Under a Sacred Sky by Ray Grasse

Author:Ray Grasse
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wessex Astrologer
Published: 2015-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

The JFK Assassination and the Beatles

As a child in grade school at the time, I’m old enough to remember exactly where I was when I got the news of JFK’s assassination that day. That was a remarkable enough moment in history, but it was made all the more remarkable by the convergence of several other significant events happening in its compass. Consider that less than sixty minutes before the President was shot, the famous Christian theologian and fiction writer C.S. Lewis died, while just twelve minutes before that the famed author and intellectual Aldous Huxley died (famously under the influence of LSD, incidentally).

But that’s not all. While doing some research on the music of that period, I came across this extraordinary tidbit on Wikipedia:

On 10 December 1963, a five-minute news story shot in England about the phenomenon of Beatlemania was shown on the CBS Evening News. The segment first aired on the CBS Morning News on 22 November and had originally been scheduled to be repeated on that day’s Evening News, but regular programming was cancelled following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy earlier that day.

In other words, the very same day that JFK was shot and both C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley died, North American audiences experienced one of their first media glimpses of a musical phenomenon which eventually went on to define the entire decade – the Beatles.

Clearly, something big was “in the air” that day. But what, exactly?

Astrologers have debated the horoscope of the JFK assassination ever since, and more than a few have puzzled over the seeming lack of major configurations that day. True, Pluto was widely squaring Mercury, Mars, and Venus, while Uranus was closely squaring Mercury as well, along with a few other aspects. But none of these are especially unusual, and certainly not earthshaking. And the Earth definitely shook on 11/22/63. So what could have triggered a tectonic shift the likes of which heralded the demise of Camelot, the death of notable writers, and the introduction of a major musical phenomenon to American audiences?

Rather than look solely at the transits on that day, I’d suggest we broaden our focus and examine the larger trends throughout that entire decade. Notably, the 1960s played host to the once-in-every-110-year conjunction of Uranus and Pluto which became exact in 1965 and 1966 (though its influence extended for years on either side). But no less important was the fact that the decade also witnessed an extraordinary line-up of planets in Aquarius just one year before JFK’s assassination, during the first week February, 1962 – a configuration made even more powerful by the inclusion of an exact conjunction of the Sun and Moon, in a solar eclipse.

If we look carefully to where the planets were when JFK was assassinated in 1963 (12:30 PM standard time, November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX), we find that the transits at that moment not only formed significant aspects to the stellium one year earlier but also served to trigger the potentials of the emerging Uranus/Pluto conjunction.

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