International Women’s Day Protests (March 8, 1917)

Watching a documentary program on PBS last night, I learned that the true Russian Revolution actually began on February 23rd [O.S.] of 1917, and not in October. The Russian women in Saint Petersburg decided to protest how they were treated by the Tsarist government. Their efforts set in motion the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, and a new “peoples’ government” to be set up. It was only months later that the Red Bolsheviks seized the governmental controls of Russia and created the Soviet Union.

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Notice how the Moon (mother) is opposed to the Sun (Tsar), Mars (men) and Venus (love). Saturn (control) is on the Cancer Ascendant and inconjunct to Uranus (sudden change). Neptune (hidden motives) is inconjunct to Mercury (thinking) and Venus (love, again). By all accounts, after three days of increasing numbers, the “women’s” revolution succeeded against all odds. (It did help that the leaders of the protest went to the police stations and asked them not to fire on the protesters, in advance. The army followed suit and did not gun them down.)

International Women’s Day Protests (March 8, 1979)

Another protest, this time in Tehran, Iran, Came after the Shah was toppled and sent into exile. The Iranian Revolution, which started before this freedom march, turned into an ever more oppressive government by Islamic clerics. Why do these things turn out that way?

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I randomized the timing, since all anyone can say is that it started in the morning. I didn’t expect a Yod pointing at Pluto, formed by inconjuncts to the Sun and the Ascendant in Taurus. This seems to suggest that the Hand of God was involved. Really?

An oppressive regime tries to keep their women under control, so the events of one year ago, when Iranian women protested the death of a young woman who died after being detained by the “morality police” show that the spirit of protest never dies, but does not always lead to a revolution.

Just comparing these two International Women’s Day protests demonstrates how circular time really is.

Will we learn from history? If not, we are doomed to repeat it. You have been warned.