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In the segment of S&P 500 chart pictured here, the various swing points have been labeled. The movement from point I through J is equal to 123% of the quantity H to I. The movement I to J is 100% of J to K. The quantity K to L is 78.6% of J to K. The quantity L to M is 68.1% of K to L. The move L to M is 61.8% of K to L.

The S&P has been rallying during this Mercury retrograde period. How much more can it go? One possible answer is it can move up until it tests the point L. This will be a 61.8% move of the quantity K to L. Notice also at this time that price action is just poking above the 200 day average. The Fast Stochastic is now over the ’80’ mark. The coming few days after the Jan 16 MLK Day holiday will be crucial.

After reaching a high of 4808 at the start of 2022, it was a downward journey for the rest of the year. At least, to a casual observer, that is how it appeared. Looking deeper at the S&P behavior reveals something humbling. The declines on the S&P 500 were occurring in harmony with science and Nature. Consider the following chart segment of the S&P from early 2022. In particular, consider the move lower from A to B. The recovery attempt from B to C was an amount equal to 61.8% of the A to B amount. The move lower (C to D) was an amount equal to 78.6% of the A to B amount. The move higher (E to F) was 78.6% of the A-B amount. The substantial move lower F to G was 161.8% of the A-B amount.

What do these various numbers (61.8%, 78.6%, 161.8%) have in common? They are all Fibonacci retracements/extensions. The Fibonacci recursive sequence is 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144…. Taking one of these terms and dividing it by the prior term gives figure that converges on 1.618. This is known in science and Nature as the Golden Mean. Taking the inverse of 1.618 yields a value 61.8%. Taking the inverse of the root of 1.618 gives 78.6%.

So while the price action of a stock, a commodity, or an index might appear to be random and nasty, peel back the layers of the veil and you will all too often find price moves that are in alignment with the Golden Mean.

Lithium stocks are all the rage these days. But….buyer beware.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of lithium batteries.

First, there is the type with a short lifetime. Take some video with your camera, the battery runs low, and you have to recharge it. Do some work with your re-chargeable drill, the battery runs low, and you stop to recharge. No big deal. We are quite used to batteries like this. These lithium batteries are made using lithium carbonate material. This is the type of lithium that is extracted from the salt salar formations in parts of South America. The market is littered with companies of all market cap sizes touting their South American projects. Carbonate material can also be found in some deep wells. Again, the market has no shortage of companies touting their brine well projects.

Second, we are witnessing the electrification of vehicles. The batteries that power Teslas, however, cannot be the same as the ones that power your electric drill. A car battery must have a longer life between charges. This charge longevity can only come from batteries made using lithium hydroxide. The most economic source of lithium hydroxide is spodumene rock. But, here is the problem. There are not many companies with hard rock lithium projects. The ones that do exist are still a ways off from any type of mining scenario. And once the rock is mined, there is a processing component to the story that will allow for the lithium hydroxide extraction. It is possible to take the lithium carbonate from a South American type project and chemically convert it to lithium hydroxide. But, the cost is prohibitive. Lithium pricing is dominated by China. Right now the price of lithium hydroxide is less than the price of lithium carbonate.

Take the case of NYSE: LTHM. This US based operator has a South American project and it converts some of the carbonate to hydroxide. But, its profit margins are squeezed accordingly. Is this stock worth $23? Probably not. It is being held aloft because of the current lithium battery craze.

Take the case of Piedmont Lithium (NYSE:PLL). This is a screw up of epic magnitude. The company raised a huge sum of money to pursue its North Carolina hard rock project. Plus it carries a 37% interest in a Quebec, Canada hard rock project. The Quebec project is still a ways off from a mining scenario. The North Carolina project is a “shit show”. It seems the Company overlooked one critical element. They forgot to reach out and embrace the local County Commission. Years ago when I was chasing a rare earth project in Lincoln County, New Mexico I was called on the carpet by the 6 person Lincoln County Commission. They wanted details on what I thought would be water usage, dust creation, noise levels, highway traffic density. This 6 person group had the power to make me or break me. In the case of Piedmont, the overlooked local Commission now has imposed a series of mining moratoriums that now extend into summer 2022. On the PLL website, there is an aerial view of the area of the planned mine. There are houses and small acreages located very near to the planned site. These local residents have no desire to live beside a mine. It is plainly evident why the Commission has slapped a moratorium on the project. Is PLL worth $51? Not a chance. The lithium craze is keeping it aloft. People who are just looking at the PLL story at face value are buying the shares. They have no idea that the project is under moratorium. This detail has been downplayed and smoothed over by PLL and their propaganda machine.

Lastly take the case of Lithium Americas (TSX: LAC, NYSE:LAC). This is a high flying stock. They have a South American project that is based on brine wells and lithium carbonate. They also have a project in northern Nevada near a geological formation called the McDermitt caldera (an ancient volcano site of 16 million years ago). The lithium is embedded in a claystone formation that geologists call hectorite. Preliminary testing suggests an acid leach process will be required. The economics of the process have not been detailed yet. But, here is the rub – the lithium to be extracted will be carbonate. Is LAC worth $30? Not a chance, I say. This stock is caught up in the lithium craze.

This blog obviously has nothing to do with astrology, astronomy or market cycles. I am writing this post to help people avoid getting tangled up in the lithium craze.

Bottom line – you want a hard rock lithium story. It has to be close to being an operating mining scenario and the company must have plans to process the rock to extract the lithium hydroxide. Moreover, the company must be fully permitted by all levels of government right down to any local Commissions. Anything else is just chasing a dream….. Buyer beware.

https://www.weforum.org/videos/ep-10-launch-of-the-top-10-emerging-tech-of-2021-10-years-of-emergingtech

This is a link to a 39 minute video in which ten investment themes are discussed. They include:

1. lower carbon footprint. In the Astrology Letter, I will continue my review of traditional industrial companies that are embracing green energy. I will examine price cycles and the influence of astrology on these cycles. I will also continue looking at companies embracing energy storage strategies (like TSXv: Strategic Resources with its Vanadium mining project that will lead to Vanadium Redox batteries for large scale energy storage).

2.self fertilizing crops. I will be searching for publicly-listed agro companies that are developing GMO plants that fix Nitrogen into the soil. I will examine the astrology-related price trends of these stocks.

3. green ammonia. This theme was reviewed in December 2021. Some key stocks were named and studied in the context of Astrology.

4. breath sensing of disease. Insert a semiconductor into the mouth. Have the person exhale breath across the sensor. Gasses emitted from diseased tissue in the body will generate an impulse signal on the semiconductor. In 2022, I will be seeking out bio-medical companies pursuing this technology. These companies will be examined for trading opportunities using astrology and other chart technicals.

5. local drugs. Instead of taking a drug made by a big pharma company, what if a local pharmacy could tailor-make a variant of the drug to suit your personal level of a disease? The search is on to identify public companies that are playing in this thematic area.

6. wireless biomarkers. What if your medical condition mandated you jab yourself 2X a day to measure your blood parameters? How would life improve if you had, say, a contact lens in your eye that could sense glucose in your system and transmit that signal to an insulin pump attached to your body?

7. tele-health. This is the way of the future. No more sitting in a Doc’s office waiting. Sensors will gather your bodily data and transmit it to a health care provider. I am aware of some public companies working in this arena. I will seek out more and identify the astro phenomena that drive cycles in share price.

8. charging of gadgets in the air: What if a farmer could implant a sensor in his field that continually measured Nitrogen levels in the soil? What if this type of sensing could be extended to monitoring all facets of the world around us? What if by 2025 there were 40 billion sensors operating? How would they all stay charged and operational? The answer – 5G. I will continue my probe into 5G and tech companies that stand to profit.

9. microsatellites. What if we could launch arrays of small micro-satellites into orbit? These could provide wi-fi to all corners of the globe. This is being done privately right now by Elon Musk and his Star Link system. As publicly traded players follow suit, I will seek to examine their share price cycles and underlying astrology to identify trading entry points.

10. 3-D printed buildings: Take plastic, melt it and squeeze it through a nozzle on a printer. You can make any 3-D shape you want. Now enlarge this many times. Take dirt, add water and a chemical binder. Have a printer squeeze this slurry through a nozzle. You can now 3-D print a house! I will be watching for publicly traded firms to embrace this mode of construction. Significant trading and investing opportunities could be at hand.

Two bad puke-offs in 2 days on the S&P? What gives? The perennial optimists are saying this is just an orderly bit of profit taking. The screaming hot inflation data rearing its head around the globe US says something else is going on. Markets are getting afraid. An inflation-stressed consumer is a problem, especially when so much of GDP activity is consumer spending driven.

From my vantage point, I use technical astrology methods to try to spot turning points on the markets. While my work identifies a number of sensitive points each year that could deliver trend changes, I take a step back and look at the bigger picture. The bigger picture since March 2020 has been dominated by government spending and central banker liquidity injections. But that is changing rapidly. Central bankers are taking steps to drain the party punch bowl. Governments have all but stopped support payments to people economically affected by Covid.

Now the turning points I identify are taking on a new sense of urgency.

Venus and Mars are speaking in loud volumes. Both planets are at their minimum declination levels. When either one is at a declination max or min, there is potential for a trend change. When both at once are at a declination extreme…be prepared for some unsettling behavior, like the sell offs of the past 2 days.

Using Kaballah sacred math, I have learned to identify some Venus cycles across time. The end of each cycle holds potential for a trend change on equity markets. A key Venus interval is hitting right now! The starting point for the application of these Venus intervals is the March 2009 lows. Along the way, over the past 12 years, the accuracy to which these Venus cycles have aligned to short term trend inflections is staggering.

I also keep a close eye on the Bradley Model which was created in 1946 by astrologer Donald Bradley (a.k.a. Garth Allan). The following image shows that this model is pointing to a severe hairpin inflection right now! We could see prices weaken for the next couple weeks, provided central bankers do not step in to stop the damage.

If the market is to endure a sell-off for the next couple weeks, I say good! Bring it on! The major social trends that are in play right now are not going away. The move to Electric Vehicles will march on. The move to AI will move forward. New, faster chipsets will be created. Copper mining activities will not be curtailed. A good sell-off will present a new set of buying opportunities on stocks aligned to these future trends.

In my Astrology Letter, I go to great lengths to introduce readers to stocks poised to benefit from the major changes that are set to sweep society. In recent issues, I have highlighted the start of a shift to indoor agriculture and the entrenchment of DNA genome analysis in the health care sector. These are only two themes. I have much more to share as 2022 dawns. I do hope you will consider joining my growing list of subscribers at $20 per month.

Quantum Lines (calculated using heliocentric positioning of planets) can be used to track the price action on BitCoin futures reference price. The following chart shows that in the past hours, BitCoin has found support at a Jupiter and a Mars quantum line. Also, for years now, I have noted that annually when Venus is at its maximum declination, BitCoin has the propensity to exhibit trend changes. That is exactly what we are seeing now as Venus draws closer by the day to its declination maximum.

When one develops the skills to apply astrology to the financial markets, the markets start to take on a rather different appearance. Levels of support and resistance come into clear focus.

The Astrology Letter is all about imparting skills to subscribers so that they can develop a new perspective of the markets. Take for example the Nasdaq Index. After some in depth research and mathematical investigating, what has emerged is the following chart. Suddenly, the Nasdaq does not seem so daunting. Astrology and esoteric math have created a roadmap of what to expect. This is exactly how WD Gann, Louise McWhirter, Evangeline Adams and others did in the 1920s, 30s and 40s in New York.

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The above horoscope shows planetary positions on February 11, 2021 overlaid on horoscope wheel with the Asc at 14 Cancer and the MH at 24 Pisces.

Observations are:

• No planets in the 10^th House.
• There are no planets in the 1^st House.
• There are no planets in the 4^th House.
• Pluto is the lone occupant of the 7^th House (least important House).
• Saturn and Uranus are square (this is a serious McWhirter angle of interest).
• The New Moon is 90 degrees square to NYSE co-ruler Mars (un-favorable).
• Neptune is conjunct the NYSE MH point at 24 Pisces.

Interpretation of McWhirter requires some deliberation. One significant planet in the 7th argues for at least some pressure on the market. Saturn square Uranus argues in the negative. Neptune at the MH argues for pressure. Therefore, the month of March (or sooner) should see downward pressure on the market. How much pressure is the burning question.

From February 11 through to the next New Moon event, the Moon will pass by some key points of the horoscope. These key points are: the MH at 24 Pisces, the Asc at 14 Cancer, the planets in the 1st, 4th or 7th House, and lastly the position of Mars and Neptune which are the co-rulers of the NYSE.

Moon passes Neptune and the MH on February 13-14, Mars on the 18^th, 14 of Cancer on the 23^rd, and Pluto on March 8-9.

If downward pressure does not manifest itself, then we shall have further evidence that the Federal Reserve stimulus ($120 billion per month) is overwhelming the market structure. We desperately need at least a 10% correction to cool off the over-zealous behavior and to get stock prices back closer in line with fundamental ratios.  A 10% correction on the Dow Jones Average would fill a gap made back on Nov 5, 2020. Such a pullback (if it occurred) would be a 61.8% retracement of the October 30, 2020 to February 12, 2021 move.

To most people, price action on a stock is often regarded as a random event. Many years ago, W.D. Gann recognized that price action was not random. He realized that price action was related to the square root.

Take a significant price high (or low). Express that price as either a 3 or a 4 digit number. For example, $43.25 would be 4325.

Take the square root. Subtract 2. Re-square the resulting number. Repeat. Repeat. Each time, draw a horizontal line across the chart at the calculated price. If dealing with a significant low price as a start point, you will add 2 each time.

Take the significant price start point and take the square root. This value will be your time factor (in chart bars). Draw a vertical line at these intervals. For example the root of 4325 in round figures is 66. Every 66 bars on the chart, draw a vertical line.

Here is an example of Micron Technology (MU) using a significant high as a start point.

Notice how many of the subsequent high and low swing points touch (or nearly touch) one of the horizontal lines. Such is the harmony between price action and Nature.

Take a significant low point on a stock’s chart. Calculate the square root of that value after converting it to a 3 or 4 digit number. For example, suppose the low price was $3.00. Express that as 300 and the square root is 17.3, which can be rounded off to 17. From the low point on the chart, add a vertical line every 17 trading days (or have a software program do it for you).

Next take the square root of 300 and to that value add 2. Re-square the sum. Example, 300 root = 17.3. Add 2 gives 19.3. Squaring that value gives 372 or $3.72. Draw a horizontal line across the price chart at $3.72. Keep repeating this exercise and keep adding horizontal lines.

After some hard work, you will have something that looks like:

The above chart is that of Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE). Note the dark arrows on the chart. These are times when price action exactly hit a horizontal line. I did not add all the lines to this chart because I wanted to keep it clean looking. Of course, you have to also use things like MAC-D and a moving average to help with your decision making. But, the Square of Nine lines certainly add to one’s confidence. As for here and now, the MAC-D is hinting that it might wish to cross over negative. Meantime price is having trouble penetrating a horizontal line. A clear signal to be cautious.

This is exactly the type of material you will learn about through my Astrology Letter subscription. No subscriber is ever with me forever. Once people learn the basics of Astrology and learn how to apply it, they tend to move on and fly solo knowing that they now have some powerful astrology techniques to take their trading and investing to a new level.