 Astrological Predictions
Combined with Poetic License
By Robert Waddell, August 21, 2009
First the bad news: according to professional Astrologer Daisy Vega, the current economic crisis will continue for another 16 years.
The good news: for Vega, who goes by the name Lady Emotion, poetry is the answer.
Vega said that she has had her own astrology charting business for the last 17 years and recently she became a spoken word poet performing at the Cherry Lane Theatre and at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in the Lower East Side. Vega describes herself as a self-taught musician and poet. She has submitted her poem “The Beast” in multi-media form to the International Festival of Moving Images in Maryland for consideration this September.
In Lady Emotion’s spoken word poetry, images, both light and the dark, like a cool summer night that turns shockingly stormy and thunderous. Drawing from influences as varied as Julia De Burgos, Edgar Allan Poe and Maya Angelou, Vega ambitiously learned writing, singing and performing on her own with a passionate desire for her star to rise in the Nuyorican and Latino literary worlds. To be sure, her work is fierce, spirited, eloquent, dark and, like many, unashamed from someone anxious to exhibit her power with words and her stage presence.
“I have 3 simple things to say about Daisy Vega,” said fellow poet Mia Roman Hernandez, who included Vega in her show En Foco at CSV cultural center. “Her words are inspiring and empowering. Her spirit is bright and warm. And her energy is contagious. She is certainly a one of a kind individual and a very powerful woman.”
But getting back to Vega’s power of prediction, she said that when she grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, she was exposed to séances, and that she was born with a “gift” for predicting. Whatever one’s opinion on the validity of Astrology, it is without a doubt that former President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan consulted the stars for help on matters of State.
“….Tarot card readings, in the Hispanic culture you have candles and saints. I grew up around a lot of metaphysical new age kind of things,” said Vega. “I always had a gift for reading people and advising people….A track record that is proven needs no explanation.
“…I’ve been able to pinpoint tumors in people. I’ve been able to pinpoint things that are actual factual.”
Born on the same date as Bettie Page and Jack Nicholson, April 22nd, Vega uses the bare necessities of different astrological charting systems, she said, to make her predictions. Vega said that Mercury is in retrograde, which means that technology and messages will break down. (In the spirit of full disclosure, this reporter was born under the Gemini horoscope sign.)
“I am a visionary and I would like to bring groups of people together,” said Vega. “For change, for transformation, for enlightenment; I think, the work that we do in the literary world is healing for both ourselves and educating other people and it’s also a form of self-expression.”
 Vega, a self-taught musician and guitarist, said that she wants to be a “self-contained” artist where she can record and do most of her work on her own. She looks to Machiavelli’s ideas on self-reliance as her template for her creative endeavors.
“I had an epiphany on the eclipse,” said Vega, “I want to put together a documentary type work. I’m not quite sure what angle I want to take right now but I’m going to record some of my new material….I want to do something intense in the direction in which I’m going.”
Speaking in vague hyperboles and cliché, Vega earnestly believes in her own nurturing artistic and spiritual powers. While her career edges on slowly, Vega, dressed like Indira Gandhi with 1950s style cat glasses, is a genuine individual, guarded and private of her past but she possesses a strong sense of self, justice for society and she earnestly wants to help humanity, especially now with her poetry and through the current world wide financial crisis. For her, astrology and poetry are her innate gifts.
“We need more people to care about justice,” said Vega. “…It takes years to get to the point to forecast but you either have an innate ability to do it already and you have to put it to the test, put in out there.”
This story was developed through the Education Beat Writing Fellowship at the New York Community Alliance. |
