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The sign says it all. We are transitioning from a ridiculously low rate environment to a higher rate situation. The Federal Reserve bowing to political pressure and market temper tantrums refused to raise rates in 2019. Then 2020 arrived and with it came Covid and spiraling mortality rates. The taps were opened wide and money flooded the financial system in a bid to keep it afloat.

But, like the gardener who starts to water his garden and walks away, the FED left the tap running too long. In classic textbook fashion, this excess money has now created an inflationary monster. The FED is now scrambling to slay this beast.

The Bond market is anticipating that rates will move higher and that the FED’s balance sheet will be run down to drain money from the system. This is a correct anticipation on the part of the Bond market.

Equity analysts are now likewise scrambling to re-jig their NPV models in light of a higher discount rate. Mr. Market is uncertain whether to rally, go sideways, or drop as the yield curve flirts with inversion.

Volatility is the new mantra. If you know how to use technical chart indicators and hourly charts, you can take advantage of this volatility. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people have not honed this skill. 2022 could be a rough year for people who follow the buy and hold philosophy.

Will the economy tip over into recession? Or, is it robust enough to handle real interest rates going positive? McWhirter astrology says that with the North Node of Moon in Taurus, the economy will gradually slow from here until the end of the current 18.6 year cycle in 2026. The final phase of 18 year cycles usually bring with them recessionary pain, and lots of it.

To get a glimpse of what may come to North American shores, the following chart shows the ETF (N:EZU) that tracks the Euro market complex.

The MAC-D is below zero, the SMIE Oscillator is in negative territory and the Lane Stochastic has further to fall into negative territory. The European market complex is broken right at the moment.

In North America, the chart of the S&P 500 tells more of the tale. The MAC-D is above the critical zero line, but the SMIE Oscillator and Lane Stochastic are looking shaky. If the MAC-D should dip beneath zero, things could get rather ugly. If I turn my attention to Quantum Lines, I note that the 5th harmonic of the Jupiter and Neptune Quantum Lines have been violated. This is not a good sign. Support now is apparent at a Saturn 5th harmonic QL (4315 on the S&P) and failing that at Neptune and Jupiter 4th harmonics (4256 or 4125). There is some more weakness coming in the near term. Whether either of the actual 4th harmonic levels will be hit or whether a mid-point between them and the recently violated 5th harmonics acts as support remains to be seen. My hope is that the Saturn 5th harmonic level at 4315 acts as support.

Do not lose sight of the fact we are in a Shemitah Year which started in September 2021 and runs until late August 2022. Powerful events unfold in Shemitah Years in accordance with Biblical texts. I envisioned that interest rates would be a theme in this Shemitah Year. Sure enough – bond markets are trending strongly negative. What I did not fathom was the Ukrainian situation unfolding as it has.

The volatility will continue as we venture deeper into 2022. I will do my best to keep readers and subscribers apprised of what I see coming with regards to cycles and planetary events.

The other day I was searching through the available books from my local Library. I spotted one called Making It In The Market – so I ordered it in.

Turns out the book was written in 1975 by Richard Ney who was a financial advisor in New York. He did a few appearances in Hollywood movies, which put him in close contact with some “monied” people.

In his book he makes the claim that the equity market is dominated by market makers who are tasked with ensuring orderly trading in stocks. Each market maker is assigned a basket of stocks to supervise. They are also free to use their own money to amass positions in the stocks they manage. There is an unwritten rule that says market makers will always collaborate together to either give the overall market an uptrend or a downtrend. An individual market maker will never run against the herd, so to speak.

He further goes on to reveal that a market maker holding shares in Company ‘A’ will buy more shares and cause the price to move up. This will grab media attention. People will read about the stock move in the media and call their broker to place a buy order. Through it all, the market maker is in control. Once he has sold off his position to hungry retail investors seeking to get rich, the price trend of the stock will have no more support and price will drop.

Ney wraps up the book with a detailed explanation of 3 lines that should be sketched on monthly price charts. The angles defined by these lines are key to understanding future trends.

All in all, a very revealing book. If your local Library has it (or can get it on an inter-library loan) I suggest taking the time to read it.

As suggested in my most recent blog, the month of January has a whole lot of cosmic energy squeezed into a lunar cycle. The first trigger point I listed was Jan 5 and Moon being Void of Course. These Moon VOC events have a tendency to cause unsettled nerves across equity markets.

Today, Jan 5, started more or less normal. The S&P was quiet for the first couple hours. This allowed me to gracefully sidestep a couple long positions (Borg Warner – NYSE BWA) and (ERO Copper – TSX: ERO) to take a modest gain. My trades came just in time because the S&P soon turned nasty as the following hourly chart shows. As I post this blog, the March S&P is down 70 points. January is not over yet. There are several more trigger points to come….

2022 begins with a New Moon on January 2^nd. This lunation will have Sun and Moon at the 12-14 Capricorn point. This lunar cycle will run until February 1.

This is a highly unusual lunar cycle. This New Moon comes exactly 180 degrees to the NYSE 1792 natal horoscope Ascendant point. History is trying to tell us something?

Here is how I describe this lunation event in the 2022 Almanac:

The lunation is in alignment with the NYSE 1792 natal Descendant and is 180 degrees opposite the natal Ascendant. This cycle is highlighted by having Mercury and Venus in retrograde which can lead to trend volatility. Venus will record its Inferior Conjunction early in the month. In addition, January will see the North Node change signs and enter Taurus. This lunar cycle runs until January 31, 2022 and could be greatly energized. 

Key dates during this lunar cycle are:

•           January 5: Moon VOC

•           January 7: Moon passes Neptune and natal mid-Heaven point

•           January 7: Mercury at greatest easterly elongation

•           January 8: Venus at Inferior Conjunction. It will appear as the Morning Star later in January

•           January 10: Moon VOC

•           January 14: Mercury turns retrograde

•           January 16: Moon passes 14 of Cancer. This is a Sunday. Watch for a market reaction the Friday before or on Monday January 17

•           January 17: Moon at maximum declination

•           January 26: Mars at its minimum declination

•           January 28: Venus retrograde event is complete

•           January 29: Moon passes NYSE co-ruler Mars. This is a weekend. Watch for a market reaction immediately before or after the weekend 

•           January 30: Moon at minimum declination.

January will be full of events that can translate into extreme volatility. Venus retrograde, Mercury retrograde, Mars at declination minimum, Mercury at greatest easterly elongation, Moon VOC. This is quite a collection. Get ready for what could be an explosive month.

Crude Oil is the focus of consumers these days as gasoline prices start to painfully bite. In my annual Astrology Almanacs I present the astrology of various commodity futures. Crude Oil is a curious case study. In the Mar 30, 1983 horoscope (that’s the day Crude futures started trading in New York), there is a very obvious rectangle formation that appears if you join the locations of Moon, Node, Neptune and Mars.

My back-testing has shown time and again that IF the powers-that-be want a trend change, it will come either in relation to the points of the rectangle or to declination features.

On the above chart I have super-imposed some green boxes. That on the left shows in April 2021 Crude prices broke out of a consolidation pattern as Sun was passing one of the 1983 rectangle points. In June, Sun passing 0 degrees to the 1983 Node location gave no trend change because those in control were waiting for another astro event which came about 9 days later as Saturn passed the mid-way point of one of the sides of the 1983 rectangle. Price then trended down until August 20. What happened at that date? Mars was passing mid-way to the other side of the 1983 rectangle. We are now seeing evidence that Oil might be wanting to make a top as Mars and Sun both are passing the 1983 rectangle point defined by Mars. If the power-players want this to be a top, it will be so. The Wilder Volatility Stop is signaling a trend reversal on the daily chart. Gasoline, Diesel and Crude oil inventory levels are all closing in on their 5 year averages. Refinery utilization is at 86% and gaining as switch-overs to making heating oil are completed. These fundamental factors are further pointing to a trend reversal. Astrology can often help one re-frame the fundamentals and see a commodity through a different lens. Crude is a classic case….

Planetary declination often quietly plays a role in trend change turning points on stocks. A case in point is ERO Copper (TSX/NYSE:ERO).

ERO made its first trade debut in Canada on Oct 19, 2017. At that time, Moon was within a whisker of being at 0 degrees declination. So too were Venus and Mars.

Since the 2020 Covid-panic lows, ERO has had a powerful run to the upside. But, in May 2021 the momentum ran out of steam at just shy of $30. My first inclination at seeing this was to look at planetary declination. Were any planets at declination levels that had a curious resemblance to the declination levels in play at Oct 19, 2017 ?

It turns out at the May 2021 high, Moon was near its maximum declination. So too were Mars and Venus. Wow! That’s a curious enough resemblance to grab my attention!

As of here and now, price action has declined a Fibonacci 38.2% of the total price gain from March 2020 to May 2021.

I seldom try to get out in front of a stock with wild-eyed predictions of when and where price will start going up again. When I see the trend change with an astrology connection, I let the trend run its course. I monitor trend using the Welles Wilder indicator called Parabolic Stop & Reverse (PSR). I make a couple tweaks to the parameters of the indicator and then wait for the next trend change. When I see the PSR signal a trend change, I will confirm that there is an astrology influence also at work.

I will be closely watching ERO in the coming days for an entry point to get long.

And by the way, on June 15, 2021 ERO started trading in New York as well. That date had Sun at 120 degrees to where Sun was at on Oct 19, 2017. That date had Sun at 90 degrees to where Mars was at on Oct 19, 2017. June 15, 2021 had both Sun and Venus just a bit off their maximum declinations.

Is all of this a coincidence?

No it is not. Welcome to the world of astrology where patterns are hidden in plain sight, visible to only those who understand basic astrological science. This is the kind of stuff I write about in my subscription-based Astrology Letter.

Chapter 28 verse 10-11 of the Book of Exodus says: ” You may plant your land for six years and gather its crops. But during the seventh year you must leave it alone and withdraw from it”. This is the concept of the Shmitah Year. I first read about Shmitah in the books published by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.

The first Shmitah Year in the modern State of Israel was 1951-52. Subsequent years have been 1958-9, 1965-6, 1972-3, 1979-80, 1986-7, 1993-4, 2000-1, 2007-8, 2014-15 and now 2021-2.

There are some very powerful people who control the global financial markets. These people write the script for politicians and central bankers. Every Shmitah Year, something will happen that allows this group of inter-connected people to solidify their control over financial and political assets.

For example, 1950-1 saw the start of the Korean hostilities as the west sought tighter control over Asia. The period 1958-9 was marked by a sharp recession which elicited Government printing of money to prop up the economy. Who do you think were the beneficiaries of this? The period 1965-6 saw a sudden reversal of fortune as inflation pressures reared up. The banking sector tightened up on lending and credit to curtail inflation. The Dow Jones fell 18% in 1966. I wonder who benefited from that? The period 1972-3 is best known for the after-effects of the US leaving the Gold standard. In early 1973 the Dow Jones began to weaken and it fell by over 40%. I wonder who benefited from that move? The period 1979-80 is remembered for double digit interest rates. As interest rates were rising, bond prices were falling. I wonder who the short-sellers were? The period 1986-7 is again remembered for tightening rates. The net outcome was the Crash of ’87. I wonder who benefited from all the cheap stocks for sale? The period 1993-4 is remembered for the Federal Reserve tightening interest rates. Again, bond short-sellers were the winners. The turmoil spilled over into Mexico, Argentine, Brazil and some Asian developing nations who had all issued dollar denominated debt to prop up their currency pegs to the US Dollar. When this became untenable to continue, these currencies collapsed resulting in bank failures. The IMF came to the rescue and the narrative script for very powerful people being able to crash foreign economies was written. The period 2000-1 is remembered for the crash of the Tech Bubble. I wonder who benefited from all the cheap, sold-off tech stocks that were available? The period 2007-8 is remembered for the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Somebody ended up buying the forfeited properties. I wonder who? The Shmitah year 2014 is marked by the start of a decline in Oil prices which did not bottom until Feb 2016. Somebody ended up with the exploration properties of all the failed Oil companies. I wonder who?

And here we are at the present. I have been asking myself what the theme will be for this Shmitah year. I thought perhaps rising interest rates. A few weeks back I thought maybe crypto currency. But, I have now realized that this Shmitah will be about using a health scare to solidify more control over Governments, people, and business. This health crisis seems to have been created in a Lab in Wuhan, China. Social distancing and face-masking seems effective in controlling its spread. But, every day the narrative gets even more bizarre. There are suddenly variants that have arrived at the party. Blocks of some economies are under lockdown. People are being divided and conquered by good news, bad news, and suddenly more news about the vaccines. Delays are being created in vaccine distribution. The puppet masters are bringing society to heel. Mainstream media is broadcasting case numbers each day in an effort to bring fear to people. How will this crisis benefit those in control? I suspect various Governments will reach the point of needing IMF assistance. At that point, the IMF masters will call the shots (remember Greece austerity?). Some corporations (Amazon, Fed Ex, Wal Mart) will make serious gobs of money. Small entrepreneurs will fail in droves. The market plunge of March 2020 was a test run to see if the puppet masters could make Governments cough up rescue money. This is a huge wealth transfer, the likes of which has never been seen. Once the puppet masters have gotten what they want, the Covid crisis will go away as quickly as it came. But the lingering effects will be painful. The puppet masters have now written the script for even tighter control over how society functions. Our ignorance of math and science has allowed us as a society to be led to this point. Precious few people understand the microbiology of a virus or a vaccine. We just take for granted what the mainstream media tells us. We dutifully line up to have someone ram a needle in our arm.

My astrology work suggests that the next Shmitah year in 2028-9 will see the world engaged in armed conflict. The puppet masters will use that opportunity to drastically thin the population. And of course they will make massive amounts of money.

But, no matter what happens, there will be a stock market. And I will keep using astrology and esoteric math to help people navigate the markets and seek out buying and selling opportunities. Astrology is the hidden language of the puppet masters and I will help people learn that language.

Having figured out Gann’s declination tool, out of curiosity I decided to apply declination to the upcoming Election. I took the natal birth time declinations for the USA (July 4, 1776), Donald Trump and Joe Biden. I then looked at what the declinations will be on Nov 3rd, election day.

Mr. Trump’s natal Sun and Venus declination are parallel to the USA 1776 Sun and Venus declination. When he says he loves America and wants to make it great again – he is not joking.

Uranus is a change-maker. Neptune is the planet of dreams. Biden and Trump have their natal Uranus declinations parallel to the USA 1776 value. They both want to change America, and that is no secret. Their natal Neptune declinations are opposite one another. They are two different people, that is for sure.

Election day will have expansive planet Jupiter contra-parallel to Biden’s natal Jupiter. Election day will have Uranus either parallel or contra parallel to each candidate’s natal Uranus. Same is true of Pluto. Same for Saturn.

This could be a closely contested election, unless Jupiter works in Biden’s favor and propels him over the top.

I recently took the time to read Tunnel Through the Air, written by W.D. Gann in 1927. This book is part love story, part sci-fi novel and part war story. Through it all, Gann has embedded several clues as to where to find repetitive cycles that can assist one in trading. The story revolves around Robert Gordon, a farm lad from Texas who ends up making it big in New York. Gann lists several dates when young Robert traded Cotton futures. In order to decipher what Gann is telling you, it is critical to have a working knowledge of astrology. I soon enough figured out that Robert Gordon was looking to put on Cotton trades at times when a repetitive cycle was due. The repetitive cycle is planetary declination. The various planets revolve around the Sun following a plane of motion called the ‘ecliptic’ plane. Thanks to gravitational pull from the Sun, the various planets move above and below the ecliptic plane. Planets closer to Sun and thus more subject to Sun’s gravitational pull will wander above and below the ecliptic several times in a year. Slower moving, massive outer planets take longer to move above and below the ecliptic.

What I figured out from reading Gann’s book was that a trader should determine the declinations of the various planets at the first trade date. In the case of Cotton, I found the first trade date to be June 20, 1870. The declination data was obtained in my Solar Fire Gold software program. Alternatively, one could find this data on-line with a simple search.

Next I looked at a recent chart of Cotton. What I was looking for were definite highs and lows. I noted that in mid-January 2020, Cotton turned in a trend change that would see price fall 24 cents per pound. At this trend change, Saturn and Jupiter (two heavyweight planets) were parallel in declination to where they had been at Cotton’s first trade date. Mars was contra-parallel in declination. Moon had just made its maximum declination. The downward plunge in price came to an end at March 31, 2020 with Moon at maximum declination and Mars and Jupiter parallel to their first trade date declinations.

Note – if the first trade declination of ….say…Mars was +22 degrees, a parallel event would occur any time Mars passed through a declination level of +22 degrees. A contra-parallel event would occur when Mars passed through a declination level of – 22 degrees.

I have subsequently tested this technique on other commodities and some stocks too. I am absolutely stunned at how this technique works. And the most amazing thing – this technique is hidden in plain view. You just have to know where to look and what to look for.

We take it for granted that Greenwich, England is the 0 degree start point for longitudinal measurement. But, why Greenwich? Why not some location more profound, like the Great Pyramid of Egypt? Famed theosophist Madame H.P. Blavatsky said the Great Pyramid of Egypt should be the start point for longitudinal measure.

Taking the 0 degree start point for longitude to be the Pyramid, one can apply the principles of Right Ascension ( simple math…) to see that New York (and the NYSE) are at 15 of Sagittarius on the zodiac wheel. What has happened as Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto have transited over this 15 of Sagittarius point will astound you! And this is only going back to 1987 as far as my data feed allows.

More recently, the Covid 19 related market plunge in March 2020 was marked by a Mars passage over 15 Sagittarius!

So where do I find ideas such as this? The answer is I read a lot. In my travels I always seek out used book shops and look for old astrology texts. Sometimes I put these on my shelf and forget about them. Recently in a fated moment, a book tumbled off my shelf and landed on the floor of my office. It was a 1969 text written by Dane Rudhyar. Although Rudhyar was not a financial astrologer, his bit about the 0 degree longitude start point got me thinking and I did come back testing.

Certainly more evidence that the markets are responding to hidden patterns that are actually in plain sight (if you understand Astrology which 99% of people DO NOT). This prevailing lack of Astrology understanding gives the powers that be on Wall Street free reign to manipulate markets using hidden patterns. With each manipulated crisis, these players get cover by the mainstream media who dredge up flimsy statistics to justify the market crisis. Moreover, with each crisis, these players exact more and more control over a fearful Federal Reserve whose FOMC district governors vote to open the money spigots another turn to prevent collapse of the system. Where and when will all this end?