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 Last week’s column, written Friday evening, March 6, stated “Financial Astrology is on track to coincide with another remarkable turning point in the stock indices of the world. As the 19-month cycle of Venus retrograde takes effect on Friday, March 6, several of the world’s leading indices are falling to multi-year lows.” That report then concluded, “Whether the stock markets bottom right here, as Venus goes retrograde, or they suffer another plunge in the next two weeks, may relate to the transit of Mars. On March 6, Mars is at 23 degrees of Aquarius, the same position as Pluto occupies in the chart of the New York Stock Exchange chart, founded May 17, 1792. Mercury in that same chart is at 23 Taurus…Oftentimes that coincides with the end of a sharp sell off.”

So what happened? The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed exactly on Friday, March 6, at 6469.75, its lowest price in 12 years. The following Monday and Tuesday, other stock indices of the world made multi-year lows. And then all started sharp rallies, which is the normal pattern starting all new cycles. The first phase of every cycle is bullish, and this one is no different. It may “feel” different (yes, we are still in the land of imaginative Pisces, so things can “feel” different), because this has the possibility of also being the start of several longer-term cycles. If so, these indices could be up at least 50% from their lows of the past week, sometime by this October. Otherwise if the bear is still hungry, these rallies will not last more than 8 weeks.

Short-Term Geocosmics

Venus retrograde last week worked every bit as impressively as its history would suggest, as reported in “The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing Vol. 3: Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles.” If a market completes a significant cycle high or low near the time of Venus retrograde, it is not uncommon to see it reverse and start a counter-trend move that lasts into the time period when Venus turns direct. Venus turns direct in 5 weeks (April 18). The Venus direct period also has a high historical correlation (73%) to the culmination of primary or greater cycles within 10 trading days.

For this coming week, the most notable celestial event we take interest in is the “Sagittarius Factor” of Monday-Wednesday. This is when the Moon makes its 2-1/2 day passage through the sign of Sagittarius. It oftentimes coincides with very sharp price movements – and reversals – in many financial markets, but especially in precious metals, currencies, and Treasuries. It may be more important than usual this time for two reasons. First, Venus is retrograde, which pertains to changes in financial policies of Central Banks and/or world governments that can affect interest-rate sensitive markets. Second, the Sun is in Pisces, which is a mutable sign like Sagittarius. Having the Sun and Moon both in mutable signs oftentimes coincides with sharp price swings in financial markets, for mutable represents the principle of change, as in "change in trend," whether very short-term or even longer. Note that Satuirn and Uranus are also both in mutable signs since late 2007 and lasting through the end of this year. Arguably this has been one of the most volatile periods in history so far.

Longer-Term Thoughts

 The full moon of March 10-11 was not as traumatic for financial markets as it was six months earlier when it also fell on the Saturn-Uranus opposition. On the full moon of September 15, 2008, the world financial panic began in earnest. That was when the foundation of the world financial system nearly snapped. It was AIG and Citibank (instead of Lehman Brothers) in the forefront of worrisome news again last week too, just as it was during last September’s meltdown! So we were concerned that something similar could happen this time in the markets. But it didn’t.

 But something big did happen in the political arena on March 11, again involving the economic leadership of the United States. President Obama encountered his first major “values conflict.” He was trapped between his sense of honor and truth (Saturn), versus his sense of protection and even survival (transiting Pluto in opposition to his – and the USA – natal Venus in Cancer). Here is how it went down, according to Steven Thomma and David Lightman in Thursday morning’s McClatchy Newspaper report: “As a candidate, Barack Obama once said that a president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time… He criticized pork barrel spending in the form of earmarks… then (Wednesday) he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. ‘I am signing an imperfect… bill because it is necessary for the ongoing functions of the government, and we have a lot more work to do. We can’t have Congress bogged down at this critical juncture in our economic recovery.’ ”

As he signed this highly charged “imperfect” spending bill, many geocosmic principles were highlighted. Mars, Neptune, and Chiron all came together in a conjunction last week, a time that was bound to find the lines between right and wrong, truth and deception, not as clear as the long-term transit of Pluto in Capricorn will demand (2008-2023). Pluto is not only in Capricorn now, but it was there 233 years ago when the United States was formed. If there is one thing this represents about the United States of America, it is the people’s strict demand that lawmakers honor their campaign promises – especially if it involves taxes or changing the constitution (which so far, this doesn’t). Another geocosmic point to note is that he signed this bill as Venus was still in its station, but turning retrograde, in the sign of its detriment, Aries. Venus rules values, both psychological and financial, and this was a case where both were involved. As a station, Venus is very strong. In its detriment and retrograde, one tends to make decisions that can be brought up again and again as examples of ones inconsistency, between what one says and what one does.

But Obama is still King Arthur, Camelot, and John F Kennedy (we are talking about the symbolism of the “Jupiter-Neptune in Aquarius in mutual reception with Uranus in Pisces” kind… you know, the heroes, the saviors of the universe, the good guys in the Matrix of the X-Box-Nintendo-Play Station games). He still has plenty of political capital while this mutual reception remains through January 2010. But it begins to wane as the forthcoming Saturn-Pluto square starts its influence, sometime after August 2009.

 So let’s say that under this past week’s full moon, the investment community didn’t panic at the President’s bold action. But the public noticed. And even though his response did reflect the more important value in the minds of many (survival of the economy), in time what they might most remember is the campaign promise he turned away from (Venus retrograde). If so, the next time a similar situation arises, the public’s reaction may change from “forgiveness’ to something like “very concerned.” And if it happens a third time (for surely, with his natal Moon in Gemini, he will find himself in several such dilemmas before Saturn is done with its square of Pluto) that he turns away from a campaign promise for a “higher value,” people might become more than concerned. They might exhibit far less forgiving characteristics that one would expect with Pluto in Capricorn. Just look at the public’s reaction to the Bernie Madoff court case this past week, which was an even more dramatic illustration of how people tend to react when Pluto is in Capricorn. When trust is broken, forgiveness is the last thing on their mind.

 

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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.

No guarantee as to the accuracy of this report is being made here. Any decisions in financial markets are solely the responsibility of the reader, and neither the author nor the publishers assume any responsibility at all for those individual decisions. Reader should understand that futures and options trading are considered high risk.

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