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Buy stocks in water now!

Here is a free newsletter from one of the world's best financial astrologers, Christeen Skinner. As mentioned in this Christeen is shortly to begin a subscription only mail out. If, after reading this, you would like to be one of the first to know what's happening in the financial world and subscribe to her letters please go to CHRISTEEN SKINNER

"This period between the two eclipses has, as expected, brought some curious political news stories to the surface – and last night’s announcement by President Obama of a way of clawing back money from the banks. The effect on the Earth’s magnetic field has been awesome too. I hope that the Earth’s rumblings have stopped and that the people of Haiti are given every possible assistance. (You can donate to them via www.dec.org.uk or www.oxfam.org.uk)

Here in the UK, we’ve been snowed in: a fabulous opportunity to stay home, read and research. I had a ‘Gann week’ where I devoured everything I could find and then tested that against last year’s figures. I’ll put this material into the first of the proper subscription bulletins before the end of this month.

Gann gives January 12th to 15th and 18th to 24th as indicating periods at this time of year (any year) when stocks will be very active (wide fluctuations). I suspect that between 18th and 24th Jan 2010, this will be particularly so. It’s not simply that (geocentrically) Jupiter changes sign – moving into Pisces, whilst the Sun and Venus move into Aquarius, there are other underlying features indicating the potential for marked activity.

For now, I’ll focus on the Jupiter factor. As many of you know, this is the planet associated with expansion. It is reasonable to expect that those businesses working in ‘Pisces’ type industries will do well in the course of the next few months. This covers pharmaceuticals, bio-techs, film, media, advertising, sea-power, WATER (yes, I still think this is the best, best investment area: a commodity whose value is set to rise and rise), sea-minerals, alternative health centres, shoes (!), fashion accessories, perfumes, oils, fish and industrial cleaning. If these industries do push higher next week, then the indices should go with them – at least into the weekend of 23/24. After that I’m not so sure.
The last week of January doesn’t look so promising – possibly reversing earlier gains. (The exception to this rule may well be football companies and businesses where we could see substantial losses in February - more on that next time).

A big preoccupation continues to be with currencies. The Euro is about to have what is known as a Jupiter return: i.e. Jupiter will soon have made a complete revolution of its chart. Theoretically then this should be the Euro’s year. There are other clues which highlight its position in the spotlight: this eclipse on its Venus, and the basic structure of the planet grouping at its launch in January 1999, would normally suggest 2010 as a period of expansion and gain. Yet there are other forces at work which may well prevent or at least curtail this possibility. Though I’m sure the Euro will put up a good fight it does look vulnerable – especially in the last week of January. (I’ll expand on this more with appropriate graphs in the new service.)

Looking ahead: please mark up first week of August and December 4th – 6th in your diaries. I’m anticipating extraordinary volatility across these dates – with possibly significant lows on the December dates (assuming history does repeat of course!).

For those of you who enjoy doing research, and bearing in mind that in 2010 both Jupiter and Uranus move into Aries bringing raw, exciting and fast energy to business that fall under that sign, do keep reading New Scientist magazine and keep in touch with developments: especially those involving speed, energy production, steel, iron, and lithium. Associated industries should do very well in the second half of the year.

Back at mission control here, I am working on a seminar in Dublin on Saturday Feb 13th and for the NCGR conference in Boston last week of February".

For now,

Christeen

The Future Crash, Feb 2010?

Two views on the economic cycle from a Trends Analyst/Futurist and one of the World's most famous business astrologers.

Following her 2008 presentation to the Society of Technical Analysts, Christeen Skinner looks at the key astrological moments that shape markets and economics over the next few years. She was bang on for 2009 and says the worst to come is around 10 Feb 2010:


CHRISTEEN


Gerald Celente is the most depressing, 'futurist' I have ever heard but is he right?
CELENTE

The Rule of 72

“It is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.” - Albert Einstein referring to compound interest

Do you want to predict the time it will take to double your money in these tense economic times? Then the Rule of 72 is the method to employ. This rule is of interest to cycle watchers as the number 72 is associated with Venus for a number of symbolic reasons. Not least that the planet is.72AU from the Sun and in the synodic cycles of Venus, the cycle between one maximum elongation and the next lasts 584 days. After these 584 days Venus is visible in a position 72 degrees away from the previous one. The cycles of Venus, as its mythological counterpart would suggest, have terrestrial correlations to harmony, beauty, proportion - and to wealth.

In the middle ages Luca Pacioli said, by way of explanation of the rule:

In wanting to know for any percentage, in how many years the capital will be doubled, you bring to mind the rule of 72, which you always divide by the interest, and the result is in how many years it will be doubled. Example: When the interest is 6 percent per year, I say that one divides 72 by 6; obtaining 12, and in 12 years the capital will be doubled.

Go here to read another simple explanation and for a calculator which determines the length of time it will take you to double your investments. The rule holds true for percentages between 6-10% but approximates well outside this range too.

Interestingly it also works the other way. If you want to double your money in six years, just divide 6 into 72 to find that it will require an interest rate of about 12%

This got me to thinking if the rule of 72 could be applied to other forms of 'Venusian related' investment?! What about the percentages of time we invest in something such as creating a work of art or a musical score. If you wanted to double your chances of it being 'perfect', if you set aside 4 years of time to complete it would you need to ensure you spent only 18% of that time actually creating it?? In a 4 year time span would you have to invest 18% of your time on dating in order to double your chances of finding the perfect lover? Food for thought but I am sure someone with a far more mathematical mind than mine can set me straight on that idea!

I digress! That was just my mind whirring but for doubling financial investments The Rule of 72 is a noteworthy dictum and if you haven't yet checked out the amazing Wolfram Demonstrations pages start here with their depiction of the rule.

Dubai and Stockmarket Hammer Blows

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Marcus Aurelius

The United Arab Emirates gained their independence from the UK on 2 Dec 1971. This area of the world therefore was symbolically 'born' on this date, and it is interesting that this was at the time of a geocosmic cycle we 'cycle trackers' relate to major construction and issues of survival (Saturn/Pluto). The UAE was also born into a cycle related to currency, oil, glamour - and real estate bubbles and collapses (Saturn/Neptune). It also responds to a cycle related to huge wealth and power (Venus/Pluto)!

We time cycles from two markers - the synodic phases of two planets. If the notion of astrology offends you, call these time markers Joe and Jane instead of Saturn and Pluto or whatever It makes no difference; all we are doing is noting the periods that it takes two different bodies in the sky to come to specific mathematical angularity as viewed from this rock we all stand on - Earth. Every time Joe meets Jane we note correlations to what is occurring on Earth.

Today, news from Dubai, the largest of the seven Emirates, caused shudders in the Stockmarket as a company called Nakheel and its owner (specifically state owned Dubai World) asked for a Debt Standstill. This on top of other ongoing default problems from companies who have helped create Dubai into a vertitable 'Disney in the desert' means a nightmare scenario is developing.

“I do not expect that developments in Dubai will have a significant impact on U.K. markets,” David Cumming, head of U.K. stocks at Standard Life, said today in an e-mailed statement. “Although those banks and contractors with most exposure will experience some weakness. This will be a short-term issue.”

Who's he kidding? Hasn't the whole recession really got its roots in people trying to 'talk things up' when they were patently going the other way? ( Also, when you build the tallest man made structure in the world in Dubai it's a big clue that at some point you are likely to see the largest man made plummet too! It's the law of polarity). Plus, every default or debt standstill has a knock on effect somewhere.

Anyway, it is as it is.

What can the cycles tell us? Well this debt problem affects many markets but if we look at the cycle chart of the London Stock Exchange (formed 3 Mar 1801 and which acquired Borsa Italiana in 2007 to become The London Stock Exchange Group) we see a short term 'trigger point' was reached today
(and another one is looming on 1 Dec 2009) but a long term trigger point is also being activated, and this doesn't ease until 2011 and will actually get worse in Jan/Feb and June 2010. The reversal of the planet Mars in Mid December could temporarily ease pressure in the case of this UAE issue, but my take is, it simply won't last.

The Saturn/Pluto cycle hits a pivotal point again in Jan and August 2010 and there's a whole host of other cycles picking up sensitive degrees in the charts of the UK and US Stock Exchanges and the UAE in 2010. I can't see anyone with 20/20 vision using the word optimism in relation to the economy until at least 2011 - and then only in whispers and not mixed with the word recovery. If it is not overwhelmed by forces beyond its control and completely annihilated, the entire economy - and banking practices - need to be transformed before we are on the up again by 2017.

David Buik, a markets analyst at inter-dealer broker BGC Partners is quoted as saying “This is not the end of the world for Dubai but it is a hammer blow.”

I think he's right but it's a blow that will leave them in and out of intensive care for around 4 years(SA/PL). And anyway, if not Dubai, where? One hammer blow from somewhere that doesn't have access to ways and means to restructure their dealings is going to sound the death knell in 2010 for many more people and companies who built their empires on nothing but sand (and hot air).

The Property Cycle 2009/10.

DATES REVEALED - SET YOUR CLOCK BY THEM!

So, following on from my previous post, the synodic cycle (meaning the conjunction to conjunction phase of celestial bodies) of Jupiter and Saturn has been noted to correlate to intervals of growth and decline in the economy. Jupiter = Expansion and Saturn = Contraction. Economic ups and downs, follow a distinct wave form which corresponds to the 8th harmonic (i.e. the 360 degree circle of any cycle divided by 8 = 8th harmonic).

If we translate space into time, for this particular cycle the notable marker points will arrive at approximately* 2.5 years. The turning point will come after 7.5 years (the 135 - 180 degree mark) Then from 10 years to 12.5 years (180 to 225 degrees) of every cycle the decline will have peaked. Contraction will continue until a recovery begins around 17.5 years to 20 years (225-360) and the cycle begins again. The analysts, in giving the cycle 18 years, are therefore almost right.

Laid out more easily for you to assimilate, for Jupiter/Saturn cycles, this would read:

Cycle start: 0 years
Cycle turn down: 7.5 thru to 10 years
Crisis Peak: 10 - 12.5 years
Cycle turn up: 17.5 thru to 20 years

Let's test the theory. The last Jupiter/Saturn synod, prior to this one, began on Dec 31st, 1980. By our 2.5 year markers, a downturn would have been expected to begin in June 1987 getting steadily more obvious/precarious as we got close to Dec 1989. The crunch always comes when the outgoing cycle of the planets switches to the incoming cycle - or put another way; the point when the planets reach their farthest distance from each other (10 years or 180 degrees) is the peak point. By this juncture things have usually already begun to slide dramatically, so this point is where we say 'Okay, I know this contraction is going to last until the planets get to the 17.5 year stage from the beginning' - that happened late 1997 into 1998. To be very clear it looks like this:

House market and Economy contraction/expansion cycle:

Cycle start (start of boom) Dec 31st 1980
Cycle down turn (start of decline and crash) 1987-1989
Crisis peak 1990-1992
Cycle upturn (start of recovery) 1997 to 2000

The most recent 'economic/property cycle) began again May 28 2000.

Cycle start: Mar 28th 2000
Cycle down turn: 2007-2010
Crisis peak: 2010-2012
Cycle upturn: 2017 to 2020

The new cycle begins on Dec 21st 2020

This means we are at least 7 years from notable recovery.

One final comment on this cycle. It has a precise moment when the two planets are said to align. This was at 16.05UT on 28 May 2000. If we look at a Geocosmic chart of this moment it can reveal to us, visually, some very interesting dates to watch for.

















In the right hand chart, notice the 2008 Stockmarket crash data. It is superimposed around the JU/SA cycle chart. Note the red arrow. This is the position of Mars on that day. Geocosmically we would say Mars at 26/27 Libra 'triggered' the stock 'cuts' (Mars = cuts) that day, but also I note Mars was at the exact degree of the Saturn/Pluto cycle which began on Nov 8 1982 with Saturn and Pluto at 27 degrees Libra.

This is fine-tuning the overall cycles pattern but planets at any 8th harmonic to 26 Libra may well be triggers of further problems. The Saturn/Pluto cycle is related to hard times and survival. It was at a crucial juncture in September 2001 (9/11) and is also strongly allied to corruption in halls of power and institutions. It is the cycle I will look at next time. As stated in my first post we have to look at the interweaving of cycles. It does not change what I have written above about the property cycle but it informs us about the overall economic picture that is being woven in the sky.

Jupiter/saturn cycles show ups and down; growth and decline. Saturn Pluto cycles relate to complete annhilation and rebirth!

If your interest in Geocosmics and the Stockmarket has been piqued you may like to give this well established site a look

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*Due to the fact that planets travel at different speeds relative to our observation deck on Earth, the precise dates can only be determined by use of an astronomical/astrological ephemeris.
Luckily if you have the time or inclination to track events in history against synodic cycles, right thru to the present day, someone has made lists available on the Internet of the planetary synods and their cycles. Go HERE for the site and HERE for the Jupiter/Saturn list. please note though you only want the hard aspect junctures, semi square, square, opposition etc.

The Property Market Cycle

Indulge me for a moment: take your index finger and draw a circle in the air in front of you. Keep going with this movement but now simultaneously move your finger forward. You will soon find that you are describing a spiral or corkscrew. Wherever, and whenever, you decide to stop, where you finger began drawing the circle is irrevocably tied up with where it ends. It is one continuous motion moving forward. The past informs the future - always

Look carefully at the diagram* to the right. Shift perspective; imagine yourself standing looking down the tube........

Now look at it as it is.

You are seeing the nature of linear time perfectly depicted as if you were observing it from the side. Notice how a circle unfolding more slowly as it moves through time red line) forms a looser wave when seen from this side angle. Tighter, faster circles/cycles form tighter corkscrews.

This model is one you would do well to envision when thinking about the current state of the economy. We cannot simply look at one cycle. Yes, by all means we can trace an 18 -20 year property cycle (in the UK or abroad) but we have to consider what other longer term cycles may be coming to impact upon it, before we declare we are in a contraction or expansion phase.

Many analysts don't have a clue how to assess this interweaving of cycles, simply because they refuse to be associated with anything that smacks of astrology. They are perfectly fine to openly talk about the Sunspot cycle or to refer to the 'property market cycle' as if it were some abstract thing but ask them to call it the Jupiter/Saturn synodic cycle and they run for the hills. It's time this changed. The planets and their alliances are the great markers of time. In fact time is illusory. The only way we can track it is by noting the interrelationship of our planet to the Sun, Moon AND other heavenly bodies. It is celestial motions tracked from Earth that inform our whole watch and clock setting process.

To be fair there are some traders who do use things like Gann's trading methods, which are astrologically based. Even if they don't, you would be hard pushed to find an investor or commodity broker who doesn't talk the language of trends and cycles.

Now though it's time to openly embrace the language of the heavens. The language of vibration and harmony (harmonics) that from here on in we will call Geocosmics! I hope you will join me and I welcome you to my new blog. Next up, more on this Jupiter/Saturn cycle and where we are at in Dec 2009.

“Through the law of vibration every stock and commodity in the market place moves in its own distinctive sphere of activities” WD Gann

* Image courtesy of AT Mann