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You Say You Want Some Evolution?
In 1959 through 1961, transiting Pluto opposed Harrison's Sun. (see chart) Pluto, as a transiting planet, has the reputation of exposing one to the dark side, the shadow side, the aggressive and brutal sides of life. As Harrison as a late teenager traveled with the Beatles to Hamburg and toured Great Britain during these years, he received a real-life education in the corrupt, seedy, and treacherous side of life: hookers, shady clubs, bar brawls, drugs, hangovers, and low life squalor. Pluto transits have a way of compressing the more base, amoral, and darker sides of life into a two-to-three year package with varying results for the individual that faces them. For Harrison, the experiences in Hamburg provided for a necessary seasoning, where the exposure to the violent, cruel, and survival-oriented side of life ended any illusions and youthful innocence.
Breakthrough!
As Harrison and the Beatles burst through into public consciousness, the Jupiter-Uranus opposition of late 1962 and early 1963 landed on top of Harrison's Sun. (see chart) Throughout history, the Jupiter-Uranus oppositions and conjunctions consistently correlate with major breakthroughs in all cultural arenas: music, science, art, technology, film and literature. (For another example within music, see the essay on this website, entitled, "Do you feel like a Breakthrough? Jupiter-Uranus and Peter Frampton.") At this time, "Love Me Do" and "Please, Please, Me" would score as hits on both sides of the Atlantic, the Beatles would make their first television appearances and would begin their first major tour of Great Britain.
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