Astrology Explored

September 23, 2008

My sister, the Taurus, called me. “I need your help. Look at these mutual funds and let me know if we should sell them.”

A financial counselor I am not, especially if you look at the state of my finances. I tried to beg off. Financial astrology is a very heady subspecialty and I’d hate to be responsible for any financial losses. But my sister insisted. They’ve been losing money already in the volatile market. She trusted my skills. She knew I could help. (God bless sisters.)

In the meaty book about financial astrology by Barbara Koval, “Time and Money”, Barbara takes us through the economic theory and the timing of events in financial markets. She tells us that Jupiter and Saturn represent supply and demand and that these two planets through their movements in the heavens have regular repeating cycles that signal profit and loss through the markets. In the sixty year cycle that is the tango these two dance, they move through all the different energetic connections, the conjunction, the sextile, the square, the trine, the opposition and through the modes of expression, mutable, fixed and cardinal. During the mutable phase , that is when Saturn or Jupiter is in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces the market crashes and everyone knows what is means to be poor. Currently, Saturn, the taskmaster, is in the sign of Virgo, making the easy energetic connection to Jupiter in Capricorn, a cardinal sign. Despite the fact that cardinal signs usually signals high expectations, you see here that the planet of optimism, Jupiter in the sign of Saturn’s exaltation, conservative Capricorn. The synergetic message then is that to hold onto to your wealth it is best to very cautious. Why? Saturn is in opposition to the planet of the unexpected and shocks to the system, Uranus in the murky sign of Pisces.

Uranus in this placement is very representative of the underlying fault in our economic system. This fault is the creation of false wealth through debt and economic institutions selling this debt to the American public at large. It’s not just the government who create the money supply. When a bank floats you a loan it is creating a money supply by banking on the future profits of its sale of its money to you. The danger of creating this money supply is that it artificially pumps up the value of the money you have today by saying that this money is worth what you are paying for it tomorrow. But what happens when the value of money is artificially inflated? The price of goods and services increases because the consumers, (which include businesses) of the banks’ money need a way to create the money needed to pay back the loans. This is what we know as inflation. To curb inflation, which can shock the economy into a recession, the Fed artificially reduces the prime interest rate, which takes potential profits out of the hands of the bankers. When the Fed takes away potential profits from the banking institutions, the banks, to reduce their losses, reduce the artificial money supply by making fewer loans. When there is too little money in the system to grease the wheels of commerce, this sets off a second cause for inflation, increase in prices to offset the reduction of the money supply. It also sets off job losses, because companies will look to reduce costs to sustain their profit margin.

This is where we are now, in the precarious balance between profit and loss and I’m afraid that the market is not set to improve any time soon. According to the astrology, and only the astrology, because I am not a financial counselor, the restriction in the money supply will last for some time to come. Pluto is making its last pass in expansive Sagittarius, but it will head shortly into the restrictive sign of Capricorn. If you’ve thought you’d seen bankruptcies now, just wait until Christmas time. And for you retailers out there buying for Christmas, buy less rather than more. And you shoppers, if you’ve got it to spend, start your Christmas shopping now, because there will be less on the shelves this year than in years previous.

As for my sister, we went through the mutual funds and I recommended they dump all but two. It was scary to see how Pluto in the sky right now was making major energetic connections to the personal planets of each of these funds. Pluto signals loss and boy did this bear out in the charts of those funds. But don’t ask me to do this for you. I just don’t have the nerves of steel needed for worrying about other people’s money.

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