A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The man, calling for an end to the recent violence and bloodshed against pro-democracy demonstrators, was pulled away by bystanders, and the tanks continued on their way. The Chinese government crushed a student-led demonstration for democratic reform and against government corruption, killing hundreds, or perhaps thousands of demonstrators in the strongest anti-government protest since the 1949 revolution. Ironically, the name Tiananmen means “Gate of Heavenly Peace”. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener)
Tiananmen Square Massacre (June 4, 1989)
This protest by Chinese students in Beijing has been effectively wiped out of the Chinese consciousness by the Communist authorities in the intervening years. But not everyone has forgotten. The “Tank Man” image (above) is indelibly marked on Westerners’ consciousness. And, knowing now what we didn’t know then, the West has had some reminders, lately, of what power Saturn and Neptune conjunct has.
Here’s a sanitized retrospective of the protests that went (oh, so) wrong.
By December, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet Union began to collapse..
With Saturn and Neptune conjunct again, this time in Aries, we have to ask: Have we learned anything?
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