Recently, the musician Brian Wilson, the creative brain behind The Beach Boys but also, according to many, a genius musical innovator, who broke new ground, passed away. He is mentioned as one of the important sources of inspiration for The Beatles, he was certainly successful, but above all a heavily tormented genius. There is a huge and dramatic gap betweenthe Beach Boy Image and reality. Because Wilson’s life was haunted by major psychological problems exacerbated by LSD use, his whole life was a battle against chaos.
Crisis zone
His radix indeed shows a large concentration of factors in Algol’s notorious crisis zone. If you still had any doubts about the nature of this zone, Wilson is the tragic proof of the major problems it causes. The deeper reason for the crisis character of this zone, running from the star Algol at 26° Taurus via the Pleiades around the sign boundary Taurus/Gemini to Prima Hyadum at 6° Gemini, is the Taurus character. All these stars are located at the level of the constellations in earthly Taurus, which means that here the central theme is the first hard confrontation with earthly reality and material limitations.
Ear
That also shows what can contribute to the solution of those problems, acceptance of how it is, instead of resistance. For example, depression often stems from the desire for things to be different from what they reallyand ncessarily are. How strong is the crisis zone in Wilson’s horoscope! His Ascendant is on Algol – losing your head – and a little further malefic Saturn is without dignity on Prima Hyadum, one of the most important stars in the crisis zone. Wilson was deaf in his right ear, a big problem for him. Saturn is the significator of right ear and it has a direct influence on the body in the first house, the malefic also contributes to the psychological crises.
Double trouble
Venus, Lord 1, Wilson in his life, is in the twelfth house of drug use, loneliness and confusion but it is the planet of art in its own sign, so very strong. Here you can see that he could use the music to stay psychologically on his feet. Lord 5 of creativity in Mercury in his own sign, even in the first house, there is more than enough creative talent. He needed that very much, because in addition to the Ascendant and Saturn in the crisis zone, and Lord 1 in House 12, Mars also falls on Pluto on Praesepe via antiscion on the Ascendant! Praesepe is the star of fragmentation and the “second Algol”, “the exhalation of piled-up corpses” according to the Chinese. Poor, poor Beach Boy!