Jupiter in Leo ... gold and gambling

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning January 20, 2013

For the moment, from an Earthly perspective, the head honcho of the Old Gods - Jupiter - is still heading backwards in the sign of Cancer.

Early in March, the FatBoy will change direction ... putting him on a run towards a year-long journey through the Fire sign, Leo.

Leo is the sign which rules gold and gambling ... and Jupiter almost invariably has a very strong impact on the sectors ruled by the sign through which he's travelling.

And, simply, the impact is that he either exaggerates the supply OR the demand.

Since it's unlikely that Newmont is about to discover a billion tonnes of gold in a low-cost, high-grade deposit 50 metres from a railway line, next to a port, in a politically-stable country, we can probably assume that the demand for gold will spike in the next year or so.

That's an astrological expectation. And our rule-of-thumb is that they NEVER over-ride technical conditions.

So, we'll spend a little time this edition looking at a few long-range charts of the biggest gold miners ... most of which have been whacked hard since hitting record peaks late in 2011.

Short story: They're starting to look like a damn fine Buy.

BUT! The charts are indicating the need for caution, since the final Low in gold - and some gold miners - might not yet be locked into place.

If we look at Big Bird's performance while the price of the XAU was grinding out a multi-year bottom in the late 1990s, we can see the slow build-up of positive divergence. Simply, Big Bird started to make higher troughs while price continued to make lower ones.

For the moment what we have is long-range negative divergence, but short-range positive divergence. So we can't be certain this bounce will last more than a few weeks.

Goldcorp is showing a very similar pattern. If anything, the warning signal is even stronger. While the price bottom has come in at a higher level than late 2008, Big Bird has dropped a lot lower. A LOT lower.

That negative divergence is marked with the thick red trendlines. However, we can see the situation starting to improve with the opposite condition in recent-term, thin blue trendlines.

The Newmont chart is next and it is actually looking a tad stronger than the XAU chart. With Newmont, the bounce is also from the obvious, but it is a lower closing price trough ... with a distinctly higher trough occurring in the oscillator.

Simply, NEM is indicating that it may well be one of the first gold miners to recover - and probably strongly.

Barrick is our next contender and the one that got whacked the hardest. Its share price plunged well below the 2008 trough and just as low as it did while grinding out that multi-year bottom going into the turn of the century.

Two schools of thought ... There's something seriously wrong with the company's cost/profit structure or it has been ridiculously over-sold by an over-emotive market.

Barrick's Big Bird is showing distinct signs of climbing back from the grave into a happier position on his perch, with a preliminary cross of his signal line.

Overall, we can sense that conditions in the gold and silver markets are starting to improve on the technical level. We have no screaming Buy signals it would be foolish to ignore. That would require all four charts to be showing very marked positive divergence between Big Bird and the price level.

So technically, we can't yet rule out another price plunge. But we are now much closer to putting in a strong, multi-year Low. Jupiter's travels give us an indication of when we might "expect" a change in the astrological weather. For the safety of our capital base, we need to see strong technical confirmation.

Since Leo also rules gambling, you might want to check the technical condition of stocks in that sector ... casinos, poker machines manufacturers etc.

The planetary price targets for gold are contained in Forecast 2014 - as are the targets for the major stock indices. At some stage in the next 8 weeks or so, I'll compile a special report on gold which includes the exact timing of its most important transits for the year ahead. I'll email it to everyone who has bought a copy of Forecast 2014. But, it won't be published in the free weekend reports.

Warm regards, best wishes and ... Safe trading - RA

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Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2014, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2014
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2014

Looking at targets for the bounce

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning August 26, 2013

Mars in Leo.." because it's Fire, is more obviously aggressive,
in the very broad sense of the word"

Wall Street is in what is probably temporary bounceback mode after dropping into last week's Jupiter-Uranus square.

The volatile moves are likely to continue this week since Venus is now in her second home sign, Libra, and is squaring Jupiter and Pluto while opposing Uranus.

In other words, it's another Grand Square. The two astrological benefics should be especially benign ... because Jupie is exalted in Cancer and Venus is partial to fairness and balance in Libra.

Unfortunately, that's not the only Spooky Stuff happening. Mars is shifting into Leo. The impact of that move may be more obvious in world politics than in stock markets. And I need to digress for a moment ... simply because the former will affect the latter.

When most astrologers talk about Cancer, they reach for the cookbook and waffle about love of family and cooking. Which is okay. But, it's shallow.

What Cancer is really about is security; about cultural, ethnic and tribal roots; about security of the homeland, as much as protection of the home life. Leo symbolises a more outward-looking energy ... and because it's Fire, rather than Water, it's also more obviously aggressive, in the very broad sense of the word.

Leo loves to be adored. Eh! Don't we all. Leo needs to be adored. As one of my Texas Republican friends moans every so often: "Obama is such a Leo!" I think it's intended as an insult!

However, it does serve as a good example of the Leo principles. Needing to be adored, the "good side" of Leo energy will strive to make itself worthy of adulation. It recognises that to be worshipped as a god, one should actually strive to behave like a god. So, on the good side of the ledger, Leo will not only put on a glorious show, it'll put on the best show you've ever seen and leave you so entranced that you keep coming back for more.

Of course, there's always the "other side" of the ledger ... the one where the Leo energy demands to be worshipped, but does nothing to actually make itself worthy of the adulation. Think of the "Sun Kings" of the former French aristocracy. And think of Leo's opposite sign, Aquarius ... the radical revolutionaries who don't know when to stop.

And so we come back to the Martian sign shift ... and to Egypt, Syria, Greece, Spain. And I remind you, once again, of the overall meaning of the Uranus-Pluto square which remains in effect for the next couple of years and now has the king of the Old Gods, Jupiter, making a Cardinal T-square. Uranus in Aries is radical change challenging plutocratic rulership and support of the status quo, represented by Pluto in Capricorn ... with both of those now being aspected by Jupiter in Cancer - exaggerated defence of homeland security.

The symbolism is everywhere in some nuance or another. Potential problems now arise with the Mars move into Leo. Since one of the symbols of Mars is military aggression ... and Leo is a Fire sign ... we can expect to see many of these political situations literally fired-up again.

So, while the primary shift in energy may be more obvious in world politics, the fallout is likely to be felt in stock markets.

Okay, that's enough of the Spooky background; let's get down to some details in the stuff we're interested in. As I said back in late July, we're probably in a major correction mode. That's very obvious on Asian markets. Some of the European indices have been hitting new peaks.

We'll concentrate on Wall Street again this weekend, however.

The indices declined into the exact timeframe of the Jupiter-Uranus square last week. In last weekend's edition, I published the following chart, with two price-crossing levels to be watched closely midweek.

Pollyanna, the SP500 index, didn't hit the exact price level during NYSE trading hours. Annoyingly, it did do so out-of-hours ... within $3 for the index futures and virtually exactly with the 1631.50 overnight low for the ES-Mini.

Why the bounce occurred where it did is more obvious from another chart. In The Technical Section of The Idiot & The Moon, I outline the importance of learning how to draw important trend lines, and of taking parallels from the initial line to create high-probability charts for future moves.

Below is Pollyanna's New Moon/Full Moon chart, with thick red bars for the day of the NM and thick blue bars for the dates of the FM. It uses parallel blue trendlines to show the channel the 500 has been rising in since the major rally got underway late last year.

Two things about this chart. The first is that I applied the lesson from The Technical Section ... taking a red parallel of the blue channel lines and anchoring it at the June low. It worked. Perfectly.

The second thing I noticed was that 3 of the previous correction lows came in exactly one day past the Full Moon. And we had a repeat performance there, too. The combination proved strong enough to launch what I believe is a temporary bounceback within a larger-scale correction.

We'll take a closer look at target levels for the bounceback in a moment. Why I believe it's temporary is that the Dow Jones Industrials continues to display a very weak technical condition. While the Dow's price managed to climb back to close the week on its trendline, the health of the Big Bird oscillator continued to deteriorate ... strongly suggesting that this is a major correction which has longer and deeper to run before it's over.

Next we look at an update of another chart from last weekend - Miss Polly's weekly Bi-BB. We've had a bounce from the mid-level, making the first level of the upper tier a reasonable target.

That target level in the early 1680s also comes out a couple of other ways. Firstly, there's an obvious gap at 1684.83. Secondly, there's a routine Fibonacci Retracement level close to that price.

Working in its favour are two other conditions. We are entering the monthly changeover period where markets have a general tendency to be positive - most of the time; and we are in the FM-NM phase which is statistically positive - most of the time.

If I'm correct about what's happening within the bigger picture, the correction will resume once the bounce is finished. We still can't be sure whether it's going to eat Price or Time ... though the technical condition of the Dow certainly suggests the June lows are going to be taken out before this downswing is finished.

But let's not get married to that idea; but rather, continue to watch the charts for clues. If it is going to be a hard-and-fast downswing, the bounce won't last long and won't reach very high. And the ultimate low could be as low as 1520 for Pollyanna. The alternative is that it could eat a lot of Time, without eating very much more in Price.

I'll try, next weekend, to get back to looking at a broader range of indices, especially with the weakness showing up across Asia and particularly India, Indonesia and Malaysia.

However, since it's my home market I will include the ASX200 Weekly Planets chart before I go. But, I also want to say this ... the disclaimer at the end of these reports is not just a lame method of avoiding responsibility. These Eye of Ra reports are actually intended to be educational, rather than advice.

There's nothing in them that isn't explained in The Idiot & The Moon so that you can learn to do it all for yourself. It's pointless adopting me as your "guru", simply to replace someone else. It's your financial future you should be working to protect and that means you should actually be working at it.

It's not particularly hard or strenuous work, folks. There are a few techniques that are relatively simple and easy to learn and which, when properly applied, will help you to make profits most of the time. These weekend editions are nothing more than lessons in how-to apply the lessons from the book in real time, to whatever you're trading.

Since I have an unaspected 5th House Sagittarian Sun, I'd have to confess I'm not exactly averse to putting on a bit of a show; the 5th is the Leo house, after all! But it is a Sagittarian Sun, not a Leo ... I don't want to be your guru; I just want to broaden your horizons so you can become your own.

Here's Auntie's WP:

Safe trading - RA

Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2013 , Jupiter's cycle and its effects on Wall Street and a posting of the weekly Eye of Ra report in this blog, titled A look at the Venus Retrograde effect
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2013

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Revolution and turmoil ... arriving now

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning August 5, 2013

Implications of the Cardinal T-square

This week kicks off 9 months of turmoil likely to change the face of security, finance, debt and taxes across large parts of the world.

We'll spend most of this edition looking at the implications of a rare Cardinal T-square involving Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto.

I indicated last weekend stock markets were in imminent danger of another fast drop ... but that the "odds" suggested the bounceback had just a little more time to run.

The dangerous technical conditions I outlined last weekend have not improved ... and we are about to lose the positive tendency which normally occurs over the 6 days straddling the end of one month and the start of another, especially when a New Moon coincides with that timing.

If you missed last weekend's edition, click here. I don't have much to add to that this weekend and the price targets shown in that edition are still valid.

What I think is important this weekend is to look at the big picture and discuss the implications of the Cardinal T-square which is about to unfold.

We are now entering a timeframe where volatility is about to go through the roof. And not just in stock markets. 

At various times over the past couple of years, in these weekly reports and the annual forecasts, I have discussed the nature of the Uranus-Pluto square, an aspect which is repeating continually over a multi-year timeframe.

Basically, it is Uranus in Aries making a challenge to Pluto in Capricorn. In really basic terms, it is angry, aggressive demands for reform aimed at overturning the power of what we might generally describe as Plutocrats determined to preserve the status quo.

Plutocrats is a nice term. It basically means government by the wealthy. But it has many more nuances than that.

Let's do some basic astrological symbolism for those of you unfamiliar with just how deep and complex it is. Uranus exemplifies a rebellious energy. It is extraordinarily stubborn. It sometimes displays flashes of pure brilliance, but is, just as often, totally illogical and immune to rational discussion.

Uranus in Aries is an angry, aggressive, even armed rebel. Can we say ... Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt?

Pluto is the Old God of the Underworld. In his domain, he is absolute ruler. Even the other Old Gods stayed well away from Hades. Pluto is also extraordinarily stubborn. He is a dictator without remorse and with a venomous nature.

Pluto in Capricorn is a dictator absolutely determined to keep hold of the reins of power, money, death and taxes and will use all the power at his disposal ... including the aptly-named Plutonium ... to maintain his privileged position.

So this is the general background of an important phase in world history. We see the themes playing out over-and-over.

The revolutions in the Arab world are at the extreme end. Uranus in Aries is quite literally armed revolt against grossly-rich dictatorships.

We have a couple of more polite manifestations in America ... the Tea Party fighting against the cosy deals of the political elite; Occupy Wall Street fighting against the power of the Wall Street "banksters".

Virtually every nation on the planet is openly embroiled in some form of this energy.

Well, we ain't seen nothing yet! But, we're about to!

Enter Jupiter, head honcho of the Old Gods. In astrological symbolism, Jupiter expands and exaggerates. And in a Cardinal T-square the energy explosion is NOT going to be pretty. It's going to be wild and totally over-the-top.

The aspect has three exact-hit timeframes over the next 9 months, starting in the middle of the coming week. Some parts of the world are, quite literally, going to explode.

And this in spite of the fact that Jupiter is exalted in the sign of Cancer and would, normally, be on his best behaviour. But there is another side to Cancer. It is a sign ruled by the Moon and is generally considered to be a bit "soft" and malleable.

Until it is put under pressure. Cancer is a water sign. On land, water naturally takes the path of least resistance ... it goes with the flow. You can pour water into a container of any shape and it will take the shape of the container.

But there is one thing you cannot do with water - compress it. Even with a little bit of pressure, such as a kitchen tap or a garden hose, water doesn't flow so much as it spurts. Increase the pressure even further, and fail to provide an outlet, and the water will break something to get itself free.

Now, imagine that symbolism massively exaggerated ... Jupiter in Cancer. In totally "normal" mode, the benign Head Honcho in the soft, gently-flowing energy of Cancer is a wonderful symbolism.

But, that is not the appropriate imagery. Because we have two extraordinarily stubborn pressure points ... one intent on violent overthrow and reform and the other a powerful cartel of poisonous Plutocrats determined to keep control at all costs.

It is war, at every level. It is the Self-absorbed "rebels" Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden exposing the dirty hidden secrets of government spy agencies. Nothing will convince Manning and Snowden they did the wrong thing. They ARE Uranus in Aries ... the New Age warriors acting on behalf of "the people" to expose the hidden and secretive manipulations of government (Pluto in Capricorn).

Nothing will convince the NSA and the power elite that Manning and Snowden aren't traitors.

It's a bit like the modern "catch-all" grounds for divorce ... irreconcilable differences. That's what we have everywhere, from Egypt and Syria to Spain and Italy, Greece, Mali, the USA. Even Australia. The manifestation of the energy varies from one region to another, from one type of regime to another, but the overall principle remains the same.

And, starting this week for the next 9 months, Jupiter is about to shine the world's biggest spotlight right at that energy. From a Cardinal water sign ... where any attempt to "keep a lid" on things is going to cause a massive rupture in the pipeline.

Do you feel better now, dear?

No? Oh, tsk*tsk. Well, at least you might be a little better prepared to accept some of the explosions that are coming.

Stock markets are not going to get through this period unscathed.

Jupiter squares to Uranus and oppositions to Pluto don't happen very often. And the market does have a tendency to react strongly. On the chart below, Jupiter-Uranus squares are thick red bars; Jupiter-Pluto oppositions are thick blue bars.

Yes. They do, indeed, dramatically raise the danger levels! Jupiter-Uranus squares were in operation at both previous Bull market tops.

And the last time Jupiter-Pluto oppositions were also involved, things got very, very nasty.

Personally, I think Timing is the most difficult part of stock trading to get exactly right - at least reliably and consistently. I much prefer to deal with Price targets, rather than Time targets.

I've been discussing this in general terms in the past couple of editions ... about how Price has to meet exactly with the Time of a major astrological aspect before we can be reasonably sure of a significant trend change.

And we've been discussing how the technical conditions are now starting to shape up - with the probability of another sharp drop in the very near future, but no clear sign yet that The Top is cemented in place.

If we were plunging into this sort of Jupiter/Uranus/Pluto energy, I'd be looking for signs of positive divergence in the oscillators, getting ready to Buy, Buy, Buy.

But, we're not. We're seeing strong potential for exactly the reverse ... high chances of a repeat of the 1999/2000 and 2007 Bull peaks.

Precisely when we hit this peak I cannot even pretend to predict with any degree of certainty at this stage. For the past few weeks, we've been looking at Price levels with a strong chance of marking The Top ... and we'll continue to look at those as conditions develop.

In the Eye of Ra edition for June 3, available in the Archives, I discussed the Bradley Model major trend change dates for this year ... and expressed the view I thought we were very unlikely to go into multi-month crash mode at the trend change date in mid-June.

I said: "Okay. So why am I at odds with the Bradley forecast and why am I not convinced that we have reached THE top of this Bull run?

Because it wouldn't be "normal". And it's true these markets aren't normal. They're hitting these levels because central banks like the US Federal Reserve have been printing money by the *ahem* helicopter load and dropping it into asset purchases to prop up stock markets.

Nevertheless, it is "normal" for markets to undergo a topping PROCESS. It takes Time. We now have what MIGHT be the first sign that The Top is in the process of being put in place."

I think it may be useful to look again at how the Bradley is performing so far. In the chart below, the blue line is the closing price graph of the SP500 and the green is a tweaked version of the Bradley Model trend change indicator. I stress once more that is is the DATES of the Bradley that are important, not the direction nor the amplitude of its swing. You can see that sometimes the blue and green lines peaked or bottomed very close to each other ... and at other times the Bradley made a peak while the index made a low. In other words it was close enough with the date, but it had the direction "wrong".

The next chart shows the normal version of the Bradley plotted against a weekly closing price graph of the 500. Again we see that sometimes the peaks and troughs coincided exactly and at other times the dates were close, but one was making a high while the other was making a low.

And there is our problem! The Bradley predicted a major trend change due for June 22, a Saturday. The 500 made a correction Low on June 24, the Monday trading day after the Bradley date.

The next major Bradley date doesn't arrive until October. Are we going down into it ... or up into it?!

Yes, it's incredibly bloody irritating, isn't it! If only the index had made a clear-cut High on that date.

But, as I said ... it's why I pay much more attention to Price, as determined by planetary lines or Fibonacci retracements and extensions, and to whether my oddly-coloured Canaries are all singing sweetly or twitching on the floor gasping for clean air.

You can see not one of the three Birds in the oscillator panel on the weekly above is happy with Pollyanna's reaching of new all-time Highs.

And you can see the monthly version of the Birds below. The short-range green and medium-range red Birds ARE getting unhappy, but the blue line, the Big Bird, is still in full songbird mode.

So, putting aside all the angst and analysis, I'm not yet hearing anything other than intermediate-range alarm bells. I think there is VERY strong likelihood of another multi-week correction VERY nearby. I am decidedly iffy about the potential for a crash into October, though August/September can be an extraordinarily volatile timeframe. And I lean heavily, at this stage, towards the view that The Top of the Bull run has not yet been seen.

But, to me, the danger signals are starting to go off all over the place ... and Jupiter's looming confrontation with the Arien rebel forces and the Capricornian Plutocrats sets the stage for Star Wars ... The Reality. There are no endearing Ewoks or shaggy Wookies in this story. There is a Death Star. And it is gonna blow. But probably not just yet.

I indicated last weekend that I'd publish some more Bull targets for other indices this weekend, but I'm out of time ... and the markets probably aren't just yet. So, in the next couple of weeks.

Safe trading - RA

Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2013 , Jupiter's cycle and its effects on Wall Street and a posting of the weekly Eye of Ra report in this blog, titled A look at the Venus Retrograde effect
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2013

The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013  Sale price 1/2 off!

• Major trend change dates for the full year, plus a month-by-month breakdown of high-energy trading dates and critical reversal dates.

• An index-by-index analysis of Moon Trading across major American, European, Asian and Australian stock indices-

• Identifies the major indices where following the phases of the Moon can dramatically cut profits, or even result in large losses.

• Old Gods & Gold ... a Eureka! discovery about exactly what drives gold prices during rallies and corrections and charts showing highly-reliable target levels to both the upside and downside.

These price charts are individually-tailored to each index and cover Wall Street, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, India, England, Germany and France.

You will not see these charts anywhere else on the Internet!

And much more...

It is NEVER too late in the year to have this monthly information!
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An Astrological Trip Around the New Moon in Gemini Chart

Astrological Investing New Moon forecasts show general trends and financial outlook for the month. The New Moon in Gemini, June 8 2013  - Chart from the point of view of Wall Street and the NYSE.

The New Moon in Gemini, June 8, 2013, NY, NY EDT. Here is the New Moon chart from the point of view of Wall Street and the NYSE. 

"The tension and compulsiveness found in Mercury/Pluto combinations are stronger in the hard aspects and regularly produce confrontations with others." - Karen Hamaker-Zondag

An Astrological Trip Around the New Moon in Gemini Chart (dates and times for NY, NY EDT)
Mercury rules the Virgo rising chart as well as the New Moon (Sun-Moon), and you need to notice the "T-Square" in the chart!  Mercury is involved in an opposition with Pluto in the 5th house ( 5th house - stock market) and Uranus in the 8th house (electronic trading and Other People's Money).

In Mundane Astrology, Mercury, concerns itself with political debates, speeches and activity in government. It will seek to learn every detail, gather every fact, whether honest or dishonest, and will analyze and discuss it all ad nauseam.  It creates a sense of "busi-ness" in the house it is located. 

In the New Moon chart for NY,NY, Mercury is in the eleventh house.
Communications and activity in Congress will impact what happens on The Street.  There is a good chance Pluto will power Mercury's energy into the obsessive, and Uranus will contribute to some highly unusual activity - troubling and angry debates will impact the market.

"Mercury represents communication, but in business language, it pertains to commerce, the act of buying and selling. When Mercury is prominent by aspect to other planets, there tends to be an increase of buying and selling (volume), according to the planets being aspected or the sign Mercury is in..."...from Ray Merriman's book,  Basic Principles of Geocosmic Studies for Financial Market Timing.

The New Moon in the tenth house with Mars, Jupiter, and Venus
Click to read this article in full on the astrologicalinvesting.com web site. 

Jupiter in the tenth - This is normally a fortunate position for the government, and in particular, the President.

A very important word to the wise: Jupiter is at 26° degrees of Gemini.  A new Jupiter cycle begins June 25, 2013, when Jupiter enters the zodiac sign of Cancer. Stocks in the new Jupiter favored sector of Cancer will lead the market.  If you don't know where to find stocks governed by the zodiac sign of Cancer, let Grace Morris help you.

Astro Economics Stock Market Newsletter does the research for you. "WHAT HAPPENS IN A CYCLE CHANGE? Some events are more likely to take place before or after June 27 as the new cycle begins. The Keystone pipeline is more likely to be approved after June 27 in t he new Jupiter in Cancer cycle (6/27/13 - 7/16/14)? If an event involves the media, transportation, education, it is more likely to take place before June 26 (the American/US Airways merger has taken place) . If it involves homebuilding or the food industry it is more likely to take place after June 27. (Heinz board is voting on its acquiring by Berkshire Hathaway.)...LEADERS CHANGE AS NEW CYCLE BEGINS ... The new leaders will come from the new favored sectors such as Home Building, Real Estate, Restaurants and more. A full list in next month’s (June) issue.. " Grace Morris

When reading the newsletter on the web site, be sure to take note of the Moon Phases section and get the "Head's Up" - upcoming astrological events list.

Also, Members received the newsletter during the 4th quarter Moon and were alerted to the fact that Neptune went retrograde BEFORE the New Moon.  Be sure to read Trader's Advisory (from Raymond Merriman's The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing - Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles)

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Moon Phases
FORECAST 2013 has an index-by-index analysis of Moon Trading across major American, European, Asian and Australian stock indices showing variations in the performance which can help traders time Entry and Exit levels for greatly enhanced profitability - the analysis also identifies those of the major indices where following the phases of the Moon can dramatically cut profits, or even result in large losses.

Read Randall Ashbourne's 2011 article, The Moods of the Moon - Trading the Mood Swings of the Monthly Lunar Cycle

Safe Trading! Marley

The Jupiter squares ... how to make money

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning May 13, 2013

This weekend I'm going to depart from the normal format to discuss Jupiter's travels through the zodiac ... and how that causes bumps and slumps in groups of stocks.

In tech-speak, we call it "sector rotation". We've all seen it in action; investors seem to fall in love with stocks in particular groupings and they fly into the sky like Icacrus ... before their popularity fades and they tumble back down to earth.

Well, we can forecast this by watching Jupiter.

I first learned this from my old friend, the late Kaye Shinker, one of the real pioneers of research into financial astrology at a practical level.

I will explain it as simply as possible. The principle behind Jupiter symbolism is to "expand" whatever it touches. The down-to-earth meaning is that Jupiter will increase either the demand for OR the supply of a particular product as he travels through the zodiac, spending about a year in each sign before moving onto the next one.

Products ruled by Jupiter's current sign position will tend to suffer a glut. VERY bad for stock prices in that area. Products covered by the signs Jupiter is squaring will tend to be in short supply AND high demand. Very GOOD for stock prices.

We'll see how this works in action by looking at some charts.

Now what Kaye discovered is that The Jupiter Effect takes place while the FatBoy travels from the middle-range of one sign to the middle-range of the next.

Jupiter is now at 19 degrees of Gemini heading onto Cancer - and that means we are now starting the early stages of what should turn out to be a massive sector rotation over the coming year.

To be frank, Jupiter in a particular sign does not necessarily produce a glut. It is one of the reasons I am so constantly nagging you that astrological expectations do NOT over-ride technical conditions.

But, let me show you. Jupiter in Gemini should have had a dramatic impact on: telecommunications, media, travel, broadcasting. I am using Incredible Charts monthly data for all the charts in this weekend's edition - and we begin with the telecoms index of the ASX.

As we can see from the chart, Jupiter in Gemini prompted a very strong rally in telecom share prices over the past year.

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Now, if we had known ahead of time that there would be some sort of big move in communications, we could have fine-tuned our stock buys for the year ahead ... looking at, say, two of the Dow's biggest companies, Verizon and AT&T.

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Now, these two Dow components did not enjoy quite the same strength as the ASX telecoms index. And it wasn't a particularly good year in terms of phone wars for some electronics companies.

But, what happened to stocks from those sectors that Jupiter was squaring? Well, from Gemini, the squares were to Pisces, which rules shipping, oil, alcohol, drugs and "dreams" and to Virgo, which has rulership of health and hygiene.

Here's Chevron ... which is now making all-time highs!

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And here's what happened with perhaps the ultimate dream/fantasy/celluoid stock, Disney ...

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And here's what happened with healthcare stocks over the past year, seen through the lens of the ASX healthcare index ...

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We get some idea from these charts exactly HOW The Jupiter Effect works. Some of the Gemini-type stocks, like the phone makers, had an awful year, while there was a glut of that Gemini trait "talk", increasing the demand for telecom service providers.

But, some of the biggest winners from the past year were from the "square" areas - Pisces and Virgo. Now, a word of warning! You'll notice that the tech signals in those stocks are starting to roll over.

And that's because from where he is now, in mid-Gemini, Jupiter's travels will cause a major shift in investor thinking.

Cancer, his next sign, and taking into account Capricorn (the sign opposite Cancer), will impact: food, restaurants, farms, hotels, restaurants, building supplies, household appliances and dwellings of all kinds.

The two signs that will be "squared" are Aries and Libra. Aries is military gear, heavy machinery, iron, steel, engineering. Libra is luxury goods, copper, jewels.

So, while it might not seem like it at the moment, it is highly likely that mines and miners and heavy industrials are about to make a big comeback.

That's the astrological expectation! But, do the technical conditions support the theory?

Well, here's the ASX materials index ...

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The index may now be starting that turn. On weekly charts, firms like BHP and Rio Tinto appear to be forming a long-term bottom. The effect may also impact on firms like Caterpillar, which had a very strong rise while Jupiter was actually in Aries.

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As well as strong miners, and heavy machinery makers like Caterpillar, we should also be trawling through our lists of engineering and building companies. The ASX engineering index chart, below, is showing signs of a potential turn northwards

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However, with the Cancer symbolism starting to come into play, we also need to watch for changes in the popularity of building supply companies - like Home Depot, for example.

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 And since Cancer specifically rules things like food we need to be aware there will be either a food glut OR food shortages.

Cancer rules consumer staples. But Libra is coming into "square" and Libra rules consumer discretionary items. Here is the ASX consumer staples index ...

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And below is the ASX consumer discretionary index ...

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Please note the vastly different status of the long-range Canary on these charts ... consumer staples are showing signs of topping-out and consumer discretionary is showing marked positive divergence.

Cancer/Capricorn also rules real estate and office accommodation. Below is the ASX property trust index ...

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And below is the chart of the ASX industrials index ...

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Okay. By now you should have some grasp of what stocks you need to start considering with caution ... and which ones have the potential to rise strongly over the course of the next year.

I stress that I have only scratched the surface here! Individual stocks having strong Jupiter transits can resist the Icarus dive for a while; and "square" stocks suffering strong Saturn aspects to their first trade chart might NOT rise as strongly as some others within the sector rotation.

Again. You MUST use a technical oscillator to help determine the direction of your trades! The purpose of this weekend's edition is to get you to start thinking about the impact of a large-scale shift in investor thinking and emphasis, now starting to get underway and which will gather momentum over the next year.

You need to remember the very first rule of trading successfully - Buy Low, Sell High! It's time to go through your portfolio stocks and look to exit those sectors starting to roll over from highs ... and start identifying those which appear to have spent some time trying to lock in a solid base from which to launch an Icarus flight.

The individual stocks will vary from market to market, but the overall principle of The Jupiter Effect knows no international boundaries.

The Jupiter squares to Aries and Libra should cause price increases for things like iron ore, steel, copper, heavy machinery and military gear, as well as luxury goods and consumer discretionary items.

It MAY cause an increase in demand for real estate and/or office accommodation, rather than a glut of supply. But, exactly which of these actually manifests will depend on local conditions.

If you're using The Idiot system properly across the three timeframes AND using one of the recommended oscillators to look for either positive or negative divergence, you should have no trouble identifying the stocks you need to be selling now ... and those showing the potential to run hard and run fast over the next year.

Safe trading - RA

Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2013 , Jupiter's cycle and its effects on Wall Street and a posting of the weekly Eye of Ra report in this blog, titled A look at the Venus Retrograde effect
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2013

The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013

• Major trend change dates for the full year, plus a month-by-month breakdown of high-energy trading dates and critical reversal dates.

• An index-by-index analysis of Moon Trading across major American, European, Asian and Australian stock indices-

• Identifies the major indices where following the phases of the Moon can dramatically cut profits, or even result in large losses.

• Old Gods & Gold ... a Eureka! discovery about exactly what drives gold prices during rallies and corrections and charts showing highly-reliable target levels to both the upside and downside.

These price charts are individually-tailored to each index and cover Wall Street, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, India, England, Germany and France.

You will not see these charts anywhere else on the Internet!

And much more...

It is NEVER too late in the year to have this monthly information!

Weekly Planets: Asian indices

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning April 1, 2013
As I promised last weekend, this edition updates the intermediate-range Weekly Planets price targets for a number of Asian stock markets.

A couple of them - Malaysia and Indonesia - are way up there with the Wall Street indices.

Most world markets, however, have diverged significantly in a way not too dissimilar to what happened during the 1999-2000 Bubble top.

We'll have a look at a very long-range log chart for Miss Pollyanna, the SP500, in a moment. But, before we do, we'll have a little chat about the USA's horoscope for 2013.

And, I should also point out ... in terms of lies, damned lies and statistics ... that April is, on average, Pollyanna's strongest-performing month of the year; stronger even than the Santa Claus rally month of December.

But, let's talk first about America's 2013 birthday. Regardless of the exact time or date used to create the USA's birth chart as an independent nation, one thing is absolutely certain ... it has a Sun-Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the sign of Cancer.

Jupiter is still in Gemini, but is now tracking towards Cancer. Jupiter is "exalted" in Cancer. That is, the FatBoy is even grander, bigger and more benign than usual.

The Sun-Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the USA's natal chart explains a lot - both positive and negative about American traits and sociological history. And it also helps to explain why the country currently tends to believe it's immune from SinoEuropean contagion and is back in its "rightful" place as the leader of the world.

Hubris. In ancient Greek lore, it was basically the only real sin. Pity the modern Greeks and their Cypriot cousins forgot the old rules.

Below is a long-range log chart for Pollyanna, displaying a virtually perfect harmony with the trend line lessons and channels outlined in The Technical Section of The Idiot & The Moon.

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I've mentioned before that the period from 1999 until now shows a distinct similarity with what happened during the 1960s, the period marked with a yellow oval.

During that period, Wall Street had three Bull runs and three Bear crashes. The Bull peaks were successively higher and the Bear bottoms progressively lower. The current period is not an exact replica, but at an eyeball glance, it does look to be remarkably similar.

And that is a LOT of negative divergence building-up in the long-range oscillator.

The point is ... with Jupiter heading towards a conjunction with the USA's extraordinarily benign natal configuration, we can't totally rule out new highs in Pollyanna, and possibly a lot higher than we've believed likely. But ... when Polly exits stage left and Chicken Little grabs the spotlight again, the downside could cut very deep.

More about that in coming weeks. Let's take a look at some of the Asian indices, starting with the Shanghai Composite.

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A couple of editions ago, we had a chat about gaps. Shanghai created a couple of big ones on its weekly charts as it bounced strongly out of its last Low. The first of the gaps was filled with a strong decline 6 weeks ago and last week's downturn has gone very close to filling the one at 2233.

The state of the oscillator suggests there is no cause for panic or overt pessimism; it's the strongest it has been since early 2011 and its most recent peak displayed clear positive divergence.

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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is above. It is currently trying to hold the primary Saturn line around 22,000, after failing to reach the Neptune line at 24,000.

Singapore's Straits Times Index, below, is in a stronger position, still apparently striving to reach its Neptune target.

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The Singapore bounceback began within a Uranus/Pluto cluster of price lines and it may be trying to get to a similar planetary zone, now priced close to 3500 at its lower range.

Indonesia ...

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Jakarta is making all-time highs, though it's doing it with negative divergence just starting to show in the oscillator. That doesn't rule out new highs in the near future, but the wave structure is beginning to look complete, leaving the index ripe for a correction.

And Malaysia is looking similar ...

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Just at an eyeball glance, Kuala Lumpur has a tendency to make primary moves between Node price lines (orange), with weekly stops at Saturn prices. You can see why there has been a lot of stalling in the current price range; that's a first harmonic Node line the index is trying to breakout above ... from a bounce which began at a false break of the 1st harmonic line currently priced about 1300.

In other words, it has completed its full Node-to-Node price run and now needs to breakout or breakdown. And the price targets for both scenarios are listed.

Mumbai is next ...

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Okay, so that brings most of my Asian readers up-to-date. The price targets on the Weekly Planets charts from last weekend will not have changed very much. You can always copy the image and draw-in your own price bar for the week if you need a visual guide of how your favorite index is doing.

Safe trading - RA

Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2013 , Jupiter's cycle and its effects on Wall Street and a posting of the weekly Eye of Ra report in this blog, titled A look at the Venus Retrograde effect
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2013

The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013

• Major trend change dates for the full year, plus a month-by-month breakdown of high-energy trading dates and critical reversal dates.

• An index-by-index analysis of Moon Trading across major American, European, Asian and Australian stock indices-

• Identifies the major indices where following the phases of the Moon can dramatically cut profits, or even result in large losses.

• Old Gods & Gold ... a Eureka! discovery about exactly what drives gold prices during rallies and corrections and charts showing highly-reliable target levels to both the upside and downside.

These price charts are individually-tailored to each index and cover Wall Street, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, India, England, Germany and France.

You will not see these charts anywhere else on the Internet!

And much more...It is NEVER too late in the year to have this monthly information!