Another forecast

by Merriman

On top of that, we still have the downside of the Jupiter transit through the signs ahead of us for the next three years. As noted before, Jupiter in Aries was the basis for the “Asset Inflation Express” we went through from mid-2010 through early June 2011. Historically this coincides with a top in U.S. stocks when Jupiter is between 23° Aries and 7° of Taurus, a condition that was present May 2-July 22. If you look at a chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, you will see the market topped out May 2 at 12,876, with a triple top on July7 and 21 at 12,754 and 12,751 respectively. The top was not in the middle, but in the beginning and end of that sector. Then it dropped 1600+ points from July 21 into this week. The “Asset Inflation Express” had derailed as Jupiter moved into Taurus in the first week of June. But then after posting a double bottom June 15 and 23, it appeared to have righted itself into July 21. But not so. It really derailed again these past two weeks.

Now we wait to see what happens when Jupiter retrogrades back to 0° Taurus later this year. In fact it is back between 0-7° of Taurus from October 7, 2011 through March 7, 2012. Will it make a new high then? A secondary high? I don’t know the answer to that yet, but the study of Financial Astrology allows for the possibility. So far this market plunge is just a “normal” corrective decline for the 15.5-month cycle in U.S. stocks, and we are in the time frame when that cycle low is due (July 2011 through February 2012). But if we start breaking the critical support area of a normal corrective decline into the 15.5-month cycle trough, it will mean the 4-year cycle has topped out, and the bear market suggested by Jupiter’s transit into 2013-2014 is well underway.

How far could the DJIA fall in that case? Well, unlike most 72- and 90-year cycles, this one has not fallen 77-93% off its all-time highs yet. The decline from October 2007 through early March 2009 was only 54%. So, to a cycle’s analyst and a student of the history of Financial Astrology, the economic danger that was felt this week (as Uranus and Pluto came within just one degree of their exact square) is very real. We are on a path of financial self-destruction unless our economic direction changes. That’s the frightening message of Uranus square Pluto, 2012-2015, which will form a grand square to the USA natal Sun-Saturn square (2013-2014). The positive message is that it will change. But will it change before, during, or after 2012-2015? If after, it will change only because there are no choices left.

What we are all going through in 2008-2015 is not just an economic crisis brought on by well-intentioned but disastrous political and economic decisions, but an evolutionary crisis. The evolution of humanity is a never-ending quest to connect with one other, not to be destroyed by one another because we refuse to connect and wish only to control and force others to follow our ideological but disconnected agenda.