February 21, 2026

Not surprisingly, on February 20, 2026 the US Supreme Court ruled that the administration in Washington was mis-using the legal statute under which it was imposing tariffs on various countries.

Wall Street knew this decision was coming. It was no great secret. Even the folks in the White House knew they were going to get shot down.

So, why then were the markets so jittery in the aftermath of the news release from the Supreme Court?

The answer is that planetary alignments on the day of the announcement were such that human emotion was highly sensitive. In my 2026 Financial Astrology Almanac, I explain how planets exert a gravitational torque force on the Sun. Place two planets at an angle to one another and the force is amplified. The gravitational force acting on the Sun causes the Sun to emit increased amounts of solar radiation. The human body on the receiving end of this increased solar energy responds by way of changes to cellular glucose levels and changes to cellular amino acid levels. In other words our emotion changes. Changes to our emotional levels affect our decisions to buy and sell on the markets.

On February 20, heliocentric Venus was conjunct Saturn, heliocentric Venus was 120-degrees to Jupiter, Mercury was closing in on a 60-degree aspect to Earth, Earth was 150-degrees to Saturn, and Earth was 150-degrees to Venus.

Italian researcher Nicola Scafetta has devised what he called the Torque Index. On February 20, the Torque Index calculates out to be 3.72 which is reasonably elevated.

Take a look at the following 5-minute price charts; the first one is Soybean futures on the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) and the second one is the S&P 500 futures. Notice the extreme volatility? Remember – these are 5 minute charts. I nearly got whiplash watching the prices of Soybeans and teh S&P 500 gyrate around in the aftermath of the Supreme Court announcement.

The human creature is very much influenced by the planets in our cosmos. We just don’t take the time to deeply reflect on it. In my newsletters, and in my Almanac I explain the connection between the human psyche and the cosmos. This is a powerful connection that can help traders and investors time the markets and make better decisions.

January 14, 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 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).

The only question remaining now is – when will the equity market roll over and start heading south? I have looked at past McWhirter cycles and I have noticed that sometimes the peak occurs with the Node in Taurus, sometimes the peak hits with Node in Aries, sometimes with Node in Pisces. In my 2026 Financial Astrology Almanac, I apply some heliocentric planetary aspects and I think the Fall of 2026 is a highly likely time for something to occur.

Instead of trying to time the event, my suggestion is to review all of your holdings and consider placing trailing stop losses underneath what you have. This way when the proverbial shit hits the fan, you will not be hurt so badly.

In past 18.6 year cycle ends, someone, somewhere was always bailed out. In the 1990 timeframe, the Saving & Loan debacle needed bailing out. Eighteen years on, in the 2008 crisis, some firms were allowed to perish outright (Bear Sterns), some were forced to merge (Merrill Lynch with B of A), while some were showered with cash (auto makers, banks, insurance companies). In the coming debacle, I have to wonder – will the AI tech firms be the ones with their begging pots pleading before Congress?

The good news to all of this is – when the bottom finally arrives there will be a plethora of amazing buying opportunities for all of us. Get ready for it….

Dec 31, 2025

The race is on to see who can be the first to extract critical minerals from the seafloor. One of the race participants is The Metals Company (N:TMC). Here and now, the Company is awaiting approvals from the White House regarding the suggested NOAA approach to the seafloor mineral extraction permitting process.

In the meantime, TMC has now completed some laboratory studies that demonstrate the mineral-rich nodules on the seafloor area near the South Pacific island of Nauru contain valuable amounts of manganese sulfate – a key material in battery cathodes for EVs.

TMC price has a cyclicality to it. Larger cycles are equivalent to the 225-day Venus orbital cycle around the Sun. Smaller cycles equate to the Mercury axial spin cycle of 58.65 days. Here and now, one can see on the above chart how the larger 225-day cycle ended in early December. The end of this cycle marked the failure of a rally attempt. Here and now, one can also see the trend on TMC – as measured by the Slow Stochastic and the True Strength Index – is bearish. Late January will bring the end of the current 58.65-day cycle AND a Bayer Rule #11-A increment (see green line in chart). I will be watching TMC closely in January. I have reason to believe share price is going to briefly dip to around $4.50 per share.

The Company says it has about $115 million cash on hand now. Exploration expenses plus general & admin expenses in Q3 amounted to around $50 million. TMC says not to worry because there are outstanding warrants that when exercised will bring in fresh money.

Here is the breakdown: there are 5.3 million warrants outstanding at an exercise price of $2.00. There are 12.3 million warrants outstanding at an exercise price of $4.50. There are 1 million warrants at an exercise price of $5.87. There are 9.1 million warrants at an exercise price of $4.72 subject to the US Govt granting mineral extraction licenses. Beyond these tranches, there are 6.8 million warrants at an exercise price of $7.00 and 24.5 million with an exercise price of $11.50.

TMC needs some dramatic news and soon if it is going to sport cash “burn” rates like it did in Q3. The share price really needs to get closer to $9 or $10 to encourage warrant holders to exercise their warrants. Share price will only move if the US Govt can offer up some approval of the recent NOAA proposal and if the island of Nauru itself needs to issue operating permits to TMC.

The clock is ticking….I am watching the 58.65 day cycle slowly unfold….

Dec 31, 2025

Russia continues to lay waste to Ukraine. Yet the west will not take aggressive action against Mr. Putin to remove him from the equation. Why?

The answer rests with nuclear fuel rods. You see, Russia makes a reported 44% of the fuel rods the world needs to run the various nuclear reactors around the planet. Take our Mr. Putin in an un-ceremonious manner and the supply of fuel rods could be jeopardized.

What is little talked about in the mainstream media is how a small Australian company is working hard (in partnership with uranium giant Cameco (TSX:CCO) to perfect a new and more efficient way of enriching uranium to make not only fuel rods for existing reactors, but also the HALEU (high assay low enriched uranium) rods for small modular reactors (SMRs).

A pilot facility in Wilmington, N. Carolina has now thoroughly demonstrated that this laser-based process works. Next, the plan is for Cameco to establish a facility in Paducah, Kentucky to use the laser process to enrich and clean up some 200,000 tonnes of nuclear waste that is stored at a Dept of Energy site.

The day is fast approaching when the west will be able to say to Russia – thanks but we no longer need your uranium fuel rods. When that day arrives (very soon) some more direct action against Mr. Putin will shift the course of events in Russia and will alter its foreign policy activities.

The Australian company I speak of is called Silex (ASX: SLX). The stock is underpinned by cycles (225 day and 88 day). The trend right now is bearish. A move above $A 9.00 will shift the trend to bullish. Late January will see the end of an 88 day cycle. Watch for a price reaction at that point. 

November 13, 2025

On the evening of Nov 13, 2025, I was able to see the northern lights (aurora borealis) from where I live in western Canada. The northern lights are made possible by charged solar particles hitting the Earth’s geomagnetic field.The picture shown below was taken with my Google phone.

And what was happening on November 13th? Mercury was 180-degrees opposite to Venus, Mercury was 90-degrees square to Jupiter, and to add a bit of extra energy, Mercury was 120-degrees trine to Mars. These positions marked a potent heliocentric placement for the emission of solar particle energy from the Sun. The S&P 500 was decidely negative on the day with a range of 149 points !

October 30, 2025

A JetBlue flight on October 30th experienced a malfunction in its elevator aileron computer (ELAC), which is a computer that controls the plane’s pitch or nose angle. Airbus believes that solar flares—intense and concentrated streams of electromagnetic solar radiation—may have corrupted the data and caused the ELAC to malfunction, suddenly sending the aircraft plunging down.

And what was happening on October 30th? Mercury was 90-degrees square to Earth, Mercury was 45-degrees to Saturn, and Venus was 180-degrees to Saturn. This was a potent heliocentric placement for the emission of solar particle energy from the Sun.