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MMA Comments for the Week Beginning June 28, 2010
Written by Raymond Merriman   


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The Summer Solstice of Monday, June 21, in a square aspect to Uranus, stopped the new bullish trend in equity markets right in its tracks. The very sharp rally off the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction of June 8 ended abruptly on June 21, as the transiting Sun began to fill in the empty part of a grand square involving Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto last week. It was as if the script for last week’s market behavior was written by a Financial Astrologer.

The market pattern of a new cycle high on Monday, and then down into Friday, did not occur in just in one region. It happened in all regions of the world, from Asia, the Pacific Rim, Europe and America. Precious metals started the same way with a peak on Monday and then a sell-off. But then Gold and Silver found a temporary bottom on Wednesday, just in time to rally sharply again into the “Sagittarius Factor” (Moon in Sagittarius) which was in effect Thursday and Friday. European currencies and Crude Oil followed the same track as Gold.

The translation of the Sun to the planets involved in the Cardinal Climax last week is reminiscent of Venus doing the same thing recently, May 18-25. You may remember at that time too the market sold off for an entire week, finally bottoming right at the end before commencing a new rally. Let’s see if the same market pattern is repeated now in equity indices.

Short-Term Geocosmics

 This will be a pre-holiday week, ahead of the USA Independence Day celebration on July 4 (markets are closed July 5 in the USA). Almost as if by cosmic design, there will be no major geocosmic signatures in effect between the lunar eclipse of June 26 and Uranus turning retrograde to start the following week on July 5. They are taking a cosmic holiday.

 In pre-holiday weeks, volume usually contracts as the week rolls on, and oftentimes this will coincide with rather quiet markets. But with Uranus going stationary on July 5, we cannot assume the markets will be quiet after all, for whenever Uranus is highlighted, we note bizarre and unexpected events oftentimes happen within one week. In the mundane world, this will continue to be a period of possible earthquakes, tornadoes, and high winds. In markets, this too can correlate with reversals and/or breakouts of important support and resistance areas.

 Uranus is extremely important to markets right now because it is in conjunction to Jupiter and opposition to Saturn. Jupiter and Saturn pertain to the two dominant emotions influencing the trading and investment community: fear (Saturn), and greed (Jupiter). Uranus with either of these signatures can correlate with extreme price movements in financial markets. As discussed in this year’s “Forecast for 2010 Book,” it was my view that this set up could portend excessive speculation and a “bubble” in financial markets. My first thought was that it would be in stocks, which would be the case if the market was confident and greedy. But if instead market participants are acting out of fear, it would be more likely to happen in Gold and even Treasuries. So far it seems that fear is dominating greed. Precious metals and Treasuries are running up. But there is still time for it to shift. And if anything can coincide with a shift in collective psychology, it would be a strong Uranus period. Thus Uranus retrograde on July 5 may reveal an important clue to this cosmic puzzle and how it will manifest in financial markets, as we continue the race to the heart of the Cardinal Climax, July 23-August 8. Then we will be fully engulfed into this new portal, this new reality, asking: “How did we get here?” and, “How do we get back?”

Longer-Term Thoughts

“Then, in the turmoil and confusion of the postwar (Civil War) South, Congress found itself forced to intervene at the local level – the individual level – in ways that fell far outside the American political tradition. Before the war, the federal government had not reached down very far; it had delivered the mail, inspected steam engines, and helped capture runaway slaves, but not much else. Now it taxes individuals, extended aid to freed people, defined citizenship, specified rights, prescribed penalties for violating those rights, and soon would impose military administration of most of the South. In this crisis, Americans awoke to the power of the central government… The way was opening for a new political paradigm in which those on the radical side would embrace government action to defend equality.”
 T.J. Stiles in “The First Tycoon,” Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, 2009.

 Another major government initiative (“The Financial Regulatory Reform” bill) passed Friday morning, June 25, the last business day of the week before the lunar eclipse, which conjuncts Pluto in Capricorn. “Reform” is the domain of Pluto, and “Government” is the domain of Capricorn. Thus it is no wonder that since Pluto moved into the Capricorn in 2008, we have entered a New Era of government regulations, the likes of which have not been since …. the last Cardinal Climax of the early 1930’s. This trend is likely to continue through most of this new decade, for Pluto remains in Capricorn through 2023, and the last quarter of the Saturn-Pluto cycle is now in force through January 2020.

 As discussed many times in this column over the past ten years, the waning phase of the Saturn-Pluto cycle (2001-2020) is historically a time when government spending and deficits increase, along with government taxes and interest rates, as the economies of nations undergo more frequent and increasingly more severe recessions. The only way to break this cycle is to break the policies that consistently lead to these outcomes. The Federal Reserve Board and other Central Banks are doing their part to counteract it, as they have kept a lid on interest rates ever since the first ingress of Pluto in Capricorn in January 2008.

 Still, we went through the Panic of late 2008 through early 2009. The recovery of late 2009 through early 2010 might have been even stronger had the government adequately performed in counteracting its role in these historical trends, which they did not. In fact, governments are playing the historical role almost exactly the same as they have played it in past under this phase of the Saturn-Pluto cycle. Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon CEO and Chairman of “The Roundtable” (a group of CEOs of the largest companies in the USA), was quoted in Friday’s Wall Street Journal as saying, “By reaching into virtually every sector of economic life, government is injecting uncertainty into the market place and making it harder to raise capital and create new businesses…. In our judgment, we have reached a point where the negative effects of these policies are simply too significant to ignore.”

 Well, Mr. Seidenberg, I am afraid that according to my understanding of geocosmic principles (Pluto in Capricorn, the last quarter phase of the Saturn-Pluto cycle), we are not even halfway through this New Era trend of greater government regulations and involvement into even more sectors of economic life. Yet with Uranus now also moving into Aries, an equally great danger to economic life will be the new increased competition for profit that will result from these new government regulatory reforms. With increased competition AND increased government regulations, the climate will become overripe for certain people to cut corners to gain an advantage. This simply means that the climate of corruption, bribery, and ruthlessness is apt to be on the increase too, unless there is an equally strong initiative towards training leaders and employees in business, banking, and government of the importance (and benefits) of ethics in both business and regulatory compliance.

 Without that, who are we kidding? The stronger you make the laws and the more severe you make the punishments, the more you increase the risks, temptations, and payoffs to work around the newly imposed barriers. It is like every other law that is designed to prevent bad behavior: if you don’t get at the root of this behavior (i.e. lack of awareness of the damage of bad behavior, and/or lack of awareness of the benefits of behavior with integrity), you just create a new class of criminals who are willing to break those new laws. Then more money in taxes will be needed for law enforcement officials who design new ways to go after the new criminals who break the new laws that fail to change the old underlying problem. It is the same governmental remedy that has failed in such things as the war against drugs, and before that the war against alcohol in the 1920’s. Prohibition and regulation are not the answer. It won’t solve the problem. In fact, it usually makes the problems worse, unless there is also greater awareness, understanding, and rewards (“benefits”) for behavior along the positive themes of Capricorn, which are honor, honesty, and integrity.

 This is all about Pluto in Capricorn, and Saturn in waning square to Pluto. Soon it will also be about Uranus in Aries too, which could coincide with a mass movement to break free of government regulations and create new governments that they see as more relevant to their own local needs and conditions. With Jupiter conjunct Uranus and both in square to the Pluto in Capricorn, and Jupiter pertaining to foreign people, the issue of immigration reform may be next. In many respects, this may be like the social climate just prior to the American Civil War.

 

Announcements




The “Forecast 2012” webcast will take place on Sunday, February 19, starting at 1:00 PM EST (that’s 6:00 PM GMT or 10:00 AM PST). Via the modern technology of our webinar host, you can log onto this presentation on current markets (both long-term and short-term outlooks) and the political-psychological climate for 2012, in the comfort of your home or office. All you need is a computer with speakers. You can hear the speech and see the live presentation and slide show, complete with the charts as they are being discussed, on your computer screen. The cost for this special event is $45.00. If you are interested in being part of this unique live webcast, just register at the MMA Website (www.mmacycles.com) and scroll down the opening screen for the announcement. Or drop us an email (ordersmma@msn.com) or fax (248-538-5296), or call us at 1-248-626-3034. Instructions to log into this event will be sent upon making reservations. Reserve early (before February 17), for space will be limited.

Many of you have asked about DVD’s or CD’s on the “Forecast 2012 Mini-Congress on January 21 in Amsterdam that I participated in. On the program were also three other excellent speakers on the subject: Irma Schogt of Schogt Market Timing in Amsterdam, plus world renowned astrologer Katen Hammaker-Zondag (specialist in the future of the Euro zone and Euro currency) and Antonia Langsdorf, of Cologne, Germany, who wrote “The Eye of the Storm,” a best-selling rendition about the year 2012 from the point of view of Mayan schools and astrologers. These recording will soon be available through Irma Schogt. We will announce when they will be available, probably within the week. You check in with us next week, or contact Irma directly at www.markettiming.nl.

 

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Copies of the printed version of Forecast 2012 are still available. There will be no additional printings, so when they are gone, they are gone. This year’s book is 200 pages – our largest ever – and packed full of information about the economy, USA Presidential election, social and economic trends, and of course, financial markets with their all-important three-star critical reversal dates (the one and two-star reversal dates are covered in the MMA Cycles Report, as well as weekly reports). For further information, please go to the front page of our web site at www.mmacycles.com, Or call us at 1-248-626-3034.

The E-Book version of the Forecast 2012 Book is now out as well in two different formats. The first is our own version, which contains both the text and the calendar-ephemeris for 2012. The cost for this is $55.00, or $35.00, depending on whether you also ordered the printed version too.  The second is through Apple iTunes, which covers iPhone 4 and 4S, and the iPad, and also Amazon.com Kindle. The cost is $39.99. It does not contain the advertisements or the planetary calendar and ephemeris in the back. You can now order it if you have an email address registered via one of these 9 countries (USA, UK, Australia, France, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain). Just go to iTunes, and then “Library,” then “Store,” then in the field titled “Search,” type in “Forecast 2012” or “Raymond Merriman” (without quotation marks). Or, go to http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/raymond-merriman/id408289861?mt=11.

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Events:

February 19, 2012: “Forecast 2012 Worldwide Webcast!!!” This is our annual speech to viewers the world over. It will be the latest update on Raymond Merriman’s annual Forecast Book. Utilizing the study of cycles and geocosmic factors, this speech will focus on the current state of the economy, political situation in Washington, DC, and in particular, the financial markets, including: the U.S. stock market, interest rates, the U.S. Dollar, Gold, and Silver. This will be a telecast of the live presentation taking place at the Michigan Education Conference Center in Troy, Michigan on Square Lake Road. The webcast and speech will start at 1:00 PM, EST and last two hours. Cost to participate in the webcast, or to attend in person in Troy, is $45.00. Go to http://www.mmacycles.com/catalogue/multimedia/forecast-2012-live-webcast-february-19,-2012!!!/ for more information.

March 1 and 3, 2012: Hong Kong. “Forecast 2012” on Thursday, March 1, and a full day intensive on “Financial Market Timing” on Saturday, March 3, with emphasis on Gold, Silver, Currencies, and Equity Markets for 2012. Organized by Earlthorn.Com at the Excelsior Hotel, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Contact Teresa Wong at 852-2529 1211 (phone), or by e-mail at earlthorn@hknet.com. A special 90-minute private meeting with MMA Subscribers will follow the workshop on March 3. You must reserve your space for this meeting with MMA.

March 9-11, 2012: The 12th Annual Balkan International Conference, Belgrade, Serbia. Featuring a pre-seminar workshop with Raymond Merriman. For further information on this fantastic gathering, contact www.keplerunited.org. +381-11-267-31-92 or email info@keplerunited.org.

April 19 and 21, Boulder, Colorado. “Forecast 2012” with Raymond Merriman, plus a workshop on “Financial Market Timing,” focusing on equities and precious metals. Sponsored by ROMA. For more information and registration, contact dralagifts@msn.com. Once again, a private meeting for MMA subscribers will follow the workshop.

May 24-29, 2012: UAC!!! The world’s largest astrological conference. Taking place at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel. Go to www.uacastrology.com. There will be an awesome Financial Track, featuring some of the top Financial Astrologers and researchers in the world. There will be private meeting for MMA on Friday or Sunday evening on the top floor of the Marriott.

June 23: Amsterdam. A special 5-hour workshop on “The Gold Market: Forecasting the Price of Gold” Details to be announced shortly, but mark your calendars for an exciting event in one of the world’s most exciting cities at the most exciting time of the year: the first Uranus-Pluto square!

August 2-6, 2012: Midwest Astrology Conference, in Ann Arbor, MI, Holiday Inn. Pre-seminar workshop on Financial Astrology, Thursday, August 2, with Raymond Merriman. More details soon.

September 14-15, 2012: San Diego: Lecture on world economy and national election, and then a workshop on Financial Market Timing. More details shortly.
details soon.

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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