What is the relationship between partisanship and astrological sign? Also, what is the difference between a revolution and a coup? Finally, is a revolution constitutionally protected, and a politically viable tool?
I expect that in essay form by the way. If you can somehow connect all three of those questions together I will be incredibly impressed, and you will get 2 points extra.
Feminine signs (representing the water and earth elements) are theoretically deeply invested the past and the status quo, and thus are generally likely to be relatively conservative. Their masculine counterparts (air and fire signs), by contrast, prefer to engage in a constant process of critique and reform, apparently placing them on the more progressive side of the spectrum. So when a major political change occurs, feminine signs like Scorpios and Capricorns are more likely to have involved themselves in a coup, which is an extralegal seizure of state power that nonetheless keeps the basic social structure intact. Masculine signs like Aries and Aquarius, by contrast, typically spearhead revolutions, which are wholesale reorganizations not just of the institutions of state power, but of economic and cultural power as well.
Revolutions are, of course, completely outside the bounds of the law and therefore not constitutionally protected. As political tools, moreover, they are certainly NOT viable. Nearly all attempted revolutions are ignominiously crushed, either by the existing authorities or (later on) by a cabal of committed counter-revolutionaries. Not only does this usually result in the swift and brutal execution of the revolutionary leaders, but also in a wave of fanatical reactionism that has the potential to entrench the oppressive regime and obstruct social progress for a long period of time. In general, only fire signs and Aquarians are prepared to take such a huge risk.
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