A little more than 10 years after their breakup from ABBA, the guys, Björn and Benny, wrote a musical, Kristina från Duvemåla, telling the story of a peasant family who broke up from a very poor Sweden back in the 1850s and ended up in Minnesota.
In one of the songs, "Du måste finnas" ("You have to be there"), the main character struggles with her faith in God, and the number - performed hundreds of times of the then very young singer Helen Sjöholm - is considered the greatest moment in the history of musical history. Like: By far.
I dare to take it even a further: It´s one of the greatest performances by a vocal artist ever. (She sang it in English too, and so did for example Susan Boyle, you may find it on youtube, but it doesn´t reach us deep as the Swedish original. You can listen it hear, with subtitles: https://youtu.be/vk76_iqw-Pc?si=YkflS1pZjZFEpaw0
I was curious about what made this happen, from a card reading point of view.
Turns out that Helen Sjöholm is a six of diamonds. I´ll attach her spread.
As, said, the song is about lost faith. She goes out into the woods for to have a private conversation with the creator. "If you don´t exist, what am I? What will I do?"
So, what do we got, cardwise?
- BC: 6D granting high quality
- Sun card: 4S. Secure in what she is. This is the first time, she says, that she has ever felt this doubt. Normally she feels safe and protected. (And indeed, in the novel that the musical is based on, she goes back to believing and decides to keep having intimate relations with her husband, knowing that a pregnancy could cost her life. Which it does.)
- Uranus card: 9H. Destiny. Laying everything in God´s hand. Even risking your life, as said, for the sake of being a complete woman, as she sees it, having relationships with her husband. "What´s gonna be will be."
- Neptune card: 7C, connecting with God struggling with her concepts and ideas
- Moon card: 10H, second to fifth cusp falling there: She´s used to love, sees the world as a loving place. That´s the emotional bases for her crisis. "Have I been wrong all this time?"
- Mars card: 10H; she sings: "I accept the loss of my country"
- Mercury card: 8S; her own time, her own rhythm. Look at her performance and see how she´s emerged in the moment, owning every second of the song.
- EC: 3S; growing in times of crisis. EC is what life throws at you; in her case: deeply challenged, forced to grow.
Staffan
This is a hell of a post. Thank you for sharing.