[3] The story of the ballet concerns a young man and woman who were born in the disjoint Sun signs of Leo and Virgo.
The Vic-Wells Ballet was touring there in 1940 when German forces occupied the country, and they had to escape hurriedly, leaving behind scenery, costumes, and the full scores to both Horoscope and The Wise Virgins (an arrangement of Bach's music by William Walton).
[12] The nine surviving numbers are: Lambert had claimed that the theme of the Prelude was dictated to him by the ghost of Bernard van Dieren; Ashton suggested the tune for the Invocation to the Moon.
[14] Lambert recorded three of the movements ("Dance for the Followers of Leo", "Valse for the Gemini" and the "Invocation to the Moon and Finale") in 1945, with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
[16] The five-movement Horoscope Suite was later recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra under Robert Irving (1953)[17] and the English Northern Philharmonia under David Lloyd-Jones (1990).