{"id":6011,"date":"2020-08-23T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2020-08-23T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T15:01:09","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-23-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=6011","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 23 August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Clapton – Patti Boyd – George Harrison<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Love Triangle<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFriends are all souls that we\u2019ve known in other lives. We\u2019re drawn to each other. That\u2019s how I feel about friends. Even if I have only known them for a day, it doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019m not going to wait till I have known them two years, because anyway we have met somewhere before, you know”<\/em><\/p>\n

~ George Harrison<\/p>\n

In the well documented love triangle between Eric Clapton, Patti Boyd and George Harrison, I am starting by looking at Eric Clapton’s life and chart, because if it had not been for his obsession with Patti, there would not have been a story.<\/p>\n

Eric Clapton<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Birth Chart<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Eric has the Sun, Mercury and his Descendant in Aries, so it would come naturally for him to focus on his own needs, just as for George Harrison as a Piscean it was natural for him to focus on transcendence and otherworldly things. Eric’s Sun is sextile exactly his Uranus, providing the brilliance and speed of his skilled guitar work.\u00a0 His intensity is shown by the Sun closely trine Pluto, an intensity which almost brought him to self-destruction, and his Moon in Scorpio in 1st House.\u00a0 His Moon, Mars and Saturn form a close Grand Trine in Water, making him very emotionally driven.\u00a0 The Moon opposite Venus forming a T-square with Pluto hints at the difficult relationship with his mother, and the abandonment issues engendered by that relationship, and the turbulence of his own love life.\u00a0 Mercury conjunct Venus reveals the Songwriter Archetype in his chart.\u00a0 He has musicality from Venus in her own sign of Taurus.\u00a0 An unaspected Jupiter, makes him a bit of a Maverick, going his own way.\u00a0 Neptune conjunct Chiron is possibly a pointer to his drug addiction.<\/p>\n

Life and Loves<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Clapton, hailed as one of the greatest guitarist in the hall of fame enhanced many groups and supergroups in his era.\u00a0 He began with the Yardbirds in 1963, joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in 1965, formed the band Cream in 1966, then moved on to Blind Faith (1969).\u00a0 He later joined Derek and the Dominos (1970), as well as pursuing a successful solo career.<\/p>\n

By 1968 he had become close friends with George Harrison of the Beatles, and was on friendly terms with all the Beatles.\u00a0 In 1969, Eric bought the house Hurtwood Edge in Surrey, and became a near neighbour to George and Pattie Harrison. They spent a great deal of time together, and it was during that time that Eric fell in love with Pattie and became infatuated.\u00a0 He recalls in his autobiography:<\/p>\n

“I remember thinking that her beauty was also an internal thing…It was her entire being, and the way she carried herself, that captivated me…I also coveted Pattie because she belonged to a powerful man who seemed to have everything I wanted – amazing cars, an incredible career and a beautiful wife.”<\/em><\/p>\n

He became addicted to heroin, however, and she resisted his advances for some time, though he sensed that she was not happy with George.\u00a0 It was while he was with Derek and the Dominos that he wrote “Layla” (1970), about unrequited love, with her in mind.\u00a0 He started living with Pattie in 1974, around the time of his Saturn Return in Cancer.\u00a0 In 1977 he wrote the song Wonderful Tonight for her.\u00a0 They married in 1979, but he soon became unfaithful, just as George had been unfaithful.\u00a0 Eric began to drink more and more heavily.<\/p>\n

In January 1982 he took himself to the Hazelden Treatment Center in Minnesota.\u00a0 When he arrived, he omitted to declare that he took Valium, with the result that they did not wean him off it gradually and he suffered a grand mal seizure from its withdrawal.<\/p>\n

He and Pattie tried to have children together, but were unsuccessful even with attempts at IVF.\u00a0 However in 1985, around the time of his Uranus Opposition, he met model Lori del Santo, who would give birth to his son Conor in 1986.<\/p>\n

On a second trip to Hazelden in 1987, towards the end of his stay there, he discovered the power of prayer and surrender, and he states in his autobiography “In all this time that I’ve been sober, I have never once seriously thought of taking a drink or a drug.”<\/p>\n

Eric was a doting father to Conor, but on 20th March 1991 while in the care of his mother Conor died, aged four, from a fall from an open window of a Manhattan apartment.\u00a0 At the time, Saturn was square to Conor’s Pluto, and Uranus was conjunct Eric’s South Node.\u00a0 This tragic event proved to be a turning point spiritually for Eric, building on the earlier religious awakening.\u00a0 The only tool Eric had for healing himself was through music:<\/p>\n

“I almost subconsciously used music for myself as a healing agent, and lo and behold, it worked\u00a0… I have got a great deal of happiness and a great deal of healing from music.”<\/em><\/p>\n

His Chiron (Inner Healer) is in Virgo in 12th House, between his Jupiter and his Neptune.\u00a0 He wrote the poignant song “Tears from Heaven” in honour of Conor.<\/p>\n

Healing was to come in his relationships, too.\u00a0 In 2002, he married Melia McEnery, with whom he had three daughters and a grandson.\u00a0 The transits for this marriage included Saturn sextile his Midheaven (a settling of life direction) and Neptune trine his North Node (karmic serenity).\u00a0 The marriage has brought him peace and happiness:<\/p>\n

“At the age of 54, I had probably made the first healthy choice in a partner in my entire life.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Pattie Boyd<\/span>
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Birth Chart<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pattie Boyd was one of the right people at the right time during the swinging sixties.\u00a0 Model Pattie and her sister Jenny had the look of the times. \u00a0I remember her well from the Smith’s crisps adverts!\u00a0 As a Sun in Pisces, there was something otherworldly about her, as there was about fellow Piscean George.\u00a0 She had 0 Earth planets, and 7 Mutable planets (showing great adaptability).\u00a0 Her Ascendant however was in Earth sign Capricorn, sextile her Venus (beauty).\u00a0 Her Moon was\u00a0 in Sagittarius in 12th House, trine exactly with Jupiter, but opposite her natal Saturn.\u00a0 For her and her siblings, childhood was very troubled, and the family spent time in Kenya.\u00a0 Her North Node was conjunct Pluto in her 8th House, \u00a0which might be a factor pointing to her being an object of obsession.\u00a0 Neptune (her ruling planet) at the top of the chart in Libra square exactly Ascendant, 9th House side, a sign of great glamour.<\/p>\n

Life and Loves<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“George and I, both Pisceans, were like the symbolic fish swimming in opposite directions. George seemed torn between the deep beneath us and the glitter on the surface, and I was so dazzled by what sparkled above that I couldn’t look down for fear of what might be lurking there”
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~ Pattie Boyd<\/p>\n

While working as a shampoo girl at Elizabeth Arden’s salon in London in 1962, she began to aspire to a modelling career.\u00a0 Soon she was modelling for Vogue and Vanity Fair, and being photographed by David Bailey and Terence Donovan.\u00a0 She appeared in the television advertisements for Smith’s crisps in 1964, and met George Harrison on the set of the film A Hard Day’s Night, where she was cast as a schoolgirl, in the same year.\u00a0 She met George on 2nd March 1964: Mars was trine her Midheaven, Jupiter was sextile her Saturn, and Neptune was square her Jupiter.\u00a0 For him, notably, Venus was trine his North Node, signifying a karmic meeting, and Jupiter was square his Mars.\u00a0 She moved with Harrison into his house Kinfauns in Surrey soon after he bought it in July.<\/p>\n

Pattie was engaged to George on Christmas Day 1965, and married him in 1966. The transits for George at the time were harmonious and happy (with Jupiter sextile his North Node and his Chiron).\u00a0 However, Patti’s were much more difficult (including Saturn opposite her Chiron, Uranus square her Saturn and Pluto square her Moon).<\/p>\n

They married on 21st January 1966, with Neptune square George’s natal Mars, and Pluto still square Pattie’s Moon.\u00a0 \u00a0Not an easy position for a start of a marriage.<\/p>\n

She and her sister joined the Beatles in India on their spiritual quest, and spent time with Ravi Shankar while George pursued his study of the sitar.\u00a0 The couple studied yoga, and embraced vegetarianism.\u00a0 Pattie was the muse for songs George wrote, such as “I Need You” and “If I Needed Someone” (both 1965) and “Something” (1969).\u00a0 Pattie and Harrison also tried unsuccessfully to start a family, and George ruled out adoption.<\/p>\n

They divorced on 9th June 1977: Uranus was on Pattie’s I.C., the finality of changing the foundations of her life.\u00a0 This was the year that Eric wrote “Wonderful Tonight”.\u00a0 The Solicitor who handled the divorce observed:<\/p>\n

“There was no overreacting, no greed or playing with each other’s emotions \u2013 I wish all divorces were so well handled.”<\/em><\/p>\n

She married Eric Clapton in 1979. \u00a0\u00a0George referred to Eric as his “husband-in-law”.\u00a0 By this time, Eric was drinking heavily and this marriage too began with difficulty.\u00a0 Having eventually “won” her, the reality of life, Eric’s own wounds, and his addiction interfered with any happiness they could have derived from their relationship.<\/p>\n

She left him in 1987 and they divorced in 1989.\u00a0 She published her autobiography “Wonderful Tonight” in the same year as Eric’s.\u00a0 She too found later happiness, with Rod Weston (a property developer) who she met in 1991 and married on 29th April 2015.\u00a0 This time, Saturn was sextile her Neptune, and trine her North Node (stability), and Uranus was trine her Moon.\u00a0 In addition, Uranus was trine her Jupiter (a happy opportunity) and Neptune was trine her Midheaven (serenity in her life direction).\u00a0 She has worked in photography and supported charities, most notably founding a charity with Ringo Starr’s wife Barbara Bach for addiction recovery.\u00a0 Eric Clapton also founded a recovery centre in Antigua, so they both used their experiences in that area of healing.<\/p>\n

“Eric and I were playmates, but\u00a0 George and I were soul mates, and I had let something special go without analysing what was happening between us”<\/em><\/p>\n

~ <\/em>\u00a0from “Wonderful Tonight”<\/p>\n

Her sister Jenny connects with another Soul Group I have written about, centred around Fleetwood Mac, as Jenny was married to Mick Fleetwood.\u00a0 Jenny Boyd brought out her autobiography this spring, entitled “Jennifer Juniper” (she herself was the muse of Donovan). \u00a0\u00a0She writes about Pattie’s life from a different angle, and comments about Pattie’s relationship with Eric:<\/p>\n

“Throughout the weekend Eric systematically attempted to cut through the bond between my sister and me, trying to make her jealous as he paid me unwanted attention.\u00a0 He had been used to having Pattie to himself, in his world, while I was desperately seeking her in mine.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In the Synastry between Eric and Pattie, there were difficulties, such as her Saturn square his Jupiter in Virgo in his 11th House, her Uranus square his natal Mars in Pisces in his 5th House, and \u00a0her Ascendant opposite his Saturn on her Descendant (a major block to relationship).<\/p>\n

George Harrison<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Birth Chart<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

George Harrison had Chiron exactly conjunct the North Node in Leo in 10th House, giving him a karmic mission of healing through creativity, channelled through his career.\u00a0 Like Pattie, he had the Sun in Pisces, but his Sun was exactly square Saturn, making his inner world complex and his life difficult.\u00a0 Saturn was conjunct Uranus, denoting personal earthquakes, with Uranus in his 7th House of Close Relationships.\u00a0 <\/strong>The Sun was trine his Ascendant in Scorpio, on the cusp of his 5th House, showing tremendous creativity.\u00a0 Like Eric, he had the Moon square Pluto, both having intense issues around women.\u00a0 His Moon (woman) was conjunct Eric’s in early Scorpio, symbolic of their shared interest in a particular woman, Pattie.\u00a0 Their Moons were trine Pattie’s Venus in early Pisces, so their was a similar pattern in the way they related emotionally to her, and she to them.\u00a0 <\/strong>George’s Moon conjunct his Ascendant in Scorpio from the 12th House accounts for his introversion, reserve and desire for his own space – he was known as “the quiet Beatle”. \u00a0George wrote about this need:<\/p>\n

“That is the trouble with partnerships, you get roped in on other people\u2019s trips. Completely roping everyone into a whim. Then you start getting into it and they can\u2019t handle it any more. It is very important to try and minimise the aggravation and spaciness in our lives.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Pluto square the Ascendant in the 10th House side, points to his mega career, as the member of the supremely successful Beatles.<\/p>\n

Life and Loves<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

George grew up in Liverpool, the youngest of four siblings, and had a happy home life, but disliked school.\u00a0 His parents were supportive of his musical direction, though initially his father had other plans for him.\u00a0 George met Paul McCartney travelling on the school bus, and they forged a bond over their musical interests and aspirations.\u00a0 The rest of the history of the Beatles is, of course, legend…<\/p>\n

His creative expression was stifled somewhat by his position alongside the Lennon\/McCartney songwriting machine, but he averaged two of his songs on most of their albums.\u00a0 However, his musical tastes and spiritual path lay in a different direction, though he did take them part of the way, with their involvement with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.\u00a0 Musically, he became a student of Ravi Shankar, and these directions were all very Piscean in nature.\u00a0 In friendship, he shared a great deal with Eric Clapton, they collaborated musically (including on a tour of Japan in December 1991), and of course, during a phase of their life they shared a love of Pattie.<\/p>\n

George’s greatest work was the triple album of 1970, “All Things Must Pass”, which gave him free rein to express his spirituality through music.\u00a0 The unforgettable, dreamy, mood of the album included such hits as “My Sweet Lord”, “If Not for You”, “Isn’t it a Pity” and of course “All Things Must Pass”.<\/p>\n

He too made a later, successful marriage, to Olivia Arias, on 2nd September 1978.\u00a0 For this marriage, Jupiter was exactly trine Venus, the perfect transit for marriage.\u00a0 Pluto was sextile his natal Midheaven, signalling a profound change in his life direction<\/p>\n

In 1980 he wrote an autobiographical book “I Me Mine”, which is quirky and interesting, though does not include reflections on his life with Pattie.\u00a0 In his marriage with Olivia, George found the contentment he lacked with Pattie, and they had one son together, Dhani.\u00a0 On 30th December 1999 he and Olivia were attacked at home by a paranoid schizophrenic: Saturn was square his Mercury (his lung was punctured in the attack) and Neptune was square his Ascendant on his 4th House cusp (his home).\u00a0 \u00a0George died of lung Cancer in 2001, leaving an estate of nearly \u00a3100 million.<\/p>\n

In George’s Synastry with Pattie, his Sun square Pattie’s Uranus (perhaps destined to part), and his Uranus was square her Venus (again, perhaps destined to part).\u00a0 Like Eric, his Moon was trine her Venus, the love they shared, and George’s Ascendant was exactly trine with Pattie’s, which would have brought their lives together originally for karmic purposes and to live together for a time.<\/p>\n

George’s Synastry with Eric shows Eric’s Moon close to George’s Ascendant, and they would have had a fundamental emotional understanding with their Moons conjunct.\u00a0 Eric’s Venus exactly opposite George’s Ascendant may show the rivalry for love.\u00a0 Eric’s Uranus trine George’s Mercury shows an almost telepathic sharing of interests, and Eric’s Ascendant sextile exactly George’s North Node emphasizes the karma between them.<\/p>\n

“There is a lecture where Yogananda was talking in 1939 in a self-realisation fellowship Book about friends explaining that the vibration the soul sets up, and the love and equally the hate we feel causes the attraction of souls to one another – from one life to another. Those people who you know much more easily or more quickly are people whom you\u2019ve known in other lives. It is very specific. There\u2019s more to this than meets the eye.”<\/em><\/p>\n

~ George Harrison<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eric Clapton, \u00a0“The Autobiography” 2007, Publisher Century<\/p>\n

Pattie Boyd, “Wonderful Tonight” 2007, Publisher Three Rivers Press<\/p>\n

George Harrison, “I Me Mine” 1980, Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicholson<\/p>\n

Jenny Boyd \u00a0“Jennifer Juniper” 2020, Publisher Urbane<\/p>\n

Lili Fini Zanuck “Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars”\u00a0 2017, documentary film<\/p>\n

Aspects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow (Monday 24th) there may be obstacles cropping up on your intended path, with a square between Mars and Saturn.\u00a0 This square may also produce some tension.\u00a0 You will need to think before you act, to avoid clumsiness.\u00a0 And observe others carefully, who may not be astrologically mindful.<\/p>\n

Tuesday (25th) is a different prospect altogether, with Mercury trine Uranus uplifting the mind, and ringing the changes.\u00a0 Uranus will add extra spice to your mind, ideas, plans, and documentation. \u00a0Computers and technology should be on sparkling form and assist your expression.<\/p>\n

Late on the same day, Jupiter opposes Venus, so there may be some late night socializing in the offing.\u00a0 This may include an awkward gaffe, but hopefully on the right side of humour.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday (26th) Mars will be sextile the North Node, bringing direct karma, possibly connected with warriorship.\u00a0 The warriorship can be expressed reasonably constructively.\u00a0 You may be able to get your message across directly and actively, in speaking your truth or setting an example.<\/p>\n

A beautiful trine follows on Thursday (27th) in the shape of Venus trine Neptune.\u00a0 Socially, you find spiritual links with people.\u00a0 Artistically or musically, you can achieve inspirational heights.<\/p>\n

Finally, more good news on Saturday (29th) as Mercury trines Jupiter, which expands our minds and philosophies.\u00a0 This is an upbeat vibe mentally, and one which could just make your weekend one to remember.\u00a0 It can also help the currently beleaguered teaching profession and educational policies, foster dialogues between nations, and even support struggling businesses.<\/p>\n

The week in bullet points:<\/p>\n