By Chetan Parkyn
In the early 1960s, Europe was picking itself out of the rubble, deprivation, and mess of a second world war. The Industry was struggling to rebuild, the rationing of food and fuel was gradually waning, and life was moving toward getting „back to normal.“
In cosmic terms, the planets that influence our human psychology were activating Gates within the Human Design Life Chart in very specific ways that lead to the huge impact the Beatles would have on our world culture. Neptune, the planet that relates to our psychic receptivity, dreams, and attunement to life through experiencing love, was moving through Gate 43, called „Breakthrough,“ and the place within us that gives us penetrating insights into our life’s potential. The „Doors of Perception“ blew open. Uranus, the planet of awakening, moving back and forth through Gates 6, Conflict Resolution and 46, Serendipity, ushered in a new awareness of Peace, Presence, and Emotional calm. Pluto, the planet of transformation, was hovering in Gate 47, the place where we get huge wake-up calls and realizations that make sense out of our confusion, and Gate 6 where we strive to find ways to express and resolve our differences.
In America, a boom was taking place in many areas of manufacturing and business, and a new level of affluence was becoming commonplace. Black and white television was beginning to replace long-wave (AM) radio by expanding its presence into most households, and advertising companies had whole new approaches to making their mark in the ways society modeled itself.
In the West, in the music world, Rock and Roll was becoming a new moving force with fame and fortune greeting those who could find a clear outlet and an „image“ to go along with their performance. This powerful new force moving in the world culture would change life as we knew it, forever.
The formation of the Beatles came about over a few years. John Lennon and Paul McCartney had met and played music together at a garden fete, a kind of daytime church community party in Liverpool. George Harrison, a school friend of Paul’s joined in at George’s own insistence, and then Ringo Starr, a drummer with „superior“ style was hired. „Love Me Do“ their first recorded song together as the Beatles came out in 1962, and the rest, as they say, is history… Through their attitudes, humor, and style, as much as their lyrics and musical style, they were enthusiastically embraced by a young generation ready for change.
In this and the following articles, we look at the Designs of the four musicians, and also the Design of their manager, Brian Epstein, who combined energies to herald an enormous change in the world’s awareness. Somehow the Beatles hit notes and combined lyrics together that captured the hearts and minds of people involved in an emerging awakening. Never before in the history of the world had so much adulation and in certain quarters, condemnation greeted a band of musicians. Undeniably, a new zeitgeist was born; one which would shape the world in unprecedented ways.
John Lennon, the acknowledged leader of the Beatles, was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool into the Incarnation Theme of „Penetration.“ As its name implies, this Incarnation Theme gives one the means to access many levels of life from many different vantage points, both for a personal evaluation of one’s surroundings and also as a catalyst for shocking others into a new level of personal awareness. The key to the real intelligence of the Incarnation Theme of Penetration is to hold personal integrity within oneself and at the same time, see the dramatic effects one can have on others because of what you can see about them and their lives.
In his Design chart, John is an Emotional Generator. (A Generator Type, with Emotional Authority). Generators have a fundamental principle at work in their makeup: they have a Design „to Respond to life from their lower belly,“ or Sacral Center. Emotionally defined people have an equally powerful fundamental principle in their life makeup: to wait for emotional, feeling, clarity that can be found, physically in their Solar Plexus region.

Generators will always find frustration when they try to launch themselves into relationships or activities without first appealing to their own sacral response, and in John’s case, without allowing himself the time to reach emotional clarity. He found himself spontaneously remarking on situations that appeared obvious to him but in times and ways that brought animosity from other people who did not appreciate his comments.

Inevitably, one of John’s major lessons in his lifetime will have been to cultivate patience, but at the same time stay alert to the present moment. He was once heard to remark that „Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.“

John’s single defined Channel, 6-59, „Connecting, Creating through Intimacy,“ gave him the means to give form and birth to all manner of concepts and creations. It is the only Channel in the Life Chart that connects directly between the Sacral, Life-Force energy Center and the Emotions, Solar Plexus Center, our center of emotional energy and awareness. It is an immensely creative and powerful Channel that penetrates into the emotional environment in ways that are impossible to ignore. No one could meet John Lennon and remain unaffected by his presence.

Evident in the rest of his Design chart, is a great openness and empathy, which comes through his undefined (white) centers. There are two possible ways that undefined Centers play out in life : one, is that they can be a source of great wisdom because they can reflect the world back to itself without being attached to any fixed expressions that constrain defined Centers; or, they can become places of conditioning when one absorbs other people’s defined Centers as though it were a part of one’s own makeup, therefore becoming „constrained“ to live your life by other people’s ways.

Everyone who has undefined Centers, and particularly like John, with only two Centers out of nine being defined, is often awash in the energies of the lives of everyone around them. With any undefined Centers in your Life Chart, you can either move through those intense energies brought by the people around you in your life, and reflect them back into the world in a modified form, giving them the benefit of your wisdom as they go; or you can become overwhelmed by other people’s energies, absorb them and lose your own sense of identity and purpose in life. At different times, John’s life was an expression of both of these possibilities.

For instance, in John’s chart, at his Throat Center, his voice reflects through the three activations he has there, Gates 12, the 8, and the 31. The wisdom of expressing Gate 12 comes through his linking words and expressions that form specific meanings held by other people in ways that they might not know how to express for themselves. The wisdom of the 8 comes through a barefaced expression of honesty. The wisdom of the 31 expressed in dramatic terms, influencing people toward a positive regard for their future.

The conditionings in these Gates can become apparent when John says things spontaneously without waiting for his Gut Response or Feeling Clarity, that even though they might be exactly true expressions, completely antagonize others, as he would be seen to have „talked out of turn.“

It is quite clear that one remarkable man was able to leave an enduring mark on his world through his own gifts, timing, and creativity, but we will come to appreciate that perhaps the greatest part of his genius was sparked through his cooperation with the people around him, particularly his songwriting partner, Paul, and other bandmates and managers.

In our next update, we look at the Life Charts of Paul MacCartney and Beatles Manager, Brian Epstein, the two Manifestors with birthdays 6 months apart…

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