Pussy Riot girls released in Moscow.

The last two remaining jailed members of Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova have been released as a goodwill gesture earlier than expected - Yekaterina Samutsevich the 3rd member of the group was released in October. They were imprisoned for performing a protest song in a Moscow church calling for Russian president Vladimir Putin to be thrown out of office.

This comes exactly on time on the Russia 1991 chart as transiting Neptune, the planet of ultimate freedom and no restrictions moving in the 7th house of open enemies to the state exactly opposes the planet representing women, the Moon. Cancer, the Moon's sign rules the 12th house of prisons on this chart. Indeed Russia has been making a lot of prison releases recently with the Greenpeace protesters let out of jail and also Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the billionaire oil tycoon also being allowed to leave his prison cell early after being incarcerated in Siberia for 10 years, because his mother was ill with cancer. Might this change in tack by the leadership be because the Russian natal Saturn is being squared but the Nodes which does tend to weaken the authority of the administration for a while, possibly with the Winter Olympics in Sochi looming in the near future.

One wonders what will happen when transiting Saturn in the middle of next year connects with the Pluto Venus conjunction in the 4th house of the opposition to the leadership and transiting Pluto moving in the 5th house of entertainment and sport gets close to the Russian natal Uranus, the planet of independence and revolution ruling the 7th house of open enemies. Might the eyes of the world being on Russia during the Winter Olympic games allow some freedom for those opposing the leadership to voice their opinions? It could get interesting in Russia in 2014.

Certainly, with regard to the three released girls, I strongly suspect they are not going remain quiet and I quite expect them to be strident voices and powerful figures in support of human rights and freedom of speech...