The Birthchart
Harrison, as many commentators have pointed out, was the most complex Beatle, a knot of paradoxes needed to make a human being whole. He was the youngest Beatle but the most mature in terms of detaching and quickly seeing through the trappings of stardom. He was the most mysterious and private and yet down-to-earth and approachable. He was most humble, reserved, and reluctant of the Fab Four and yet the one to make the greatest contributions to advancing spirituality, new forms of music, and promoting independent cinema. Finally, longing for spiritual transcendence and purification, he loved much of what the material plane had to offer: sports cars, cigarettes, drugs, and guitars.
The birth chart (see chart) parallels George's complexity and the major life dilemmas and dramas he would try and resolve. None of us are born without inherent contradictions and problems to work through, however, George's birth chart suggests a great intensity surrounding universal conflicts that transcend more everyday matters: reconciliation of the spiritual versus material sides of man, the facing of sudden crises, fame versus privacy, intense relationship ensnarement, and progress in opposition to tradition. Some of these conflicts would remain at the forefront of George's conscious attention for all of his life; other dramas would unfold only as transits* by outer planets would wake up the latent predicaments waiting to be negotiated. What follows is a short summary of the major themes found in Harrison's birth chart.
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