Artist	Song
Hildegaard von Bingen September 16, 1098	Caritas Abundat (Loving Tenderness)
Leonard Cohen September 21, 1934	Suzanne
Pachelbel September 1, 1653	Canon
John Cage September 5, 1912	And The Earth Shall Bear Again
Dvorak September 8, 1841	Largo from The New World Symphony
Patsy Cline September 8, 1932	Lonely Street
Moby September 11, 1965	My Weakness
Bruckner September 4, 1824	Ave Maria
Holst September 21, 1874	Venus from The Planets
Schoenberg September 13, 1874	Op. 19, No.2, Langsam

Comment:

August 23 - September 22Sixth Sign of the Zodiac - Earth, MutableThe original virgin, Virgo has come to be known as one of the less exciting signs of the Zodiac, given to fussiness, pedantry and to generally spoiling the othersigns' fun; looking more closely however at the keyword of Virgo reveals a much more vital and mysterious character...'Virgin' in its ancient usage did not carry the fixed meaning it has today; in the broadest sense it simply meant 'unmarried'. A girl could therefore be known to man and yet be simultaneously pure, inwardly intact. The female devotees of many goddesses were often holy prostitutes, a contradiction in terms only when viewed from the structure of modern society. It is this paradox of chaste/unchaste, pure/sullied, virgin/whore which lies at the heart of the Virgoan psyche, coupled with auxillary contradictions such as order vs chaos, restraint vs abandonment and morality vs amorality. The task of Virgo is to make a oneness out of mutually exclusive terms. No wonder the sign is often considered 'neurotic'.Hildegaard von Bingen's sensually spiritual chant welcomes us into the soul of Virgo, where we encounter Suzanne supine and untouchable on a riverbank.The purity of Pachabel's much used canon collides with Cage's vehemently earthy celebration of Virgo in the mask of Demeter, and so forth. Eventually we realise that Virgo is itself the earth, at once ransacked raped and pillaged and yet ever renewed, ever pure. Virgos need often to be alone; they cannot take behavioural cues from society but can only listen down into the inner moral demand, which is that of the earth's. Virgo offers the dream of immortal Arcadia, where peace is all and the virgin/whore goddess reigns without force; it is the task of the sign to achieve this unplundered land within themselves. Submerged beneath the mundane interpretation of Virgo is a mysterious and timeless figure, a sacred profanity seeking expression in the modern world. Less Ave Maria, more Ave Maria Magdalene.

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