Financial Astrology - April 3, 2017

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This post is a little shorter again as we write the subscriber report this weekend.

SP500

For the SP500, cycle-wise November 4th was the Primary cycle trough. ¹ which puts us entering the 21st week of a nominal 18 week cycle. November 4th was the 40 week cycle trough as well. 

It should be noted Primary cycles (18 weeks) most often start with a nominal 6 week sub-cycle.  The 2nd most common start is a 1/2 Primary or 9 week sub-cycles. The nominal range for the Primary cycle is 13 to 21 weeks. Currently the high of this cycle was on March 1 closing at 2396 in the SP500. This high is very late in the cycle. It is very right translated which by itself would be bullish.

This cycle is so late I expect the cycle to expand, probably into the 22 - 23 week area. With the upcoming Astrological activity I expect the markets to be volatile over the next few weeks and moving down into a trough. The last 2 months have been very difficult to forecast.

To summarize, there was a tremendous move up from November 4, 2016. It went sideways starting in early December then up again near the Jupiter retrograde on February 6th. From here the markets hit the Sun conjunct Neptune transit, the Jupiter opposition Uranus and Venus retrograde. These three hitting so close together should have given us a larger move down.

Note the 15 and 45 day sma’s. Price has broken through to the down-side for both. Price went below the 45 day sma on March 27 and now price is above both the 15 and 45 day sma’s. This is the basic requirement for a Primary cycle trough. I’m expecting more price action to the down-side but this is the basic requirement.

April is filled with powerful Astrological aspects and events

The following chart shows Venus retrograde, the Inferior conjunctions of Venus and the Sun and Venus going direct coming up on April 15^th. Read the last couple of blog post for more info on Venus retrograde.

The Venus Direct signature often occurs at a move in the SP500 both up and down. I’ll be looking for a move down.

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned there must be a source where large sums of money have come from to create this bullish move. It was reported on CNBC that the FED had injected an additional 267 billion into the markets. With the FED raising interest rates, much of the money went into banks and financial institutions.

We will cover next week, the week of April 3rd. Note we are still under the Jupiter waning square Pluto and will be for another week.

Jupiter square Pluto 12 year - attainment of power of all kinds, growth of international terrorism. This is a 3 pass due to retrograde motion.

November 24, 2016 March 30, 2017 August 4, 2017

The Bradley indicator is described in detail in last month’s subscribers report. The coming week has a Bradley turn on April 4^th as follows.

The following chart of the SP500 has two versions of the Bradley indicator. The blue line is the Heliocentric Bradley and the brown line is an adjusted Bradley called the Shramenko Sum. Give each +- 1 td’s. Note they are both making highs and then a turn. This may be indicating a turn for the April 3^rd and 4^th.

Other Astrological events this coming week are:

April 6 Saturn retrograde – Saturn is restrictive, fearful, contraction and can result in                  depressing news.

Mars waxing trine Pluto – Two planets associated with fear and loss. Often found near cycle troughs.

April 7 Sun opposition Jupiter – Powerful cycles tend to appear and usually a Primary.

April 8 Venus waxing square Saturn – Assoiated with Primary cycles but needs a wide       orb.

            Sidereal Uranus

Of possible importance there is also a Vedic (Indian Astrology) aspect which is sidereal Uranus crossing into Aries. This could be powerful. The following is a monthly chart. Uranus takes approx.. 84 years for one trip around the Sun. The following chart shows the last 2 times Uranus passed over a cardinal point. We are looking at the last light blue dot. Give this +- 3 weeks.

All the longer term Astrological aspects and events still apply. See previous blog posts.

We are only covering this coming week but I’ll mention Mercury will turn Retrograde on April 9^th.

Watch for potential geophysical events, violent weather or increased conflict. Mars is the planet of war, conflict and aggression. From other sources there may be an event or issue with water in the USA. This summer may see increased geophysical activity, particularly around the Solar eclipse.

As mentioned in previous weeks both Israel and Egypt (mid-East) may come to the fore this year as regards to conflict and aggression. Iran and Turkey may be included as well. This may be seen before the end of April. This is connected to the on-going Saturn / Uranus trine, a 45 year aspect which is exact again on May 19th.

Mars is active and can result in war or conflict. The US should stay out of any conflicts as they should concentrate on growing health and legal problems at home. If the US does get involved it could result in many casualties.

I continue to watch the 24th harmonic cycle (360 / 24) cycles. The brown squares are Sun / Saturn 15 degrees on the following daily chart.

The last hit was on March 31

The next hits are April 17th then May 2^nd.

I have added 3 price lines to this chart.

Saturn - black

Uranus - purple

Neptune - light blue

These price lines can act as support / resistance. Also on this chart are blue vertical line which is the 24 cd (calendar day) cycle. It has been at highs and lows.

The date of March 1st is the same date as the 24 Harmonic. We went down.

Looking forward I'm expecting difficult markets in the late March through April timeframe.

Gold

December 15 should have been the Gold low we have been looking for. This puts us entering the 16th week of the nominal 18 week cycle. Since December 15th Gold has been trending up showing two crests of higher highs and higher lows until February 27th where we had a nominal 6 week cycle crest and headed down. This may have been the Primary cycle crest as well. Gold showed a Doji on the close on March 10th. This is often a turn signal. It stalled for a couple of days and then went up.

Price is now above the 15 and 45 day sma with the 15 day curling up. Gold appears to be moving down. It did not move above the February 27^th crest and may be moving down into the Primary cycle trough. This may turn out to be a great entry point. Watch closely.

Gold would benefit if the Debt Ceiling was covered by increasing the money supply and hence, inflation may be seen.

Gold like many markets will be affected by the Astrological aspects from March 24th through April 21st.

Following is a daily Gold chart with the arrows identifying retrograde and direct dates and the Inferior and Superior Sun / Venus conjunctions. We had the Venus Retrograde date on March 4th then March 25 for the Inferior conjunction and April 15 has Venus  turning direct again. Any of these 3 dates could be a turn in Gold. I was looking for a move down near the Venus retrograde date of March 4th +- 3 tds which we got. We may see a move down now into the Venus Direct date. Bear in mind there is also a Mercury retrograde period coming up this month. Gold often moves based on Mercury retrograde / direct dates.

The next chart is a longer term monthly chart showing the 7.4 year cycle in Gold. They are the red vertical lines. Note that the 7.4 year cycle put in a low in late 2015. We are now in a pull back but we are very early in the 7.4 year cycle which should be bullish in the long term.

Crude

November 14 was the start of the Primary cycle. This would put us in the 20th week of a Primary cycle. Crude appears to have put in a Primary cycle trough on March 22 but not confirnmed. If this is a new Primary cycle watch for a pullback 2-3 weeks after the trough. This often occurs and provides an entry point near the beginning of a Primary cycle.

Price is now above the 15 day sma but below the 45 day sma.

The blue horizontal lines are the average longitudes of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto converted to price. They should act as good support / resistance areas. That blue line currently above price is at 50.33 and I'm looking for this area to be strong resistance.

I'm watching all aspects to Jupiter or Neptune, the two rulers of crude. As one reader pointed out this should include both geocentric and heliocentric aspects.

Following is a daily chart of crude showing the price lines for the Sun (green) and Pluto (black). Note that move up poked through the Pluto price line but closed close by.