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Voyagers - Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet

Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world - Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet

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Heinrich Harrer's background

What makes Heinrich Harrer such a great example?

Heinrich Harrer's background

Heinrich Harrer was a mountaineer and writer, who when interned in India during WWII, managed to escape and make his way to the Forbidden city of Llhasa in Tibet, where he spent seven years and became the tutor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama , about which he wrote the book, Seven Years in Tibet, later made into a film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Brad Pitt as Harrer.

What makes Heinrich Harrer such a great example?

Birth of Heinrich Harrer

Heinrich Harrer makes a good example of a chart that has to hold a dramatic wartime escape and years spent living as an outsider inside one of the most closed societies on Earth, culminating in a friendship, with the young Dalai Lama, that lasted the rest of his life.

The aspects at the time of Heinrich Harrer's birth were

Sun conjunct Mercury

Sun conjunct Uranus

Sun conjunct North Node

Mercury conjunct Uranus

Mercury conjunct North Node

Uranus conjunct North Node

The chart shown is Heinrich Harrer's birthchart, together with transits for the birth of around the outside. Aspect lines [traditional] are between the transits and his birthchart.