"Could the
heavenly wanderings of an old Greek god have an
impact on world stock markets? Could the position
of the planet Jupiter consistently predict the
timing of Bull market tops and Bear bottoms?
According to recent research tracking 140 years
of prices on Wall Street, the answer is a simple:
Yes.
In the Greek mythology, Zeus/Jupiter was head
honcho of the Old Gods. The ancient Greek tales,
when studied in depth, are Creation stories charting
the history of the world.
And the tales form the basis of the system of
astrology still used in the Western world. They
also have counterparts in other cultures. In Vedic
astrology and the Hindu religion, for example,
Zeus/Jupiter has a counterpart in the figures
of Guru/Ganesh.
In both cases, this “king” of gods
introduces the concept that one can break free
- spiritually or materially. In brief, Jupiter
is the symbol of growth and expansion.
And Jupiter’s
cycle through the zodiac shows up a very interesting
statistical tendency in stock markets.
Since the 1870s, Wall Street has shown a distinct
tendency to peak while Jupiter is in late Aries/early
Taurus … decline into Jupiter in Leo …
rise again until Jupiter is in his own primary
sign, Sagittarius … and drop dramatically
into Jupiter in Aquarius. " Continue
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originally written in October, 2007
Although written years ago,
this article is contains timeless information
in regard to learning how markets work according
to the DOW Theory...
"Dow
Theory states that price rises in the industrials
– the DJI – must be accompanied
by similar price rises in the transportation
index – the DJT – for any rallies
in the overall stock market to be sustainable.."
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In
an excerpt from his last World At Large report,
January 2009, Randall Ashbourne reports on The
Great War Of The Gods...
Every
few decades the planets, Saturn, Uranus and
Pluto make hard aspects with each other which
causes turmoil on American stock markets and
a radical reshaping of society.
The latest
episode of this repeating high drama began last
year as Saturn made the first of a long-running
series of five oppositions to Uranus.
This year,
the drama goes into even higher gear with an
enormous emphasis on the influence of Uranus’
home sign, Aquarius, which rules not only the
stock markets, but things like volatility, shocks
and sudden events.
While all of
us are hoping for some relief after what has
been arguably the worst year in stock market
history, the relief may be short-lived. (read
the article)
World stock markets remain trapped
within a Bear market which currently seems unlikely
to finish or find a final “bottom”
before 2010 at the earliest...
Read Randall Ashbourne's first (and unfortunately,
last) World At Large report for January 2009.
This report includes trend analysis and a list
of key dates for the first half of the year,
along with technical charts of the US indices,
and the tale of the War Of The Gods (listed
above).
Despite
a huge display of astrological energy highlighted
by a Full Moon making a Grand Cross with the
Sun/Mars T-square to the Saturn/Uranus opposition
on Friday, Wall Street managed to hold its
nerve.
... The only real
worry is the similarity with what happened
several weeks ago when US Treasury Secretary,
Hank Paulson, and US Federal Reserve chairman,
Ben Bernanke, had their initial approach for
a massive bailout program rejected... January
20 Mars completes the T-square pattern; Astrological
aspects happening for the remainder of the
year are Sun and Mars to join Mercury in making
the move to Capricorn and conjuncting Pluto;
Venus conjuncting Neptune after Christmas;
and Saturn turning Retrograde to kick off
2009. Technically, we have a major Fibonacci
turning point due between December 23 and
29. ...also the New Moon in Capricorn, conjunct
Mars and Pluto and with Mars still at what
is called the Aries point, the first degree
of a Cardinal sign... We’ll take an
in-depth look at the broad Wall Street blue
chip index, the S&P 500, this week to
get a sense of what’s in store for worldwide
markets as we close out one of the worst years
in stock market history. And we’ll start
by looking at the harmonic planetary price
line influences...(click on the title to read
the entire article and view the charts...)Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
Stock
indices are likely to see a spike in volatility
this week as the Sun and Mars square off in
a Fire fight with the Saturn/Uranus opposition.
For
the second successive Friday, Wall Street
rallied strongly into the week’s close.
On one level that was reassuring – considering
the rise coincided with Mercury T-squaring
the Saturn/Uranus opposition, the Sun was
moving to an exact conjunction with Mars,
and the fact it shrugged off another round
of even worse employment numbers.... this
coming week being the middle zone of the Sun/Mars
square Saturn/Uranus aspects, Mercury moving
into Capricorn, and a Full Moon in Gemini
reinforcing the transiting T-square by turning
the whole configuration into a Grand square.
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HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
The rally
which began on Friday, November 21, will begin
to face its first real test of sustainability
later this week and we will know by mid-December
if we have seen THE bottom of this Bear, or
at least this leg of the Bear.
And we
should know by the middle of the month if we
have made THE bottom...The reason I say this
is the unfolding astrological conditions we’ve
discussed in some detail over the past couple
of weeks … the Sun, Mercury and Mars,
now in Sagittarius, making a series of T-squares
to the Saturn/Uranus opposition...Last week,
Pluto re-entered Capricorn for a 15-year overhaul
of everything related to government and the
state of the “State”. It is accompanied
early on this mission by a long-running series
of five Saturn/Uranus oppositions. Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
"Stock
markets around the world are rearing to rally
– but it may well be a case of premature
expectation." Your memory is
not playing tricks, dear reader; the above
was the opening line of last week’s
report – a report which finished with
the words: “… I remain deeply
sceptical and openly suspicious.”
That
was then and this is now. Stock markets may
have made THE bottom of this Bear, or at least
this leg of the Bear, on Friday... In normal
circumstances we would now be about to embark
on a sharp rally; in normal circumstances
we could be assured of a cyclical rally lasting
at least 90 days and recovering a significant
proportion of the entire downturn from late
last year...These are, of course, not “normal”
circumstances ...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
Stock
markets around the world are rearing to
rally – but it may well be a case
of premature expectation.
Most major markets, especially in Europe
and Asia, didn’t even come close to
taking out their late October lows during
last week’s declines. Many intelligent,
thoughtful and experienced market experts
are pointing to that relative outperformance
over the US stock indices as an example
of intermarket Bullish divergence. Given
the state of the European economies, I’m
unconvinced...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
And I’ll probably remain unconvinced
until mid-December is behind us –
after the Sun, Mercury and Mars have finished
reigniting the Saturn-Uranus opposition
in a Firepowered transiting T-square.
The Obama Ascendancy has made four
dramatic changes to the way we must now
view what is likely to happen in world stock
indices....
The
single most vital component of an “economy”
is not a fact or a figure … it’s
an emotion; it’s a social condition.
And that factor relates overwhelmingly to
how people “feel” about the
future. What rules … hope and confidence
… or pessimism and angst? ... Astrologically-
Uranus continues to be activated in major
ways for weeks to come. As we all know,
it is the Shock! Horror! Surprise! factor
which has symbolised the wild price swings
of the past few weeks...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
Both Bullish
& Bearish scenarios remain alive in the
world’s major stock market indices as
we go into the week where Venus sets up a
T-square to the first exact Saturn/Uranus
opposition.
Unfortunately, we have arrived back at the
position where that is not as near certainty
as one could expect from historical patterns
and technical conditions...Saturn represents
conservative values and Uranus symbolises
radical reform – and it’s these
two things which clash in this week’s
Presidential elections. Uranus is also renowned
for its Shock! Horror! Surprise! factor...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
The Bear
market will end tomorrow week with the DJI at
a price of 7092, the ASX 200 at a price of 3710,
and the FTSE at a price of 3489.
No, I’m not being serious. Well …
not entirely. But, maybe. It is, you see, a
possibility … because tomorrow week Venus
will make a T-square to the Saturn-Uranus opposition,
which becomes exact on USA election day.
...We
are going to do something unusual this week …
we are going to pay less attention to the “sensible”
world of technical analysis and sifting of the
news … and we’re going to play with
the ‘Strological Squigglies, the planetary
price lines..Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Stock
markets worldwide remain dangerous even for
very short-term traders for as long as the
mob mentality rules.
... We’ve moved from the
fallout of the housing crisis hammering the
financial system to its exact opposite.
...On the astrological level, significant aspects
are still unfolding over the next two months
which suggest continuing volatility; and on
the technical level, the whole zone is littered
with significant turn dates and Fibonacci clusters...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
The
good news is that a bottom for the crash should
occur between Monday and Wednesday. The bad
news is that it may have occurred on Friday.
The worse news is that it is not “the”
bottom.
...we
will examine previous Bear markets, including
the Great Depression era, in an effort to
gain an understanding of where we might now
be – and what we will probably face
in the coming months.Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
The
Dow Jones Transport index and the Russell
2000 have collapsed, removing the potentially
Bullish set-up of positive intermarket divergence
in the main United States indices. American
markets may bounce briefly early this week,
but severe technical damage has been done
to charts worldwide since the last World
At Large report on September 21.
In
that report, I indicated the conditions were
ripe for the rally to continue and laid out
two primary scenarios – and two alternatives.
I also indicated that narrowing Bollinger
Bands on the weekly chart of the DJT “is
a sign of an approaching sudden move”.
Displaying the DJT’s monthly chart
for further analysis, I indicated the most
recent price Highs “were not endorsed
by new highs in any one of our three indicators”
and that the move was likely to be down...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
The
Bear is dead! Yes, that is a gross exaggeration.
However, it is now distinctly possible that
the Bear is playing possum and that his reappearance
as a growling grizzly has been delayed significantly.
Volume
turnover on Wall Street last week was massive,
but the “breadth” of the Up days
was truly awful, with the number of stocks
hitting new Lows very much higher than the
number recording new Highs...
This
week kicks off with a Full Moon in Pisces
and conjunct Uranus and may be the last kicker
for the Saturn/Uranus opposition translation,
since the New Moon occurred conjunct Saturn.
What
that means is there is a potential for a Low
to be made on Monday in most markets and the
chance of at least an intermediate term rally
to develop, lasting 7 to 12 days, which puts
us into the time frame of the Mercury Retrograde
period beginning in the middle of next week...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
The
weakness of the corrective “rally”
out of the panic lows which hit major world
stock indices in mid-July resolved itself
last week as Americans began returning to
their trading desks from summer holidays.
Wall
Street turnover and the number of stocks recording
new Lows hit records at the July nadir. As
I’ve stressed over the past few weeks,
such a condition has always led to a retest.
And
that retest began in earnest last week as
the Sun conjuncted Saturn, reigniting the
negative energy pattern of the still-to-unfold
Saturn/Uranus opposition series – just
as did the earlier aspects of Mercury, Venus
and Mars conjuncting Saturn...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
The slow
grind upwards out of the July Low continues
… and the contradictions between various
indices are becoming even more strained. Conditions
in the technical indicators have not deteriorated
to any significant degree...
The
rally which got underway on many world stock
indices in mid-July will face its biggest
test late this week, or early next.
I
had expected the astrological conditions unfolding
during that time were sufficiently negative
to mark a likely bottom from which a cyclical
rally lasting at least one to three months
could develop. However, I now need to reconsider
that scenario.
Astrologically
We are entering another high-energy zone –
with Venus due to conjunct Saturn late this
week, Mars squaring Pluto next weekend as
we get the Lunar eclipse (conjunct Neptune)
matched to the recent Solar eclipse, and the
Sun opposing Neptune. Any one of these three
can move the markets in a big way; the combination
of all three happening virtually simultaneously
with an eclipsed Full Moon compounds that
potential...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
The
contradictions continue to build in technical
charts as we enter several weeks of high-energy
astrological conditions which suggest stock
indices should sink to retest the July Lows.
However,
there is one indicator which points to an
imminent and massive intervention by Wall
Street’s Plunge Protection Team to goose
the American indices higher. Weekly charts
suggest a bottom arrived in most worldwide
stock indices in mid-July and that a multi-week
rally is underway.
Astrologically
The extreme uncertainty can be explained by
the astrological conditions affecting world
stock indices. We have been discussing all
year the highly-negative impact of the long-term
Saturn/Uranus cycle and have been tracking
the effects as faster-moving planets like
the
Sun, Mercury and Venus “translate”
the energy as they contact Saturn and move
on to
aspect Uranus....Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
Contradictions
abound. Even within the North American markets,
the divergence between some indices just doesn’t
make sense – and that’s not including
the behaviour of the Canadian stock market.
We
now appear to have a double non-confirmation
of the overall Bear trend from the Dow Jones
Transports. The Nasdaq looks as if it’s
primed to rally. The small cap stocks are
outperforming the big caps, which is just
bizarre if we’re really in a Bear market.
Earnings are outperforming expectations.
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PDF format
How long
will it last and how far will it go …
they’re the two key questions for the
rally which appeared to get underway last week,
following the dramatic decline in worldwide
stock indices over the past two months.
Let’s
deal with the bad news first. As is so typical,
Wall Street swapped Chicken Little for Pollyanna
and put on too much, too fast – going
from extreme oversold to short-term overbought
in only three days as the venerable Dow Jones
Industrial index shot up
nearly five per cent. The good news is that
a day or three of pullback might help with a
cheaper entry point for anyone who didn’t
trust last week’s rapid turnaround. Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Astrological
energy patterns are shifting to a more positive
flow over the next three to four weeks, suggesting
a strong rally is now only days away from
getting underway.
There
is, however, a caveat … and it is based
on both astrological and technical conditions.
And
the caveat is that the exhaustion washout might
not yet have hit absolute bottom. Astrologically,
the worst of the negative energy symbolised
by last week’s conjunction of Mars with
Saturn should now recede rapidly.Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Six
significant astrological aspects occur over
the next nine days, indicating the potential
for a growing turnaround in major world stock
indices.
This
week, we will take a look at the weekly and
monthly charts of some key indices to try
to get an idea of whether the next rally will
be a second-degree countertrend which lasts
only a couple of weeks, or whether it will
be a longer, cyclical movement...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
The
United States celebrates its birthday this week
and Wall Street trading will be shortened.
It’s
not a particularly happy birthday for many stock
market investors worried by the new bearish
Lows in Wall Street’s most famous index,
the Dow Jones Industrials.
Stock indices
worldwide are diverging from each other, with
notable divergences opening up between different
American markets.
While In a relatively rare event, the Dow Jones
Industrials did not end the Mercury Retrograde
period back within a per cent of where prices
were when the astrological phenomenon started
in late May....Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Most
worldwide stock indices have a lot of ground
to make up in short time if they are to return
to levels they were at when Mercury went Retrograde
late last month.
Technical
indicators suggest most stock markets will bounce
higher this week and the Wall Street indices
are within relatively easy reach of returning
to within a per cent of the Mercury Rx price
levels by the time the communications planet
returns to Direct motion late this week...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
The confusing
technical signals typical of a Mercury Retrograde
period have started already, making for a trading
environment that’s difficult to predict.
While
Bulls have taken control of some world stock indices,
the Bears have control of others...Divergence has
started to appear between markets. In the United
States, the Dow Jones Transportation Index and the
Nasdaq re-entered Bullish mode last week –
and small cap indices also gained significant ground...
Astrologically, we have a New Moon in Gemini and
Heliocentric Mercury and Venus will both square
Saturn. Kaye Shinker’s New Moon newsletter
has been emailed to members and Kaye points out
it is an especially strong influence...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Both Mercury
and Neptune go Retrograde early this week as Venus
makes another harsh aspect with Saturn –
and, this time, without the benefit of any special
protection.
Oil is
in an accelerating blow-off and oil prices are likely
to be affected negatively by Neptune’s apparent
reversal, since it has joint rulership over the
oil sign, Pisces.
Great
caution may need to be exercised with Long positions
in stocks this week as major American, European
and Australian share indices appear to be putting
in at least short-term tops...
This week opens with Venusian energy, as the
planet symbolising money makes a sextile to
Uranus and a trine to Jupiter – repeating
last week’s pattern when the Sun made
precisely those aspects early in the week...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Despite strongly
positive astrological conditions which should
be helping to push markets higher, the rally
in some world stock indices is showing worrying
signs of weakness.
However, it would take a dramatic slump in
prices and confidence to cancel the odds now
in favour of a new Bull market developing over
the next few months. Major stock indices are
continuing to hold above their new uptrend lines
and positive divergence is emerging in both
the British FTSE and the Australian ASX 200,
both of which last week decided to brush off
Wall Street’s latest bout of Chicken Little
bird flu.
Astrologically
Jupiter went Retrograde on Friday and
Mars is shifting signs to Leo this weekend.
I indicated last weekend that both are market-moving
energy shifts... Click
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The fireball of astrological energy
building up over the past two weeks finally exploded
to the upside late last week, propelling the
breakout in major world stock markets above
key resistance levels.
The odds now favour the launch of a new Bull
market. I know, dear reader, your patience has
been tested beyond frustration as we waited
for the fables to unfold according to the interpretations
of your correspondent... Click
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Massive
internal pressure continues to build in stock
indices worldwide as the astrological energy
patterns compress within a tight time frame
over the next two weeks.
Key Asian markets
began breaking out to the upside last week as
the Western indices exerted growing pressure
against the horizontal and downtrend resistance
levels defined by their plunges out of last
year’s High marks. As we enter another
highly-charged week, most indices continue to
bump against the overhead resistance levels
– while the weekly charts are showing
distinct signs of a strong Bullish breakout.
The explosive energy patterns which were primed
last week with the Mars trine to Uranus, followed
by Venus in a T-square pattern with Mars and
Jupiter gain even more dynamite immediately
ahead..... Click
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A new Bull
run – or just another bull trap? That’s
the question … and the answer is it’s
probably a little of both.
The astrological
energy immediately ahead suggests the rally which
began last week has further to run, despite the
fact most world stock indices are now bumping their
heads against strong resistance.... Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Friday's price
collapse on New York stock indices, caused by
disappointing earnings and outlook from GE, appears
to have pushed markets worldwide into a weak position.
Weak Fridays
tend to lead to weak Mondays - and last week's action
has the majority of market technicians now calling
for a drop in prices to retest the bottom of the
horizontal band which has acted as a floor since
January... Astrologically, last week began with
Venus moving into Aries and squaring Pluto and by
Thursday, the Sun squared Jupiter and Mercury squared
Mars. I indicated last weekend that “all three
suggest sudden moves up and down”... Click
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Let’s talk
a little about fear – and the length of trends.
We’ll deal first with trends from a trading
perspective. From an investing perspective,
trends are easy … you just put two or three
moving averages onto a chart, say a 5, 12
and 72, and so long as the 5 stays above the
12 and the 12 stays above the 72, you relax
and stay there for the long haul. Trading
requires more work... Click
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format
Strange
things began happening on world stock markets
last week as indices began diverging, after
many of them put in important low points during
the previous week.
American
markets pushed the Pollyanna button last Monday
and surged above resistance lines, only to spend
the remainder of the week whimpering.
However, other world indices began ignoring
the latest bipolar funk from Wall Street, refusing
to push either the Pollyanna button or the Panic
button.
Astrologically we have just started to emerge
from a period in which the key astrological
condition affecting stock indices worldwide
involved Saturn, the planet which symbolises
fear and restriction...Click
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Stock
markets have reached levels where we could now
see the beginnings of a sustained rally, especially
with astrological conditions starting to move
towards more positive interpretations.
However,
any rally will not carry all stocks sectors higher
and that could make for a patchy revival in some
world indices...Last week’s action by the
US Federal Reserve and other Central Banks was designed
to show that they will stop at nothing to prop up
the world financial system. Gold, oil and copper
have suddenly toppled from record highs... Astrologically
I indicated last week we were starting out with
Mercury and Venus opposing Saturn and moving onwards
towards a conjunction with Uranus and that we “will
see some volatile reactions to both the Fed’s
decision and the results from the American banks”...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Awoe! Alas!
The sky is falling – again; the banks are
broke – still; and the Emperors of Wall
Street have no clothes. Is there any
part of this we didn’t know already?
One of the ratings agencies has declared the
banks are “probably” now halfway through
their writedowns. For some reason, the markets
found that reassuring – as if it’s
somehow nice to know the banks which are broke
now will be only twice as broke in the
near future...
The news is awful, awful, awful. And that’s
before the banks actually begin reporting in the
next week! And yet. Stock markets, particularly
the American indices, are still holding at the
levels I showed in a series of charts back on
January 12 when it looked as if a worldwide crash
was imminent. The only questions we really have
are … will markets be able to produce a
strong rally from these levels – and, if
so, when?...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Stock
markets pushed the panic
button last week as we hit
the central time band for
a series of negative, high-energy
astrological conditions.
By Friday, so much damage
had been done to the technical
charts that many technicians
are now calling an immediate
crash which could wipe another
20% off the value of world
markets.
In a huge leap of faith,
I disagree - even though
there is almost nothing
on the technical charts
I review each week to support
that "belief".
This week I am not going
to show any stock charts.
To be honest, most point
to a continuation, perhaps
even an acceleration of
the downtrend. Instead,
I’m going to tell
you an ancient story ...
Volatility
has made a sudden return to stock markets
and two weeks of astrological high energy
about to unfold makes for potentially dangerous
and choppy trading immediately ahead...Starting
this week, a rapid series of high energy
astrological aspects will begin unfolding
- within the same time frame as other mathematical
cycles, including Fibonacci, indicate that
stock markets are approaching a significant
tipping point.
Astrologically
There are three major astrological aspects
affecting world stock indices this year
and they are: 1. Saturn opposition Uranus,
the first passage of which occurs in early
November 2. Pluto making a generational
change from Sagittarius in cardinal Capricorn
3. Jupiter trine Saturn, the first of which
occurred on January 21 as markets
bottomed... Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
A period of astrological high-energy
begins unfolding in the next two weeks which
is likely to drive a major turning point in
stock markets worldwide. For the
past few weeks, stock index prices have been
held within two converging lines, forcing
them into a narrow range - effectively coiling
them like a spring which is now on the verge
of unleashing its energy.
Technical indicators are giving no clear and
distinct signals about which way the breakout
is likely to go. However, there are clear
signs that banking stocks, especially in Australia,
have been massively oversold during a panic
plunge.
Kaye Shinker's research into The Jupiter Effect
holds out strong hope for an imminent rally
in the finance sector - and the astrological
symbolism is receiving technical confirmation
- which could spark a rally in two of the
world's major indices...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
Breakout - or breakdown - is now imminent on
all the world's major stock indices. In the next
few days, prices must break to one side or the
other of the containment lines which have been
pressuring them into an increasingly narrow range.
It is possible we could have as much as another
week of range-trading, but that time span is getting
towards the outside edge of what is likely.
Astrologically
12.57 (Sydney time) on Tuesday, Mercury resumes
Direct motion from a geocentric perspective. Before
that, on Monday, the Lesser Benefic, Venus, moves
into Aquarius … the planet which symbolises
money moves out of restrictive Capricorn and into
the sign which rules stock markets and company
profits. And it’s followed the next day
by Mercury going Direct. Effectively, the symbolism
here is that communications regarding financial
conditions and profits is about to become clearer
and subject to less revision...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
We will
dispense this week with the normal format while
I try to give a big
picture overview of where we’re at and, more
importantly, where we may be
heading.
1. We may have entered a particularly nasty Bear
market that could run for another five
years.
2. We may be in a nasty secondary correction within
an ongoing primary Bull market.
3. No-one can, this weekend, be 100% certain which
of those two scenarios applies.
4. Absolutely regardless of whether 1 or 2 is the
case, markets worldwide are
very likely to rally strongly within the next 3
months, probably within the next
few weeks.
5. Before that intermediate-term rally begins to
be as near as we can get to "a sure
thing", we may all have to suffer through another
sudden plunge.
As far as is possible, we need to put bias, emotion
and media misinformation aside and
pay attention only to the charts. click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
If
the American economy is heading into recession,
why are the Transports showing signs of resurging
strength? Do truckies make money carrying air?
When
we come to the charts, I will show the Transports
and discuss with you the alternative outlook
– the potential for a new Bull run, rather
than the gloomy Bear now being promoted by the
media.
Astrologically...
This week, around lunch time Thursday in Australia,
we have a Solar Eclipse in Aquarius,
the sign which has rulership over stock markets
and company profits.
It could be especially volatile because it takes
place closely conjunct to Mercury and
Neptune and on the midpoint of a Venus-Uranus
aspect, with the orbs tying Jupiter and
Saturn into the cocktail, as well! click
to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Astrologically
On Monday, January 21, 2008 at 4:14 am EST, we
get the first of the three Jupiter trine Saturn
aspects occurring between the Earth signs, Capricorn
and Virgo. I dealt with the symbolism of
this at some length last week, because of the
eons-old link of these two planets in accurately
depicting business cycles... click
to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Welcome to 2008, the year in which we
should see a breakout to new Bull market highs.
It doesn’t feel like that at the moment.
It feels like we’re in the middle of a crash
… and it is entirely possible it’s
more than a feeling; it’s reality...
Astrologically
Last weekend, Venus squared Saturn and this weekend
it is squaring Uranus, effectivelygiving us early
warning of what to expect late this year when
Saturn and Uranus move into an exact opposition
with each other. Late this month, Mercury will
turn Retrograde and Mars will move back into Direct
motion, getting itself involved in a repeat of
the energy patterns which have been unfolding
over the past few weeks … changing signs
from Cancer to Leo, opposing Pluto and Jupiter.
In short, we remain in a high-energy period for
weeks yet.
However, on January 21 Jupiter in Capricorn will
make the first of three Earth trines to Saturn
in Virgo. And that is the astrological reason
that the fears of a deep American recession are
suspect. click
to download full report in Adobe PDF format
***
Randall Ashbourne is a former journalist and political
strategist with Uranus almost exactly conjunct his
Ascendant. His life has been full of sudden
shifts. He came to Astrology in the early 1990s
after waking up one morning in the middle of a MidLife
Crisis, a phenomenon in which he didn't actually believe.
Trying to get to the bottom of what was happening
- he has Mercury in Scorpio - he consulted an astrologer
... and became hooked. A decade later, as both
transiting Saturn and his Progressed Moon were descending
through his 12th House towards a conjunction with
Uranus, and with transiting Jupiter conjuncting his
first house Pluto, life changed dramatically once
again. Realising that with his natal chart ruler,
the Moon, his natal Sun ruler, Jupiter, and Saturn
all now lined up for an extended sojourn in the "obscure"
sector of his personal roadmap, he began casting around
for something to do far away from a more public life.
Consulting his chart and pondering a natal Mercury
trine Uranus, as well as Saturn in Scorpio, he decided
he really ought to be able to trade the stock market.
And started using his knowledge of astrology
to do exactly that. Along the way, he discovered
that astrology didn't answer all his questions about
the stock market's gyrations and began delving deeply
into technical analysis, getting buried under a pile
of Gann plans and getting strung out on Fibonacci
sequences. But, while those studies satisfied
the cravings of his Scorpio Mercury, they also ran
counter to the basic needs of his Gemini Jupiter -
that "knowledge" should be widespread and
expressed in a way that's easy to understand.
In truth, Randall is in love with all his personal
planetary placements - and he'd need to be after undergoing
a major Pluto transit to every other planet in his
chart, most of them conjunctions! He refers to his
Virgo Moon chart ruler as "Miss Prissy"
and to his Gemini Jupiter as "the Fat Boy who
won't shut up".
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