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Peter Jackson’s documentary “Get Back” has sparked renewed interest in the surprise rooftop concert given by the Beatles in 1969. Though it was not clear at the time, this brief concert would be the group’s last public appearance before they disbanded. For fans to the Beatles and for people just interested in the history of pop culture, it was a pivotal event and I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the astrology behind it.
The chart for the event is itself striking. (Click on rooftop concert to see the horoscope). We have Jupiter in a tight conjunction with Uranus, an interesting combination of good fortune and the unexpected. For many (though definitely not all) of the people nearby, the impromptu concert was a surprise treat. Uranus and Jupiter are in Libra, a sign associated with the arts and in the Fifth House, the house that rules entertainment. Also, the two planets are aligned with the South Node of the Moon, adding an element of fate to the proceedings.
However, what’s more interesting is the fact that each member of the Beatles was undergoing a significant transit at the time of the concert and during the two week period before the concert documented in Jackson’s film.
Ever since Neptune entered Pisces in 2012, and particularly after the planet moved into an opposition with natal Neptune in the horoscope for the United States, we’ve seen the boundaries between truth and fiction have become increasingly porous. This is something we have to expect with Neptune. Neptune always favors faith over facts. And for those faithful to Donald Trump this Age of Neptune seems set to take a dramatic new turn.
Trump is set to launch his own social media platform. It’s called “Truth Social.” We have to expect that the truths that this platform will carry will be the same supposed “truths” that got Trump kicked off Twitter. But that’s what the Age of Neptune is all about. “You have your truth. I have my truth. Who knows (or even cares) which is real?”
There’s an ominous inevitability about Pluto transits that makes them particularly scary. That’s why I got a bit of a chill when I saw Pluto on the IC of the Full Moon horoscope for Nov. 19. (Click on Full Moon to see the article and the chart.) Of course, a few days later we began to hear about a new and more deadly variant of the COVID-19 virus and, right on cue, it arrived in the U.S just before this lunation period ended.
Pluto also had something to do with the other headline that gripped the nation, the school shooting in Michigan. Again, we’re talking about ominous inevitability. The pandemic has placed enormous pressure on our schools and that pressure is felt by teachers, parents and students. Combine that with the availability of guns and it was only a matter of time before some deranged youngster started shooting. The killing spree in Michigan was tragic, but the next one could be much worse.
The Full Moon chart emphasized the Second and Eighth Houses which have to do with money and debts. We saw that manifested in the tense negotiations that went on in Congress over the budget. Once again, a government shutdown was avoided, at least for now. We could cite various political reasons for this continuing impasse but, at the end of the day, it’s just Mitch McConnell showing everyone who’s really running the country.
We look to astrology to guide us to our full potential, but astrology can be just as valuable when it shows us our limitations. This is not to say that we have to accept these limitations but we can’t be expected to overcome them until we know where they are. And when we want to see our limitations, we often end up talking about Saturn.
Very often, these limitations are hidden within our greatest gifts. Albert Einstein is one of the most admired geniuses of all time. One of the keys to his remarkable intellect is represented in his horoscope by the conjunction of Mercury with Saturn. (Click on Albert Einstein to see the chart.) The combination of these two planets is prominently placed in Einstein’s Tenth House of career and it allowed him to restructure our understanding of the universe. But this same adherence to the structuring qualities of Saturn also revealed the limitation of Einstein’s genius.
