Karmic Knowledge

When I mentioned to my husband that The U.S. vs. John Lennon was about to hit the theaters, his reaction was, “The timing couldn’t be better.” So true when you consider that a film about a U.S. government plan to deport an inconvenient voice for truth is being released the same week that Congress is working to pass a bill that allows torture and rids us all of our right to Habeas Corpus.

The U.S. vs. John Lennon is a documentary about Richard Nixon’s effort’s to silence John Lennon as a voice of peace during the Vietnam War era. In the past few weeks, web sites and blogs have posted interviews and videos promoting the film. The local Portland alternative weekly, just out today, had the following teaser on its cover:

John Lennon, fighting the man —from the dead.

As I always do with films that interest me, I visited the movie’s web site and viewed the trailer. When John’s voice started singing Power to the People, chills went up my spine.

I remember, in the days just after 9-11 feeling perplexed by the fact that Lennon’s Imagine was banned from the radio airwaves. My own reaction to the tragedy was not one of anger or vengeance, but one of hope that something good might come from this tragedy. How could a song about peace be inappropriate?

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

Instead, our leaders told us to soothe our grief by going shopping.

My husband is the real Lennon fan in the family and he helped to bring me up to speed on the history of John’s run-in with the FBI. Intrigued by the whole affair, I decided an analysis of the karma in his natal chart was in order. (Click thumbnail for larger image.)

Looking first to the 12th house to determine the background behind the karma, we see that John has Pisces intercepted here. Aquarius is on the cusp and Aries takes up a good amount of real estate as well. I read this as a past life fighting for freedom (Aquarius) with Aries lending a martial influence. The Pisces interception tells me he was more than likely imprisoned for his actions or beliefs. Pisces/ Aries also tells me that he may have been unrealistic about what he could accomplish, that he may have tried to go it alone in his quest.

Uranus retrograde in the first house confirms this to some degree. It shows a pursuit of freedom at all costs. It also shows that he felt like an outsider.

Add to this Saturn and Jupiter, both retrograde, and exactly conjunct in the first house and we can say that this is not the first time that John Lennon’s life was cut short. (Here’s why I say this: Donald H. Yott, in his book Astrology and Reincarnation, sees Jupiter retrograde as lack of expansion and Saturn retrograde as returning with the same goals as before, but in a different set of circumstances. When other factors are present that show war, slavery, illness, etc., I will often read Jupiter and/or Saturn retrograde as signs of an early death.) With the last 19 degrees of John’s 12th house in Aries, the past life death was probably caused by a fight or an act of rage.

The South Node, one of the most widely used markers of past life patterns and behaviors, is in John’s 12th house, in Aries. This confims the warrior aspect of the past life script. There is a tendency for those with South Node in Aries to feel that no one is looking out for them, and that they need to be protective of themselves. Again, a sign of John acting alone in his past life, taking on a fight for an ideal, even if he could not win.

In this life, John was asked to develop the opposite traits of Libra, the sign of his North Node. Libra is the scales, the balancer, the peacemaker, the bringer of harmony. With his Sun and Mars, the natural ruler of Aries, also in Libra, he would be guided to search out partners in his quest, and to set goals of working for peace.

In all intercepted charts, the same sign sits on two consecutive house cusps. In John’s chart the duplicated sign of Capricorn on the 10th and 11th houses show that, to fulfill his destiny, his career should in some way involve social reform, and that he was here to do something for the good of the many.

Lastly, his Part of Fortune in Capricorn (in the 9th house of the teacher and philosopher) indicates that John was here to create something that would outlast his own existence.

I remember the day that John Lennon was shot. I was living on the upper east side and my office was just 20 blocks south of the Dakota. That was 26 years ago (I’m giving away my age). And despite having left this earth too early, again, his name will be forever linked to the movment for peace in the world. I believe he fulfilled his destiny, he left a larger than life legacy that still touches us today.

Whoever coined that blurb on the front page of the Willy Week was right. John Lennon continues to fight the man. His voice is just the one we need in these times, the voice that lends Power to the People.

Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Ev’ryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you’re ev’rywhere
Come and get your share

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on and on

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