Sun in Pisces square Saturn-Uranus Conjunction
With the Sun in Pisces, one's conscious identity is merged with the realm of fantasy, religion, myth, and the collective unconscious. The Pisces's ego is fused with the mythological ocean out of which all life emerges and eventually returns, known variously as the pleroma to the Gnostics, chaos to the Greeks, and tehom in Hebrew. For a Sun in Pisces, the psychological umbilical chord isn't completely severed from the peaceful and blissful fusion state that the world's religions and mythologies have intuited.
Thus, a Pisces Sun is given the difficult task of balancing two worlds: the imaginal with the concrete, the religious with the secular, and the ideal with the profane. Integrated personalities with Sun in Pisces have somehow managed to blend the artistic, mythological, and spiritual dimensions of their psyche with the commonplace and isolating conditions of "this world." In other words, for psychological health, a birth chart dominated by Piscean themes must rarefy the world, not escape it, must exalt the world, not abandon it, and finally, must have faith in the process of life, not flee it.
For Harrison, this bridging of two worlds was greatly intensified, and it was arguably the dominant theme of his entire life. For, in addition to Harrison's Sun in Pisces, his natal Sun was in square alignment with (approximately 90 degrees away from) a Saturn-Uranus. This alignment is known for a great deal of psychological tension because Saturn and Uranus symbolize very different features of being human. Saturn governs the principles of limitation and constraint of earthly reality whereas Uranus, among other things, rules the need to transcend, liberate, and free one's self from these earthly contracts and binds. Harrison's existence—from Beatle to solo artist to simply being human—seemed to be characterized between a constant battle or fight between freedom from illusions, trappings, and the bondage of celebrity and the necessity of "carrying on" and persevering.
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