Heading into a major Bradley turn date

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts reports and articles on his web site at  theidiotandthemoon.com   The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning March 30, 2015  

The coming week, heading into various religious festivals, also brings the first significant Bradley Model turn date for 2015.

The Full Moon next weekend will be a lunar eclipse ... sister of the recent solar eclipse ... and the configuration will again trigger the broad implications of the long-running Uranus-Pluto square we've talked about many times in the past few years.

Uranus and Pluto have now completed exactitude of the square for the last time, but the "orb" of the aspect will continue to linger.

Jupiter, head honcho of the Old Gods, will also be strongly influential in the next few weeks, as it goes Direct and receives a trine from the Sun. Strong Jupiter periods tend to exaggerate either optimism or fear, so we can expect some explosive moves ... one way or the other.

The period finds Wall Street's SP500 index beginning to bump its highs against some major planetary resistance and it's that we'll spend a little time looking at in this edition.

There are also updates on the ASX 200, Germany's DAX and London's FTSE

About once a year, depending on the speed of rallies or downturns, the SP500 comes into contact with primary price lines from the inner planets ... the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars.

In our first chart, we'll look at how these tend to impact rally phases in the index. It's a weekly price chart showing only the Sun and Venus primary lines. Price tends to rise at an angle closely aligned to the annual movement of the planets.

Sometimes price stalls and goes sideways, until it picks up a boost from contact with the next set of rising price lines.

But, what goes up must come down, at least to some degree, and our next chart shows the Sun-Venus impact on the timing and speed of major downturns and significant Bear plunges.

Contact with these downtrend planetary price lines does not always produce a major downturn. But, when one is becoming due ...

Well, the impact can be dramatic.

In our third chart, I have included Mercury and Mars into the mix and we will take a close-up view to show the sort of danger the 500 now faces if it cannot burst above the resistance of the planetary downtrend lines. What it suggests is that Wall Street is now very close to hitting a major hurdle ... a set of planetary influences which almost always produce a multi-week correction.

Our next chart shows the more horizontal price lines of the outer planets and provides the major probable targets for rallies and declines. Regular readers will have become quite familiar with these and know they provide excellent Entry and Exit levels for trades ... if the oscillators on shorter-term charts are showing distinct potential for a trend turn.

Of the other major Western stock indices, Germany is the strongest. And just maybe too strong. Its northbound breakout in the past few months catapulted it above what should have been, based on historical behaviour, a strong resistance barrier.

And our Big Bird oscillator isn't really overjoyed by the move.

While the DAX has left its two previous Bull peaks way behind, the British market continues to struggle against the long-range planetary price lines which acted as a slaughter house for the earlier Bulls.

Allow a little leeway for the posted prices because they're "wavy" and exactitude depends entirely on timing for the monthly bars.

Australia is also faltering at a hurdle ... in the ASX 200's case, a double Fibonacci Retracement barrier. The index managed to break free of the doldrums in the past few months and put on a spurt.

There is some disagreement about exactly where the current blue Fibo Rx level lies because of data differences at the 2009 low ... but all levels of the blue lines displayed below have been important during the past few years and the data difference is not really major.

You'll note that on the chart above, the Big Bird oscillator is starting to sing off-key and that it is a double Fibonacci barrier.

Turning our attention to the ASX 200's Weekly Planets chart, we can note a primary Saturn barrier not far ahead at around 6050, with a Neptune level at 6082.

Weekly Big Bird is even more distinctly off-key than his monthly version as price battles to overcome the minor Saturn resistance around 5942.

And, yes, I've been terribly slack this year ... first time in years I've been able to enjoy the southern Summer and, literally, take some time out to smell the roses.

And they smell so much better than Pollyanna!

I will try to include the Indian/Asian indices in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, just keep a weather eye on the near-term charts, especially with the Bradley date approaching (all of which was covered in the Forecast in January) and as Pollyanna bumps her silly noggin against the inner planet downtrend lines.

Safe trading - RA
 (Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
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The 2 main scenarios and a head fake

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 October 13, 2014 

For the past few weeks we've been discussing the turmoil and volatility likely to be on display during this period.

I warned that the Grand Trine between Mars, Jupiter and Uranus in Fire signs would break boundaries. That is the true nature of a trine.

We also talked about how the symbolism of the Fire trine would be further exacerbated by the Sun and Venus rocking the Libran scales.

And how last week's lunar eclipse Full Moon had the power to bring it all to a spectacular climax.

Mercury is Retrograde for most of October, so there is a chance it's all a head fake. However, we still have the solar ecipse New Moon to come ... on the 23rd.

Western-allied markets are in turmoil. Not so much so for a lot of the Asian indices.

We now need to put aside The Spooky Stuff and look at what has happened from a more technical point of view.

And there are only two main scenarios. We are either in a secondary correction before another rally produces a final High to the Bull run sometime next year. Or, we are already in a new Bear.

The good news is that the extreme nature of the cosmic energy explosion should now begin to subside ... at least temporarily. The bad news is that we are probably in a correction due to run for weeks, possibly months.

In Elliott Wave terms, it would be a major Wave 4. Elliott theorised that stock markets run in 5 waves, where Waves 1, 3 and 5 are major rallies and Waves 2 and 4 are rather severe downturns within the overall structure.

So, let's begin this weekend with a look at what we might expect as reasonable and "normal" if that scenario is in play. The chart below is a monthly of the SP500, using Bi-BBs (the use of which is outlined in The Technical Section of The Idiot & The Moon) and an Andrew's Pitchfork.

The current correction has so far run $113 ... so it is roughly on a par with three earlier corrections during this Bull phase. They were $118, $155 and $112.

The big correction, which EW acolytes believe was a Wave 2 downturn, ran for 6 months from start to finish and sliced $295 off the price of the index.

So, if we are now in Wave 4, this downturn will not be short-lived and there is more downside still to come. Normalcy dictates there should be a relationship with Wave 2, either in Time or Price, but not necessarily both.

Elliott Wavers use a rule-of-thumb that a major Wave 4 tends to decline into the same price territory as the previous Wave 4 of a lower level. Yes, I know ... it can be very difficult to get your head around if you haven't spent a lot of time trying to understand the theory.

So, let me try to cut out the gobbledegook for you. It means, on our planetary prices chart below, that the target for the decline could be as high as $1878 ... or as low as $1776.

Now remember, that's the relatively optimistic scenario ... that this is just a significant downturn in a Bull run which still has another major rally to run.

The second scenario is that this is a screaming klaxon warning the Bull is dead and the Bear is back. Even if that's the case, there will be sharp and swift bouncebacks in the price as the central banks, the hedge funds, the fund managers try desperately to drive prices higher ... even if it's only to unload their toxic holdings onto poor mug punters who buy the media line that it's "a great time to buy".

Caveat emptor!

Now to my home market, the ASX200 and its routinely reliable Weekly Planets chart. Regular readers will know that Auntie is a strongly Neptunian index over the long term, even as she responds to Saturn lines during weekly moves.

The next potential Neptune "rescue" level is very nearby, priced around $5150. Note that the index topped out at the $5650 level, so $5150-ish is both a legitimate target and potentially quite strong as a Support level.

The Big Bird oscillator has gone into a death dive on the weekly. Poor little thing seems to be buried in the dirt on the mineshaft floor. We'll get no sustained bounce in Auntie's price levels until he manages to pop his head back above the lowest red line in the panel.

And that's it for this weekend. Long-range charts and other stuff for the European indices have been published in previous weeks and if you didn't do a cut-and-paste of them, you can have a wander through the Archives.

Since we're in the final quarter for the year, I still have to do some housekeeping to create the 4Q Archives page. In the meantime, if you missed last weekend, or want to re-read it, you can access it from the website http://www.theidiotandthemoon.com/eyeofra.html or scroll down in this blog.

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  

Earth Wind & Fire rock markets

 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 October 6, 2014 

Like all good fireworks spectaculars, the cosmic energy explosion should hit a stunning climax this coming week.

The trigger is likely to be the lunar eclipse Full Moon in Aries happening on Wednesday.

It's conjunct Uranus, currently being trined by Mars in Sagittarius and Jupiter in Leo. That's already a lot of Fire sign energy and it's about to get a boost from the lunar eclipse Full Moon.

But wait ... there's more! The Sun and Venus are in Libra, squaring Pluto and opposing Uranus ... that long-running Uranus/Pluto square which we've discussed many times as the rebel forces going to war with the plutocrats determined to maintain control at any cost.

Libra is Cardinal Air ... it's the Wind, now fanning all that Fire energy into an global wildfire. Pluto is in Capricorn, the Cardinal Earth sign. "I have the power and no-one will take it from me!"

And on top of all that, Mercury has just gone Retrograde and will stay that way for most of October. Nothing anyone says should be believed or trusted ... because what they think they know is likely to be only part of the story.

As an astrology buff, it is fascinating watching all this unfold ... just in the past week alone. Student protestors take to the streets of Hong Kong, shutting down the government quarter. They're well-behaved, sitting down to do their homework when not manning the barricades, and putting up signs apologising for the inconvenience they're causing.

It is a beautiful mix of Uranus in Aries demanding social change, balanced by the good manners of the Sun and Venus in sociable Libra.

Of course, the plutocrats in control have no intention of giving up any of their power. Along come the triad gangs to provoke a bit of violence and instill some fear into the demonstrators. Pluto, in his natural underhanded scheming guise, working secretly to maintain the status quo that Capricorn is always obsessed with preserving.

But, there's an even bigger picture to all of this. Who stirred up the students? Do we think it just might have been those same secretive agents who stirred up trouble in Kiev? Is it coincidence that both Russia and China find themselves under "popular" protest right at the time they're making long-range smoochies with each other to thwart the political/economic power of the nation which considers itself the world's top cop?

Meanwhile, the top cop has put together a posse of sheriffs and deputies to unleash "firepower" ... Fire. Power. ... on the nutbags running around the desert displaying the very worst symbolism of Uranus in Aries, a combination of Fixed Air, where nothing new and useful enters the brain, and Cardinal Fire, which is armed aggression.

Astrology also tells us how this is all going to end, by the way.

But, but ... we did expect all these cosmic games to have a volatile impact on stock markets over these few weeks and a couple of weekends ago I published a series of charts for the exact price targets to watch on various world indices.

So, enough with the mystical mumbojumbo for the moment and let's have a little look.

First up is the SP500 which slipped out of Pollyanna mode into Chicken Little mode ... and made it down to the first Trine Target.

Toronto, too!

London's FTSE crashed through the previous week's boundary and broke another two before bouncing.

We discussed the FTSE's technical condition a few weeks back and noted a horizontal price consolidation happening with a weakening Big Bird oscillator. Not looking good for new Highs.

Pollyanna's primary planet prices are still in play ...

And the ASX200 continues to play with its Weekly Planet prices ...

Odd, non? Nevermind. The Old Gods have been around for a long time and humans have been studying them for thousands of years. See a sabre-tooth, run away, sit around staring at the night sky. Anyway, this Uranus-Pluto square thing we've been waffling on about for the past few years still has longer to run. The last "hit" doesn't occur until next year and, even then, the whole period ... in terms of "history" ... is usually only the start of a large-scale socio-economic upheaval.

Right now, we can't be certain who will "win". But, we do know who will NOT win. And all of you readers living between the Rio Grande and the Lakes might want to stop reading right now.

The fast-greying current temporary resident of that antebellum mansion at 1600 is destined to become one of the last emperors. This conflagration we're seeing unfold is the beginning of The End Times.

Like all empires, it doesn't want to die. But, the simple fact of astrological life is that Progressed Mars in the USA's birth chart turned Retrograde in 2006.

Symbolically, the USA's personal God of War no longer supports its outward ambitions. When it ends, we don't really know. Certainly, it will drag on for as long as Pluto remains in Capricorn.

How it ends is easier to see. It ends with a desperate last helicopter fleeing the roof of the US Embassy as opposition tanks crash through the gates ... it ends with Marines pushing helicopters and fighter jets overboard from the decks of the carriers as the ships turn back to the safety of the homeland.

And it's not that far away. And this time, it's global.

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.

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No Eye ... and almost no I

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 5,  2014

This time a week ago I was in a hospital emergency department seldom more than a few racing heartbeats from death.

A whole team of doctors battled continually for hours to stop my heart from exploding, or my lungs from imploding.

I had meant to take my phone to the bedroom that Friday night. I didn't ... and struggled for almost an hour to make it the 15 feet back to my desk when I realised I needed an ambulance urgently.

For the next few hours I was in and out of the emergency resuscitation unit, constantly surrounded by doctors wearing worried looks and asking me just how far I wanted them to go to revive me if my heart stopped or my lungs did.

"If my heart stops, whack it with whatever you've got ... it's strong enough to take it. If my lungs stop, do nothing."

The prospect of "life" hooked to a breathing machine made the choice ... uncomplicated.

To the two officers of the Stirling Ambulance, the entire ED team at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and the nurses and doctors of Ward S2, please accept my, quite literally, undying gratitude. You saved my life.

So, that's why I wasn't around last weekend, waffling on about markets. At other times from now on, I'll be taking further breaks from weekly reports.

The fact is, folks, there's not much to gain in raging against the dying of the light. Priorities change according to the stage of Life you're currently in ... and there are quite a few of considerably more interest to me than writing about Spooky Stuff or answering emails.

But, but ... we might as well do a bit of that now, since I'm here anyway, eh?

I'll deal with my home market, the ASX, first. A few weeks ago I showed the key levels to watch on the ASX 200 (as well as other indices) as the Mars/Jupiter/Uranus/Pluto Cardinal Grand Square became exact.

Those price levels for Auntie were 5536 or 5263. As we can see on the chart below, the old bat made a precise hit on target and right on time and has been backing away since, despite Wall Street's attempts to continue levitating. In fact, the highest Close was at 5536.10. Ten cents off. Tsk*Tsk.

The implications are that the Australian market is likely to face continuing weakness. It's not absolutely certain, simply because the index ended the week maintaining a tenuous grip on an important technical level ... the 618 Fibonacci Rx level of the post-2009 recovery.

There are two other very important signals from the above chart we must take into consideration. The rally has long fallen outside the main tynes of the rising pitchfork, but continues to respond to the Fibonacci extensions of the fork. This is in stark contrast to the main Wall Street index, the SP500, which we'll look at in a few minutes.

Note also the continuing deterioration in the state of the three main Canaries. The green Fast Bird and the medium Red Bird are negatively stacked against the blue Big Bird, which is also starting to display negative divergence.

The key here is whether the index can maintain its position above that Fibonacci Rx level in the early 5400s. Should the weakness continue, Auntie's Weekly Planets chart probably gives the best guide to the targets likely to provide Support or Resistance.

Now, let's turn our attention to Pollyanna, the SP500. Big Picture first. Just do a quick eyeball of the next chart so you can see how price continues to cling to the middle tyne of the rally pitchfork.

It's a lot stronger than the Australian index. That's probably because we spend our money on a universal healthcare system, rather than allowing the Reserve Bank to spend umpteen billion dollars a month making thieving bankers even richer. Different priorities.

And now that we have the broad overview, we can take a closer look at that chart, where it's easier to see Polly's tenacious grip on that rising central tyne of the fork as price sashays either side of the line like Saturday night dancers at the Belle Star.

We should note that the weekly Big Bird is looking as if he, too, might end up in the emergency resuscitation unit before long.

Still, in terms of primary planet prices, Polly also maintains a grip on the topside of a key, long-range level at 1876. The Fat Lady is still singing.

If there is any hint which way stocks are likely to go in the short-term, it may be in gold's Friday performance. It regained in a day the previous four days' worth of losses.

In terms of the weekly chart, we now have two bars standing tall on their tails after retests of the 1273 horizontal Pluto support as price tries valiantly to cling to the rising Sun line.

Also favouring some muted and cautious optimism about gold's rise is the fact that its Big Bird oscillator maintains a position on the northern side of a rising trendline.

Astrologically, the heavy weather takes a break for most of the coming week. The next major aspect doesn't occur until next weekend when the Sun opposes Saturn.

After that, though, Venus in Aries will do the whole Grand Square routine again.

If I have the time and energy next weekend, I'll try to catch you up with a few of the Euro/Asian indices and we'll look at some price targets for the Venus aspects.

Thank you to those who wrote asking if I was alright after my non-appearance online last weekend. I am ... now. Sort of. I mentioned recently that one needs an accurate birth chart to try to determine if Big Things Happening Out There will have an impact on a particular entity.

Silly old bugger that I am, I managed to totally ignore the fact that the recent Lunar Eclipse Full Moon triggered the angles of my birth chart, that the Solar Eclipse was conjunct my natal Midheaven and that two of the main players in the configuration were stuffing around with the 6th (health) and 12th (hospitalisation).

Luckily, I guess, my natal Jupiter stands permanent guard at the door of my 12th, a guardian angel position, and the transiting FatBoy was happily romping, exalted in Cancer, through my 12th and approaching the Ascendant.

And as much as an unaspected, 5th House Sagittarian Sun guy just loves the FatBoy and regards him as a pal, I gotta tell yuh, Jupie ... I've gotta love those ambos, docs and nurses even more!




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 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


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Astrological weather for May

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 6, 2013

Wall Street gapped up into the Open on Friday, bringing the SP500 into the planetary price zone we anticipated it was aiming for.

There is a higher, long-range planetary target at 1666 which could be the next major target.

But that requires Chicken Little to stay in the wings during what is, historically, the seasonal weakness lasting from May until September.

I indicated early last month that April is, on average, Miss Pollyanna's strongest-performing month of the year. However, there has also been a distinct tendency over the past 60 years for markets generally to start weakening in May.

It's the basis of the old saying "Sell in May". In fact, the origin is English, not Wall Street, and the full version is: Sell in May and go away; come back on St Leger's Day ... the last of England's classic horse races each year.

As always with lies, damned lies and statistics, one can adjust the data to reach almost any conclusion. However, the really simple version is that over the past 60 years, on average, stock markets made virtually no gain over the coming five months.

This weekend, we'll take a look at the technical state of the SP500 and discuss the astrological weather patterns for the month ahead.

And we will begin by having another look at a chart we've discussed a couple of times in the past few weeks - that Pollyanna was embarked on a run between two different sets of Uranus/Pluto horizontal planetary levels.

I indicated that since the SP500 make a spike bottom into a Uranus/Pluto price zone in mid-November, sparking the Santa Claus rally, that its target was probably another Uranus/Pluto zone priced around 1608.

Friday's Open gapped up into the target zone.

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Going on past performance, it would not now be unusual to see the index stall and correct. That's what happened during the past two price contacts with Uranus/Pluto price clusters within this run. Look first at the yellow oval near the bottom of the chart and follow the prices into the next higher level of yellow/purple lines.

Pollyanna stalled and then dropped back to pick up support from a light blue Saturn line to launch a new rally phase. Then the same thing happened at the next Uranus/Pluto level ... a stall, a false break above, and a drop down into Saturn again. Will it be "different this time"? Perhaps. But probably not.

Negative divergence has been building in the American indices for some time. It's obvious below in the declining MACD histogram peaks as prices have climbed up inside the top layer of the Bi-BBs ... and the MACD signal lines are showing the potential to roll over.

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However, the divergence is not yet looking even close to terminal on Pollyanna's monthly chart. Below is the chart I first started using in 2012 when I began discussing what I called "the elephant in the room" ... a distinct and obvious LACK of negative divergence on the long-range chart which I thought might have the Bulls pooping all over my Bear rug.

In short, the astrological expectation of the normal Jupiter-in-Taurus Bull market high failed ... because of the technical conditions.

I pointed out that the negative divergence in the long-range Canary obvious at the topping process in 2007, was not present in the charts during 2012 (the relevant oscillator readings are marked with yellow ovals). We had also discussed the possibility that Polly was contained within a potentially negative Ending Diagonal pattern.

In the end, she broke out of the pattern, rather than breaking down. The technical conditions were correct. The astrological expectation was wrong.

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Now, however, we are starting to see the first signs of technical weakness develop in the monthly chart. Notice that the fast Canary, the green line, has rolled over and slipped below the mid-range (red) and long-range (blue) birds ... and that the red bird has now slipped below the blue one.

This is similar to the oscillator performance as the index climbed into its 2007 top. It suggests that THE Top has not yet been recorded, but could still be some months away.

Nevertheless, we are now inside the timeframe for a multi-month lull, at best; or a final corrective decline before the final Bull high ... and the astrological weather for May suggests erratic conditions.

We are heading into a Solar Eclipse New Moon and a second Lunar Eclipse, and we get the third exact square of Uranus and Pluto. We'll take a look firstly at the Solar Eclipse, which is perhaps more likely to affect Asian area markets.

The map below shows the path of the eclipse - and it's Australia and southern Asia in the direct path.

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Next, let's look at the impact past Solar and Lunar Eclipses have had on Miss Polly's prices. The solar ones are marked with red bars and the lunar ones with green. The last 3 solar events tended to mark the low point of temporary declines within a strong rally phase. Two of the 5 before that, staked out temporary highs. So, of the past 8 solar eclipses, 5 were associated with tops or bottoms.

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Apart from the eclipses, the other major astro event for May is the third exact square between Uranus and Pluto. I've discussed the broad social ramifications of this aspect in Forecast 2012, Forecast 2013 and at length in the Eye of Ra over the past couple of years.

It appears throughout history at times of wide-reaching and radical social reform and political/economic earthquakes. It is not just a one-off "event", but a whole series of them which define an "era" of sociological and geopolitical change.

The chart below shows the first of the exact hits and we're coming up on the third in a series of 7 which lasts into 2015. Because of transits of faster-moving planets "translating" the energy, the orb of influence comes into effect a few years before the first hit and will also last for a few years beyond the last hit.

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However, putting the orb of influence aside, we can probably expect the most extreme manifestation of the symbolism to occur in the middle of the series, which is what we're now getting into.

A 7-hit series is unusual. In personal astrology, we normally only have to deal with 3-hit series of major aspects. They tend to manifest this way ... the first Direct hit tends to cause an event which makes us aware of a problem that needs to be dealt with; the second, Retrograde hit gives us the opportunity to DO something about fixing the problem.

And, as I once said to a private client, if you try to ignore it all and don't actually DO something to fix it, then on the final, Direct hit it "comes back and bites you on the arse Big Time". I ran into that client again a couple of years later and asked how things had worked out.

The answer: "It came back and bit me on the arse big time!"

So, the interpretation would be that this coming middle period of the whole saga is where things have to be done to avert disaster. All that has happened so far is that we have been made "aware" of a problem. Now, we enter the phase where real solutions must be found ... and the solutions must not be more of the same-old, same-old. The symbolism is that there must be wide-ranging and radical overhaul.

Pluto has to do the Phoenix rebirth routine. Or else the Arien Uranus goes into armed revolution mode.

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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A high-energy astro union of aspects

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 November 26, 2012

The first couple of days this week are likely to be volatile as Americans get past Thanksgiving and return to their trading desks.

There are three major astrological aspects on Monday and Tuesday, followed by a lunar eclipse Full Moon as Wall Street opens on Wednesday.

And the little winged-heel guy, Mercury, goes Direct again - having delivered the "perfect" sequence of events during his Rx phase.

We discussed early in the month what is the "normal" behaviour for a Merc Rx period ... the Retrograde date starts a trend, which changes course halfway through, and that by the Direct-again date, prices tend to be back within 1% of where they started the whole phase.

Friday's jump back to the 1410-ish level marked on the SP500's long-range planet price chart ticked all the boxes.

But now things get interesting again. First cab off the rank is a Sun trine to Uranus, quickly followed by a Venus conjunction with Saturn and then a Mars conjunction with Pluto.

Then there's a lunar eclipse Full Moon in Gemini ... and just a normal Moon in Gemini usually brings wide-range days in both directions.

That's a lot of astro energy at play within a very short timeframe.

Let me chat a little about the nature of that energy. Most astrologers work on the assumption that a trine aspect is largely benevolent and interpret the symbolism as an "easy flow" of energy.

The trouble is that an easy flow of energy can be a very bad influence. The real nature of the trine aspect is the sudden removal of all obstacles. Now, this is a damn fine thing if you've been out of work for months, having trouble finding a new job. You suddenly get one ... and it'll frequently be a much better job than the one you lost or left.

However, if you happen to be facing fraud charges ... or anxiously avoiding an audit by the tax office ... the trine can suddenly pull the rug out from under you and you fall hard onto your butt in a deep pile of dung.

And then we have the Venus/Saturn conjunction in Scorpio, the sign which relates to debt, death and taxes. Venus in Scorpio is not the kind of girl you bring home to meet Mum. She's an evil, scheming, manipulative bitch who'll hump your brains out ... and then eat them. While you're still alive.

And that's her good side!

Saturn in Scorpio is even worse. On a mundane level, Saturn is "The Government" and since Scorpio relates to debt and taxes, it represents a timeframe when the business of government will relate strongly to those issues. It means time is running out for governments to continue short-term, quick-fix solutions to problems like sovereign debt and the American "fiscal cliff".

And since Mars conjuncts Pluto in the sign of Capricorn, that's a reiteration of the overall theme. Mars and Pluto rule Scorpio, where Saturn currently travels, and they're meeting in Cappy, which is Saturn's home ground. So, we get this sense that the astro pressure is about to be ramped up dramatically when it comes to money (Venus), government (Saturn) and death, debt and taxes (Mars and Pluto).

When we couple those themes with the Sun trine to Uranus and the volatility implied by a Gemini lunar eclipse Full Moon, it is possible things could get real scary, real fast.

However, let me remind you again of the house rule here ... astrological expectations do not over-ride technical conditions. So, let's look at some charts.

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Firstly, I want to check the historical behaviour of Venus conjunct Saturn aspects - marked with red bars on the chart above. By itself, it's not conclusive and reliable as a turning point ... which is basically the same conclusion we reached with the so-called "Mars/Uranus crash cycle" chart we looked at again last weekend.

But, what happens when we look at the four - Venus conjunct Saturn, Sun trine Uranus, and Mars conjunct Pluto and square Uranus?

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In the chart above, Venus/Saturn is red, Sun/Uranus dark blue; Mars/Uranus pink and Mars/Pluto light blue. Three of these were present in the formation of the two previous Bull peaks. Three of them were nearby during the two previous Bear bottoms ... and near the bottom of last year's August/October plunge.

So, the concern here is not one single aspect ... it's the combination of the punch jammed into a narrow timeframe.

Our next chart is Pollyana's performance during the Mercury Rx phase.

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As usual, the official figures from the NYSE won't reflect the silly gap on Friday's half-day, when markets are easily manipulated. The danger is that this is a set-up and not the real start of the annual Santa Claus rally. Yes, I'm still more than mildly concerned by the lack of a positive divergence signal in the oscillators as Miss Pollyanna made her low on the 16th.

The bounceback is even more obvious on the monthly bars in the 500's long-range planetary price chart.

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It's interesting to look at a monthly chart of the FTSE from a technical point of view. While Polly is playing to the planets, the FTSE can't seem to break through the topside of a triangle ... at least not in a sustained way.

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I'll wrap up this weekend's edition with a few Weekly Planets charts and hopefully get back to a wider look at other indices next weekend when it'll be time to look at the likely ranges for December.

Just bear in mind that the Mercury Rx phase did it's "normal" thing virtually perfectly ... but that we have a combination of astro aspects happening over the next few days which have a tendency to be present when markets are marking out important turning points.

NASDAQ 100 Weekly Planets:

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DAX Weekly Planets:

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ASX 200 Weekly Planets:

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Safe trading - RA

Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, 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 article, 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 - 2011-2012