Dear Friend and Reader:
RICHARD WRIGHT was one of those rock stars who was heard but not seen. I don’t know much about the Pink Floyd keyboardist who died from cancer on Monday at the age of 65. Pink Floyd was not a band of personalities like The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. They spoke through their music, and if you grew up listening to Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall, you heard Richard Wright loud and clear. Wright wrote one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, the fittingly tragic Summer ’68, from an obscure album called Atom Heart Mother.
Rick Wright left the planet the day of an unusually powerful Pisces Full Moon that made aspects to some of his most important planets. The world will probably remember Monday, Sept. 15, 2008 as the day that the failure of two major Wall Street banks shook the financial and political spheres. Pink Floyd fans (and that includes just about everyone) will remember it as the day we lost one of the most talented, original and successful musicians of the modern era.
So who was this guy astrologically? [View chart.] He had most of his planets concentrated in Leo and Gemini. It was Leo that gave him the drive to create and unabashedly push his originality into the world. It was Gemini that made him articulate. Both are powerfully aspected and help explain astrology as much as they explain him.