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  Date / Time: 8/8/2009 11:32 AM UTC

  Somewhere over the Rainbow - Rusalka Waits. Song of the Day for The Moon From Brad Kronen’s “Welco
  

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  Somewhere over the Rainbow  -

  Rusalka waits.

   

  Song of the Day for The Moon

  From Brad Kronen’s

  “Welcome to the Solar System” Series

   

   

  *Rusalka and Dorothy – Two adolescent girls with very much the same longings and needs….but on opposite ends of the rainbow.

  *Rusalka - The Czech name for the fairy tale penned by Hans Christian Anderson, “The Little Mermaid”.  Rusalka is the title and leading role of the operatic version of “The Little Mermaid” written by one of greatest composers of the 20^th century, the fiercely patriotic Czech, Antonin Dvorak.

   

  - The former longs to have a home, The latter wants to get back home.

   

  -The former thinks happiness can be found when one’s feet are able to touch the ground.  The latter thinks that only a tornado ripping her home from the ground can give her any kicks.

   

  -The former is a magical creature from an alien world unknown to men.  The latter is a human descended from the most common of men.

   

  -The latter, after her adventures and travails in a foreign world is reunited with her home and core family unit and exclaims “There’s no place like home!”  The former, after her dream world is snatched by a Foreign Princess, never sees her family again and is doomed for all eternity to show mankind that there is no place called “Home.”

   

  Both girls are raised without a mother and long for that nurturing presence that only a mother can provide.  Both girls have restless hearts and truly feel that if their basic needs of security are met, then all their dreams REALLY will come true.  It is when both girls are alone (the former at night, the latter at day) that they show their heightened state of emotion and true longing when they both sing…………to the MOON. 

   

  Yes, Dorothy Gale sings to an area of the sky that goes beyond her vision and technically is “over the rainbow” but pretty much EVERYTHING Dorothy and Rusalka wistfully sing during their one and only sung solo, or aria, relates to and beseeches the help of - THE MOON!

   

  My Song of the Day for the Moon was only going to be Rusalka’s aria, “The Song to the Moon.”  Melodically, I have always felt that chunks from that aria were picked up and directly placed in a Hollywood ditty penned 30 years later called “Somewhere over the Rainbow.” While looking for a suitable image for Rusalka I was humming “SOTR” and shock of shocks! – I realized both song’s themes are practically identical and both song’s lyrics tell of things that are all under the Moon’s domain, and both songs even have very similar melodies and musical cadence! With all this interrelated Moon stuff, I theorized that like Neil Armstrong ,who was not intended to be the first person on the Moon, he was simply closer to the hatch but o so destined by his birth chart to be that “one small step for mankind” - Judy Garland’s birth chart should show that she, too,  was “destined” to play the role of Dorothy even though MGM had Shirley Temple in mind and Temple was originally assigned the role but was not allowed to break her contractual commitments with 20^th Century Fox.

   

  I could not believe what I was seeing when I pulled up Judy Garland’s birth chart:

   

  Garland was 16 when filming began on “The Wizard of Oz” but was made to look much more like the orphan Dorothy Gale who in Baum’s book is age 12.  The “Age of Man” that Gemini correlates to are the elementary school years, roughly from ages 6-12.  When placed in formulaic terms:

   

  Dorothy Gayle, a 12 year old orphan, dreams of a better place that is “somewhere over the rainbow”, is wisked away to a fairy tale land where she is given the task of repeatedly saying “There’s no place like home.”

   

  -Judy Garland, (A Gemini), plays the role of Dorothy who is at the mentally inquisitive age of 12 which correlates astrologically to the age of Gemini.

   

   -Garland was known for her unique and brash vocal style but throughout her life was most beloved for singing the piece where Dorothy longs for a better place “over the rainbow”.  Garland’s Moon, or sense of longing is at a very karmic 29 degrees, which infers a heightened focus or concentration resulting in others taking note. Garland’s highly karmic Moon is in the sign of foreign, exotic, or fairy tale-ish places, Sagittarius.

   

  -Garland had a Cancer Ascendant with Venus in Cancer conjunct the Ascendant.  The Ascendant, or Rising Sign, is the persona you display to the world at large or to those you don’t know well.  When one’s Ascendant is in the sign of Cancer, the person relays to the world the themes of: security, nostalgia, emotional sensitivity, and anything related to one’s HOME.  With her Venus in this same place, she was able to have the world at large admire her beauty which was in a homey, girl next door way, as well as have those who didn’t know her feel sympathy for or empathize her plight to find HOME.

   

  -Garland’s Mars and Moon are conjunct in Sagittarius in the 6^th house of daily chores and of repetition.  Although Dorothy is as far away from Kansas that she thinks she could possibly be, she is told that home is always near by and to simply click her heels** three times while repeating the phrase “There’s no place like home.” I can’t think of ANYONE doing this better than a person who was born with the planet of action (Mars) placed next to the planet all about Home, (Moon), both in the sign of far off lands and philosophy (Sagittarius) and in the house of daily tasks and of repetition (the 6^th house)!!!!!!

  **Those heels are attached to slippers but in the original “Wizard of Oz” book they’re not ruby! The haughty change of slippage color was due to the new developments of Technicolor film in 1939 and ruby red was the best way for Garland to draw attention not only to her gams but away from the 100’s of distractions to the audience’s eye when she arrives in Emerald City! The original slippers are the color assigned to the Moon, SILVER and symbolize sentimentality and of cherishing the past.

   

  Art and Life once again mirroring Astrology as we begin our trek outward through the Solar System!

  
  

   

  O Mesiku (Song to the Moon),

  Rusalka's Aria from “Rusalka”
  
  O Moon! High up in the deep, deep sky,

  Your light sees far away regions,
  You travel round the wide,
  Wide world peering into human dwellings
  
  

  O Moon, stand still for a moment,
  Tell me, ah, tell me where is my lover!
  Tell him. Please, silvery moon in the sky,
  That I am hugging him firmly,
  That he should for at least a while
   Remember his dreams!
  
  

  Light up his far away place,
  Tell him, ah, tell him who is here waiting!
  If he is dreaming about me

  May this remembrance waken him!
  
  

  O, Moon, don't disappear, disappear!

   

  “Song to the Moon”

  in the Original Czech:

  Mesiku na nebi hlubokem 

  Svetlo tvé daleko vidi,

  Po svete bloudis sirokém,

  Divas se v pribytky lidi

   

  Mesicku, postuj chvili

  Reckni mi, kde je muj mily

  Rekni mu, stribmy mesicku,

  Me ze jej objima rame,

  Aby si alespon chvilicku

  Vzpomenul ve sneni na mne

   

  Zasvet mu do daleka

  Rekni mu, rekni m kdo tu nan ceka!

  O mneli duse lidska sni,

  At'se tou vzpominkou  vzbudi!

  Mesicku, nezhasni, nezhasni!

   

   

   

  Somewhere over the Rainbow

  music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg.

   

  Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high.
  There's a land that I heard of,

  Once in a lullaby.

  
  Somewhere, over the rainbow,

  Skies are blue.
  And the dreams that you dare to dream
  Really do come true.
  
  

  Someday I'll wish upon a star

  And wake up where the clouds are far behind me.

  Where troubles melt like lemon drops,

  Away above the chimney tops.
  That's where you'll find me!
  
  

  Somewhere over the rainbow,

  Bluebirds fly.

  Birds fly over the rainbow,
  Why then - oh, why can't I?
  
  

  If happy little bluebirds fly

  Beyond the rainbow,
  Why, oh, why can't I?

   

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