). None of them knew I was heavily involved with music. Whenever I’d wake up with a song inside me, I wouldn’t go to school that morning until I’d finished it — including the lyrics of all the verses! … Though, I never played guitar in any of my bands, or gave them any of my songs. I never even mentioned them! So they never knew. (Talk about self-sabotage!)

Apart from mucking about with guitar duets, singing with a male friend for fun in my mid-teens, I was 21 before I joined my first real band, after a late-teens struggle with agoraphobia. I have no recordings from that time with Rube ‘n’ Steel, but I do remember the first song I sang on-stage with them: “I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky come tumblin’ down, tumblin’ down … “. Carol King, of course, from her masterful ‘Tapestry’ album. And still a great song.

‘ZEN OF SMOOTH’ — 2014 (Only 1:44 minutes)

(Listen with headphones/earbuds — it will sound better.)

I actually really love this! My very first iPad ‘GarageBand’ doodle-experiment (Nov 2014), I was really only testing the sensitivity of the iPad’s internal mic, as it was my first iPad that I’d bought that day.
I started with my scatty minimal vocals, overdubbed with meandering harmonies in stereo, at 4am — I didn’t want to wake the neighbours in the adjoining terrace, so definitely not my rock voice!
Then I decided to try adding some instruments (backwards to how this usually works!)
I used two very different drum tracks together, from entirely different genres — I love the effect;
Plus I played a minimal ‘Zen’ bass line; just a dab of electric piano, and some incidental percussion.
All instruments exclusively from within GarageBand, itself.
The iPad mic was so sensitive, it picked up the rustling wind, and a chance passing car outside (at 4am! — Murphy’s Law).

(I wish we’d had iPads and GarageBand back in my olden days!)

I allowed Tropical Penguins to keep using my lyrics and melodies from the songs we’d collaborated on together. After Star Search, they got a publishing deal, and added my name to the copyrights. So I am officially a published song-writer. And I plan to publish the rest, myself — I have hundreds of songs (composed since 1970) that my bands never got to hear.

‘SENSELESS‘ 1995.

10 years after I’d stopped playing guitar, I dusted him off and picked up my ‘George’ again (a 1970 Yamaha classical guitar with fine black nylon strings), on the exact day transiting Uranus was opposite my Uranus. I went into a 7-minute trance improvisation, just like the old days. I dare you to listen!  (Starts slow but builds.)

I’ll have a photo montage video to go with this before too long, images courtesy of my photographer friend, Mark CCD Curtis. We’ll also load it to YouTube.

Yes, I know, the sound is not exactly studio quality! And I apologise for the white noise (more noticeable at the quieter beginning.) . But if you could see what I recorded this on, you’d fall over! There were no iPhones back in those days. And no GarageBand.

But ol’ faithful George, after 52 years, started to fall apart in 2022, so I sadly decided to donate him to a music store repairer where he might find another life. 

And, miraculously, a dear friend then drove for 4½ hours to bring me his old acoustic guitar (who I’ve named ‘Arthur’)!  So now I can still play, and getting back into steel strings again! 

But I was able to buy a fabulous new 88-key Roland electric piano last year (2023), with some help from the same dear friend who is rescuing my musical side.

So, after all these cerebral years of brainstorming research, I am finally getting back into my music. Of course, I have never stopped singing around the apartment! And I am planning to publish a book of my song lyrics from decades ago.