The confusing
technical signals typical of a Mercury Retrograde
period have started already, making for a trading
environment that’s difficult to predict.
While
Bulls have taken control of some world stock indices,
the Bears have control of others...Divergence has
started to appear between markets. In the United
States, the Dow Jones Transportation Index and the
Nasdaq re-entered Bullish mode last week –
and small cap indices also gained significant ground...
Astrologically, we have a New Moon in Gemini and
Heliocentric Mercury and Venus will both square
Saturn. Kaye Shinker’s New Moon newsletter
has been emailed to members and Kaye points out
it is an especially strong influence...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Both Mercury
and Neptune go Retrograde early this week as Venus
makes another harsh aspect with Saturn –
and, this time, without the benefit of any special
protection.
Oil is
in an accelerating blow-off and oil prices are likely
to be affected negatively by Neptune’s apparent
reversal, since it has joint rulership over the
oil sign, Pisces.
Great
caution may need to be exercised with Long positions
in stocks this week as major American, European
and Australian share indices appear to be putting
in at least short-term tops...
This week opens with Venusian energy, as the
planet symbolising money makes a sextile to
Uranus and a trine to Jupiter – repeating
last week’s pattern when the Sun made
precisely those aspects early in the week...Click
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Despite strongly
positive astrological conditions which should
be helping to push markets higher, the rally
in some world stock indices is showing worrying
signs of weakness.
However, it would take a dramatic slump in
prices and confidence to cancel the odds now
in favour of a new Bull market developing over
the next few months. Major stock indices are
continuing to hold above their new uptrend lines
and positive divergence is emerging in both
the British FTSE and the Australian ASX 200,
both of which last week decided to brush off
Wall Street’s latest bout of Chicken Little
bird flu.
Astrologically
Jupiter went Retrograde on Friday and
Mars is shifting signs to Leo this weekend.
I indicated last weekend that both are market-moving
energy shifts... Click
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The fireball of astrological energy
building up over the past two weeks finally exploded
to the upside late last week, propelling the
breakout in major world stock markets above
key resistance levels.
The odds now favour the launch of a new Bull
market. I know, dear reader, your patience has
been tested beyond frustration as we waited
for the fables to unfold according to the interpretations
of your correspondent... Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Massive
internal pressure continues to build in stock
indices worldwide as the astrological energy
patterns compress within a tight time frame
over the next two weeks.
Key Asian markets
began breaking out to the upside last week as
the Western indices exerted growing pressure
against the horizontal and downtrend resistance
levels defined by their plunges out of last
year’s High marks. As we enter another
highly-charged week, most indices continue to
bump against the overhead resistance levels
– while the weekly charts are showing
distinct signs of a strong Bullish breakout.
The explosive energy patterns which were primed
last week with the Mars trine to Uranus, followed
by Venus in a T-square pattern with Mars and
Jupiter gain even more dynamite immediately
ahead..... Click
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A new Bull
run – or just another bull trap? That’s
the question … and the answer is it’s
probably a little of both.
The astrological
energy immediately ahead suggests the rally which
began last week has further to run, despite the
fact most world stock indices are now bumping their
heads against strong resistance.... Click
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Friday's price
collapse on New York stock indices, caused by
disappointing earnings and outlook from GE, appears
to have pushed markets worldwide into a weak position.
Weak Fridays
tend to lead to weak Mondays - and last week's action
has the majority of market technicians now calling
for a drop in prices to retest the bottom of the
horizontal band which has acted as a floor since
January... Astrologically, last week began with
Venus moving into Aries and squaring Pluto and by
Thursday, the Sun squared Jupiter and Mercury squared
Mars. I indicated last weekend that “all three
suggest sudden moves up and down”... Click
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Let’s talk
a little about fear – and the length of trends.
We’ll deal first with trends from a trading
perspective. From an investing perspective,
trends are easy … you just put two or three
moving averages onto a chart, say a 5, 12
and 72, and so long as the 5 stays above the
12 and the 12 stays above the 72, you relax
and stay there for the long haul. Trading
requires more work... Click
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format
Strange
things began happening on world stock markets
last week as indices began diverging, after
many of them put in important low points during
the previous week.
American
markets pushed the Pollyanna button last Monday
and surged above resistance lines, only to spend
the remainder of the week whimpering.
However, other world indices began ignoring
the latest bipolar funk from Wall Street, refusing
to push either the Pollyanna button or the Panic
button.
Astrologically we have just started to emerge
from a period in which the key astrological
condition affecting stock indices worldwide
involved Saturn, the planet which symbolises
fear and restriction...Click
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Stock
markets have reached levels where we could now
see the beginnings of a sustained rally, especially
with astrological conditions starting to move
towards more positive interpretations.
However,
any rally will not carry all stocks sectors higher
and that could make for a patchy revival in some
world indices...Last week’s action by the
US Federal Reserve and other Central Banks was designed
to show that they will stop at nothing to prop up
the world financial system. Gold, oil and copper
have suddenly toppled from record highs... Astrologically
I indicated last week we were starting out with
Mercury and Venus opposing Saturn and moving onwards
towards a conjunction with Uranus and that we “will
see some volatile reactions to both the Fed’s
decision and the results from the American banks”...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Awoe! Alas!
The sky is falling – again; the banks are
broke – still; and the Emperors of Wall
Street have no clothes. Is there any
part of this we didn’t know already?
One of the ratings agencies has declared the
banks are “probably” now halfway through
their writedowns. For some reason, the markets
found that reassuring – as if it’s
somehow nice to know the banks which are broke
now will be only twice as broke in the
near future...
The news is awful, awful, awful. And that’s
before the banks actually begin reporting in the
next week! And yet. Stock markets, particularly
the American indices, are still holding at the
levels I showed in a series of charts back on
January 12 when it looked as if a worldwide crash
was imminent. The only questions we really have
are … will markets be able to produce a
strong rally from these levels – and, if
so, when?...Click
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Stock
markets pushed the panic
button last week as we hit
the central time band for
a series of negative, high-energy
astrological conditions.
By Friday, so much damage
had been done to the technical
charts that many technicians
are now calling an immediate
crash which could wipe another
20% off the value of world
markets.
In a huge leap of faith,
I disagree - even though
there is almost nothing
on the technical charts
I review each week to support
that "belief".
This week I am not going
to show any stock charts.
To be honest, most point
to a continuation, perhaps
even an acceleration of
the downtrend. Instead,
I’m going to tell
you an ancient story ...
Volatility
has made a sudden return to stock markets
and two weeks of astrological high energy
about to unfold makes for potentially dangerous
and choppy trading immediately ahead...Starting
this week, a rapid series of high energy
astrological aspects will begin unfolding
- within the same time frame as other mathematical
cycles, including Fibonacci, indicate that
stock markets are approaching a significant
tipping point.
Astrologically
There are three major astrological aspects
affecting world stock indices this year
and they are: 1. Saturn opposition Uranus,
the first passage of which occurs in early
November 2. Pluto making a generational
change from Sagittarius in cardinal Capricorn
3. Jupiter trine Saturn, the first of which
occurred on January 21 as markets
bottomed... Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
A period of astrological high-energy
begins unfolding in the next two weeks which
is likely to drive a major turning point in
stock markets worldwide. For the
past few weeks, stock index prices have been
held within two converging lines, forcing
them into a narrow range - effectively coiling
them like a spring which is now on the verge
of unleashing its energy.
Technical indicators are giving no clear and
distinct signals about which way the breakout
is likely to go. However, there are clear
signs that banking stocks, especially in Australia,
have been massively oversold during a panic
plunge.
Kaye Shinker's research into The Jupiter Effect
holds out strong hope for an imminent rally
in the finance sector - and the astrological
symbolism is receiving technical confirmation
- which could spark a rally in two of the
world's major indices...Click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF
format
Breakout - or breakdown - is now imminent on
all the world's major stock indices. In the next
few days, prices must break to one side or the
other of the containment lines which have been
pressuring them into an increasingly narrow range.
It is possible we could have as much as another
week of range-trading, but that time span is getting
towards the outside edge of what is likely.
Astrologically
12.57 (Sydney time) on Tuesday, Mercury resumes
Direct motion from a geocentric perspective. Before
that, on Monday, the Lesser Benefic, Venus, moves
into Aquarius … the planet which symbolises
money moves out of restrictive Capricorn and into
the sign which rules stock markets and company
profits. And it’s followed the next day
by Mercury going Direct. Effectively, the symbolism
here is that communications regarding financial
conditions and profits is about to become clearer
and subject to less revision...Click
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We will
dispense this week with the normal format while
I try to give a big
picture overview of where we’re at and, more
importantly, where we may be
heading.
1. We may have entered a particularly nasty Bear
market that could run for another five
years.
2. We may be in a nasty secondary correction within
an ongoing primary Bull market.
3. No-one can, this weekend, be 100% certain which
of those two scenarios applies.
4. Absolutely regardless of whether 1 or 2 is the
case, markets worldwide are
very likely to rally strongly within the next 3
months, probably within the next
few weeks.
5. Before that intermediate-term rally begins to
be as near as we can get to "a sure
thing", we may all have to suffer through another
sudden plunge.
As far as is possible, we need to put bias, emotion
and media misinformation aside and
pay attention only to the charts. click
HERE to download full report in Adobe PDF format
If
the American economy is heading into recession,
why are the Transports showing signs of resurging
strength? Do truckies make money carrying air?
When
we come to the charts, I will show the Transports
and discuss with you the alternative outlook
– the potential for a new Bull run, rather
than the gloomy Bear now being promoted by the
media.
Astrologically...
This week, around lunch time Thursday in Australia,
we have a Solar Eclipse in Aquarius,
the sign which has rulership over stock markets
and company profits.
It could be especially volatile because it takes
place closely conjunct to Mercury and
Neptune and on the midpoint of a Venus-Uranus
aspect, with the orbs tying Jupiter and
Saturn into the cocktail, as well! click
to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Astrologically
On Monday, January 21, 2008 at 4:14 am EST, we
get the first of the three Jupiter trine Saturn
aspects occurring between the Earth signs, Capricorn
and Virgo. I dealt with the symbolism of
this at some length last week, because of the
eons-old link of these two planets in accurately
depicting business cycles... click
to download full report in Adobe PDF format
Welcome to 2008, the year in which we
should see a breakout to new Bull market highs.
It doesn’t feel like that at the moment.
It feels like we’re in the middle of a crash
… and it is entirely possible it’s
more than a feeling; it’s reality...
Astrologically
Last weekend, Venus squared Saturn and this weekend
it is squaring Uranus, effectivelygiving us early
warning of what to expect late this year when
Saturn and Uranus move into an exact opposition
with each other. Late this month, Mercury will
turn Retrograde and Mars will move back into Direct
motion, getting itself involved in a repeat of
the energy patterns which have been unfolding
over the past few weeks … changing signs
from Cancer to Leo, opposing Pluto and Jupiter.
In short, we remain in a high-energy period for
weeks yet.
However, on January 21 Jupiter in Capricorn will
make the first of three Earth trines to Saturn
in Virgo. And that is the astrological reason
that the fears of a deep American recession are
suspect. click
to download full report in Adobe PDF format
***
Randall Ashbourne is a former journalist and political
strategist with Uranus almost exactly conjunct his
Ascendant. His life has been full of sudden
shifts. He came to Astrology in the early 1990s
after waking up one morning in the middle of a MidLife
Crisis, a phenomenon in which he didn't actually believe.
Trying to get to the bottom of what was happening
- he has Mercury in Scorpio - he consulted an astrologer
... and became hooked. A decade later, as both
transiting Saturn and his Progressed Moon were descending
through his 12th House towards a conjunction with
Uranus, and with transiting Jupiter conjuncting his
first house Pluto, life changed dramatically once
again. Realising that with his natal chart ruler,
the Moon, his natal Sun ruler, Jupiter, and Saturn
all now lined up for an extended sojourn in the "obscure"
sector of his personal roadmap, he began casting around
for something to do far away from a more public life.
Consulting his chart and pondering a natal Mercury
trine Uranus, as well as Saturn in Scorpio, he decided
he really ought to be able to trade the stock market.
And started using his knowledge of astrology
to do exactly that. Along the way, he discovered
that astrology didn't answer all his questions about
the stock market's gyrations and began delving deeply
into technical analysis, getting buried under a pile
of Gann plans and getting strung out on Fibonacci
sequences. But, while those studies satisfied
the cravings of his Scorpio Mercury, they also ran
counter to the basic needs of his Gemini Jupiter -
that "knowledge" should be widespread and
expressed in a way that's easy to understand.
In truth, Randall is in love with all his personal
planetary placements - and he'd need to be after undergoing
a major Pluto transit to every other planet in his
chart, most of them conjunctions! He refers to his
Virgo Moon chart ruler as "Miss Prissy"
and to his Gemini Jupiter as "the Fat Boy who
won't shut up".
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