Asha ~ Luna nueva

'Luna nueva', an instrumental piece by Asha (aka Asher Quinn & Asha Elijah) from his album "Open Secret". Download & CD available here: http://www.ashaquinn.com/opensecret.htm

'Luna nueva' began life as a piano improvisation, as I struggled to release a debut album in my early 30's. I received many rejections from record and publishing companies, until a New Age company finally took me on. My great friend at the time, Anthony Phillips of Genesis, offered to produce my tracks. Actually I knew Anthony through cricket, football and my cousin rather than music... but it was a well-starred collaboration. He became my musical mentor, and produced three early albums with me. Anthony had other musical friends (who played cricket and football with him), and one such illustrious comrade, Andy Latimer of the prog-rock group Camel, played a mesmerising slide-steel guitar on this track, as Anthony adorned my piano-playing with his classical guitar accompaniment.

And so 'Luna nueva' became part of "Open Secret", a largely instrumental album. "Open Secret" was also the title of a volume of poetry by Rumi, the thirteenth century Sufi poet.

I don't know why I came over all Spanish... maybe the legacy of living in Mexico for six months a few years previously! But the title and melody suggested themselves to me one sultry, summer evening in August, when London became like Andalucia for a few days.

The moon, esoterically, is the planet of karma. The spiritual moon (as distinct from the physical moon) is where we go immediately after death to face our karmic accountability. We have to purify if we are to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. If we follow a path of truth, it is possible to speed up our karma on earth within this lifetime.

The moon is also associated with the seasons and the cycles, both within and without. The new moon brings renewal, cleansing and fertility.

And as the Christ child, esoterically, is similarly associated with renewal in the psyche... with new blood and new life force... so the new moon and the Christ child possess a dual symbolism and potent etheric power in the soul.

I have a friend in Holland, Maarten, who once told me that this track really helped pull him out of a black hole when he first heard it. Maybe it was the power of the new moon and the Christ child contained within the music that was the medicine! So I dedicate this song here to Maarten! Warme groet, amigo!!

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