Three Old Gods set the world on fire

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 September 15  2014 

It is time we had a little chat about The Spooky Stuff, since Mars moves out of Scorpio and into Sagittarius this weekend ... as gigantic solar flares head towards Earth.

Now I'm well aware most of you pop in each week for a look at the state of the stock markets and that you don't really believe a bunch of rocks and giant gas balls named after some mythological Greek gods can possibly have any real impact on Life, as we know it.

For you it's all a bit of fun ... like sticking your head in the fortune teller's tent at the village fair.

Well, come on in ... I have three tall, dark, handsome strangers I want you to meet! Of course, after you meet them you'll probably want to run away. Far away!

When I published Forecast 2014 in early January, the first chapter was titled: 2014 ... and let slip the dogs of war.

I started: "There is only one real show in the skies this year … a dramatic escalation in the ongoing War of the Gods which has been underway since 2008 and is not due to end until 2015. Hostilities are likely to hit a new peak in the first four months of 2014."

So let's recap. In March, Russia annexed Crimea ... following NATO-American backing of the overthrow of Ukraine's President. Those who overthrew the elected government were labelled patriotic heroes and those who supported the ousted leader were labelled terrorists.

Further south, the NATO-Americans were following the same script that had worked so amazingly well in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya ... pump mega-millions of arms, equipment and training to the "patriotic heroes" struggling valiantly to overcome their status as poor, huddled masses yearning to be "free".

Unsurprisingly ... for anyone with an IQ exceeding room temperature ... the nutbags flowered in the desert sands liberally fertilised with blood-and-bone, called themselves Islamic State and by June had extended their caliphate from Syria into Iraq. Mission Accomplished. So to speak.

Oops!

Sadly ... quite tragically for millions of people directly involved ... the "new peak" of the first 4 months of 2014 is now in real danger of being only a very minor peak.

With Mars now in Sagittarius, we have three Old Gods now in Fire signs. Uranus is in Aries, a position I have frequently characterised as armed rebellion.

Jupiter, the king of the Old Gods, is in Leo, a sign which considers itself kingly. The megalomaniac in egomaniac mode. GeeZeus!

And Mars, the god of war, is in Sadge. Good Sadge is benevolent, extraordinarily tolerant, and welcomes cultural and political diversity with open arms. But, Sagittarius also symbolises foreign countries, a careless attitude to borders and restrictions in the search for "a higher purpose" and, in general, the world at large.

Oh, dear. The god of war, on fire, let loose on "the world at large" in pursuit of "a higher purpose".

Get my meaning? Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!!

Starting on September 25, these three planets start to go into trine with each other. In normal astrological symbolism, as I've explained before, a trine is regarded as being fairly benevolent.

But, that's the cookbook interpretation. What a trine actually means is the rapid removal of obstacles ... and that can be very, very good or very, very bad.

In short, we are heading for another climax ... one that is potentially "the world on fire".

But, hey! That's the negative side!! It might mean a sudden outbreak of tolerance, acceptance and peace. Why, sure!

Anyway, as I said last weekend, that volatile stuff in the markets we saw a couple of weeks ago ... You ain't seen nuttin' yet.

Here are Pollyanna's (SP500) primary planet lines and prices and Auntie's (ASX200) Weekly Planets. YOU may not "believe" ... tell that to the Prices.

Safe trading - RA

 (Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2014

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  

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Jupiter in Leo ... sector rotation to grow

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 June 30,  2014 

 Volatility is likely to return to stock markets in the coming month as Jupiter stops playing "mother" and orders a set of the emperor's new clothes.

The head honcho of the Old Gods is exalted in Cancer, a placement which also tends to favour the United States.

In mid-July, the FatBoy enters Leo, which might give Barack Obama a break, but tends to be not so good for Wall Street.

The winged-heel guy, Mercury, goes Direct again early this week. The Sun opposes Pluto on America's Independence Day and squares Uranus the following week.

Venus and Mars change signs ... Venus into Cancer and Mars out of polite, diplomatic Libra into fight-to-the-death Scorpio.

In Forecast 2014, I advised traders to look for the potential for a tradeable low around the 12th,13th,14th of June.

It worked ... but only for Wall Street. Other markets are starting to diverge markedly ... even Germany's DAX.

Jupiter's sign shift will have a major impact on the popularity of some stock sectors. It's one of the best indicators of stock rotation, where money starts flowing out of one sector and into others.

For those of you who have Forecast 2014, it could be worth another look at the recommendations for March and a check of the long-range technical status of stocks within the mentioned sectors.

One of the sectors which should benefit over the next year is gold mining - and we'll take a look at some gold charts shortly.

Let's look first, though, at the SP500 ... the Pollyanna index. We've been expecting at least a stall to develop at these price levels ... because the index is running into major, long-range planetary price resistance.

We looked at this chart recently and I indicated that past contact with long-range Node lines tended to provoke a strong reaction downwards.

The Node lines are at 1952 and 2005, with a couple of major Mars lines covering the intervening space. After making a low near 1926 on June 12th, Polly rose to 1968 last Tuesday, hitting the first of those Mars lines.

I indicated recently the DAX, the other gloriously optimistic Western index, was also hitting a major planetary stopper - at 10,016. The DAX managed two separate days above that price level, but has now dropped to 9815.

The ASX 200 is still dithering, unable to decide if it wants to hit the upside or downside of its Weekly Planets range.

Meanwhile, gold has embarked on another breakout attempt, though it, too, is dithering between two sets of planetary prices.

My personal "bias" leans towards more upside for gold ... and not just because of Jupiter moving to Leo and the normal seasonal factors.

For a start, on the weekly version of the Sun/Pluto gold chart, ALL rallies start at either the Sun or Pluto and DO NOT END until after making contact with higher Sun or Pluto price levels.

I'm not sure anyone can predict, with absolute certainty, what is happening with gold; there are too many big money players from central banks to the Chinese Government, with vested interests.

However, there is at least a slim chance that the gold Bear is finished and is in the early stages of a new, long-running Bullish leg. In any case, there is a chart we can use to track that possibility.

IF a new Bull is now underway, there should be nothing more than only temporary stalling at the Fibonacci extensions marked on the chart below. Reaching decisively above $1450 would increase the odds the Bear is dead.

Safe trading - RA
 (Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2014

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



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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

The Jupiter Cycle and Its Effects on Wall Street

Could the position of the planet Jupiter consistently predict the timing of Bull market tops and Bear bottoms?  

According to recent research tracking 140 years of prices on Wall Street, the answer is a simple: Yes.

In the Greek mythology, Zeus/Jupiter was head honcho of the Old Gods. The ancient Greek tales, when studied in depth, are Creation stories charting the history of the world.

And the tales form the basis of the system of astrology still used in the Western world. They also have counterparts in other cultures. In Vedic astrology and the Hindu religion, for example, Zeus/Jupiter has a counterpart in the figures of Guru/Ganesh.

In both cases, this “king” of gods introduces the concept that one can break free - spiritually or materially. In brief, Jupiter is the symbol of growth and expansion.

And Jupiter’s cycle through the zodiac shows up a very interesting statistical tendency in stock markets.

Since the 1870s, Wall Street has shown a distinct tendency to peak while Jupiter is in late Aries/early Taurus … decline into Jupiter in Leo … rise again until Jupiter is in his own primary sign, Sagittarius … and drop dramatically into Jupiter in Aquarius.

The knee-jerk response of many readers will be to dismiss the assertion as superstitious nonsense. It is an understandable, if predictable, response. Most people simply don’t know anything about the complexity of astrology, its history, or the fact that the system of symbolism and prediction is based on observation by literally millions of practitioners over thousands of years.

It is simply a clearly demonstrable fact that trading The Moods of The Moon - the monthly phases of the lunar cycle - produces steady and reliable profits across any long-term time frame.

And many of those same dismissive readers will happily fork out bundles of boodle to be trained in Gann techniques, or take notice of the Bradley Model turn dates - without having a clue that both are deeply rooted in astrological aspects.

But, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and nothing paints a clearer picture than … a picture.

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The chart above shows The Jupiter Cycle at work since the late 1990s.

It is a monthly of the venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average and shows the statistical tendency worked perfectly at the 1999/2000 top, the 2002/03 bottom, the 2007 blow-off and the March, 2009 bottom.

The warning signals from the research are clear. If the historical tendency plays out as usual, Wall Street is reaching a peak in early 2012 and heading into a Bear market which could last until mid-2014.

In fact, the late Aries peak expected by the research data did play out on schedule in May, 2011. You’ll notice the price bars on the DJIA peaked just before the dark green solid bars which identify when Jupiter changed signs to Taurus and that the index is currently challenging that level again.

Since the May 2011 peak, Jupiter has been moving Direct and Retrograde in the early degrees of Taurus.

When I first published this chart in my Forecast 2012 early in January, I warned the position of Jupiter allowed a final rally into the first few weeks of March.

Now, the research shows a statistical tendency … not a cast-iron guarantee.

While the formula played out exactly from 1999 to 2009, there have been a few times when rallies have briefly exceeded the Jupiter in Taurus limit before diving into a Leo Bear bottom.

And 1929 was one of them.

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We could consider that the blow-off rally past Taurus was the technical equivalent of “a false break”. And one of the rules of a failed false break pattern is that the reversal is large and sharp, regardless of whether the break is a high or a low.

The dive into the red Jupiter in Leo bars is as obvious as the recovery rally which peaked as Jupiter again left his home sign of Sagittarius and the DJIA dropped into the first trough of a double-bottom pattern that sparked the multi-decade Bull market into the 2000/2007 peaks.

The two previous charts have shown exactly how The Jupiter Cycle performed from the late 20s to the early 40s and the late 90s to early 00s.

What is interesting to observe is how the tendency played out during the great sideways shuffle from the early 60s to 80s … and how similar that period seems to be to market performance since the 1999/2000 peak.

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The comparison with current market behaviour is stunning. This 20-year time frame last century was marked by sudden Bull rallies and equally sharp Bear plunges in quick succession.

And while the exact tops and bottoms fell outside the statistical tendency of The Jupiter Cycle, nevertheless there were consistent rallies into the Taurus and Sagittarius periods and sharp declines into the Leo and Aquarian periods.

Combined, the three charts show why extreme care is needed maintaining Long positions as we go further into 2012.

• We are moving into the long-term negative tendency of Jupiter moving out of early Taurus and towards Leo, where he will take up residence from the second half of 2014 until June, 2015.

• We are entering the exact time frame of another long-range negative astrological aspect – Uranus square Pluto, an aspect which last occurred at the bottom of the 1929-1932 crash – and the first exact hit of that aspect occurs this year in June and will continue until March, 2015.

On a technical level, Jupiter’s orbit of the Sun corresponds broadly with three and four year “cycles” in the markets. The Old God’s journey through the zodiac takes 12 years.

On my website – www.theidiotandthemoon.com – I constantly caution my readers against allowing astrological expectations to override the common sense technical conditions shown by the current state of the charts.

Accurate astrological prediction is as much a skill as it is the result of many years of study and empirical research.

Nevertheless, it’s why W.D. Gann has a large worldwide following, decades after his death – and why J.P. Morgan had the renowned astrologer, Evangeline Adams, on his payroll.

“And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Shakespeare

About The Author

Randall Ashbourne is a former journalist and political strategist, author of the eBook, The Idiot &The Moon, which aims to provide newbie traders with the skills they need to start trading confidently.
While the book concentrates its main techniques on orthodox technical signals, Ashbourne also outlines a lunar cycle trading system he calls The Moods of The Moon and plots intermediate and long-range price targets for various indices using the planetary position of what he calls the Old Gods.
His website, www.theidiotandthemoon.com includes a free weekly column, The Eye of Ra, in which he explains the potential impact of looming astrological aspects and whether the expected symbolism is endorsed by the current state of technical conditions.