Financial Astrology - MMA WEEKLY, Comments for the week ahead, Market timing.

The Market Week in Review :

After completing the most severe decline in several weeks, many commodities and stock indices of the world began rebounding after posting lows last Monday, exactly on our March 5 critical reversal date. This is right in line with what would be expected on a critical reversal date.

In Europe, the German DAX index fell to 6437 on March 5, a decline of 8.5% from its multi-year high of 7040 recorded on February 26, just one week earlier. A slightly less decline were noted in the Netherlands AEX and Swiss stock market indices, which topped out two weeks ago at 512.47 and 9376.70 respectively, then bottomed last Monday at 469.85 and 8609.40. The decline in the London FTSE was even slightly more benign, as it fell from 6451 on February 19 to 5989 on March 5, a loss of just slightly more than 7%.

In The Pacific Rim, the recent decline was even less in the Australian All Ords, which fell 6.55% from an all-time high of 6024 on February 23 to the 5630 low Tuesday morning, March 6. But the declines were more spectacular in both Japan and Hong Kong. In one week, the Japanese Nikkei index fell from 18,300, a 6-year high recorded on Monday, February 26, to the low of 16,533 one week later on March 5, a loss of 9.65%. The Hang Seng fell from its all-time high of 20,971 back on January 24 to 18,659 last Monday, a loss of about 11%.

In the America's, the most tame decline was actually in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which lost only 5.9% from its all-time high of 12,786 on February 20, to the low of 12,039 last Monday, March 5. Still, that represents the first multi-week decline since last July and the first decline of more than 3% since that time too! The NASDAQ Composite fell 7.5% from its multi-year high of February 22 through the 2340 low of last Monday. But in South America, the declines were most severe, with the Bovespa of Brazil falling 12% from its all-time high of 46,752 on February 22 to last Monday's low of 41,117. The Merval index of Argentina was even more dramatic, falling from an all-time high of 2225.56 on February 22 to a low of 1905.92 on March 5, a loss of 14.36% in just 7 trading days!

But of all the markets we track, Silver fell the most. After testing the 15.00 mark on February 26, just one week later it fell to 1250 in the May contract. Gold fell from a test of $700.00 to a low of slightly under 640.00 during the same interval in the nearby contract, but that decline was only slightly more than 8%.

Short-Term Geocosmics :

The lunar eclipse conjunct Uranus, of March 3-5, is now over. And so is Mercury retrograde, which was in effect February 13-March 8. What an experience this retrograde period was! It did what most retrograde Mercury periods do, only in excess. As stated before, “First it (Mercury retrograde) fakes everyone out on its rallies to the upside. Then it fakes everyone out on the severity of its decline. The result is that everyone now has a contrary opinion about where this market is going, when it truth, no one has a clue - again, typical of not only Mercury retrograde, but in Pisces at that ... ”

Clearer thinking should start to return in the next week, as we now head to the solar eclipse period of March 19. However, there are other important signatures that start unfolding at the end of this week, March 16, which are part of a geocosmic cluster extending through March 25.

The first of these is a big one, Jupiter in waning trine to Saturn on Friday March 16, just a couple of hours before Venus forms a waxing trine to Pluto, which itself is just one day before Venus leaves Aries for its own sign of Taurus, March 17-April 11. One would think these would bode well for stock indices, and perhaps this period might see more gains than losses. But there are certainly other signatures as part of this cluster that suggests it is not necessarily a confident period for investors. For instance, the solar eclipse of March 19 forms an exact square to Pluto, planet of terrorist threats and worries about debt and taxes. At the same time, Uranus will be in conjunction to the North Node of the Moon, indicating still a period of unexpected events, possible hysteria, and even the threat of high winds, earthquakes, and electrical blackouts or computer failures. Then Mars comes into play, touching off the Saturn-Neptune opposition by “translation.” That is, Mars forms an opposition to Saturn on March 22 and a conjunction to Neptune on March 25. This would bring up themes that were present nearby to the Saturn-Neptune opposition of February 28. That of course was just a day before the financial markets of the world began their recent collapse (February 27), which included stocks and precious metals. Could we see a similar pattern, whereby stocks and/or precious metals end their recovery around that time, then collapse once again? Of course we could. That's one of the ways astrology works. The Mars-Saturn opposition also has correspondence to military combat and geopolitical stresses. We can anticipate that many world leaders are again struggling with conflicts that threaten peace and cooperation. In fact, acts of betrayal and deception may be quite evident as spring gets underway, casting a cloud of danger over key parts of the world.

Long-Term Thoughts :

We are in the midst of two long-term planetary cycles unfolding in the last few days and next to come, with Mars in translation to both. The first of these was the Saturn-Neptune opposition of February 28, and the second is the Jupiter-Saturn trine of March 16. And actually, once could say that Jupiter's transit breaks up the Saturn-Neptune opposition with two benign aspects : the trine, of course, to Saturn, and the sextile to Neptune, although it never quite makes this last aspect due to Jupiter's stationary movement right now. Still, this involvement with Jupiter in harmonious aspect to both Saturn and Neptune suggests that the full extent of the long-term opposition may be minimized in its force. Yes, we did see a rather sharp decline in stocks and precious metals when the opposition hit two weeks ago. But most of the damage was completed in just 4 days, and these markets then began to recover.

The same may be true with the political situation suggested by these same planets. Previously I had stated that the Saturn-Neptune opposition had a historical theme of presenting ethical and image problems for leaders of the world, especially in the United States. George W. Bush certainly had an abundance of scandals rock his administration under the first two passages of this aspect (the third will be completed on June 25). And in the past, I have alluded to the idea that under this aspect, such scandals and ethical lapses could even lead to calls for his impeachment. Although this is still possible, the odds of it happening have been reduced considerably now. What is the point? His popularity is extremely low, consistent with this Saturn-Neptune opposition falling on his Venus. Saturn is conjunct his natal Venus, and that is a signature that can coincide with a period of unpopularity, and wondering, “What happened to all the love (or support) I use to have?”

No doubt there will be a series of investigations into his past decisions, just to remind the public of possible abuses of power that occurred. But politicians are ... politicians, which means they will likely choose courses of action that will serve their needs for staying in positions of power, rather than uncovering the truth and executing punitive actions that may actually work against their goals of staying in power. Removing George Bush from office - even if becomes apparent that he exercised powers beyond his rank, or covered up his decisions or reasons for his decisions - does not help an incumbent in the next election. Keeping an unpopular president in office when he is so unpopular, does help the “other party” to win the next election. Bill Clinton's impeachment proceedings were important to altering the balance of power, because Bill Clinton was popular. Once the impeachment proceedings were underway and Clinton was found to have lied to the public, his popularity sunk like a rock, it was no longer important for the opposition party to remove him from office. It was better to let him remain as President, just to remind the public of who betrayed them, and his association with the Democratic party. That is the favor that is most likely to be returned in 2008 to the Republicans.

The dynamics are different now, even though we once again have a Saturn-Neptune hard aspect, just like we did in 1998-99 when Clinton was impeached. About the only thing that would lead to an impeachment now is if Mr. Bush starts to regain national support, a change that doesn't seem too probable with Saturn on his Venus - and in his first house - for the near future. So for the Democrats, it is no longer so important to impeach George W. Bush. What is important is to keep him - and his command of the Iraq War - unpopular and contained. So, don't expect any bipartisan cooperation for the next 20 months, but instead a host of investigations that reinforces the public's negative opinion on almost everything that has been done regarding this war.

Announcements :

My next conference appearance will be at “The Blast,” an astrology conference in Sedona, Arizona, taking place March 28-April 2. This conference will feature many of the newest “young” astrologers, along with a couple of “young elders” like Rob Hand, Dennis Harness, Gloria Star, Robert Blaschke and myself. Coordinated by Moses Siregar, this conference will also be the site for the ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research) annual meeting, of which I have serve as President since 2002. The public is welcomed to attend, and meet the wonderful people who direct this organization. For more information on this unique and very affordable seminar, please go to
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I am in discussion with the Adams Mark Hotel in Denver about hosting the next full MMA Market Timing workshop the weekend of July 13-15. Hold those dates on your calendar if you are interested in learning this form of market timing and analysis. Denver is "Rocky Mountain high-beautiful." Prior to that, I will be conducting a one-day market timing seminar in Amsterdam, June 2. For details, contact info@markettiming.nl .

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