I’ve always thought astrology almost surreally unlikely, that the world can be broken into twelve personality types? That I can believe. But that your date of birth influences your personality? I guess, the environment in your first six months might… to a degree. And the pull of the moon on our body (which is mostly water…) but I don’t think so, no.
But I read Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs forty years ago and was shocked to discover I was a typical Libra. The personality Goodman described was mine, and to a degree, was Lennon’s. Not just his charm or his mercurial moods, or his wild mood swings (certainly nothing to do with his genius), but I think, rather, we may have a similar view of mankind.
In keeping with my sign, I am wildly anti-social and can’t deal with people more than four at a time, and even that is pushing it. I have a deep, deep mistrust of crowds, of pack mentality, of lowest common denominator. Really, every social and governmental institution gives me the willies. I hate it when people get together to agree upon things.
I hate people.
But I love person, I love you.
I love the individual above all else and I believe that for the most part when you deal with people one on one you will find something to love. And my feeling is that John Lennon’s political opinion (which is what it is) is essentially the same. I think he hates the institutions that govern us but loved us and he saw the hope for people in person. When you get past his agitprop and get closer to the pan-humanism of Imagine and Mind Games, this is what you find. The heart of Lennon, of Double Fantasy, is placing the love of one on an equal footing with the love of the many. Seeing one as part of the other.
Merry Crinble, folks.
