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(Originally posted to this website Jan 16, 2026)

I encourage people to get their hands on Fred Harrison’s book (2014) titled Boom Bust 2010.

In it, Harrison carefully explains that the global economy is synchronized to operate on approximately an 18 year economic cycle. He shows that this cycle extends back to at least the 1700s Industrial Revolution. The cycle does not operate by itself. It is manipulated by the global banking system. Bankers feed credit to the economy. As the economy responds, bankers expand the valuation of assets which means they can feed more credit into the system. Eventually the whole scheme implodes and bankers swoop in to lay claim to people’s assets through bankruptcy proceedings. Then the cycle starts anew.

Let me give you an example taken from my back year here in western Canada. A couple years ago, the excited conversation at a family gathering was about how a 160 acre parcel of land had just sold for $500,000. Farmers that were party to this conversation were almost in disbelief. What happened next was quite predictable according to the Harrison thesis. Bankers raised the assessed value of every farmer’s land in the immediate area and extended more credit to them. New trucks, new combine harvesters, new tractors were soon seen everywhere. And then…in early 2025 it happened again. A couple farmers near me sold their land to an investment group at the staggering sum of $600,000 for each 160 acre parcel. Unheard of! Bankers have since extended more credit to farmers. When I look out my office window right now I see 8 brand new John Deere combines ($900,000 each!) waiting to be delivered to farmers who have sunk themselves deeper into debt. Some back-of-the envelope math suggests a farmer buying land at these elevated prices will have to grow crops yielding 30 bushels to the acre for the next 25-30 years. That’s a tall order to fill given the climate variability we are experiencing these days. Yet, If I talk to some of these farmers they tell me that land prices will just keep rising. Wishful thinking has apparently won out over common sense…

Harrison’s observations are not new. In 1937 an obscure New York astrologer named Louise McWhirter wrote a book in which she explained that she had studied economic data going back to the mid-1800s. She found cyclicality to the data. Being an astrologer, she sought an explanation for this cyclicality. What she came up with was the notion that the North Node of Moon takes 18.6 years to travel one time around the zodiac wheel. Hence was born the McWhirter cycle or as it is often now called the 18.6 year cycle. She further observed that when the Node reaches the sign of Aquarius, the economy is entering the bottom of the overall cycle.

Based on my observations with farmland, surely we must be getting advanced in this cycle. Indeed we are. The Node is currently at 11 Pisces and will arrive at 0 Aquarius in early August, 2026.

Last night I spent some time perusing data from the B.I.S. – that’s the Bank for International Settlements. These guys are the bankers to the world’s central bankers. The data they have on their website suggests  that housing market valuation in the US has now peaked. Commercial property valuation has peaked in the US also and is looking stupidly stretched in other countries.

Look at what else is happening: Cattle prices peaked in Oct 2025, Pork prices peaked in June 2025, Grains peaked in 2022 but showed a secondary peak at various points in 2025, Cotton peaked in early 2024, Oil peaked in Sept 2023, Coffee peaked in Feb 2025, Sugar in Nov 2023, and Cocoa in Dec 2024. Crypto currency peaked in October 2025. Gold, Silver, and Copper are now being chased higher, but I fear that this wild action will soon lead to a roll-over peak too.

What has not peaked (but may be about to…) is the S&P 500. Wall Street sage/oracle Ed Yardeni is calling for a substantive correction on the S&P led by the tech stocks that have inflated the index. As we all know, about a dozen stocks (many AI related) have driven the equity market over the past couple years. But now the reality is dawning….the power hungry data centers that are being built are showing a greater appetite for critical metals (used to dope the silicon GPU chips that Nvidia and AMD make), and for electrical power than what is available. This is a shaky, maybe even unsustainable situation. Tech firms are plowing enormous amounts of cash into AI. Prudent investors are now beginning to ask some tough questions about share price and valuation metrics. Moreover, the appetite for metals and power are causing geopolitical unrest – talk of taking over Canada (for its uranium that would help create small modular reactors to power data centers) and talk of annexing Greenland (for its critical minerals, hydro power, and cooler climate to support data centers).

What Has Happened Since

Ed Yardeni apparently bends to whatever the way the wind is blowing. He is now calling for S&P 8000 by year end/early 2027.

Gold and Silver peaked shortly after this post was added to this website.

The appetite for critical minerals showed its voracity when the Trump administration plowed money into a number of rare earth and critical mineral companies.

American mineral exploration companies have now staked huge swaths of land in Greenland. No need to annex the country if American companies have laid claim to mineral deposits.

Interest rates (10 Year Treasuries) have risen to levels last seen in 2007. No surprise given that America is sporting $40 Trillion in debt (this does not include items like Social Security future payments).

Housing stats remain sluggish.

Credit default swaps on Oracle debt have risen to uncomfortable levels.

What was to have been a 3 day war with Iran has now dragged on for 8 months. Energy prices remain stubbornly high and are starting to take a bite out of the economy.

The big question now is what will the remainder of this 18.6 year cycle look like? Will Wall Street be affected as it was in the 2007-2008 cycle?

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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.

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.

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.