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Philip Ramone – An Astro-obituary


Philip "Phil" Ramone (January 5, 1934 – March 30, 2013) was an South African–born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist, and composer,who, in 1958, co-founded A & R Recording, Inc., a recording studio at 112 West 48th Street, New York — above what then was Manny's Music. The success of that studio grew into several studios and a record producing company. He was described by Billboard as "legendary", and the BBC as a "CD pioneer". Ramone was born in South Africa and grew up in Brooklyn. As a child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Elizabeth II at age ten

Ramone died on March 30, 2013, in a Manhattan hospital after being admitted for surgery. His death was caused by a brain aneurism.  [1]




It is been our constant effort at this blogsite to show that the effect of eclipses lasts long after they are gone. Mundane astrologers agree that an eclipse on any of the four angles which means the horizon or meridian axis of a place have a very important and lasting effect. The Annular Eclipse of 21 May 2012 was  a spectacular event,  seen at sunrise in Japan and at sunset throughout most of the north-west American continent. From the chart above we can see that it was important for New York since it occurred at sunset i.e. on  the descendant of the horizon axis.

An eclipse provides an opportunity to release the past and engage in a fresh start so that are often  related to endings and deaths.  This eclipse [0ge21] was conjunct the Pleiades and the conjoining stars of Perseus.  These stars  stimulate physical heroic action to seed new paths forward in our lives and to create infrastructures that support our fundamental nourishment and wellbeing.[2] And being the eclipse stars here can mark the end of such heroic pioneers.

The eclipse was square Neptune [3pi06] and Mars [10vi39]. Neptune’s virtues are sensitivity, emotional openness and vulnerability, empathy and understanding compassion.  Neptune is the master of illusion and illumination. The performing arts – music, dance and drama – depend on the use of illusion to create works that move us as a collective at the depths of emotion and feeling. And mystical inspiration can lift us to heights of ecstatic illumination.

Born on January 5, Ramon’s radix Sun [14cp] was trine Neptune [12vi] and  conjunct the star Vega [14cp]. Alpha (α) Lyra, Vega, is a pale sapphire star in the Lyre [3]

Lyra, and prominent alignments with Lyra, indicate involvement with the music of the spheres, that is, the use of natural astronomically and resonant harmonics for healing, illumination, and for greater evolutionary purpose. Prominent alignments and aspects to Lyra are often found in musicians, artists and those involved with art-sciences and multi-media projects--those with intent to use harmonics of light, sound, and geometry for the expansion of consciousness.[4]



The March 27, Full Moon at New York is shown here. Notice that Neptune is on the Ascendant [1pi01] -  the point on the eastern horizon where planets rise and make themselves visible. The Full Moon is asking us to pay attention to events connected with Neptune in NY. If we now take the trouble to look at the asteroids  - the “fine print”  so to speak –  we find two of them Lacrimosa [0ge32] and Requiem [2pi10] both connected with death [5] , aspecting Neptune [4pi04].   The Ascendant of the Full Moon , with the accompanying significators,  triggers the May 20 eclipse (Sun-Neptune-Mars configuration).

Carrying the analysis one step further we find that the eclipse chart Mars [10vi] is conjunct the asteroid Psyche [7vi].

PSYCHE: the state of your mental health; head wounds; brain states.[5]

Ramone’s  death was caused by a brain aneurism.

[5] Delineate V2, Martha Lang Wescott


P.S.
Readers may look at previous posts that link this eclipse to ‘mental health’




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