Music from the Pleiades
Gerald Jay Markoe
The new moon yesterday was in the Pleiades, and the Sun right now is conjunct Alcyone, one of the stars that is hugely important to us Earthlings. Perhaps, on another day, we can cover this in more depth. The Pleiades are sometimes called the Weeping Sisters, and many First Nation people as well as several other ethnic groups on Earth came here from the Pleiades. This also means that there are no doubt countless Starseed and alien beings among us. My wonderful friend, Gail Barber, was a Pleiadian. Today, I am left only with memories as she is on the other side of the veil now.
My computer didn’t want to boot this morning, but when it finally behaved, I read your many comments on Substack and Jerry Markoe came to mind. He was a composer that I met late in his life. He was a graduate of Juilliard (B.A.) and the Manhattan School of Music (M.A.) and composed many scores for Broadway musicals. Under tremendous stress to complete the compositions before opening night, someone gifted him a reading with an astrologer. He became fascinated. By the time we met, he was lecturing on music as it applied to astrology. It goes without saying that we had many interesting conversations over the years.
The selection below is from the album called Sacred Music from Seven Stars. It is obviously very different from the types of selections I normally post, but those who like New Age music will probably find it pleasant. That probably did not sound encouraging, but I do not like digital synthesizers . . . because of the impact on the subconscious. See what you think and feel.
It is very hard to summarize the work of someone who was so prolific, but I will start with a few basics as teasers, and we can perhaps develop the conversation from there. He did customized compositions based on horoscopes. Here are some minor details that you can consider.
Start with the idea of a string on a musical instrument. The is an octave. Press it exactly in the middle. This is the difference between a male and a female voice, one octave. This is the relationship between the first house and seventh house (marriage and partnerships). Divide the two halves of the string into quarters. These are the children, another octave higher. This brings in all four elements: fire, earth, air, and water. The family, in his view, rests on having four pillars that together combine all the manifest elements, but the relationships between the individual family members and the elements can lead to squabbles. This discord has to be worked out through harmonization.
He expressed what astrologers call aspects as chords and the elements related to octaves, earth being lower, then water, and then fire and air. The chords can be in any octave, major or minor, and can be dissonant or consonant. Obviously, this can be endlessly complicated and certainly interesting for those who wish to explore further.
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