Financial Astrology - Cycles of the North Node

The next few months should see a lot of volatility in the markets and may witness some significant world events.

The next few weeks, however, may be dominated by central bank issues both in Europe, ECB and the FED in the U.S. The ECB announcement will be Sept 6^th and the FED Sept 12. In addition the ruling from the German constitutional court ruling will be on Sept 12^th as well. In my opinion, actions of man or countries may speed up or forestall Astrological forces but the Astrological force will always come through. The Astrology for the next few months / years is not very positive. Many of the reasons have been given on prior posts.

One thing I have not mentioned is a market theory developed in the 1930’s by Louise McWhirter.

The basics of the theory are spelled out in her 1938 book, Astrology and Stock Market Forecasting.

The basics are this. The trend in business volume has been found to correspond with the cycle of the North Node which has a cycle length of 18.7 years. The North Node moves backwards through the signs in relation to the other planets.

The high point of business volume is reached when the North Node transits through Leo. The low point of business volume occurs when the North Node transits through Aquarius. The last transit of the North Node through Aquarius was Dec 2007 through August 2009. The low came in at March 6, 2009.

Based on this cycle alone business volume should be increasing soon. Bear in mind we must look at all the Astrological factors taking place. We will be experiencing the Uranus / Pluto square at the least until 2015 and probably longer.

I bring this up at this point because the North Node just entered Scorpio on Sept 1^st 2012. According to the theory, whenever the North Node passes through Scorpio and Libra, business tends to go through an approximate three year “transition period” if there are no other unfavourable secondary Astrological factors. The North Node spends approximately 1.5 years in each sign. Using this cycle alone business should start to improve in this 3 year window as the North Node makes it’s way through Scorpio and Libra.

Bear in mind the other negative factors aren’t painting such a rosy picture. We may be looking at a continuing recession into the latter part of the decade. This is my thinking, however, it’s nice to hear of at least one more positive cycle.