Wow! Talk about Journeys! In early 2007, the legendary band Jouney was searching for a replacement for lead singer, Steve Perry, who had been injured. A friend of Arnel Pineda's, Noel gomez, had put cover videos of Arnel and his band Zoo up on youtube. Neil Schon saw them and sent him an email, which Arnel brushed off as a hoax. However, they called him on the phone a few minutes later and invited him to audition for the band. He went to Marin county, California for that and joined the band.

They traveled for their first concert in Chile and are now scheduled for a World tour. Arnel was also invited to appear on the Ellen DeGeneres show, who also showed quite a bit of interest in another Filippino singer, Charice Pempengo. My first impression was that Arnel was in his early 20's, but it turns out that he is actually 41 yrs old. (as of 9/5/2008)

If you look at his astrology, there is the modified Kalaparasha, with all the planets between the Nodes, except Saturn and Mars. This Yoga is often responsible for those who rise to high positions in life from humble beginnings.

According to Wikipedia biography Arnel's mother died when he was only 12 and he had to go and live with relatives and undergo severe austerities. He would have to collect scrap metals for money and didn't always have enough to eat. But the Kalaparusha yoga very often has this effect on the native: a difficult early life and rise to fame.

Now, there is no stated birth time for him, but, as he has become famous world wide, I have rectified his birth time to 11:30 PM because then Saturn is aspecting the ascendant in Taurus (vedic). Of course, in this position, Saturn is in its friend's house (Jupiter), and since it is in the Ascendant, it will bring him success in other countries. with this rectified time, it would have been during a Jupiter/Saturn period in Jan 2007 when he was discoverred by Neil Schon on youtube. Jupiter is exalted in his chart in Cancer.

Mercury and the Sun are conjunct in Arnel's chart and this very often indicates a writer, which he is. His Moon is in Virgo, in the 2nd pada of Uttara Phalguna. Natives of this 'pada" are "proud, clean, passionate, with much knowledge."