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John Lennon: Astro*Carto*Graphy & Biography Part 2
"To the toppermost of the poppermost!" John Lennon's Astro*Carto*Graphy and Cyclo*Carto*Graphy maps, and events that brought the Beatles to international acclaim.
Hamburg, Germany, 1960-63: The Beatles Begin
Astro*Carto*Graphy Map:
Jupiter Ascendant~Saturn Ascendant~Uranus Ascendant
"Any Jupiterian influence is usually beneficial, and under its lines, prosperity, success, good luck, honor and accomplishment can be expected…Music is under Jupiter, and there is a zest for life where this planet dominates…"
-Jim Lewis, Astro*Carto*Graphy
"With the help of Welshman Allan Williams, club owner and sometime-manager for many promising bands playing around Liverpool in 1960, the Beatles found themselves polishing their act at seedy clubs in Hamburg, West Germany. Living quarters were squalid, working conditions demanding, but instead of splintering the group, the experience strengthened them."
Biography of The Beatles, Musician Guide
JU ASC
"This location emphasizes the acting out of the … personal role of success, authority, and power for others. Or, you may act as an agent to activate these potentials in others’ lives…. Your face or personality may become famous, and people imitate or follow you as a leader or guru, since you exude self confidence…"
- Jim Lewis, ACG Locality Reading for John Lennon in Hamburg
"When The Beatles were depressed, thinking, the group is going nowhere, and this is a shitty deal, and we're in a shitty dressing room.... I'd say, 'Where are we going, fellas?' They'd go, 'To the top, Johnny!' And I'd say, 'Where's that, fellas?' and they'd say, 'To the toppermost of the poppermost!' and I'd say, 'Right!' Then we'd all cheer up."
-John Lennon
SA ASC
"The position Saturn occupies in this location tends to stress your own rise to personal power over your life, through taking control of personal habits and affairs. You will seem older and more powerful to others here, and they unquestioningly acknowledge your authority. Responsibilities… seem to proliferate, and your life is one long schedule of things to be done…Though you have good reason to hate the role of Authority, someone has to do it and you eventually realize that no one is more qualified than yourself."
-Jim Lewis, ACG Locality Reading for John Lennon in Hamburg
"I grew up in Hamburg, not Liverpool."
-John Lennon
GUITAR WORLD: John Lennon said, "I grew up in Hamburg-not Liverpool." Is that also true of the Beatles as a group?
GEORGE HARRISON: Oh, yeah. Before Hamburg, we didn't have a clue. [laughs] We'd never really done any gigs. We'd played a few parties, but we'd never had a drummer longer than one night at a time. So we were very ropy, just young kids. I was actually the youngest-I was only 17, and you had to be 18 to play in the clubs-and we had no visas…. when we went there, we weren't a unit as a band yet. When we arrived in Hamburg, we started playing eight hours a day-like a full wokday. We did that for a total of 11 or 12 months, on and off over a two-year period. It was pretty intense.
Guitar World Interview, Japan 1992
"…it was the combined 800 hours of live performance on grimy German stages in the city’s red light district that burned away the rough edges of the four Liverpool boys to reveal their lasting brilliance."
Germany by Andrea Schulte-Peevers
Under any Uranus line
"This is where you find yourself and define your individuality. Swift, unexpected emancipation and liberation from the past, patterns and habits occur, and you find what it is to be yourself…"
-Jim Lewis, Astro*Carto*Graphy
UR DSC
"You break rules with such a nonchalance that others assume you have some special right to do so and, as a successful self-regulated anarchist, your existence challenges the need for rules at all… For you, ‘Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique.’ (Krishnamurti)
-Jim Lewis, ACG Locality Reading for John Lennon in Hamburg
Encouraged by their audiences' demands to "make show," they became confident, outrageous performers. Lennon in particular was reported to have played in his underwear with a toilet seat around his neck, and the whole band romped madly on the stage. Biography of The Beatles, Musician Guide
London, England: I Want To Hold Your Hand
Astro*Carto*Graphy Map:
Sun Descendant~Mercury Descendant~Moon*Uranus
Cyclo*Carto*Graphy Map, Oct 17 1963:
Jupiter Ascendant~Jupiter-Mercury~Jupiter-Sun
Transiting Jupiter to Natal Mercury
"…It is a fortunate and positive time for success and advancement in work and educational areas, and one in which travel travel will be rewarding both materially and culturally…any undertaking involving communications will go very well now, perhaps attracting rewards, prestige, job advancement, or financial success…. There may be influences from foreign sources, and accomplished, successful people’s influence and assistance make life easier for you"
-Jim Lewis, ACG Locality Reading for John Lennon in London
Transiting Jupiter to Natal Sun
"…It should be full speed ahead on personal projects, especially those involving art, personal charisma, or leadership…Opportunities offered and projects initiated at this time can be cornerstones of future prosperity, as the world seems intent or recognizing and rewarding you for who you are."
-Jim Lewis, ACG Locality Reading for John Lennon in London
At the request of Beatles manager Brian Epstein that they write a song for the American market, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote I Want To Hold Your Hand during one all night session in a friend’s house in London. A few weeks later, it was recorded live at Abbey Road Studios in London Oct 17, 1963 in four takes.
I Want to Hold Your Hand is a 1963 Beatles song that... started the British Invasion of the United States music charts. It was the Beatles' first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, heralding nineteen more number-one singles by the Beatles in the United States. It also held the top spot in the United Kingdom charts, a million copies of the single had already been ordered on its release. I Want to Hold Your Hand became The Beatles' best-selling single worldwide.
Wikipedia: I Want To Hold Your HandMO*UR
"You can make quite a pest of yourself encouraging everyone you know to kick over the traces of authoritarianism, old values, and tradition."
-Jim Lewis, Astro*Carto*Graphy Reading for John Lennon in London
"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
-John Lennon:
Royal Variety Performance in London (November 4 1963) attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. John had intended to say "fucking jewelry," but was persuaded against doing so by Paul McCartney and the group's manager Brian Epstein.
The Beatles are the best-selling musical act of all time in the United States of America, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. In the United Kingdom, The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one.
This commercial success was repeated in many other countries: their record company, EMI, estimated that by 1985 they had sold over one billion discs and tapes worldwide. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The Beatles #1 on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
-Wikipedia biography of the Beatles
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