Mercury square Mercury at 1.34 degrees
Sharp on speech
John Lennon and George Harrison compatibility
↓ Below: all 6 aspects named, with orbs
Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Astro-Databank 18:30.
This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, the four placements a birth date alone can place. Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven are left out here by design, not by omission, so nothing on this page is scored against a birth time it cannot trust.
Cross-aspects
Where the two charts actually touch
and 1 more, to 5.13°Collapse
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
John Lennon and George Harrison's Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Moon are drawn here, along with the house ring and ascendant axis both charts support. This is a complete chart of what is known, not a partial chart of what is not.
| Thick line, Mercury to Mercury | SQUARE 1.34° |
| Thick line, Venus to Sun | OPPOSITION 2.26° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
John's Mercury trines George's Sun at 3.08 degrees, the softest contact in the pair and the one that lets the older man's phrasing land as recognition rather than correction. Communication and attraction are both live categories here, scoring 91 and 83, which is unusually engaged for a reading drawn from four bodies. Whatever passes between these two charts passes strongly. The connection is not faint in any direction.
Why they clash
Mercury squares Mercury at 1.34 degrees, near enough to exact to be a permanent feature of how they talk: two verbal styles at right angles, neither able to soften the other. John's Venus opposes George's Sun at 2.26 and his Mars opposes George's Venus at 3.33, so desire and taste face off across the chart as well. Add John's Sun square George's Mars. Four hard aspects, and identity itself has no direct channel at all.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
This is what comparing two charts system by system looks like: the same birth data on both sides, read against each other one system at a time.
The Suns are 139.2° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Dragon and Goat are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
A second tradition
Guna Milan (Ashtakoot)
Guna Milan is the compatibility method used in Vedic matchmaking, traditionally consulted before an arranged marriage. It scores eight factors between two Moon placements on a 36-point scale, shown here as what this one tradition reads: not a verdict, and not averaged with the Western reading above, which may disagree.
Guna Milan needs an exact birth time for both people. The Moon changes nakshatra roughly once a day, so an estimated time can place the whole reading in the wrong one, and at least one birth time here isn't exact.
Films together
Groups
Shared history
Shared life events
The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show
US TV debut watched by ~73 million; the start of American Beatlemania.Source ↗
5 passages · 2 charts
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Sep 14, 1963 – Jul 6, 1964 · 296 days
John Lennon
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus trine Midheavenslow
- Uranus sextile Mercuryslow
- Jupiter opposition Sunfast
Editorial note · Jupiter opposition Sun
Arriving 1 day after the historic broadcast, Jupiter opposing the twelfth-house Sun highlighted a massive surge in global visibility and outsized public recognition.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Jupiter trine Midheavenfast
Order of the British Empire 1965
3 passages · 1 chart
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Apr 6 – Aug 18, 1965 · 134 days
John Lennon
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
Nothing was within orb for John Lennon on this date.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Marsslow
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
The Beatles break up
Paul McCartney announces his departure, effectively ending the band.Source ↗
11 passages · 2 charts
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Nov 13, 1969 – Sep 5, 1970 · 296 days
John Lennon
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus square Midheavenslow
- Uranus square Midheavenslow
- Chiron square Midheavenslow
- Saturn opposition Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Venusslow
- Jupiter square Moonfast
- Jupiter sextile Venusfast
Editorial note · Neptune square Venus
Neptune squared eighth-house Venus 38 days before the breakup, dissolving the band's shared financial and creative bonds during an intense power window.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune trine Venusslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Jupiter conjunction Moonfast
- Jupiter conjunction Ascendantfast
Editorial note · Saturn square Mercury
Five days after the split, Saturn square Mercury in the 7th house marked a somber, definitive mental seal on the end of their partnership.
43rd Academy Awards (Nominations Announced)
8 passages · 2 charts
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Dec 28, 1970 – Apr 21, 1971 · 114 days
John Lennon
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Marsslow
- Chiron square Midheavenslow
- Neptune sextile Moonslow
- Jupiter sextile Moonfast
- Jupiter square Venusfast
Editorial note · Neptune sextile Moon
Neptune formed a power window sextile to Moon in the eighth house 11 days after the Oscar nod, deepening the emotional resonance of the honor.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn square Midheavenslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Jupiter square Sunfast
Editorial note · Neptune square Sun
Peaking 11 days after the nomination announcement, Neptune square the second-house Sun within a power window cast an illusory, dreamlike aura over material acclaim and artistic valuation.
43rd Academy Awards
9 passages · 2 charts
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Jan 9 – Jul 20, 1971 · 192 days
John Lennon
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Marsslow
- Neptune sextile Moonslow
- North Node sextile Ascendantfast
- Jupiter square Venusfast
Editorial note · Neptune sextile Moon
Forty days before the ceremony, Neptune sextile the eighth-house Moon opened an emotional power window that set an inspired, receptive mood for the upcoming honors.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Mercuryslow
- Uranus trine Mercuryslow
- Saturn trine Marsslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Jupiter square Sunfast
Editorial note · Neptune square Sun
Neptune squared the Sun 40 days before the Oscars, dissolving illusions around self-worth and shaping this power window.
Frequently asked
Are John Lennon and George Harrison astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 6 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.34° and 2.26°. Astrology does not score a relationship out of a hundred, and the number on this page counts how much contact two charts make, not how well two people do.
What does square mean between two charts?
A square puts two placements at a right angle, generating friction that tends to force action. John Lennon and George Harrison have 2 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
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This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, because those are the four that a birth date alone can place. The synastry calculator runs all ten bodies against each other.