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When one develops the skills to apply astrology to the financial markets, the markets start to take on a rather different appearance. Levels of support and resistance come into clear focus.

The Astrology Letter is all about imparting skills to subscribers so that they can develop a new perspective of the markets. Take for example the Nasdaq Index. After some in depth research and mathematical investigating, what has emerged is the following chart. Suddenly, the Nasdaq does not seem so daunting. Astrology and esoteric math have created a roadmap of what to expect. This is exactly how WD Gann, Louise McWhirter, Evangeline Adams and others did in the 1920s, 30s and 40s in New York.

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The above horoscope shows planetary positions on February 11, 2021 overlaid on horoscope wheel with the Asc at 14 Cancer and the MH at 24 Pisces.

Observations are:

• No planets in the 10^th House.
• There are no planets in the 1^st House.
• There are no planets in the 4^th House.
• Pluto is the lone occupant of the 7^th House (least important House).
• Saturn and Uranus are square (this is a serious McWhirter angle of interest).
• The New Moon is 90 degrees square to NYSE co-ruler Mars (un-favorable).
• Neptune is conjunct the NYSE MH point at 24 Pisces.

Interpretation of McWhirter requires some deliberation. One significant planet in the 7th argues for at least some pressure on the market. Saturn square Uranus argues in the negative. Neptune at the MH argues for pressure. Therefore, the month of March (or sooner) should see downward pressure on the market. How much pressure is the burning question.

From February 11 through to the next New Moon event, the Moon will pass by some key points of the horoscope. These key points are: the MH at 24 Pisces, the Asc at 14 Cancer, the planets in the 1st, 4th or 7th House, and lastly the position of Mars and Neptune which are the co-rulers of the NYSE.

Moon passes Neptune and the MH on February 13-14, Mars on the 18^th, 14 of Cancer on the 23^rd, and Pluto on March 8-9.

If downward pressure does not manifest itself, then we shall have further evidence that the Federal Reserve stimulus ($120 billion per month) is overwhelming the market structure. We desperately need at least a 10% correction to cool off the over-zealous behavior and to get stock prices back closer in line with fundamental ratios.  A 10% correction on the Dow Jones Average would fill a gap made back on Nov 5, 2020. Such a pullback (if it occurred) would be a 61.8% retracement of the October 30, 2020 to February 12, 2021 move.

Astrology is suggesting the next few years could be volatile. Volatility creates excellent trading opportunities, for those that are comfortable trading in and out of stock positions. Here is a sampling of what might be headed our way:

As 2020 ends, Saturn is now in the sign of Aquarius. With Saturn in Aquarius (enters the sign once every 29 years), the USA is entering a period of reform (educational reform, rights and freedoms reform, prison reform, and so on…). You have been no doubt following societal events of late, so you can envision as well as I can areas that are ripe for reform. Reform can cause divisions between those in favor of the reform and those against it. Division will make headlines on CNN and Fox. News headlines can move markets.

Starting in March 2021, Neptune will transit 180 degrees opposite to the Neptune location in the 1776 USA natal chart. Thanks to its slow movement and thanks to retrograde it will take into 2023 for the 180-degree aspect to fully conclude itself. Neptune last made a 180-degree aspect to natal Neptune in the time immediately ahead of the onset of the US Civil War. Having Neptune making this 180-degree aspect again along with the activity of Saturn and Pluto surely does not bode well. The start of this Neptune transit will be heralded by Mars moving 0 degrees to the USA natal Uranus and then natal Mars.

At the January 20th Oath of Office swearing in ceremony, Mars will be conjunct the USA natal Uranus and square the Jupiter/Saturn pair. Another less than positive sign of things to come.

Moreover, Mars and Uranus will be conjunct and also on the Ascendant a mere 30 minutes before the swearing in occurs. Sun will be at the Mid-Heaven (of course it will…it’s Noon after all) and Pluto will be with 5 degrees of the Mid-Heaven. Author and astrologer Frank Clifford goes so far as to suggest this all to be a sign of social rebellion and economic turmoil to come.

In early 2022, Pluto will transit conjunct to the USA 1776 natal Pluto location. Probably not a fortuitous event.

As Saturn eventually moves into Pisces (early 2023), the USA will be utterly chaotic and the potential for a revolution will be visible. Some of the early seeds for a potential revolution have already been sown in 2020.

In 2023, Pluto will ingress into the sign of Aquarius. Pluto will take 20 years to work its way through Aquarius. The last time Pluto was in the reforming sign of Aquarius was in 1778 when revolutionary fervor was at a maximum. So, in two-years time we will have Pluto and Saturn together in Aquarius which will prove unsettling.

The short answer to the question of a correction is YES!

Here is what the S&P 500 front month futures chart looks like as of now. The heavy black dashed trend lines extend from the 2007 highs and the 2009 lows. We are now outside this decade-old channel. Price action is up against a Uranus sub-Quantum Line. To determine these sub-QL levels, I divide the distance between QL’s according to the perfect 4th, perfect 5th and major 6th musical intervals. Venus will be at a declination minimum in early January 2021. Mid-January will see Sun and Saturn at conjunction. Evidence says… a correction looms. The fly in the ointment, however, continues to be the Federal Reserve. The FED is reportedly thinking about extending the bond duration of its purchases. By squelching the longer bond price signals through repetitive buying, the markets stand to become even more irrational. Add to this observation that fact that 2021 will be a Shmitah Year (see my 2021 Almanac for a discussion of Hebrew religion type cycles). All too often the year after a Shmitah Year can be worse that the Shmitah Year itself. In 2022, Saturn will spend a good deal of time 90 degrees square to Node. Uranus will draw nearer to a conjunction with Node. Definitely bad omens! Node in Taurus in 2021-2022 says the economy will be slowing. WE ARE HEADED FOR TROUBLE. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

When it comes to financial astrology, there is more to the subject than just planets appearing in certain signs. One must also be cognizant of the concept of declination, where declination is the amount (above or below) that a planet deviates from the ecliptic plane during orbit of the Sun. Think of the planets as race cars going around a track. Think of the race cars periodically rising above the track. That would be positive (or northerly) declination. The opposite would be negative (or southerly) declination.

Declination then opens itself to the notion of parallel and contra-parallel. Suppose two planets on a given day were both exhibiting positive declination. Suppose that on that day they were both at the same number of degrees of declination. That would be a parallel event. Suppose that two planets on a given day were experiencing declination – one positive and the other planet at negative declination. Suppose that at a particular day, one planet was at 12 degrees positive declination and the other planet at -12 degrees declination. That would be a contra-parallel event.

Consider now, some events involving Pluto and Jupiter that had significant bearing on the financial markets.

February 9 through mid-March, 2009: Jupiter and Pluto approached each other in declination, were at exact parallel (same degree of declination) on February 23 and then slowly drifted apart in degrees of declination until they were more than 2 degrees apart by mid-March. Leading up to this event, Gold prices had chopped sideways for 8 trading sessions prior. But, at February 9, a rally started that took Gold from $892 to $1004. Oddly enough, at February 23 when Jupiter and Pluto were exactly at parallel (the same degree of declination), the price of Gold peaked at $1004 and proceeded to fall all the way to year end where it traded at $867.

Significant price peak in Gold price August-September 2011: In 2011, Gold exhibited a massive price rally. But this all came to a halt in late August / early September 2011. I remember this time well as I found myself intrigued by the sudden failure of this rally that many were forecasting would take Gold to much higher prices. So what happened? Jupiter recorded a maxima point in its declination path is what happened.

May 19, 2012 through July 12, 2012: During this time span, Jupiter and Pluto were contra-parallel to each other. The price of Gold had reached $1800 in late February, 2012 before running out of steam. By mid-May, Gold price was back in the mid-$1500 range. On May 16, price recorded an inflection low point at $1526. What happened to trigger this? The answer is, on May 19 Jupiter and Pluto officially came into a contra-parallel declination setup. This contra-parallel event lasted until mid-July with Gold price thrashing about wildly. Price stayed firm and by the early days of October was setting up to test $1800 again. But, the price rally failed. Why? The answer is – Jupiter recorded another of its declination maxima levels.

January 1 through early April 2013: During this time span, Gold prices were trending lower and had been since Jupiter made its maxima declination in October 2012. Jupiter and Pluto were contra-parallel in the opening part of 2013. This situation ended in early April when their declinations moved more than 1.5 degrees apart. Just as contra-parallel was ending, Gold price exhibited a severe plunge from $1590 to $1321.

Late October 2013: Jupiter and Pluto briefly made another contra-parallel event in late October. Gold price was at $1361 at the date of contra-parallel, but could not hold. By year end (Dec 31 is the McWhirter first trade date for Gold), Gold prices had made an inflection low point of $1202.

June 17-July 20, 2014: Jupiter and Pluto were contra-parallel in declination. Two trading sessions ahead of the date when contra-parallel ended, Gold prices hit $1346. After this, prices steadily fell into November eventually hitting $1132.

June 17-July 20, 2014: Jupiter and Pluto were contra-parallel in declination. The 10 Year Treasury market drifted sideways to higher during this time. At the very day the contra-parallel ended, the 10 Year Treasury market recorded a peak and promptly proceeded to fall from 127.00 to 123.50.

And such is the power of declination. Whether the declination in and of itself is influencing mankind’s emotions or whether these parallel and contra-parallel events are being used to manipulate markets remains a hot topic for discussion. I am tending towards the latter idea…

There are software programs out there that will assist you in generating declination plots. In the absence of a software program, consider the data at the following link:

https://cafeastrology.com/declinationsephem.html

It is one of my deeply held beliefs that the foundations of the American financial system are anchored in Astrology. In my annual Almanac publication I show how the Moon passing one of 4 key points in the 1792 natal birth horoscope of the NYSE all too often aligns to short, sharp inflection points on the Dow Jones Average and the S&P 500.

My readings have lately uncovered something else that supports my belief about Astrology being the anchor of the system.

It is reported that W.D.Gann followed the Jan 2, 1977 first trade natal horoscope for Wheat and Corn that trade on the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade – which is part of the CME Group today). It is also generally understood that he followed horoscope charts from 1848 and 1859. As it turns out, the CBOT was founded April 3, 1848 and on Feb 18, 1859 the Exchange received permission to self-regulate itself.

Here is the 1877 horoscope for Wheat and Corn. Note that the Ascendant and Mid-Heaven are in Cardinal Signs, namely Capricorn and Libra. Specifically, Sun is 12 Capricorn and MC is 15 Libra.

The above chart is the 1848 horoscope for the founding of the CBOT. Note that Sun and Moon are conjunct (New Moon), note that the New Moon is at 13 Aries which is 90 degrees to the Ascendant point in the wheat/Corn 1877 chart and note that Jupiter in the 1848 horoscope is at 12 Cancer which marks the Descendant point in the 1877 Wheat/Corn horoscope.

The above chart is the 1859 horoscope for the date when CBOT was granted self-regulatory status. Note Mars is at 13 Aries, which is the same point as the New Moon in the 1848 horoscope. Venus at 12 Capricorn is at the same location as the Ascendant in the 1877 Wheat/Corn horoscope. In both the 1848 and 1859 horoscopes, note further that Node is at 29 degrees of its sign.

Is all this purely accidental? Not a chance, I say.

It is peculiar occurrences like this between horoscope wheels that embolden my view that Astrology in past played a significant role in price movements on commodities. People like Gann and McWhirter were intuitive enough to figure this out and profited handsomely from their acumen. Fast forward to today and I still think the big boys like Goldman Sachs very quietly manipulate markets at key astrological events. Sadly, today very few people lend credence to Astrology which means the wizards that are using it have few barriers to success.

This is why I continue to author books on the subject of Financial Astrology. We must ensure this valuable correlation to the markets is not lost forever.

Had you talked to me on Feb 2, I would have pointed out that on my chart of the Dow futures, the Wilder Volatility Stop was setting up to switch to a negative trend. But, yet on Feb 3, the Dow decided to gap up and close ~180 points above the Feb 2 close. This is a classic case of Astrology at work. The natal birth horoscope for the NYSE has Jupiter at 22 Libra. As of here and now, transiting Jupiter is making its conjunction with  that natal Jupiter location. What’s more, this week-end, Jupiter turns Retrograde.

This intrigued me enough that I scrolled back in time to see what happened the last time Jupiter turned Retrograde. That happened on May 10, 2016. In that May 2016 time frame, the Dow was losing steam, but suddenly it surges 200 points just as Jupiter is about to turn Retro. And again, today, we see Jupiter not only touching the natal Jupiter point, but also about to turn Retro and the Dow puts on a head of steam and moves up in a market that is looking like it may want to lose ground.

Such are the the subtle nuances of using Financial Astrology to look for coming inflection points (as I like to call them) on the markets.

Dow Jones and Jupiter Retrograde