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Stocks rallied Friday even after the release of stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data and a pop in Treasury yields. The U.S. economy added 336,000 jobs in September, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected 170,000 jobs. Stocks posted a stunning turnaround on Friday, after initially falling on the stronger-than-expected jobs report. At its session low, the Dow had fallen as much as 272 points; it surged by more than 400 points at the height of the rally. - Sarah Min and Hakyung Kim, "Dow Soars Nearly 300 Points Friday After Hot Jobs Report", October 6, 2023, www.cnbc.com.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth stupid fumbling. - Robert Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land", G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961.

Members of the US Congress are now incapable of doing anything. Financial markets are not surprised that members of the US Congress are incapable of doing anything. Investors only care whether House Republicans can get the extreme wing under control long enough to elect a speaker before the next government shutdown in mid-November. Dr. Paul Donovan, "US Politicians are Incapable of Doing Anything", UBS Morning Comment, October 4, 2023.

Last week was every bit as bizarre and insane as the Venus/Uranus square that ended the prior week would suggest. Aspects like this involving the planet Uranus have two faces when it comes to financial markets. They either breakout blow multi-month support or above multi-month resistance, or 2) they end the trend and reverse. Usually these moves are accompanied by unexpected surprises in the political or banking realm. Investors and their markets witnessed all of that last week.

In the U.S., the DJIA and S&P broke below their primary cycle lows of last August, but the NASADAQ held above its low of the previous week ands then closed above its high of the past two weeks. Crude Oil made its yearly high on September 28, just one day before the Venus/Uranus square. It then collapsed to a new 5-week low one week later, on Friday, October 6.

Gold and Silver, like the DJIA, broke out to the downside with both plummeting to their lowest price since March. But on Friday, both posted very healthy rallies (reversals), right in line with our special Gold report issued Thursday morning. The U.S. Dollar, on the other hand, soared to its highest mark of the year last Monday, only to reverse sharply lower into Friday. Not to be outdone, Bitcoin surged early last week to its highest price since August 17. All of this in the week that Matt Gaetz staged a minority uprising in the U.S. House of Representatives to unseat Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who had just successfully engineered a deal to prevent another possible government shutdown with the bipartisan help of the opposing party. His reward ? Both the Democrats (all of them) plus 8 of Gaetz's Republican extremist booted him out. The chaos left in the week of government dysfunction is part of the Uranus business & political model.

Short-Term Geocosmics ~~and longer-term thoughts~~ :

I see the bad moon a-risin'
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today

• Credence Clearwater Revival, - Bad Moon Rising",1969

A key demand among far-right Republicans has been to kill off US funding of Ukraine's effort to beat back the Russian invasion. One clear beneficiary of the political maelstrom in Washington appears to be Vladimir Putin, whose effort to crush his neighbor now depends in part on western nations, and in particular the US, depriving Ukraine of the ability to defend itself. Bloomberg News, Evening Briefing, October 3, 2023.

Many of the offenses the rebels cited as grounds for deposing Mr. McCarthy were of their own making. How dare Mr. McCarthy fail to pass all 12 House spending bills by Sept. 30? How dare he then go to Democrats to get the votes to keep the government open? The insurgents engineered that outcome. The purpose of all this? Some Republicans noted that Mr. Gaetz's antics were driven by his need for attention. The sad truth is that Washington has always been a town divided between those who put in the work and those who preen. - Kimberly Strassel, "Gaetz & Co: A Tale as Old as Time", Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023.

Yep, the King of Preen, taking advantage of a foolish Republican House policy that allows someone like Gaetz with such an overabundant need of recognition hunger to 1) provide support to Putin's prediction that the U.S. and Europe would weary of war (and thus allow him to get away with murder, rape, kidnapping, and a host of other Plutonian war crimes and 2) , allow an extremist minority group with less than 5% support from his colleagues to disrupt the operations of government against the will the vast majority within its own party. Is that really how democracy works, or an example of taking the high moral ground that the Congressman claims he is following on behalf of the American people ?.

So the next potential government shutdown is scheduled for November 17, right in time for the Sun/Mars conjunction in Scorpio discussed in last week's column. We are getting a glimpse what that will be all about now as 1) Mars prepares to enter Scorpio this week, October 11-12, and 2) just 1-3 days after the two co-rulers of Scorpio (Mars and Pluto) are highlighted with Mars square Pluto this Sunday, October 8, and Pluto turning direct on Tuesday, October 10. That's a lot of Pluto-Scorpio energy, which means enemies will be digging their feet in and refusing to budge, even if it means a threat to their survival (probably figuratively speaking, but you never know with these signatures how brutal it can be).

Think of Pluto and Scorpio like a hot, smoldering volcano where the lava is slowly winding down the mountainside, picking up steam as it lurches towards something sacred, something valuable, like property, a life, a relationship, or a position at work. Someone else is going to get burnt if they don't move out of the path of fire in time. It won't pay to be relentless and uncompromising. On the other hand, you should be aware of who is coming after you or your job to exact a revenge for personal reasons, even if they are not true (maybe more so if they are true). In Gaetz' case, according to Strassel of the Wall Street Journal, he was ". furious that Mr. McCarthy wouldn't break the (House) rules and somehow intervene to stop a (Ethics) probe into allegations of sexual misconduct and misuse of funds". With Pluto now changing directions as Mars enter Scorpio, the threat of removal may suddenly reverse to taking Gaetz out.

The Mars-Pluto-Scorpio combination is not the only cosmic drama unfolding. Venus will also move into opposition to Saturn on Tuesday, October 10. Our rule is simple: any market declining into a hard aspect between Venus and Saturn is a candidate for a strong rally. Historically this has more correspondence to the end of a rally in stocks. But Venus actually has more relevance to grain and currency markets.

In any event, the personal message with each of these applying signatures is similar: let it go and seek harmony. There's a "bad moon rising" underway, and if you aren't willing to be remorseful, to correct and heal the pain you caused, karma's gonna get you.

~~Longer-Term thoughts :~~

To be continued (next week).

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Disclaimer and statement of purpose : The purpose of this column is not to predict the future movement of various financial markets. However, that is the purpose of the MMA (Merriman Market Analyst) subscription services. This column is not a subscription service. It is a free service, except in those cases where a fee may be assessed to cover the cost of translating this column from English into a non-English language. This weekly report is written with the intent to educate the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they are happening. In this regard, this report will oftentimes report what happened in various stock and financial markets throughout the world in the past week, and discuss that movement in light of the geocosmic signatures that were in effect. It will then identify the geocosmic factors that will be in effect in the next week, or even month, or even years, and the author’s understanding of how these signatures will likely affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from a perspective of a cycle’s analyst looking at the military, political, economic, and even financial markets of the world. It is possible that some forecasts will be made based on these factors. However, the primary goal is to both educate and alert the reader as to the psychological climate we are in, from an astrological perspective. The hope is that it will help the reader understand these psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) the news events and hence financial markets of the day.

No guarantee as to the accuracy of this report is being made here. Any decisions in financial markets are solely the responsibility of the reader, and neither the author nor the publishers assume any responsibility at all for those individual decisions. Reader should understand that futures and options trading are considered high risk.

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