Astrology Explored

January 7, 2007

The New York Times reports:

January 2, 2008 Oil prices briefly reached $100 a barrel on Wednesday, a long-awaited milestone in an era of rapidly escalating energy demand and tightening supplies. Oil is now within reach of its inflation-adjusted high, reached in April 1980 in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution when oil prices jumped to the equivalent of $102.81 in today’s money. The brief stab at $100 on Wednesday broke the previous intraday trading record of $99.29, reached on Nov. 21. The price at the end of the day, $99.62, surpassed the record close of $98.18, set on Nov. 23. . .

There is no shortage of explanations for the escalation of oil prices by about 60 percent over the last year. The price of a barrel was below $25 as recently as 2003 and, almost unimaginably, below $11 in 1998, a time when there was a glut in the world oil markets.

Barbara Koval, in her book, Time and Money tells us that oil’s normal price range trades in multiples of ten the price of silver. Since silver is at 15.25, 58% over 2006’s prices and with oil at $100 a barrel, this means that oil pricing will surely continue to rise. Koval tells us Neptune rules oil. Neptune also signifies confusion and outright lies. The explanation for the oil spike was “an attack by rebels in the Nigerian oil center of Port Harcourt and rough weather in the Gulf of Mexico that slowed Mexican oil exports” However, the world supply itself was not threatened, not even shaken, but certainly something is stirring the pot. With Neptune at work, prices are artificially inflated.

The result it that money is being pulled from the economy and locked away by the oil companies resulting in a reduced money flow to the debt ridden middle class. Even with the Fed increasing the money supply businesses find it either more difficult or more expensive to borrow money to fuel their businesses, and they are forced to cut costs, further reducing the money supply to the middle class whose money greases consumer markets.

In the chart of the United States, on January 2, transiting Mars is in challenge aspect to natal Neptune. Since, according to Koval, Mars always lead to loss, it is no coincidence transiting Mars was sitting along side United States’ natal Mars and natal Venus (representing money). The United States will always lose at the oil game. With an inflationary spiral we can not sustain and a tightening money supply that is choking us, we need to rethink our approach as to how we fuel our energy needs and our economy.

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