Some notes on Neptune in Pisces 2011-2025
Music, Film,
Graphic Arts
Neptune, ruler of Pisces, makes for a very creatively
inspired period, thus ideal for artists of all stripes. The previous Neptune in Pisces period, 1847–1862 saw the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of Painters in 1948 and began a period of Neo-Romanticism which saw Richard Wagner create his sprawling Ring Cycle. Thoreau published Walden in 1854.
Both Neptune and Pisces are very intuitive and
all-encompassing, totalizing, inclusive energies. I tended to notice tendencies
and currents, in art, music, and films, that showed a creative blending of
styles, eras, and technologies in bold, free, intuitive, eclectic way. Below is
a brief listing of some works, artists, and trends that I’ve noticed by and by
Rise of Retro
The sense of inclusiveness entailed a look at old
forms of recording technology, for example vinyl records made a strong
comeback. With the rise of youtube as a massive archive
repository, older musical styles saw a resurgence, such as Classic Rock .
Before the Neptune in Pisces period, Amy Winehouse was
an artist who helped spark a revival in R&B and jazz styles from the 1950s
& 60s. Sadly, since she died four month after the Neptune ingress
into Pisces, she could also be cited as an exemple of the dark side of Neptune
in Pisces, a tendency for escapism into the world of addiction and substance
abuse. The opiod crisis is another example. More recently, Laufey has emerged with a retro-jazz
style with pop and classical influences.
Ethereal
Waves
Another quality that I noticed about Neptune
in Pisces, besides the eclectic blending of styles, is a dreamy, ethereal sound.
For example, in a 1980s dance-pop context
there is London Grammar. London Grammar's music has been described as "a
blend of ambient, ethereal and classical sounds" with melancholy
guitar, soaring vocals, plaintive lyrics, and often displaying trip-hop and
dance influences.
Ambient electro-pop band Hundred Waters formed in 2011. The Moon Rang Like a Bell, 2014, a dreamy eclectic album of bold experimentation is a good example. The singer, Nicole Miglis, a Piscean who has a classical piano training, explained her writing approach: 'In my mind, all these different genres, classical and dance music, are really similar to me; they just exist in different time periods. Even the idea of time – I don’t know how to articulate this and it probably sounds really woo, but I don’t think of classical music as the past music and electronic music as the future music. It’s the same thing, just different tools. Classical music – those were the pop songs at the time, those were the dance songs. People were waltzing to this music at parties; it had a different place than what eventually became art museum music. Because my process is so serendipitous and instinctual, I have to trust there’s a reason those tools are there, or that there’s a reason I picked up that guitar or drum machine.'
Grimes, also a Pisces,
who’s first album appeared just at the beginning of Neptune in Pisces has been described with a number of labels, including synth-pop, electropop,
art pop, indie pop,
dream pop,
experimental pop, dance-pop, pop, avant-garde pop,
lo-fi,
dance,
witch house, electronic,
glo-fi, bedroom
pop, and electronica with elements of rock, hip
hop, R&B, folk, drum
and bass, and classical.Eclectic ethereal, techno pop
musician Bjork produced her most ambitious musical tour in 2018, titled
Corrnucopia which featured elaborate multi-media audio-visual effects, mixed with
performance art, dance choreography, classical orchestra and choir.
In the classical world, there has
been an emerging popular trend of ethereal modern neoclassical minimalist piano
music with artists like Jean-Michel Blais, Nils Frahm, Joep Beving, Philip
Glass, and Alexandra Stréliski. Classical guitarist Sean
Shibe’s work, Lost and Found features an eclectic mix of pieces from Medieval,
jazz, avant-garde played on an ambient sounding electric guitar.
Film
The anime genre, with it’s eclectic genre-bending
styles, often with elements of fantasy and science-fiction, saw an
increase in popularity during this period
In
2015, an all-record-high of three hundred forty anime series aired on
television. The
global popularity and demand of anime continued to rise during the decade due
to the COVID-19 pandemic and the medium's wide
availability on streaming services. Demon Slayer:
Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train became the highest-grossing Japanese film
and the world's highest-grossing film of 2020.
Computer animation cgi developments helped spur the success of companies such as Pixar and
superhero films with Marvel Entertainment and others giving new possibilities to explore fantasy and science-fiction
themes.
Graphic Arts
The world of illustration and comic books saw a
fruitful period of creativity, with an increasingly cosmopolitan market of
cultural exchange and new computer technology with a blending of styles from
different genres and different countries, often with a dreamy, decorative,
fantasy style, with artists such as Peach Momoko, Bilquis Evely, Kim Jung Ji
and Matías Bergara to name just a few.This period also saw a popular trend of museum exhibitions dealing with esoteric and occult-themed art.
References
Some notes on Neptune in Pisces 2011-2025
In
2015, an all-record-high of three hundred forty anime series aired on
television. The
global popularity and demand of anime continued to rise during the decade due
to the COVID-19 pandemic and the medium's wide
availability on streaming services. Demon Slayer:
Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train became the highest-grossing Japanese film
and the world's highest-grossing film of 2020.
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