Heavenly Music

I don’t believe in horoscopes, but what I like the most
Resulting from astrology was done by Gustav Holst:
The Planets, an orchestral suite composed in World War I
With characterization of its namesake. This is fun!
They aren’t all set in order; Mars and Mercury swapped places,
And Earth’s omitted, not within what Holst’s idea of space is.
Oh, Pluto wasn’t known until he didn’t care for more:
The suite had caused his other works, he felt, to go ignored.
Perhaps I’ll check them out someday; for now, I wish to say
That Planets movements influence some music to this day,
From metal bands to movie scores, and thus I must conclude
They hold more sway on lives than lit’ral planet movements do.