You might say I'm here for you.

My wife and I sat there on the couch with tears streaming down our cheeks.

November 2, 2007: We attended Neil Young’s concert at the new Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles. He’s a 62-year old Scorpio who recently survived a life-threatening brain aneurysm, and several songs off his new CD (“Spirit Road,” “The Way”) reflect a new-found spirituality. He played several songs from this new CD, Chrome Dreams II, which is being hailed as one of his finest recordings in decades. The first half of his show was a solo acoustic set, followed by a second half with his band.

Early in his opening acoustic set, he played “Ambulance Blues,” one of my favorite songs from 1974's On the Beach:

An ambulance can only go so fast
It's easy to get buried in the past
When you try to make a good thing last.

Neil Young may have resurrected some old songs for this concert, but he is anything but buried in the past, trying to make a good thing last. With an exact trine of Pluto and an out-of-bounds Mercury, he has constantly transformed his musical expression.

His out-of-bounds Mercury has been apparent throughout his entire career, as he has constantly sought ways to communicate through different, highly original, and sometimes perversely non-conformist songs. He has played outside of the normal musical box. Uranus also opposes his Mercury, giving him added originality.

This concert of compositions by an out-of-bounds Mercury musician featured an amazing set of songs, only a handful of which were the Neil Young classics ("Heart of Gold," "Tonight's the Night") recognizable to most in the audience. In an indication of the deep respect this musical artist has inspired, the audience was quiet and raptly attentive during his acoustic set as he played a number of little-known, obscure musical gems. People were actually shushing each other (the acoustics in the Nokia Theater were so sensitive that a soft "Shhh" could be heard throughout the theater).

Neil Young has no planets in Earth signs, and his singing has always had an untethered, spacy quality.

His show was perversely old school. Maybe that has something to do with his lack of the Earth element as he pointedly reaches to ground himself in low-tech. I've seen so many music acts which, although excellent, are also a bit soulless due to their heavy reliance on computerized lighting and wireless technology. During Neil Young's concert, I actually saw a human being up in the lights above the stage, changing gels in a spotlight. A cord stretched from Young’s guitar back to a speaker—no cordless instruments on his stage. His opening act was his wife, Pegi (who did a very nice job in her own right). The stage set, intended to reflect a workshop or artist’s studio--a space where creativity happens--had a very funky, down-home quality. It was another original touch from a rock original.

The show highlight was a new song, “No Hidden Path,” which Neil Young spun out for a good 20 minutes of guitar thrusts, parries, jams, and blistering strokes. As the song concluded, the crowd rose to its feet and cheered.

He played for close to three hours. My wife commented, after the concert, on how much passion and energy he displayed. His Mars in Leo and Venus in Scorpio are exactly square and this emotional tension contributes to a release of high energy on stage through his music. He's also got a great deal of stamina: Neil Young has four planets in fixed signs, and his Scorpio Sun trines Saturn.