MMA WEEKLY - Financial Astrology commentary, Market timing, MMA Cycles, The Merriman Market Analyst

The Market Week in Review :

Several stock indices throughout the world completed a cycle crest early this past week as the Sun formed an opposition to Uranus (September 5). From an astrological point, this was important because it was the “translation” date of the shorter-term planetary cycle (Sun-Uranus) to the greater cycle of Jupiter in waning trine to Uranus, which took place August 29. In other words, when you have a powerful longer-term planetary cycle unfolding, it oftentimes takes a “shorter-term” transit aspecting those two longer-term planetary cycles to touch it off. In this case, the shorter-term “translation” was the Sun-Uranus opposition, wherein the Sun formed a sextile to Jupiter and an opposition to Uranus. This was further supported by the fact that the Moon was in Aquarius that day. Aquarius is the sign ruled by Uranus, one of the two planets involved in this 14-year longer-term Jupiter-Uranus cycle.

As stated several times before in this column, that Jupiter-Uranus trine was the key to expecting rising stock prices, culminating in a peak within 8 trading days. This was demonstrated through our studies reported in The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, Volume 3: Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles. In that work, it was shown that major aspects between Jupiter and Uranus were the strongest correlates to primary cycles - and subsequent reversals in the Dow Jones Industrial Average - of all planetary pair combinations studied over the past 75 years. The 11,488 high of Tuesday, September 5, was only 4 trading days after the Jupiter-Uranus trine. The t rine of August 29 was the third and final passage of this signature since last November. In the previous two cases, it also coincided with an important crest within 8 trading days. In fact, in the last instance (May 5), it coincided with the high of the year in the DJIA, and that was highest level since the all-time high of January 2000.

Now we wait and see just important last week's high was. If it is as important as the high in early May, then we may be headed sharply lower to the 4-year cycle trough by the end of this year. In that case, the DJIA could be off by as much as 20% form the highs seen last week. After all, as reported in our second edition of Volume One of the Stock Market Timing Series, over 85% of 4-year cycle troughs witnessed the stock market falling at least 20% from the crest of that cycle. The time band for that 4-year cycle trough is in effect through June 2007. But the “USA Presidential Cycle” shows that 4-year bottoms mostly occur 16-25 months after a U.S. Presidential election. Measured form the last one in November 2004, that means the ideal time for the 4-year trough is by December 2006.

             In other markets last week, crude oil and Gold fell hard, to new multi-week and even multi-month lows. The European currencies also fell hard against the U.S. Dollar. It is still my belief that Gold and Silver completed their long-term cycle lows back on our June 14 three-star critical reversal date. Crude Oil, however, is in the process of falling to at least an 18-month cycle trough, and probably a 4-year cycle trough as well.

Short-Term Geocosmics :

             Mars has now ingressed into Libra as of Friday, September 8. This is important, because :
1°) Libra is a cardinal sign, and
2°) the Federal Reserve Board was created on December 23, 1913, when Pluto and the Sun were in opposition at 0 and 1 degree of Cancer and Capricorn respectively, also cardinal signs.
Thus this movement of Mars into Libra forms what is known as a T-square to both the Sun and Pluto in the FRB chart. Typically this coincides with a change in policy about interest rates from the FRB. And sure enough, that happened last week and “spooked” the market Wednesday and Thursday. Instead of reaffirming the “pause” approach to raising rates as FED watchers had thought was in effect, the FED instead reaffirmed its commitment to fight inflation, which is seen as a possibility of raising rates again in the not-so-distant future. Bonds prices fell, and stock prices followed on the story.

For this coming week, we will find Venus in opposition to Uranus on Saturday, September 16, and the Sun in waning square to Pluto on the following day. The first signature has a 71% correlation to primary cycles within 10 trading days, so that time band includes the high of last Tuesday, if it holds. It can indicate an unexpected announcement from the FED - or economic data news - that may seem to contradict the “fighting inflation” story of last week. The Sun-Pluto square is not as strong a correlate to reversals in stocks, but it can be important in this instance due to its closeness to the Venus-Uranus opposition. In a mundane astrological sense, this can correlate with more threats of terrorism, for whenever Pluto is involved in a hard aspect, there is danger to human lives, regardless of whether its status has been downgraded to “dwarf planet” or not.

But the more important geocosmic signature coming up will be the third and final passage of Jupiter in waning square to Neptune, talking place September 24. This will form a T-square to Saturn, which in the process of a three-passage opposition to Neptune, lasting August 2006 through June 2007. This is not a time to believe anything you hear or read. The tendency to “misinform,” or to intentionally spread untrue and inaccurate information (“misinformation”) may be very great. This information may be designed to harm the reputation of others by casting them in an unfavorable light.

And yes, this aspect comes up right in the middle of the mid-term election campaign in the United States.

Long-Term Thoughts :

We are already seeing many signs of the 36-year Saturn-Neptune opposition in effect, especially last week. As stated before, this signature can coincide with scandals, embarrassing revelations of dishonesty or deceit, misinformation intended to harm the reputation of others - especially in politics - and a general sense of disgust by the general public who begin to call for the resignation - or impeachment - of world leaders. The headlines of Friday's Wall Street Journal underscores many of these themes: “H-P Scandal Puts Chairman, Lawyer in Awkward Light;” “Britain's Blair bowed to a Labour revolt, saying publicly he'll step down within a year,” “Armitage admitted being the CIA-leak source in 2003” (the CIA operative Valerie Plame leak that got Vice-President Richard Cheney and his associate Scooter Libby in trouble).

And that is not all. Here are more excerpts from the front page that deals with these same Saturn-Neptune principles. “Democrats accuse him (Bush) of pre-election fear-mongering... Amid the finger-pointing, Al Jazeera broadcast an old tape of (Bin Laden) meeting with planners of the 2001 attacks... which has extended even to an ABC-TV Sept 11 “docudrama” that (ex-President Bill) Clinton aides call slanted, at time flat false” (and they want the program cancelled); “A bill to give legal underpinning to warrantless wiretaps was in trouble, as was (U.N. Ambassador) Bolton's nomination;” “A BP (British Petroleum) official declined to testify before a House Panel about what he knew of corrosion in the company's Prudhoe Bay pipelines.” All of these are Saturn-Neptune themes, which are likely to continue through next summer.

It seems that everywhere we look, there is Saturn-Neptune stories in the news. And here we are entering the mid-term national elections in the U.S.A. Once again, Republicans are counting on the “fear sells” approach to win. The Democrats are going to be portrayed as the party that wants to “cut and run” from Iraq and national security, and the Democrats are going to portray Bush as a President who is woefully out of touch with the not only voters in the U.S.A., but the entire world. They will also portray him as someone who has made a series of inaccurate and misleading assessments of critical situations, and therefore cannot be trusted to lead, as well as someone who has overreached his executive powers to a dangerous degree. Bush may be in trouble, for if the Democrats gain control of either the House or the Senate (not likely the later), an impeachment process could very well unfold, for under Saturn-Neptune, the people tend seek a scapegoat for their discontent, and they want that scapegoat to pay dearly.

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