Curtis Eagal
2021-08-16 21:19:40 UTC
There is some confusion over when The Beatles' lead guitarist was born, with George Harrison himself promoting the story that it was recorded as 25 February 1943 at 12:10 am locally for Liverpool, but because the UK was in an extended British Summer Time from 25 February 1940 to 7 October 1945, this long-term 'daylight-saving time' adjustment was perceived as altering his 'actual' birth date, which to his mind should have been 24 February 1943, considering wartime change as an aberration that brought confusion.
According to
http://www.beatlesfaq.com/2015/09/which-beatle-had-two-birhdays.html
<< The official time-of-birth is recorded as 23.50, February 24. >>
So the family story of his birth must have inverted whether it was ten minutes before or after midnight 24/25 February 1943, causing him to incorrectly believe it was after, and that 25 February was his dubiously official birthdate. The fact that it was before midnight means that even if the wartime protracted extra hour of DST were invalidated, his birthday would still have been February Twenty-Fourth, only at 10:50 pm locally (an hour earlier); but everyone was following the system, which never put his birth into 25 February at all.
Astrologers are interested in synchronizing official times with celestial calculations, so it was intriguing to discover, by plugging in the Liverpool coordinates and official natal time of 24 February 11:50 pm BST (UTC with imposed DST), that George was born at the moment the Moon was precisely at the Ascendant, meaning it was the lunar dawning on the horizon, local Moonrise - consequently the Sun was simultaneously conjoined with the Part of Fortune.
Ironically, while this feature in his natal chart would have played into the lyrics of such hit original songs as "Here Comes The Sun" and "Here Comes The Moon," it is obvious Harrison never saw the proper chart, looking instead at 25 February 12:10 am BST and thinking it should be UTC instead of an hour off (because it was not summer yet).
It is typical to acknowledge John Lennon's 9 October 1940 birth was close to the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, occurring roughly every twenty years, while the generated chart shows the Moon unexpectedly participating in an Earth-sign Grand Trine with two planets, one known for eccentric behavior, the other associated with the subconscious and intuition.
According to
http://www.beatlesfaq.com/2015/09/which-beatle-had-two-birhdays.html
<< The official time-of-birth is recorded as 23.50, February 24. >>
So the family story of his birth must have inverted whether it was ten minutes before or after midnight 24/25 February 1943, causing him to incorrectly believe it was after, and that 25 February was his dubiously official birthdate. The fact that it was before midnight means that even if the wartime protracted extra hour of DST were invalidated, his birthday would still have been February Twenty-Fourth, only at 10:50 pm locally (an hour earlier); but everyone was following the system, which never put his birth into 25 February at all.
Astrologers are interested in synchronizing official times with celestial calculations, so it was intriguing to discover, by plugging in the Liverpool coordinates and official natal time of 24 February 11:50 pm BST (UTC with imposed DST), that George was born at the moment the Moon was precisely at the Ascendant, meaning it was the lunar dawning on the horizon, local Moonrise - consequently the Sun was simultaneously conjoined with the Part of Fortune.
Ironically, while this feature in his natal chart would have played into the lyrics of such hit original songs as "Here Comes The Sun" and "Here Comes The Moon," it is obvious Harrison never saw the proper chart, looking instead at 25 February 12:10 am BST and thinking it should be UTC instead of an hour off (because it was not summer yet).
It is typical to acknowledge John Lennon's 9 October 1940 birth was close to the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, occurring roughly every twenty years, while the generated chart shows the Moon unexpectedly participating in an Earth-sign Grand Trine with two planets, one known for eccentric behavior, the other associated with the subconscious and intuition.