9. "Brian's Song"

The beginning of the 1970's witnessed the "End of the Dream" of the 1960's. In place of radical countercultural sentiments came a more mature and sobering reality. The Saturn-Neptune opposition of the early part of the decade observed the release of many romantic tearjerkers and bittersweet melodramas. Many recall "Love Story" and "Sounder" from the era as being particular adept at stirring one's emotions. However, on equal footing with these films was the made-for-tv drama, "Brian's Song." Transcending normal television faire, "Brian's Song" concerned the real-life tragedy of Brian Piccolo, a running back for the Chicago Bears whose life was cut short by cancer. The sentimental title song composed by Michel Legrand was sure to bring watery eyes even to the most hardcore sports fans. During the composition of the title song, Legrand's natal Sun-Neptune opposition was split by the Saturn-Neptune opposition in the sky, forming a potent Grand Cross. (see chart) Listen to an except to this song

10. Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"

As a prominent psychiatrist in Vienna, Viktor Frankl had a secure life in private practice until World War Two began. By 1944, Frankl found himself in the Dachau concentration camp and his world was radically overturned. During his time in the concentration camp, Frankl gave birth to existential psychotherapy and his experience provided for the genesis for the book, "Man's Search for Meaning." The book is considered a classic in psychology and sold over five million copies in the United States alone. The fundamental proposition of "Man's Search for Meaning" is that regardless of one's circumstance, hope and meaning can arise and must arise. During Frankl's internment in the concentration camp in 1944, the Saturn-Neptune square in the sky aligned over Frankl's natal Sun square to natal Neptune (see chart). Although Frankl's therapy is considered existential in that it provides little illusions to life's hardship, it does not condone a frustrated apathy to life's problems of life but suggests that the problems can create the context for great meaning and fulfillment.

11. Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"

Considered one of the most popular and enduring books of nonsectarian spirituality, Gibran's "The Prophet" is a book of perennial truths that can truly be considered wise. Although the work's style—accessible and serious without a hint of irony—clashes with today's postmodern self-consciousness and relativism, Gibran's "The Prophet" has been embraced globally as a timeless text concerning ethics for living. Published when transiting Neptune formed a square alignment with Gibran's natal Saturn-Neptune conjunction (see chart), the work is the integration of the highest potentials of the Saturn-Neptune planetary combination: the mystical and spiritual (Neptune) as found within the prosaic categories of everyday life (Saturn).

12. Sting's "The Soul Cages"

Before Sting exclusively focused on Adult Contemporary ballads, he released "The Soul Cages," his most forlorn, somber, and introspective collection as a solo artist. Multi-layered and atmospheric, the album is the musical equivalent of landscapes painted by Sting's fellow countrymen J.M.W. Turner as they evoke a sort of spiritual disquietude and sense of melancholy. Written and released after the death of his father and as the Saturn-Neptune conjunction formed a square alignment to his natal Sun (see chart), "Soul Cages" is a grief album and deals specifically with Saturn-Neptune themes: the divorce between the transcendent and the worldly, mourning and letting go, a sense of tortured subjectivity, the infusion of the poetic onto the mundane world, the existential futility of life, the sense of consciousness or presence within the material world ("But perhaps the dream Is dreaming us"), and "soul" (Neptune) "cages" (Saturn). Listen to the excerpt of the song "When the Angels Fall" from the album "Soul Cages."