Eclipses

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Venus Retrogrades

The orbit of Venus is 225 days or a Fibonnaci 0.616 of the Earth's orbit and Venus overtakes the Earth about every 19 months as it races around the Sun. This behavior is seen from the Earth as an apparent backward movement of Venus called a retrograde period. Most of these retrograde dates coincide with turns in the market of varying significance, the most noteworthy being the exact low of the 2000-2002 bear market on October 10, 2002. Over the last 16 Venus retrograde periods, only the 1987 and 1991 dates were difficult and not very profitable. Five of the retrograde periods were exact matches for the highs and lows in May 2004, October 2002, October 1995, March 1993, and May 1988, while nine others were close matches and profitable.

2007 and 2009 Venus Retrogrades

This Venus retorgrade period is acting a lot like 1999, and we must watch the September 8th date for a possible significant turn date, and possibly a high like in 1999.

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2006 and 2004


2002 and 2001


1999 and 1997


1996 and 1994


1993 and 1991


1989 and 1988


1986 and 1985


1983 and 1981

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Cardinal Dates, Moon Cycles and Financial Panics
Chris Carolan's work has shown that Financial Panics occur most frequently near the first New Moon Cycle after the Fall Equinox, but also near other Cardinal Dates like the Spring Equinox, Winter and Summer Solstices. The Fall and Winter Solstices see Panics near the first New Moon, while the Spring and Summer Solstices sees them near the first and second Full Moon at times. Over the last eight largest daily declines we have 3 in the Fall, 2 each in Spring and Summer and one in Winter. The August 98 was in between, but with the lows near Full Moons I felt it belonged more with the Summer Solstice. While Financial Panics are quite rare, large declines are more common and it is always wise to be aware of the Moon Cycles near the four Cardinal Dates each year.

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Lunar Cycles Effects in Stock Returns
More information can be found in an interesting study of the effects of the Moon on Markets of the G7 group.

Heavenly returns
I have plotted the orbits of the 3 large planets over the last 100 years. Note that peaks and throughs have marked some very important turns like in 1932, 1949, 1973, 1999 and to a minor extent even 2003. The next potentially significant dates are in 2009 and 2017.

Uranus-Pluto Aspects
These aspects have different periods due to the elliptical path of orbits. Uranus is generally considered a difficult planet in Square aspects, and the ones to Pluto coincide with difficult periods worlwide and its effect shows up with marked lows in the US markets. The Opposition and Conjunction aspects appear to have a corresponding positive effect but not as marked and precise as the Squares. This pattern is in agreement with other long-term secular and cyclical studies, pointing to 2012 as a difficult period.

Bradley Planetary model
Donald Bradley designed this model in 1948. It is the sum of planetary aspects and the declinations of Venus and Mars. Aspects are assigned positive and negative weights, but the declinations of Mars and Venus have the most effect. At times this model tracks the market quite well but inversions are common and the magnitude is not predictable. It is best at predicting major turning points, sometimes accurate in the direction and rarely in the magnitude.

The table below is from Bradley's model and list the positive and negative conjunctions (planets within 0-15 degrees of each other. According to his work the large planets are not positive when near in the sky, while Mars is negative with every other planet. The smaller planets are positive with just about every other planet especially Venus who is positive with every one except Mars.