MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING APRIL 13, 2026

 REVIEW by Thomas Miller

This week’s Guest Contributor is Thomas Miller, MMA’s audiobook narrator, host of the weekly newsletter podcast, and a student in the MMTA4 two-year study program.

“Looks like this confirms the primary bottom in stocks as S&P futures exceed the 45-day Moving Average. This would imply a test of the all-time high (ATH), or even a new ATH as we head into the euphoria part of the geocosmic cycle centered in July (Jupiter trine Neptune).

 But around the same time, the private credit market could tank (Jupiter opposition Pluto).

First high, then plunge.”

—Ray Merriman from an X/Twitter post on April 7, 2026 @mmacycles

In the same week that NASA, for the first time since 1972, sent astronauts to within sight of the moon, markets across the blue globe flashed green in a moon-shot of their own—bold, sudden, and impossible to ignore. Oil and the grains lagged, but even Bitcoin poked its head up, although not yet enough to establish a new uptrend.

The market launch was right on time, too (as Ray mentioned above), possibly completing the anticipated MMA 50-week cycle, thrusting into what appears to be the next bull leg, faster (in market terms) than Artemis II’s booster rockets. Ironically, the prior 50-week cycle began on April 7, 2025, with President Donald Trump’s tariff shock, plunging markets to a 21% low from a February 2025 crest. This week, a year to the day (and still within orb of the 50-week cycle), the president once again was the catalyst for the completion of a 10% cyclic drop from (ironically) February 2026’s highs.

It was a stellar “up” week across the board in U.S. markets, with both the Nasdaq and the Russell 2000 leading the way, each up 5%. Semiconductor stocks couldn’t get out of their own way, with the SOXX ETF posting an incredible 14% gain week-over-week.

Oil plunged nearly 14% on news of the ceasefire Tuesday night, despite the opening and then closing of the Strait of Hormuz 48 hours later and some late-day Friday threats of fresh strikes by the U.S. president if the latest Pakistani peace talks break down. Silver posted a strong 5% rally, and gold was up 2% for the week. Bitcoin flirted with 73,000 on Friday, settling just above that level when the markets closed.

Strong gains across Europe with the three major indices up between 1.5% and 3.5%. In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei rocketed up 7%, while the Australian ASX and Hang Seng also netted strong weekly gains.

The rally has been fragile, however. As Ray has been posting on MMA’s X account this week (@mmacycles), he is eyeing an upcoming two to five-day decline in the next two weeks, followed by a further rally. Investors and traders are still rightly focused on the Middle East with concern for both the ceasefire’s stability and what may happen next.

By the way, there was another big launch this week: The MMA Monthly Crypto Report, written by MMA analysts Gianni DiPoce and Pouyan Zolfagharnia. There’s a free webinar on the Merriman Market Analyst YouTube channel if you missed it, and the newsletter’s first edition went out this week as well. Don’t get left on Mars on this one; it was a popular launch. You can subscribe now through the link in the Announcements section below.

And may the Artemis II crew have a safe splashdown, which should be about an hour before this column is released. It has been fun seeing Luna through their eyes again.

SHORT-TERM GEOCOSMICS

Mars is now in Aries, leaving Mercury as the last planet to the ram’s party, arriving this Tuesday. That sets the stage for a flurry of conjunctions as both Mercury and Mars meet Neptune, Saturn, and themselves in an upcoming display of Aries dominance this month. That much fire at once can sometimes propel or blow things up. We’ll know soon enough.

Of particular note is Venus, now transiting its own sign of Taurus, conjoining Uranus at the critical anaretic point of 29°53′ on April 23, an MMA Level 1 geocosmic signature with a 72% correlation to primary cycles in U.S. stocks. This Uranus aspect can abruptly trigger reversals in markets that have been trending in one direction for more than three days before the aspect.

And then there’s Trump, whose natal Sun sits 5° past his natal Uranus, with the North Node of fate sandwiched in between (all in Gemini…go figure!). The U.S. president faces his own stack of challenging aspects to his natal chart throughout April. On Wednesday, Uranus squared his Ascendant. This can be one of the most challenging personal aspects one encounters. Also taxing is transiting Saturn making a T-square to his natal Mercury-Neptune opposition, April 3-28. Decision-making and judgments can be miscalculated here.

Another aspect that could affect the president’s moxie occurs next Sunday, April 19, when transiting Jupiter squares his natal Jupiter. That natal Jupiter is itself retrograde in Libra in his 2nd House using the equal house system. His value system has always been inward; everyone sees that. But transiting Jupiter falls in his 11th House of Allies. Could this be why he has been so “challenged” with garnering support for his co-attack on Iran? Is it any wonder his next “war” seems to be shaping up to be with his own allies (NATO)? Or that his “ceasefire” is not very much trusted or respected around the world? And was it really “mission accomplished” as the White House has been saying?

In other words, the president’s value system has been off-kilter for almost nine months, with that extended Jupiter square causing him to go it alone due to non-support, and he appears to care less (or is it just being careless) with transit Uranus square his Mars/Ascendant conjunction. This final square between transit and natal Jupiter won’t make his actions and reactions any more measured.

TUMDI: It’s worth checking in on Ray Merriman‘s “Trump Uranus Market Disrupter Indicator (TUMDI), crafted after the last inauguration. Certainly, this month should be an active TUMDI period, right? (With the Venus/Uranus conjunction of April 23, along with transiting Uranus squaring his natal ascendant).

Yes, except the “Market Disrupter” component of this unique indicator has mostly been shrugging off Trump’s “Bzzzt” Uranian surprises of late (Bzzzt was one of brilliant astrologer Noel Tyl’s descriptions of Uranus’s shock and awe side). Until Uranus gets past this ingress, TUMDI, and other Uranian surprises could always be just around the corner. For investors and even for astrologers (ruled by Uranus), observation is perhaps a better approach than prediction right now.

Bzzzzt!

LONGER-TERM THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS

I have never lived in a time when the U.S. was not the world’s dominant superpower.

 I have never lived in a world where the U.S. Dollar was not the dominant standard world currency.

 I have never lived during a period when the U.S. did not have strong allies throughout the world who trusted it to be the leader of world order and global security.

 However, that is all changing as we enter the midpoint of the “New Aira” of 2020– 2032, which just happens to coincide with the “Aries Vortex” of 2025–2026.

—Raymond A. Merriman in the Introductory chapter of Forecast 2026, “Changing of the Guard: Transition of Leadership Under the Aries Vortex.”
As previously mentioned, a key MMA short-term cycle (the 50-week) may have bottomed, as this week’s market action suggests. However, several other longer and more significant cycles are expected to form their lows between now and mid-2028. These overlapping cycles have been discussed in various ways through the monthly, weekly, and daily cycles reports, in this newsletter, the Forecast 2026 book, and the recent MMA webinars.

As these cycles make their troughs, the next phase is often a substantial bull run. In other words, we should be nearing one of those important times when investors can position for potential cyclic gains. Awareness of where we are in these cycle phases is what the MMA products, courses, and subscriptions are all about.

Since October, I have been fortunate to be part of the Merriman Market Analyst Timing Academy (MMTA), a rigorous two-year program in which the MMA analysts teach the processes for identifying market cycles, combined with planetary aspects and movements, that Ray developed from 1980 to 2012.

This fourth MMTA class has the added advantage of hearing the analyst team’s views as another drumbeat pounds loudly. That is, the apparent change in the world standing for the United States of America.

Ray began the 2026 Forecast book, the Jubilee 50th Edition, with those haunting words quoted above. Now, seven months later, we are seeing things unfold even faster than he envisioned in that last October.

There are several geocosmic events that led us to this point.

For me, the big domino trigger was January 12, 2020, when Saturn and Pluto conjoined in Saturn’s lair of Capricorn for the first time since 1518. These two meet every 33 to 38 years in a sign, but not that often in Capricorn. The previous time before 1518 was 1284. Additionally, Pluto by itself in Capricorn is also highly significant. In the late 1770s, Saturn was in Libra, but Pluto came through Capricorn by itself, and we all know what happened then. (Note – there will not be an exact degree and minute conjunction of these two in Capricorn again until December 14, 2754!)

After each prior Saturn-Pluto in Capricorn conjunction or transit, a common theme followed: “A Changing of the Guard.” In each case, an old, corrupted system passed the baton: from the Vatican to the Crown in 1518, from the Crown to the colonists in 1776, and, if it happens again, from the USA … to whom?

Three weeks after the January 2020 conjunction, we had a new word in our vocabulary that none of us will ever forget. Within ninety days, we had a worldwide pandemic. Following the 1284 conjunction, the Bubonic Plague emerged in 1347, and the Italian Renaissance followed a few decades later.

This February, we had the exact aspect of the Aries Vortex when Saturn and Neptune met at 0° Aries, at the World Point and in the sign of war, which has been extensively written about here and in the Forecast books since 2023. Within 8 days, without provocation, the U.S. and Israel were bombing Iran.

These truly are historic astrological and mundane times. But let us remember the words of André Barbault, noted French mundane astrologer, who described the 2026 Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries as “the most benefic configuration of the century, and its interplanetary partnership will work for the best in a splendid relaunch of civilization.”

– André Barbault, Planetary Cycles: Mundane Astrology, translated by Kate Johnson, The Astrological Association, London, Great Britain, 2016.

Could that be why, in divine cosmic planning, these two will not meet again in Capricorn for 734 years?

There are likely more challenges ahead and, like in times past, some may seem unfathomable. If history rhymes or repeats, and if Barbault is right, something far better than the old guard being retired will emerge. We in MMTA4 consider ourselves incredibly fortunate not only to be learning Ray’s cycle and planetary alignment work at this time, but also to be together as a group for this “splendid relaunch of civilization,” however it may unfold.

Thank you for allowing me to have a piece of your weekend.
PS – Many of the MMTA4 students will be at the MMA 2026 Trader’s Investment Retreat this May 20-25, at stunning Lake Bled, Slovenia. You can meet the MMA team, hear very relevant presentations, and meet many of the students, as a portion of the curriculum will be delivered live that week. Information on the retreat is also at mmacycles.com under the Shop tab, under “All Products.”

Special Note to Our Readers from Ray Merriman on Last Week’s Events

As Thomas mentioned, the Aries Vortex thoughts expressed over the past three years of Forecasts books have been a critical part of my understanding of what we, as a world collective, are going through. I believe we are now hitting the nadir of this abyss referred to in those books and webinars. Saturn is now separating from its eclipse of Neptune as seen from Earth. This is important because the Saturn/Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries is also the midpoint of the Uranus/Pluto trine. As the “front” planet in this midpoint and double sextile formation, Saturn has drawn all the benefic power of that trine and sextile. But now it is leaving those favorable aspects, and Neptune alone will remain there for the next three years.

Although the conjunction technically took place on February 20, one week before the decision was made to launch this “War of Choice” on Iran, the blocking out of Neptune’s dynamic (wish for peace) would remain in effect for several weeks afterward. But now Neptune is starting to emerge without the darkness of Saturn’s shadow over it, and a new “light” (Neptune’s) will start to emerge.

You can see and sense a shift taking place. It also showed in the chart of the strike on February 27 with Mercury retrograde and Moon void of course, and then again on the ceasefire announcement just ninety minutes before the threat of the elimination of the Persian Civilization was to take place, according to the U.S. president, with Saturn and Neptune on the Descendant at that moment.

At first, many (perhaps most) in the world cheered as the leaders of the brutal Iranian regime were killed. But as suggested by Mercury retrograde and Moon void-of-course at the time, plus transits to President Trump’s own chart as indicated in Thomas’ column above, the world’s reaction to this event, Iran’s responses, and the threats that followed by the president and his secretary of war, began to backfire (retrograde). As we came within ninety minutes of arguably one of the most destructive events in world history, the world was riveted in dread of what was about to happen. The bottom of the abyss was here.

And then President Trump pulled back. Almost immediately, the world body understood that it was on the brink of a horrendous disaster that it did not want. The world did not want the Iranian regime to continue murdering its own citizens. However, it also didn’t want the cataclysm that was about to befall the entire country, its citizens, and probably its neighboring nations.

What does this mean for the future of humanity? It could mean we have just passed a critical test in which we suddenly realize how close we were to starting World War III, and we collectively don’t want that to happen.

I believe things will begin to change now, away from the negative themes of Saturn at the midpoint of Uranus and Pluto (massive destruction and authoritarian rulership in the hands of one or a few people over our collective lives) to the positive themes of Neptune on that midpoint (slow movement to peace and avoidance of threats of extinction to large numbers of our human family).

It won’t change overnight, and people will still want their leaders to carry out their most important function: providing safety and protection from any and all threats. And leaders will still claim that is what they are doing. But they will do it in a more reverent way than we have witnessed in the past six weeks, and with a greater awareness of the consequences that can happen when we approach the world with dire threats instead of respect, and when we allow so much power to be in the hands of so few.

I believe this reflects the importance of Donald Trump having served as our president at this moment in time. His actions and words have led us to see our shared humanity through an entirely different lens—one shaped by lived experience rather than distant understanding. Life is sacred, and we are all in this together. And perhaps, having come to the edge and felt what that brink holds, we no longer need to step into the reality of a third world war.

I believe this is a turning point for humanity. I believe we have just passed the hour of darkness indicated by the Aries Vortex. The pathway to a new world is now beginning and will likely unfold over the next six years, as we come to understand what we have been through and begin to implement Uranus trine Pluto-inspired reforms in how we care for one another and the planet itself.

This week’s column ran longer than usual, but I felt it necessary to give voice to how the cosmic messaging appears to be unfolding through these recent events.

—Raymond A. Merriman

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 NOTE 1: THIS SUNDAY!!! THE “SPECIAL MMA OPTIONS WEBINAR” WITH DEREK PANAIA, HOSTED BY RAYMOND MERRIMAN AND WYATT FELLOWS, IS THIS SUNDAY, APRIL 12, AT 1:00 PM EDT.

 Here’s how it works: Ray will start with an overview of the forthcoming MMA geocosmic critical reversal dates (CRDs), using the geocosmic calendar graph and MMA tables of Level 1, 2, and 3 geocosmic signatures that will be in effect in April and May (and even into July). Wyatt will provide an outlook on cycles and geocosmic turning points in five markets (the S&P, Gold, Crude Oil, T-Notes, and Bitcoin). Derek will then present options strategies with the best risk/reward potential based on this analysis and his own additional supporting factors. Ray will ask questions and add input for clarification as necessary.

This Options Webinar will last approximately 2.5–3 hours. The cost is $125. However, it will be offered at no cost to those who are current subscribers to the MMA Daily Options Report as of April 12. The new MMA Daily Options Report has been very active and successful since it first launched on January 15. It is the perfect complement for active traders who also subscribe to the daily and weekly MMA reports, as it builds on the outlooks in those reports and monitors them on a daily or as-needed basis to identify optimal option trades that arise intraday or intraweek within those forecasts. Derek will guide subscribers through the strategy behind each trade as it develops. It is an excellent way to experience MMA’s methodology operating in real time!

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Note: Keep in mind that options trading is speculative. This webinar and the new subscription service that follows are designed for speculators who have a basic understanding of options. For those who do not, MMA offers a recording of Derek’s webinar on option principles, available on its website.

 NOTE 2: SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NEW MMA MONTHLY CRYPTO REPORT IS NOW OPEN!!! The first issue was launched on Wednesday, April 8. Each report will feature a cyclical and macro overview by Gianni Di Poce on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and one additional cryptocurrency selected based on current market interest, starting with Cardano. Pouyan Zolfagharnia will then provide a geocosmic overview and explain how it ties into the cycles. Together, they will share strategies for both position and shorter-term trading in cryptocurrencies. CLICK HERE to subscribe to this new report.

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THE RECORDING OF THE FREE CRYPTO WEBINAR, HELD APRIL 8, IS NOW AVAILABLE!!! Click here to view it on YouTube. Are you new to the crypto world? Do you wonder how to trade cryptos via wallets, futures, or ETFs? These and other topics are covered in this special instructional webinar on the new monthly MMA CRYPTO REPORT (April 8). This FREE WEBINAR will also explain how to use the new monthly crypto report for maximum value. Ray Merriman hosted this webinar, joined by Gianni, Pouyan, and MMA President Wyatt Fellows.

NOTE 3: THE APRIL ISSUE OF THE MMA MONTHLY CYCLES REPORT WILL BE RELEASED THIS WEEK, APRIL 13–14. Did the stock market just complete its primary and 50-week cycle lows? How about Gold and Silver? Are they also starting new primary cycles? What about Crude Oil? Is the high in? Given the intensity of today’s world events, this will be a very timely report. Each issue includes our outlook for the U.S. stock market (DJIA and S&P), Gold, Silver, Copper, Treasuries, the Euro currency, Crude Oil, and Soybeans. The MMA Monthly Cycles Report also provides MMA’s original geocosmic critical reversal dates (CRDs) and solar/lunar reversal dates for traders over the next several weeks, as well as trading strategies for both position and aggressive short-term traders.

If you would like to try a one-month subscription, you can sign up for the April report for only $35 — or save by ordering a three-report or twelve-report subscription.

 NOTE 4: ONE MORE MONTH!!! THE MMA 2026 TRADING AND INVESTMENT RETREAT WILL TAKE PLACE MAY 20–24, 2026, AT THE RIKLI BALANCE HOTEL IN BLED, SLOVENIA, OVERLOOKING THE STUNNING LAKE BLED IN THE JULIAN ALPS. This is always an incredible event! And yes, it will be offered online too for those who cannot be in Bled at that time.

 This special four-day retreat will focus on trading strategies for position and short-term traders in 2026. It will cover the unique, research-based MMA methods for identifying primary, half-primary, major, and trading cycles. It will then apply those market-timing techniques (cycles and geocosmic studies) to the current situation in stock markets, Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, currencies, interest rates, and grain markets, with strategies for each on both a short- and intermediate-term basis (one week to 12 months ahead). This retreat will also cover the setup and steps to take for applying MMA’s solar/lunar reversal dates for very short-term aggressive trades in Bitcoin, stock indices, and precious metals.

There will also be special presentations and interactive discussions on current and future world conditions through 2032 that are likely to affect financial markets. These sessions will be led by world-class mundane astrologers Claude Weiss (Switzerland), Christeen Skinner (UK), Christof Niederwieser (Germany), Pouyan Zolfagharnia (UK), and Raymond Merriman (USA). Joining them on MMA timing methodology and trading strategies will be MMTA Director Wiebke Held (Germany) and MMA analysts Wyatt Fellows (USA), Ulric Aspegrén (Switzerland), Gianni Di Poce (USA), and MMA Trading Coach Rita Perea (USA).

Registration is now open. The presentations during this retreat will also be available via Zoom for those unable to attend in person, and recordings (along with PowerPoint slides) will be available immediately after each day’s presentations to all attendees. For the schedule, registration, speaker bios, topic descriptions, hotel information, and the booking code, please click here. Please note that all 45 rooms reserved for MMA at the Rikli Balance Hotel are currently booked. In fact, 48 have now been booked, as the hotel continues to open up new rooms from our waiting list. We have a list of other hotels within walking distance and will continue working with the Rikli Balance Hotel as more rooms are added. If you find that hotel rooms at the Rikli Balance Hotel are filled, you can book a room at another hotel and cancel it within 72 hours of arrival if a room becomes available at the Rikli Balance Hotel (a high probability).

The MMA Annual Investment and Traders’ Retreat is an incredible event! Don’t miss it if you can make it!

NOTE 5: NEW MOVIE OUT ON FINANCIAL ASTROLOGY BY HAYLEY GARRIGUS! Many of the speakers at the MMA Investment Retreat are featured, along with several others in the financial and astrological community. “Starcash”  is a very artistic, creative, informative, and psychologically insightful journey into the world of financial astrology, created by Hayley, a talented young filmmaker in our community — and well worth viewing. The rental cost is $8.88. To view this new movie, go to www.starca.sh.

 NOTE 6: WE HAVE JUST COMPLETED A NEW UPGRADE FOR THE FAR FOR GALACTIC TRADER SOFTWARE PROGRAM!!! We can now do solar/lunar weighted value studies for any market by isolating or omitting any planet that is retrograde! For instance, we can now compare solar/lunar values for any market when Mercury (or Venus, Mars, or any planet) is retrograde or direct, or both. This is important because we have noticed that when Mercury is retrograde, the lunar values for Bitcoin perform differently in many cases than when Mercury is direct. If you don’t own the FAR for Galactic Trader program, which is key to doing MMA research studies on identifying turning points in any financial market, and wish to know more about it, please click here. The cost is $1895 (end-of-day version) and includes Jeanne Long’s Galactic Trader software, featuring extensive W. D. Gann trading tools that she created.

NOTE 7: THE (ORIGINAL) GOLD BOOK: GEOCOSMIC CORRELATIONS TO GOLD PRICE CYCLES is now available as an eBook. This was the first financial market-timing book written by Raymond Merriman (1982) that put financial astrology on the map. It was also the first book to conduct formal quantitative research on any financial market in relation to planetary cycles (there were several earlier studies on lunar cycles, but none on planetary cycles or stations until this book). It brought together Wall Street and astrology and revolutionized the field of financial market timing by demonstrating the correlation between market cycles and planetary cycles as reversal signals. As a result, the topic became one of the most attended subjects at financial and astrology conferences worldwide in 1983. This classic book has been out of print since 1984, except as a collector’s item occasionally available through Amazon. It is now available as an eBook for the first time! 324 pages, $95. Click here to order.

 NOTE 8: THE JUPITER REPORT — YOUR MOMENTS OF OPPORTUNITY! The Jupiter Report is written by Raymond Merriman. It is a 30- to 40-page report that all traders (and even non-traders) will find highly valuable. It identifies the times during the year when Jupiter transits are highlighted in your natal chart and explains the meaning of Jupiter’s transits to your natal planets and angles over a 14-month period (including one month before your order date and one month after the year ends). As an added bonus, each transit is ranked on a scale from –3 to +3 in terms of favorability for trading. Traders may find this especially valuable! Would you like to know if you are under a +3 transit and therefore most likely to experience trading success? Or a –3 transit, with a stronger-than-usual potential for misjudgments that can be costly? The price for a personal 14-month Jupiter Report based on your birth data is $69.

Coming soon! The Saturn Report: Your times for clarity and challenges to be mastered. Due out late summer.

 NOTE 9: THE MMA SOLAR-LUNAR APP OFFERS REVERSAL SIGNALS FOR THE DJIA, NASDAQ, GOLD, AND SILVER. It is an ideal tool to have in your back pocket if you are a short-term swing trader looking for high-probability dates that identify isolated lows and highs in these markets. Please note that this should not be used as a standalone system. It works best as an adjunct tool when cycle lows or highs are due, when a market is in a technically overbought or oversold condition, or when it is exhibiting intermarket bullish or bearish divergence relative to a related market. The app is currently available only on Apple devices (iPhone and iPad). To learn more about the MMA app, click here. To order, go to the Apple App Store and search for Merriman Solar/Lunar Reversals.

 NOTE 10: RECORDINGS OF MMA’S SPECIAL SIX-WEEK COURSE ON “THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GEOCOSMIC STUDIES FOR FINANCIAL MARKET TIMING” ARE NOW AVAILABLE!!! Led by Gianni Di Poce and supported by Ray Merriman, this course is designed to teach students the basic principles of planets, signs, and aspects (including retrograde and direct stations) as used in MMA’s market-timing methodology — one of its most important tools. The course explains which planets and signs rule the various sectors of the economy and financial markets. In addition, it covers how to use an ephemeris and astrological software (Solar Fire) for important routines such as calculating charts, generating transit “hit lists,” and identifying signs, ingresses, planetary stations, and aspects — the essential cosmic features necessary for determining market reversal periods.

The course is especially useful for those interested in taking the two-year program offered by the Merriman Market Timing Academy or for anyone wishing to deepen their astrological knowledge. The cost for these six introductory lessons, each lasting about two hours, is $300. This is a great opportunity to learn basic astrology from an excellent economic astrologer! Click here to order now!

 NOTE 11: THE NEW AUDIOBOOK OF EVOLUTIONARY ASTROLOGY: THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL THROUGH STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by Raymond Merriman, written in 1993, is now available! It is narrated by Thomas Miller, who has a great voice and also broadcasts MMA’s free weekly column. The first edition of Evolutionary Astrology, originally published in 1977, introduced this remarkable subject to the astrological community, where it has since become one of astrology’s major branches of study. Get ready to listen to the original work on Evolutionary Astrology that brought a spiritual perspective to the study of astrology from the late 1970s through today. To order the book (hardcover or eBook) or the audio recording, please click here.

NOTE 12: For a look at MMA’s newest advances in AI, click here. There are new short videos available now — click here.

 EVENTS

 APRIL 12, 2026: THE NEXT MMA OPTIONS WEBINAR. Starts at 1:00 PM EDT. See details above.

 MAY 20–24, 2026: MMA’S NEXT INVESTMENT RETREAT, LAKE BLED, SLOVENIA.

Registration is now open. The presentations will also be available via Zoom for those unable to attend in person. The theme of this event will focus on market timing and trading, including how to calculate and use solar/lunar reversal cycles. But there will also be coverage of longer-term cycles, with strategies for all! It’s going to be great!

JUNE 21, 2026: MMA’S ANNUAL MID-YEAR MARKETS UPDATE WEBINAR. Save the date! Details for signing up will be released soon.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2026: A UAC PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON FINANCIAL ASTROLOGY BY RAYMOND MERRIMAN, 1:00–5:00 PM. This workshop will take place at the United Astrology Congress (UAC), the largest astrological conference in the world, which is held every four to eight years. More than 150 world-class astrologers will be presenting, and over 1500 attendees will be present. The conference will be held at the Marriott Downtown Chicago Magnificent Mile hotel. In addition to the workshop, Ray will present another lecture during the six-day event, on mundane astrology, titled “What Is Happening in the World from an Astrological Viewpoint,” on September 5. For more information, visit www.uacastrology.com.

 Disclaimer and statement of purpose:

 The purpose of this column is not to forecast 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 of educating the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they occur. In this regard, this report will often cite what happened in various stock and financial markets throughout the world in the past week and discuss those movements 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, month, or even years, and the author’s understanding of how these signatures may affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from the perspective of a cycle analyst looking at the military, political, economic, and 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 to the psychological climate we are in from an astrological perspective. The hope is that it will help the reader understand the psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) news events and their potential effect on financial markets.

 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 of this column assume any responsibility whatsoever for anyone’s trading or investment decisions. Readers of this report should understand that commodity futures and options trading are considered high risk.