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(This Post originally appeared on this site on July 10, 2026)

The Iranian situation has now bifurcated; broken apart into two factions: the moderates and the radicals.

We have seen this movie before. An iron-fisted ruler keeps all the political/religious/cultural factions in his country under control. The ruler is forcibly removed from power. A vacuum is created; the various factions cannot manage to get on the same page together. Things spiral out of control.

Iran has now broken into the moderate camp and the radical camp. The moderates engage in talks with the U.S. administration; progress is made. The radicals (IRGC members) meanwhile go stir crazy and start firing missiles at ships in the Strait of Hormuz and at U.S. military facilities in nearby Gulf countries.

WTI Oil futures follow two offsetting 58.65-day cycles plus an 88-day cycle. One of these 58.65-day cycles ends on July 18.

On July 19, a Bayer’s Rule 11-A projection lands.

August 3 and August 14 are two more Bayer’s Rule dates.

From the April 7 swing high, if one projects 2^nd harmonic advances of heliocentric Mercury, the date of August 3 comes into focus.

The one thing planetary movements do for the trader/investor is they present future dates to focus on.

July 18 and 19 are week-end dates. Look for some kind of price reaction next Monday July 20. Then start to anticipate August 3.

If this conflict has any chance of settling down, the radicals must be brought under control by the moderates. The two dates for something to happen by are being dictated by the planets.

What Has Happened Since

The projected July 19 date turned out to be the geometric mean of the bullish run that lasted from July 6 to 23.

August 3-4 was a swing low on Oil prices.

August 14 was the geometric mean of the bullish run that lasted from early to August 20.

Right now, if one makes some Bayer’s Rule projections from recent pivot points (see above chart), it becomes evident that the first week of October will bring some pivot points on WTI Oil. What could happen in the coming 7 or so days?

(This post initially appeared on tyhis website on March 22, 2026)

Gold – the safe haven – has been more volatile than ever. However, the general trend does remain bullish. The following chart has been fitted with Jupiter quantum lines. As at March 20, the quantum line at $4600 was providing underlying support.

Gold follows a 243-day larger cycle and a smaller 58.65-day cycle. Recall that 243 days is the axial spin time of Venus and 58.65 days is the axial spin time of Mercury. A Bayer Rule 11-A projection from late January points to the last days of March. A Bayer Rule 10-A projection from the March 2 pivot points to the first week of April. The 58.65-day cycle is due to end/start again at the end of March. Another Bayer Rule 11-A projection from late January points to the last days of March.

Pay close attention to the events that are immediately ahead of us. It is hard to see through the mixed messages coming out of Washington. However, cycles and tools like Bayer projections can help cut through the confusion. Something is about to happen. It could be a positive development or it could be something worse….

What Happened Since

Late March gave a swing pivot low and a brief recovery. However, the recovery failed in early April and sent Gold prices to the $4000 level. The end of the 58.65-day cycle in early August gave a buying opportunity, but this rally too failed at a Bayer’s Rule 10-A projection from the June 29 low. From the swing point in mid-August Bayer’s Rule 10-A and 11-A projections are pointing to mid to late October for the next pivot point. Watch carefully. The current 58.65-day cycle will be ending in early October (next week).

Jupiter quantum lines continue to act as support and resistance. Here and now, Sept 29, the underlying Jupiter lines is being severely tested. A failure of this line to hold will bring the $3950 level into focus.

(This post appeared on this website originally on March 21, 2026).

The S&P 500 Index follows a 225-day (Venus orbital), 243-day (Venus axial spin), and an 88-day (Mercury orbital) series of cycles. The 88-day cycle and the 243-day cycles will reach their midpoints at the end of March (in about 8 days…).

The above chart segment has been fitted with Jupiter and Venus quantum lines. The S&P severely tested the Jupiter quantum level at 6600 which equates to a Fibonacci 23.6% retracement of the bullish move from April 2025 to early 2026.

On March 30, Earth will be 180-degrees to Saturn, heliocentric Mercury will be 120-degrees to Saturn, and heliocentric Venus will be 60-degrees to Jupiter. This gives a Torque Index reading of 2.0. Moon will be at 0-degrees declination at this time also.

Cycle midpoints must be watched closely. Bayer Rule 11-A projection points should be especially watched. Elevated levels of the Torque Index must also be watched. I have a feeling that the end of March will bring a significant shift in human emotion. I have no way of telling if this shift will be positive (ie. the Iran situation ends) or whether it will be negative (ie. the Iran situation escalates out of control). I am watching the chart technical indicators very closely…

What Happened Since

It turns out late March delivered a sell-off low. But, on news that Iran had been “decimated”, the market started to move higher again, supported in large part by the strong AI data center theme.

Jupiter quantum lines continue to bracket the performance of the S&P 500. In mid-September the S&P tested the lower part of the bracket, but AI stocks prevented a messy outcome. A violation of the 7600 level will signal that the 18.6 year cycle final innings are starting to bite..hard.

The S&P 500 could not get above the 7800 level recently. No surprise given that the 88-day cycle midpoint stopped further upside advancement.

Late October will see the endpoint of teh current 88-day cycle.

From the Sept 21 swing high, a Bayer’s Rule 10-A projection says to watch late October/early November. This is the same timeframe as the end of the 88-day cycle.

(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?

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.

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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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.

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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.