Financial Astrology - March 23, 2014

We are now in the crucial period of time discussed for some months. The environment should get increasingly tense going into April as the Astrological energies change from a powerful T-square between Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto and is joined by Mars making it an even more powerful Grand Square. All planets in the Grand Square are in the action oriented Cardinal Signs. Get ready for a month of social unrest, rioting, explosions between countries and within countries.

Mars in Libra (in it's detriment, works with the least ease)

Jupiter in Cancer (exalted, works with the greatest strength)

Uranus in Aries

Pluto in Capricorn.

This is a very powerful astrological configuration. I expect some significant event(s) close to the forecasted dates in April. This period may mark the beginning of  issues that will affect the world for some time. We haven't done an extensive survey but the Grand Cross directly impacts upon the horoscopes of the United Nations, the USA, Iran, Israel, China, Venezuela, Canada, Cuba, Burma, Somalia and perhaps not surprisingly the union of England and Scotland.

Part of this Grand Square is the waxing square between Uranus and Pluto. This alone is one of the most powerful astrological aspects that humanity can live through. What is coming up is an exact square between these two planets. This is the 5th of 7 occurrences of this exact square. While the square is close to exact it in turn will be squared by both Mars and Jupiter. Subscribers have the forecasted dates.

The blue squares show the times when the Uranus / Pluto waxing square is exact.

The Sun has just entered Aries, the first Cardinal sign and marks the beginning of the astrological year. Following is an updated chart of the Sun ingresses into new signs. That alone can mark the change in  stock market trends. The market often turns on Sun changing signs but with the Sun entering a cardinal sign, which is the case as Sun has just entered Aries, watch the first  New Moon after the ingress as well. In this case that is March 31.

The smaller red circles show where the Sun entered a new sign. Those with a light blue circle beneath it shows the Sun entering the more powerful Cardinal signs. Note, these can take a few days either side of the actual ingress.

Personally I'm basically flat as far as the market is concerned and I will do little until after April. Possible short term day trading. This is not investment advice, just a statement of what I'm doing.

Disregarding the Grand Square for a moment history tells us the middle of April has been a time period when negative events have plagued the U.S.

From another Astrologer and cycle analyst who have summarized past events in April.

1775  April 19 that the original US Revolutionary War began

1906 April 18 San Francisco earthquake
1947 April 16 Texas City Explosion - worst ever industrial accident
1961 April 16 Bay of Pigs invasion failure
1983 April 18 Beirut US Embassy bombed
1993 April 19 Branch Davidian Compound torched Waco Texas
1995 April 19 Oklahoma City Bombing
1999 April 20 Columbine High shootings
2007 April 16 Virginia Tech Massacre
2010 April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion
2013 April 15 Boston Marathon bombing.

May we expect another violent event with this powerful Grand Square?

Problems could start as early as the next week with heliocentric (sun centered) aspects.

March 23 helio Mars squared Pluto

March 25 helio Mars opposition Uranus

I think the real strength of this aspect shows up between April 8th and April 29. As mentioned before the event may not directly involve the stock market but could indirectly affect the financial markets. Again my biggest concern is the US$ and it's continued use as the world's reserve currency. This may involved major financial policy decisions. There may also be another military decision which has wide consequences or a surprise event no one is expecting. When talking about financial markets problems could extend into May and may expect additional US$ problems.

From previous posts you know the US$ is due for an 18 month low in the May time frame and may be pulled forward into April if the event is big enough.

I'll dispense with more detailed forecasts for Gold and Crude although Gold looks like it may go down first then a more sustained advance April through May. Crude may see a high in late April / early May but war issues could negatively impact any forecast activity.