Starsailor: Love is Here

Starsailor's Love is Here was released in 2001, and it was also their debut album; the group is based in the U.K. The first time I listened to this album, it was markedly, Neptunian. The lead singer has the voice of an angel and his songs are about losing one’s way in life, falling down, suffering, sadness and alcoholism. The record isn’t the type of thing you would play getting ready for a fun night out. The lyrics on this album could be ripped straight out of any astrological text-book on Neptune. For example: “When you’re so sensitive, it’s a long way to fall.”

The songs talk about a fall from the grace, which is particularly apt for Neptune, considering Adam and Eve’s sudden eviction from the Paradise Garden. Love is Here has a melancholic sound, that is drenched with emotion, and the vocals induce a sad mood. Through our Neptunian function we glimpse other dimensions and higher states of being, entering into this magic, indefinable world. This gives inspiration to the poet, artist, or musician, and to the seer and mystic. Neptune is associated with the flight from realty, loss and grief. The lead singer, James Walsh, has Sun and Venus opposite Neptune, along with Mars and Saturn square Neptune. James has four hard aspects to Neptune, so we can safely call him a "Neptunian".

The person is, however, usually compassionate and sensitive and is often characterised by high spiritual, aesthetic, or humanitarian ideals.  By Stephen Arroyo, Astrology, Karma and Transformation.

Sometimes Sun-Neptune people can resist forming as a defined individual, and usually there is an inherited gift of creativity, that needs to be expressed. Deep down in the collective there is a dim awareness of the divine, mystical and spiritual, it’s the longing for the ideal and notion that there is ‘something more than this ‘. Without Neptune we would have no inspiration, and it’s the embodiment of the imagination and artistic expression. We could all do with some escapism at times and Neptune has the ability to sweep us away…