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Problems with authority figures kick up your insecurities about your future security. Your boss is bent on analyzing your every move. Since this starts on the eclipse of July 7, this is a six month period of scrutiny. Let’s face it, Capricorn operates best under cover of darkness. You aren’t exactly comfortable with all this attention. Of course, all your boss is going to find is that you do your work carefully, methodically and with good results. You didn’t expect anything else, did you?

Problems with men and money plague you this month. This is distracting you from the real focus, which should be on your destiny. Closely following on the eclipse of July 7, Sun and Mercury makes an friendly energetic connection with Saturn in Virgo and all of that makes a Yod, called the Finger of God, with your Sun. These next six months is crucial in pushing forward your career goals. Though it seems like the mountain of work on your desk is an impossible pile to climb with little reward, it is crucial that you wade right through it all with an eye to showing (and showing off) to the world just how stellar you are.

What comes in, money wise, through the front door seems to make its way out the back door just as fast. There may be problems with your ride, or your computer fizzles out (Get a Mac this time) or your kid has to have some sort of immediate medical care you weren’t expecting (God forbid). Watch the gossip at the back fence, and keep the home fires burning. You’ll be glad you did.

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Aries, Taurus, Gemini

Cancer, Leo, Virgo

Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius

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October 15, 2008

On this beautiful planet of ours, with an abundance of resources:

At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income. In other words, about 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s financial assets in 2004

In her book Time and Money, Barbara Koval writes:

“Greed, in fact, is the inability to be satisfied with what you have no matter how much, coupled with an inability to share of spend for fear of personal loss. The greed of the rich is never being satisfied with what they have and grabbing more, no matter whom it hurts.”

We have a very small proportion of the population owning a big share of the available wealth and in the greed for profits, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

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October 2, 2008

In the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the market lost 89% of its value at its final slide. It took decades for it to recover, with the country suffering along with the rest of the world an economic depression that marked our grandparents and great grandparents for the rest of their lives with the memory of want and financial struggle. With the sub-prime mortgage crisis begging for a 800 billion bail-out by the government many of us wonder if we are heading into the same bad economic situation of 79 years ago.
From Wikipedia:

In the days leading up to Black Tuesday, the market was severely unstable. Periods of selling and high volumes of trading were interspersed with brief periods of rising prices and recovery. Economist and author Jude Wanniski later correlated these swings with the prospects for passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which was then being debated in Congress.[4] After the crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) recovered early in 1930, only to reverse again, reaching a low point of the great bear market in 1932. The Dow did not return to pre-1929 levels until late 1954,[5] and was lower at its July 8, 1932 level than it had been since the 1800s.[6]

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (sometimes known as the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act)[1] was an act signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. In the United States 1,028 economists signed a petition against this legislation, and after it was passed, many countries retaliated with their own increased tariffs on U.S. goods, and American exports and imports plunged by more than half. In the opinion of most economists, the Smoot-Hawley act was partially responsible for the severity of the Great Depression.[2][3]

At the time the Tariff Act was enacted, the United States had a surplus of domestically produced goods created by the Industrial Revolution. In trying to control the economy, the government strangled it. At the period just before the Stock Market crash, Congress was debating this bill, which was unpopular among economists. Over a thousand economists signed a petition against it.

Now the United States government seeks to control the economy by means of another bill, one with dubious merits. Congress has voted down this version of the bill, but the Senate passed another version, one that totals 800 billions in financial relief to lenders and tax credits aimed at the crunched middle class.

Astrology tells us that regular, repeating cycles should produce the same results. Can we look at the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and see similarities in the current transits?

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September 26, 2008

The gathering of the major players of both political parties found little common ground in packaging a bail out of the financial markets, leaving all the players a little bruised and bloodied. In the mean time, JP Morgan Chase scooped up another financial institution after the government seized its assets. Known affectionately (or not so) known as WaMu (Washington Mutual) was bought at the bargain price of 1.9 billion. This now makes JPMorgan Chase the second largest bank in the United States. Who says the free enterprise systems doesn’t work? Well, its not working for WaMu’s investors who had all their assets wiped out in the deal. And this is the sort of thing that has both the Republicans and the Democrats skittish about the proposed 700 billion dollar bailout.

The plan’s centerpiece still is for the government to buy the toxic, mortgage-based assets of shaky financial institutions in a bid to keep them from going under and setting off a cascade of ruinous events, including wiped-out retirement savings, rising home foreclosures, closed businesses, and lost jobs.

But:

Late Thursday, McCain’s campaign issued a statement saying, “the plan that has been put forth by the administration does not enjoy the confidence of the American people as it will not protect the taxpayers and will sacrifice Main Street in favor of Wall Street.”

The proposal then, is that the government has the false money supply of the debt markets shifted from the private sector to the public sector, letting the banks keep the healthier parts of their business. But is this enough to shore up the economy? As we know and have seen from Bush, Sr.’s and Ronald Regan’s tenure in office, government debt has its own toxic effect on the economy, as the banks eventually need the money back that the government borrows from them. Also, no matter how strong we make the private sector, we’ve all seen that contrary to Ronald Regan’s assertion, the “trickle down” theory does not work.

Currently the government, in its desperation to head off a Depression, as in the example with JPMorgan Chase, is seizing assets and selling them to the most willing bidder. All this is doing is stealing money from investors of the seized banks and transferring assets to the buyer. Mind you that such a deal at any other time would have received extremely close scrutiny to avoid companies like Chase from securing a monopoly in the market. This “fire sale” along with the proposed 700 billion buyout does little for the American Public while giving a wink and a nod to the bigger fish feeding off the smaller.

Pluto in the last throws of its sojourn in Sagittarius is looking for fire sales and bailouts, but with Mercury in Retrograde, nothing is likely to pan out or hold. With the Saturn/Uranus opposition private markets are pitted against public concerns. With the Sun in Libra, everyone wants to get along, but in challenge aspect to Pluto, the power dynamics of the proposals put forth are just plain scary.

As any astrologer will tell you, its best not to make deals during the retrograde phase of Mercury. Better to wait three weeks and come up with a better plan and implement it quickly.
But why listen to the astrologers. The government and the private sector has made so many good decisions on its own. Yeah, right.

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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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August 6, 2008

The company that owns the Bennigan’s and Steak & Ale restaurant chains has filed for bankruptcy protection and will close its company-owned restaurants.

Bennigan’s and Steak & Ale are owned by S&A Restaurant Corp. . . Neither Bennigan’s nor the parent company’s affiliate, Metromedia Restaurant Group, returned calls for comment.

One news story chalked up this restaurant closing to the bad economy, saying that in general companies are having a difficult time borrowing money to restructure their debt, but the economy was not bad enough to close all these restaurants, just the company owned ones.

Locations owned by franchisees were not part of the bankruptcy filing and will not be shut down, said Larry Briski, president of the Bennigan’s Franchise Operator Association.

“They will be open today, tomorrow and months and years to come,” Briski said of the franchise locations.

What was especially egregious about the company closing 150 stores was the callous way it was handled. On the very day of the store closings:

Meanwhile, employees at what appeared to be a company-owned Bennigan’s in Plano, Texas, were greeted by a sign Tuesday on the front door reading “WE ARE CLOSED. THANK YOU.” Next door, a Steak & Ale [same company] sat empty in a deserted parking lot but there was no sign posted.

And:

Some managers and some employees say they were called in the middle of the night. People got the calls at the stores, others were called at 1:00 in the morning at their homes. No one expected it.

Displaced employees wiped away tears outside the Bennigan’s restaurant in Calumet City. They are among the thousands who lost their jobs when the restaurants closed.

“For them to tell us we don’t have a job or anything, that’s a hurtful thing, especially if you have kids,” said (a) former employee

And the reason for this bankruptcy

In the filing, the company indicated that it has up to 49 creditors and owes less than $50,000. It said it will have no funds left after administrative expenses are paid to repay its creditors

In corporate-ese they are saying that after they pay themselves, they don’t have enough money to pay their creditors. In other words, they weren’t making enough money.

Astrologically, it is easy enough to say that with Jupiter in Capricorn business failures will be on the increase. After all, Barabara Koval says in her book, Time & Money, of Jupiter in Capricorn:

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March 3, 2008

George Bush in his press conference last Thursday announced that the United States is not in a recession. A slowdown maybe, but not a recession. With the stock market tumbling the next day over 2.5% someone forgot to tell the investors that. With Pluto opposing the planet of action Mars, Pluto loves to expose the seamy underside of things, after of course, it is done rolling around in it. One thing the Lord of the Underworld loves is a good roll in the muck.

Let us understand a couple things about our economy. The United States went off the gold standard in 1971. How then do we declare the value of our dollar? The value of the U. S. Dollar is declared by fiat. That means, it is what we say it is.

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November 4, 2007

Venus rules your resources, the second house shows how you make your money, your eight house shows other peoples resources to which you have access, Jupiter, your luck. So with all this going for you, how is it that you have hard times?

Astrology is rich is with many traditions. One of these is called the Arabic Parts, mathematical calculations that indicate sensitive areas of your chart between planets. This is not to be confused with midpoints, which are the exact middle of one planet and another. How are they used? Astrology.com explains it like this:
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November 3, 2007

Time and Money, by Barbara Koval
Llewylln Publications, 1991

Since childhood, you are told that if you work hard and are a good citizen of your community you will be rewarded with financial stability. People who lose their homes do it through financial imprudence. Poor people are poor because they make bad choices. In other words, people going through financial hard times have only themselves to blame. Though not the point of this book, Time and Money illustrates the utter foolishness of this view. With a combination of astrological techniques and sound economic history and theory, Barbara shows us the natural cycles of economic growth and recession and the reasons for it.

Barbara tells us what our economic leaders do not, that our money supply is an artifical construction, grossly inflated by the amount of credit that is put out by financial institutions. She explains how the economy works by controlling the money supply and why the flow of money is cyclic. Once you read this book you’ll understand why the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer.

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October 16, 2007

As a press release, APACS, takes light-hearted look at consumer payment habits by star sign.

New online guide reveals:
-Capricorns are the most financially astute
-Scorpios are the sign of the debit card
-Taureans are fairly meticulous in their financial management

The guide, based on research among 2,000 UK consumers, shows interesting trends that distinguish the payment behaviour of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

Aries - financially consistent

Ariens are reasonably consistent when it comes to financial management. They do let themselves down when it comes to checking their bank and credit card statements, and should try to check them more thoroughly to spot anything unusual.

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September 23, 2007

One of the personal planets, Venus in our natal charts indicates the things we love and how we handle money. To find the position of Venus in your chart, go here. A few quick questions, and you’ll have a handy list of the planets and the house cusps in their signs. Or you can go to Astrodienst to get a free copy of your chart.
 
Venus in Aries likes to spend their money. Their idea of fiscal responsiblity gives heart palpitations to their banker

Venus in Taurus loves to own land and to save money. They can’t enjoy their meat and potatoes if they don’t have something to talk to themselves about.

Venus in Gemini can’t find a hole big enough in their pocket to burn their cash.

Venus in Cancer keeps several bank accounts and tells no one about them.

Venus in Leo wears their assets on their sleeve, literally. Even the men like to wear gold bracelets. The saying “If you got it, flaunt it,�? was invented by a Leo.

Venus in Virgo puts their money away and can give you a better accounting of it then their accountants. This is why they rarely hire one

Venus in Libra is so genteel, so kindly, that you feel bad when you ask for a loan. But don’t count on getting it.

Venus in Scorpio have a lot more than they show. However, you aren’t getting a loan from them either.

Venus in Sagittarius will give you the shirt off their backs. Its why you see them naked so often. However, they rarely mind.

Venus in Capricorn will make you work for everything they give you. Be it a boss or a mate they are watching what you are doing, constantly. These are the folks who invented the “honey do�? list. Sorry Virgo, you invented the “honey don’t�? list.

Venus in Aquarius has no money. They’ve given it to the whales. No, not to a whale conservation society, the whales. Don’t ask.

Venus in Pisces would give anything they had to you, if they could only find it.

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September 11, 2007

One of the personal planets, Venus in our natal charts indicates the things we love and how we handle money. To find the position of Venus in your chart, go here. A few quick questions, and you’ll have a handy list of the planets and the house cusps in their signs. Or you can go to Astrodienst to get a free copy of your chart. 

Venus in Aries likes to spend their money. Their idea of fiscal responsiblity gives heart palpitations to their banker.
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Venus in Taurus loves to own land and to save money. They can’t enjoy their meat and potatoes if they don’t have something to talk to themselves about.

Venus in Gemini can’t find a hole big enough in their pocket to burn their cash.

Venus in Cancer keeps several bank accounts and tells no one about them
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Flashy Venus in Leo wears their assets on their sleeve, literally. Even the men like to wear gold bracelets The saying “If you got it, flaunt it,�? was invented by a Leo.
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Venus in Virgo puts their money away and can give you a better accounting of it then their accountants. This is why they rarely hire one
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Venus in Libra is so genteel, so kindly, that you feel bad when you ask for a loan. But don’t count on getting it
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Venus in Scorpio have a lot more than they show. However, you aren’t getting a loan from them either.

Venus in Sagittarius will give you the shirt off their backs. Its why you see them naked so often. However, they rarely mind.

Venus in Capricorn will make you work for everything they give you. Be it a boss or a mate they are watching what you are doing, constantly. These are the folks who invented the “honey do�? list. Sorry Virgo, you invented the “honey don’t�? list.

Venus in Aquarius has no money. They’ve given it to the whales. No, not to a whale conservation society, the whales. Don’t ask
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Venus in Pisces would give anything they had to you, if they could only find it.

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