George Harrison Attacked (December 30, 1999)

It’s hard to believe that this event happened two days before Y2K. As I recall, I noted it in passing, but had a lot of other things on my mind.

The 3:00 in the morning time stamp is according to news reports on the day. Later, Olivia (George’s wife) would quote 4:30 am, but that may have been when the ambulance picked them up and took them to hospital. The Thames Valley Police spoke to the press and stated that it was 5 am when they arrived. So I’m sticking with 3 am.

As others have noted, Mars in the 4th House can indicate an intruder/attacker in an event chart. And Saturn on the Descendant is the planet with the most aspects here, too. There is one inconjunct:

Saturn Inconjunct Pluto

If either of these planets is close to conjunction or opposition with the Ascendant or Midheaven, its effects can be quite strong. It signifies a feeling that you must work extremely hard merely to keep your life running smoothly on a day-to-day level. Often this aspect is associated with quite a bit of tension, especially in your muscles, but also in your emotional approach to life. You need to learn that the world is not always a place of struggle and that occasionally it is good to let go and relax.

This aspect usually does mean that you are tough and can contend with a great deal of adversity, but don’t develop an attitude that makes adversity inevitable.

It has been stated, probably by his son Dhani, that this attack may have shortened George’s life. The karmic aspects of the event are visible from George’s South Node being conjunct to the Attack’s Mars, while George’s Pluto is (almost) exactly conjunct the Attack’s Node Node. And an interactive Yod is pointing at George’s Saturn, formed from inconjuncts to the Attack’s Sun and Ascendant. (You cannot make these things up, honestly.)

George Harrison died within two years, on November 29, 2001. Bless.