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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.

In my 2021 Financial Astrology Almanac, I provide an explanation of how to use the Hebrew alefbet to arrive at four mathematically significant numbers. I apply these four numbers to stock charts starting from a major high or a major low price. I project forward and note the times when heliocentric Venus or heliocentric Mars advance through the same number of degrees as these significant four numbers.

Here is a table of date intervals using Dec 9, 2020 as a start point. I published this Table in one of my Astrology Letter publications.

This data is significant because on Dec 9, there was an IPO for c3ai (NYSE:AI), Air BnB (ABNB) and food delivery service Door Dash (DASH). Watch the above intervals to see if the dates align to increased volatility or perhaps even a short term trend change.

Astrology is suggesting the next few years could be volatile. Volatility creates excellent trading opportunities, for those that are comfortable trading in and out of stock positions. Here is a sampling of what might be headed our way:

As 2020 ends, Saturn is now in the sign of Aquarius. With Saturn in Aquarius (enters the sign once every 29 years), the USA is entering a period of reform (educational reform, rights and freedoms reform, prison reform, and so on…). You have been no doubt following societal events of late, so you can envision as well as I can areas that are ripe for reform. Reform can cause divisions between those in favor of the reform and those against it. Division will make headlines on CNN and Fox. News headlines can move markets.

Starting in March 2021, Neptune will transit 180 degrees opposite to the Neptune location in the 1776 USA natal chart. Thanks to its slow movement and thanks to retrograde it will take into 2023 for the 180-degree aspect to fully conclude itself. Neptune last made a 180-degree aspect to natal Neptune in the time immediately ahead of the onset of the US Civil War. Having Neptune making this 180-degree aspect again along with the activity of Saturn and Pluto surely does not bode well. The start of this Neptune transit will be heralded by Mars moving 0 degrees to the USA natal Uranus and then natal Mars.

At the January 20th Oath of Office swearing in ceremony, Mars will be conjunct the USA natal Uranus and square the Jupiter/Saturn pair. Another less than positive sign of things to come.

Moreover, Mars and Uranus will be conjunct and also on the Ascendant a mere 30 minutes before the swearing in occurs. Sun will be at the Mid-Heaven (of course it will…it’s Noon after all) and Pluto will be with 5 degrees of the Mid-Heaven. Author and astrologer Frank Clifford goes so far as to suggest this all to be a sign of social rebellion and economic turmoil to come.

In early 2022, Pluto will transit conjunct to the USA 1776 natal Pluto location. Probably not a fortuitous event.

As Saturn eventually moves into Pisces (early 2023), the USA will be utterly chaotic and the potential for a revolution will be visible. Some of the early seeds for a potential revolution have already been sown in 2020.

In 2023, Pluto will ingress into the sign of Aquarius. Pluto will take 20 years to work its way through Aquarius. The last time Pluto was in the reforming sign of Aquarius was in 1778 when revolutionary fervor was at a maximum. So, in two-years time we will have Pluto and Saturn together in Aquarius which will prove unsettling.

The short answer to the question of a correction is YES!

Here is what the S&P 500 front month futures chart looks like as of now. The heavy black dashed trend lines extend from the 2007 highs and the 2009 lows. We are now outside this decade-old channel. Price action is up against a Uranus sub-Quantum Line. To determine these sub-QL levels, I divide the distance between QL’s according to the perfect 4th, perfect 5th and major 6th musical intervals. Venus will be at a declination minimum in early January 2021. Mid-January will see Sun and Saturn at conjunction. Evidence says… a correction looms. The fly in the ointment, however, continues to be the Federal Reserve. The FED is reportedly thinking about extending the bond duration of its purchases. By squelching the longer bond price signals through repetitive buying, the markets stand to become even more irrational. Add to this observation that fact that 2021 will be a Shmitah Year (see my 2021 Almanac for a discussion of Hebrew religion type cycles). All too often the year after a Shmitah Year can be worse that the Shmitah Year itself. In 2022, Saturn will spend a good deal of time 90 degrees square to Node. Uranus will draw nearer to a conjunction with Node. Definitely bad omens! Node in Taurus in 2021-2022 says the economy will be slowing. WE ARE HEADED FOR TROUBLE. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

In my travels, I recently came across an old book in a used bookstore that was all about planetary declination. So, first off – what is declination?

The planets orbit the Sun each in their own pattern but they are confined to a plane of motion called the ecliptic plane. As the planets orbit the Sun, they move up and down slightly relative to the ecliptic. This is what we call declination. Let’s say Mars was 10 degrees above the ecliptic. We would say Mars was at +10 degrees of declination. Let’s say Neptune was 5 degrees below the ecliptic. we would say it was at -5 degrees of declination.

Now, let’s take a look at planet pairs. Let’s say that on a given day, Mars was at +10 degrees of declination and Pluto was also at +10 degrees of declination. We would say that at that time, these two planets were at “parallel”. Let’s say on a given day, Jupiter was at +20 degrees of declination and Mars was at -20 degrees. We would say that at that time, these two planets were at “contra-parallel”.

Now, here is where it gets weird.Take a commodity – Gold, Cotton, Oil etc… Take a look at the declinations of the planets at the day in history when that commodity first started trading (the first trade date). Make a note of which pairs of planets were at parallel and contra-parallel.

Now, fast forward to here and now. Using tables of declination data (or a suitable software program), look for times when these very same parallel and contra-parallel events occur. Now, look at the price chart for the commodity. What you might see will shock you. All too often, sharp pivotal trend changes can be seen to initiate at the start or sometime finish of these parallel and contra-parallel events.

Now ask yourself – is this the power of Nature? Or, is this men in dark suits at hedge funds and investment banks manipulating the markets? If it is the latter – how evil-genius, brilliant of them. Very few people on the street are aware of declination. It is almost like declination is a timing mechanism and if people are unaware of it, then the men in dark suits will be free to swing the markets around to their benefit. The mainstream media will backstop the situation with their usual inept storymaking. ( …and in other news, the price of Gold was down today after blah, blah, from the Federal Reserve said blah, blah in a speech….).

So far, I am seeing a correlation between declination events and Gold, Cotton and Crude Oil. In the coming weeks, I will systematically look at all the commodities that I currently review in my Astrology Almanac. I would not be shocked to see the correlations extend across all commodities that trade in Chicago and New York.

It is one of my deeply held beliefs that the foundations of the American financial system are anchored in Astrology. In my annual Almanac publication I show how the Moon passing one of 4 key points in the 1792 natal birth horoscope of the NYSE all too often aligns to short, sharp inflection points on the Dow Jones Average and the S&P 500.

My readings have lately uncovered something else that supports my belief about Astrology being the anchor of the system.

It is reported that W.D.Gann followed the Jan 2, 1977 first trade natal horoscope for Wheat and Corn that trade on the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade – which is part of the CME Group today). It is also generally understood that he followed horoscope charts from 1848 and 1859. As it turns out, the CBOT was founded April 3, 1848 and on Feb 18, 1859 the Exchange received permission to self-regulate itself.

Here is the 1877 horoscope for Wheat and Corn. Note that the Ascendant and Mid-Heaven are in Cardinal Signs, namely Capricorn and Libra. Specifically, Sun is 12 Capricorn and MC is 15 Libra.

The above chart is the 1848 horoscope for the founding of the CBOT. Note that Sun and Moon are conjunct (New Moon), note that the New Moon is at 13 Aries which is 90 degrees to the Ascendant point in the wheat/Corn 1877 chart and note that Jupiter in the 1848 horoscope is at 12 Cancer which marks the Descendant point in the 1877 Wheat/Corn horoscope.

The above chart is the 1859 horoscope for the date when CBOT was granted self-regulatory status. Note Mars is at 13 Aries, which is the same point as the New Moon in the 1848 horoscope. Venus at 12 Capricorn is at the same location as the Ascendant in the 1877 Wheat/Corn horoscope. In both the 1848 and 1859 horoscopes, note further that Node is at 29 degrees of its sign.

Is all this purely accidental? Not a chance, I say.

It is peculiar occurrences like this between horoscope wheels that embolden my view that Astrology in past played a significant role in price movements on commodities. People like Gann and McWhirter were intuitive enough to figure this out and profited handsomely from their acumen. Fast forward to today and I still think the big boys like Goldman Sachs very quietly manipulate markets at key astrological events. Sadly, today very few people lend credence to Astrology which means the wizards that are using it have few barriers to success.

This is why I continue to author books on the subject of Financial Astrology. We must ensure this valuable correlation to the markets is not lost forever.

Over the years, there have been a small group of stocks (perhaps by accident, perhaps by design) that have made their IPO debuts on the market during Venus Retrograde. The odd thing is, these stocks seemingly have a memory and on subsequent Venus Retrograde events have displayed increased volatility. A classic case is that of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) which IPO’d in May 2012 during a Venus Retrograde.

The following chart (generated in Market Analyst software) shows Facebook price action overlaid with Venus Retrograde events.

I will be watching Facebook closely during the coming Retrograde event. This could be a good buying opportunity. Keep your eye too on the coming IPO for tech concern SNAP ( a.k.a. Snapchat). It is setting up to IPO and its first trade date will be perhaps right at the start of Retrograde.

Starting on March 4th and continuing for 40 days Venus will be Retrograde. As I explain in my 2017 Financial Astrology Almanac, Retrograde does not mean the planet suddenly starts moving backwards in the sky. Rather, it is passing Earth (think of 2 race cars around a circuit) because Venus travels around the Sun quicker (225 days) than Earth travels around the Sun (365 days). As it passes us, we see it appearing in various zodiac signs/constellations and to us it appears successively in signs that are in reverse (backwards) order on the zodiac. To the ancients, this must have been quite a sight and to the divine seers Retrogrades were highly esteemed events in the heavens.

There is a link between Retrograde events and financial markets. I still struggle with this. Do these events somehow affect our inner psyches? Or, do the wizards on Wall Street deliberately move the markets at Retrograde events to engineer more profitable trading opportunities?

The following chart (generated in Market Analyst software) shows that in 2007, the US equity markets hit a peak at Venus Retrograde and the 2009 lows came at a Venus Retrograde. Co-incidence? You tell me….

Since 2009, there have been other Venus Retrograde events too as the following chart shows (again created in Market Analyst software). Each time, the US equity markets have responded notably.

My eyes will be glued to the e-mini Dow futures for possible trading opportunities at the coming 40 day Retrograde event. If Wall Street wants to manipulate the market for 40 days starting on March 4, I can play that game too….

Had you talked to me on Feb 2, I would have pointed out that on my chart of the Dow futures, the Wilder Volatility Stop was setting up to switch to a negative trend. But, yet on Feb 3, the Dow decided to gap up and close ~180 points above the Feb 2 close. This is a classic case of Astrology at work. The natal birth horoscope for the NYSE has Jupiter at 22 Libra. As of here and now, transiting Jupiter is making its conjunction with  that natal Jupiter location. What’s more, this week-end, Jupiter turns Retrograde.

This intrigued me enough that I scrolled back in time to see what happened the last time Jupiter turned Retrograde. That happened on May 10, 2016. In that May 2016 time frame, the Dow was losing steam, but suddenly it surges 200 points just as Jupiter is about to turn Retro. And again, today, we see Jupiter not only touching the natal Jupiter point, but also about to turn Retro and the Dow puts on a head of steam and moves up in a market that is looking like it may want to lose ground.

Such are the the subtle nuances of using Financial Astrology to look for coming inflection points (as I like to call them) on the markets.

Dow Jones and Jupiter Retrograde

As the above image shows, circular motion around the circumference of a circle can be translated into a cosine curve. This is not a new phenomenon. The mathematics relating circular motion to sinusoidal curves dates back to the ancient Babylonians. Our formal knowledge of this branch of mathematics reached a pinnacle with the work of Newton, Euler and others in the 1600s and 1700s.
Fourier

What if we had circles all of varying sizes being translated into sinusoidal curves? What if we combined the sinusoidal outputs and smoothed the outputs into one curve? Such was the question posed by mathematicians such as French thinker Joseph Fourier. His work opened the door to the notion of the Fourier sequence.

The Dow and Gann

The concept of a curve with some pattern to it then takes us into the realm of the stock market. In the late 1800s, Charles Dow was the first to postulate that there appeared to be a repetitive pattern to the Dow Index of 30 stocks. Those that followed, including W.D. Gann, made the connection to planetary motions and periodicities of pairs of planets. This opened the door to a full blown application of astrology and to people like McWhirter with her New Moon analysis.

Harmonics and Astronomy

Thanks to the work of W.D. Gann, it soon was laid down that there was a 20 year cycle behind the action of the markets. This 20 year cycle could be expressed as two 10 year cycles. These 10 year cycles then acted as the fundamental frequency, or First Harmonic. Gann refined this 20 year notion into the heliocentric synodic period of Saturn and Jupiter – which he dubbed his Master Cycle. The actual synodic period of these two great planets is 19.853 years and the half-period is 9.929 years.

Prof. Weston

In 1921 a person identified as Prof. Weston from Washington D.C. further analysed 600 months of Dow Jones data and using Fourier analysis and cosine mathematics he laid down the idea that the Dow Jones could be described by way of 4 (harmonics) cosine curves – a 20 month curve, a 28 month curve, a 10 month curve and a 14 month curve – all blended together.

He went on to describe how the 20 month curve begins in November of the 1st year of the 10 year cycle and another 20 month cycle begins in November of the 5th year of the 10 year cycle.
He said the 28 month cycles began in July of the 3rd and 7th years of the 10 year cycle.
The 10 month cycle begins in November of the 9th year of the 10 year cycle.
The 14 month cycle begins in September of the 10th year of the 10 year cycle.

Let’s test this Prof. Weston notion using the S&P 500. Jupiter and Saturn (heliocentric) were at conjunction in April 1981, thus marking the start of a Gann Master Cycle. Weston says a 20 month cycle should start in November 1981. The following chart illustrates this cycle – November 1981 through July 1983 = 20 months.

Weston says another 20 month cycle should start in November 1985 (fifth year of the 10 year cycle). The following chart illustrates this cycle – November 1985 through July 1987) = 20 months. As the following chart shows, the Weston 20 month cycle started just shortly after a key 1985 low and concluded mere weeks ahead of the a key price peak that culminated in the nasty 1987 crash.

Weston says a 10 month cycle will start in November of the 9th year (1989) of the 10 year half-Master cycle. Note how the end of this 10 month cycle landed within a week or so of a key market low.

And so it goes. This is exactly the type of stuff that I strive to share with subscribers to my Astrology E-Alert newsletter. The 1920s and 1930s were an amazing time. A handful of people with deep astrology knowledge came to understand the cycles that drive the financial markets. Sadly, this knowledge, starting in the 1940s, was swept aside by what I like to call the ‘academic crowd’. People at Yale and Harvard with too much time on their hands started to develop inane theories like the Efficient Market Hypothesis, Modern Portfolio Theory and the Efficient Frontier. Chart technical analysis was poo-pooed upon as being akin to voodo science.   This effort by the academics ended up laying the foundations for today’s modern investment industry. You know – the industry that makes billions of dollars every year by siphoning fees from Mr and Mrs Average Investor who are told to buy and hold as investing is for the long term. The industry that I was a part of from 2002-2007 until I got sick of the bullshit and the fee-grabbing nonsense.

My goal here at InvestingSuccess remains as it always has been – to ensure the science of astrology is not lost. To ensure that Mr and Mrs Average Investor have access to the basics of astrology so they can start to make better market timing decisions to sidestep major market pitfalls.