A
member of my stock club looks first for Neptune transits whenever
she looks at the chart of a company. She believes Neptune represents
either liars or thieves or chaos. And she believes that Neptune
exposes them whenever it transits a planet in the chart of a company.
Therefore the stock price is going nowhere. She never comes to
a meeting without knowing exactly where transiting Neptune is
at the moment and where it is going.
During
2009 Neptune starts at 22 Aquarius, moves to 26 Aquarius, turns
retrograde to 23 Aquarius, and ends the year at 24 Aquarius.
The
USA Moon in the Sibley chart is at 27 Aquarius. The American public
has a Neptune transit all of 2009 and 2010. Liars, thieves, rogues,
cheaters, fibbers, con artists will make headlines. The Better
Business Bureau will probably have to hire extra staff just to
keep up.
Vedic
Astrologers note: 23 is an important degree in a Tropical
chart.
Examples
of Neptune Red Flags in Corporate Charts:
1.
Transiting Neptune with a hard aspect ( conjunction, square, opposition)
to Mercury.
- Citigroup's
Incorporation chart had transiting Neptune conjunct Mercury
throughout 2007.
- Goldman
Sachs has Neptune opposed Mercury throughout 2009. Might be
interesting.
2.
Jupiter or Pluto transiting conjunct to natal Neptune.
Companies
with IPO's in 1984 would have this aspect. Circuit City for
example, has suffered during the transits of Jupiter and Pluto
over its Neptune. Circuit City couldn't recover quickly enough
before transiting Jupiter made a square Neptune February 2008
and finally filed for bankruptcy
3.
Transiting Jupiter in opposition to Neptune.
Transiting
Jupiter was opposed the Federal Reserve’s Neptune during
December 2008 on its way to a conjunction with Uranus in January
2009. Definitely a picture of grand chaos for everyone involved.
Thank Goodness this aspect does not return.
4.
Transiting Neptune in hard aspect to Mars.
Poor
General Motors whose Incorporation chart has transiting Neptune
square Mars five times from January 2008 to December 2009.
5.
Transiting Neptune in hard aspect to Venus
Bank
of America's IPO has Transiting Neptune square Venus and transiting
Saturn square Neptune throughout 2009.
During
the past two years Neptune Red Flags have appeared all over the
Incorporation and IPO (First Trade) charts of Companies in the
DOW. A few escaped, but generally speaking most of the Dow stocks
have “just gotten to big for their britches” as my
grandma would say. Keeping an eye on personnel, suppliers and
customers is extremely difficult.
The
reason a company is placed in the DOW is that they have the largest
market capital in their sector. They are just to big for one group
of managers. They will be forced to downsize and sell or spin
off their subsidiaries. They will do their best to maintain shareholder
value, we hope.
Sometimes
it is hard to spot Neptune aspects, but you must always check.
I
thought I would play a game of Neptune and the Dow. The industrial
index itself will suffer Saturn square Neptune, and Neptune square
Venus throughout 2009. Therefore I suspect that Neptune will
not slip by the stocks on the Dow industrials list.
Textbook
3 has all the charts of companies in the Dow. Using the
charts we will do a bit of preliminary research to see if any
one of the Dow stocks has a difficult Neptune transit. If
Neptune did not make any difficult aspects to either the Incorporation
Chart, or IPO Chart of the company, I wrote "OK" next
to its call letters. If Neptune made a hard aspect to any planet
in either Inc. or IPO chart I wrote "NO" next to its
call letters.
Demonstration of Research of Neptune Transits to the DOW
charts throughout 2009:
AA-OK
AXP-NO
AIG-NO
BA-OK
CAT-NO
C-OK
KO-NO
DD-OK
XOM-NO
GE NO
GM-NO
HPQ-OK
HD-NO
HON-NO
IBM-NO
INTC-NO
JNJ-NO
JPM-NO
KFT-OK
MCD-OK
MRK-NO
MSFT-NO
MMM-NO
PFE-NO
PG-NO
UTX-OK
VZ-OK
WMT-OK
DIS-OK
What does this mean to the investor and
the trader?
The
investor would pick one of the stocks that says "OK"
and then look at the rest of the chart, checking for a solar eclipse
to Sun, Venus or Jupiter and then check the technicals using an
online site and then double checking with Investor's Business
Daily. If the stock passed all the tests then it could be a good
investment.
Remember,
in Financial Astrology "No" is a valid answer. The ones
where I said "No" are for traders who know how to trade
short and/or long and have very good discipline when watching
their stops.
To
demonstrate research I use Dow stocks because they make headlines
on the Financial pages. However to make money in the markets you
will need to look for stocks with a smaller market capitalization.
Companies with an innovative product or the opportunity to grow.
Financial
Commentators have nicknamed these stocks ‘’hidden
gems". Before you take their word for it, check to be sure
that the turquoise planet Neptune is out of the picture.
My
suggestion is to make a list of these hidden gems, calculate their
charts and then look quickly for Neptune transits. The easiest
way to do this is to find out the number of the degrees Neptune
will transit during the past few months and then to the year ahead.
Remember,
in 2009 Neptune will transit 22 degrees of Aquarius all the way
to 26 degrees. Therefore any planets in the IPO or Incorporation
chart of a company at those degrees will be at risk.
If
you own the Textbook For Financial Astrology,
Book 2, print this article and put it at the end of Book 2. If,
and when the Dow is revised, I will update Textbook 3, and I will
make an announcement of the changes.
Kaye Shinker
Astrologicalinvesting uses Michael
Munkasey's Company Data. The data includes the times and places
for the companies mentioned above.
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