The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert (January 30, 1969)

If you want to see the leadup to this ‘live’ show, watch “The Beatles Get Back”.

The show itself is not shown in this preview clip, but it’s famous enough to be understood for what it was: two fingers to a stuck-up financial world.

Hmm. I didn’t expect to see such a clear indication of what their motivations were: the Moon is inconjunct to Mercury, and Mars is inconjunct to Saturn.

Moon Inconjunct Mercury

As you grow older, you will have to learn to make your feelings and your reason work together. The problem is not so much that they come into conflict with each other but that your reason and feelings represent two very different sides of your personality. When you are calm and collected and able to reflect carefully, you make decisions in one way. But when you are emotionally involved in a situation, you are likely to make up your mind very differently, which could cause you to seem inconsistent to others and make it difficult for them to understand you.

Planets in Youth by Robert Hand (1977) page 116

Mars Inconjunct Saturn

This can be a difficult aspect because it signifies a conflict between your sense of responsibility and your desire to fulfill your own needs and do what you want. This leads to a struggle within you that may keep you from acting decisively. Instead of deciding what you will do, you feel caught between these two forces, wondering whether you have the right to do what you want. You may feel that others are trying to frustrate you, but it is only your own indecisiveness that is causing the trouble. Sometimes this conflict makes you very irritable and resentful about nothing in particular. Then, when someone happens to act in a way that is obviously annoying, you focus all your built-up anger on that person.

Ibid pages 230-1

It’s not hard to see why The Beatles broke-up after this. But it took another year to do so.

Bless.