Astro-Obituary – Elena Obraztsova

Elena Obraztsova, who has died aged 77, was one of the great Russian mezzo-sopranos, renowned for her vocal intensity and theatrical flair, and for her long-running feud with the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. She excelled in the opera of her compatriots, delivering spell-binding performances of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Prokofiev; yet she could also turn her hand to contemporary music, singing Oberon in the Russian premiere of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Few voices have ever been quite so powerful. Her first appearance in New York in 1975 (with the Bolshoi) took the city by storm; the following year she received a 15-minute ovation for her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Amneris in Verdi’s Aïda with Rita Hunter and Carlo Bergonzi. Jan 13; http://bit.ly/1y1SXss

In the last two posts we have been discussing events connected with Russia where we have used the chart for the Last Quarter Moon of Jan.13. The same chart explains her death. Notice the prominent alignment of the Mars-Saturn-Neptune square with the horizon axis.  In his book “The Combination of Stellar Influences”, Reinhold Ebertin states that Mars-Saturn represents a harmful or destructive energy. One biological correspondence of this energy is “death”. Let us now turn our attention to the Mars-Neptune conjunction. The table below gives the position of asteroids conjoining Mars-Neptune.

Eros	0 pi 26'20"
Mars	0 pi 45'51"
Orpheus	4 pi 21'31"
Neptune	5 pi 43'22"

ORPHEUS: Sad, sweet or haunting music, lyrics or poetry; dirges; sense of mourning and loss; grief; contact with death.

NEPTUNE: attunement to Other Worlds.

EROS: the heart & cardiac system.

Neptune-Orpheus: Death of a singer – someone whose singing could  "transport" people and  allow them to "transcend" worldly existence and  to "BE the music."  

Eros-Orpheus: Death through cardiac failure.