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Comments for the Week Beginning March 2, 2009

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 It was a very good week for Financial Astrology, but it wasn’t a very good week for most equity markets around the world. Several stock indices – like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the AEX of Amsterdam – fell to their lowest levels in over 10 years. Others – like Germany’s DAX and Switzerland’s SMI indices – fell to their lowest level since 2004. And yet others were down last week, but not below their lows of last October and November (London FTSE, Australia All Ordinaries, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, India’s NIFTY, Brazil’s Bovespa, Argentina’s Merval, and the USA NASDAQ Composite). If they can all close in the upper third of their range this coming week, it would be a case of intermarket bullish divergence. But that might be wishful thinking, and would certainly be on the order of the geocosmic signatures now in force as discussed last week (i.e. Sun in Pisces, Jupiter approaching its 14-year conjunction to Neptune). This is a season of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares. It will be a period in which defining reality will represent a greater challenge than usual.

 In other markets, precious metals fell sharply last week, with Gold trading as low as 927 on Friday, after closing barely above 1000 the week before. Silver futures made a new multi-month high on Monday at 1463 (May contract). But by Friday, they were down to 1282, nearly 200 points lower. This is certainly consistent with heliocentric Mercury in Sagittarius, which starts out strong, but oftentimes ends up in a collapse. Crude Oil, on the other hand, rose to 45.30 last Thursday, a gain of 35% since the low of 33.55 on February 12, when the Sun was conjunct Neptune.

Short-Term Geocosmics

 This week will begin the strongest cluster of geocosmic signatures to unfold yet in this new year. On Friday, March 6, Venus will turn retrograde until April 17. This is a Level One signature as reported in Volume 3 of our Stock Market Timing series (“Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles”). In fact, it is one of the most powerful and consistent correlations to primary or greater cycles that we know of. In 78% of the instances studied, such a cycle has culminated within 12 trading days. Two days later, on March 8, another Level One signature appears. That is when the Sun will be in opposition to Saturn. This will also start the Sun’s translation to the developing Saturn-Uranus-Pluto T-square, which will last through March 23. In the past 15 months, this has had a strong correlation to sharp sell-offs in equity prices around the world.

 One geocosmic signature that we will want to pay very close attention to is the full moon of March 10. This is a particularly powerful full moon, for the Sun will be in conjunction to Uranus and the moon in conjunction to Saturn. In other words, it will fall upon the Saturn-Uranus opposition, the most important of the long-term geocosmic signatures in effect November 2008 through July 2010. This is the long-term signature that most correlates with the kind of sudden and serious shock to the system that we have been entangled with over the past six months. In fact, a case can be made that state of crisis officially began six months ago when the opposite full moon occurred on September 15, 2008. That was the week when several banks and financial institutions collapsed. Just recently, Federal Reserve Board Chair Ben Bernanke acknowledged just how close the entire financial system came to a total collapse at that time. Well, here comes the second wave. Let’s pray (a good Jupiter-Neptune activity) we are better prepared this time, for if not, another full moon on the Saturn-Uranus opposition could coincide with another break of support, with the corresponding sense of panic and hysteria. In other words, the possibility of a sharp decline in stock indices is very high this week. Like the terrorist alert system, let’s say stock markets are now on “red alert.”

Longer-Term Thoughts

Attention all Financial Astrologers: do the major economic stories of last week seem like the principles of Jupiter and Neptune in conjunction starting up? Do they not seem like the Sun starting its transit through Pisces, which is the natural home to both Jupiter and Neptune? Are we being realistic or are we in a dream where it seems like that film “Groundhog Day,” in which every day seems to be a repeat of something experienced the day before (or was it that we dreamed it before), but its not quite exactly the same?

If memory serves me correctly (and there can be no guarantee of that under the influences of Pisces and Neptune), it was in 2005, shortly after being re-elected, that President George W. Bush proclaimed he would cut the budget deficit in half within 4 years, by 2009 (the year he is out of office – how convenient was that?). This was in response to the news that the budget deficit had increased to a record level then. Now flash forward to last week. The House of Representatives passed a new $410 billion spending bill, which contained twice as much “pork” (“earmarks” for special interests) as anyone expected. For instance, in this new spending bill, $200,000 is earmarked for “tattoo removal” in Los Angeles, sponsored by California’s representative Howard Berman. What is wrong with this? First of all, this new spending bill follows the passage of the $787 billion “stimulus package” that was approved the prior week. Second, didn’t President Obama just promise that he would not allow any more “earmarks” like this (and $7.7 billion more in this new spending bill)? But here is what is “déjà vu” all over again. Also last week a $643 billion health coverage plan was announced. That means that in the past 10 days, government spending programs have been announced of 787 billion, 410 billion, 643 billion… and within hours of the last announcement, the White House claims that in 4 years (2013, the year Obama’s first term ends) their programs will cut the budget deficit by – guess what - in half! How convenient! How believable once again! And how tragic the possibilities will be for the next generation if they – we - are wrong again.

But that is not the only area where Jupiter and Neptune are picking up bonus miles for flights of fantasy. Three years ago, as he was appointed the new Federal Reserve Board Chair, Ben Bernanke proudly announced to all those leaders who swore him in, that under his leadership, the USA would never again enter into a banking crisis like that of the Great Depression. Yes, I know that was before Hank Paulsen was appointed as the Treasury Secretary and the unstoppable multi-headed debt monster began to take its first incarnation of TARP (and soon there will be TARP 2). But then last week, the same Chairman Bernanke looks straight into the eyes of Congress, and announces that in his mind there is no doubt that inflation is not and will not be a problem (just as three years ago there was no doubt in his mind that the US economy and banking system would ever again experience a crisis like the Great Depression). You will note that in his natal chart (December 13, 1953, Augusta, GA, no time) he has the Sun in Sagittarius, in exact opposition to its ruler Jupiter in Gemini, and both are being squared by the current Saturn-Uranus opposition (making a Grand Square). This could imply a tendency towards over confidence and maybe even exaggeration or questionable judgment.

We are back in the land of Pisces, the times leading into the Jupiter-Neptune plane of reality, where hopes and dreams of a perfect world can be seen everywhere if you just…. believe. President Obama promised to end this practice of spending taxpayer monies on “pork,” and also to support beneficial programs (like education) that would create new jobs. Here comes his first test on fulfilling that promise. Let’s see if the “line item veto” has a brighter future than tattoo removal artists.

 

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Disclaimer and statement of purpose:

The purpose of this column is not to predict the future movement of various financial markets. However, that is the purpose of the MMA (Merriman Market Analyst) subscription services. This column is not a subscription service. It is a free service, except in those cases where a fee may be assessed to cover the cost of translating this column from English into a non-English language.

This weekly report is written with the intent to educate the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they are happening. In this regard, this report will oftentimes report what happened in various stock and financial markets throughout the world in the past week, and discuss that movement in light of the geocosmic signatures that were in effect. It will then identify the geocosmic factors that will be in effect in the next week, or even month, or even years, and the author’s understanding of how these signatures will likely affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from a perspective of a cycle’s analyst looking at the military, political, economic, and even financial markets of the world.

It is possible that some forecasts will be made based on these factors. However, the primary goal is to both educate and alert the reader as to the psychological climate we are in, from an astrological perspective. The hope is that it will help the reader understand these psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) the news events and hence financial markets of the day.

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