Financial Astrology - December 24, 2019

This will be a short post and the last post for this year. We will start up again in the first week of January 2019. I will cover the Mars move from South to North declination and the upcoming Eclipses for 2019. In addition the Bradley cycle and some dates.

Mars Cycle Charts

The first week and a ½ of 2019 may be very unusual. Mars will cross over the 0 degree declination from South to North. The exact date is Jan 2^nd but this needs a wider orb.

In addition Mars will be trining Vulcanus. The latter is a Uranian point. Watch out for strife, turmoil and aggression. This could also be  martial activity, geophysical or geopolitical activity. Watch out in the first couple of weeks of the new year. This could be troublesome.

The bottom of the following chart shows Mars crossing 0 degrees of declination from South to North.

2019 Eclipses

Date                Eclipse                                    Saros Cycle                Sign

Jan 6, 2019      Solar Partial                            122                              15Cp25

Jan 21, 2019    Total Lunar                             134                              00Le51

July 2, 2019    Solar Total                              127                              10Cn37

July 16, 2019  Partial Lunar                           139                              24Cp4

Dec 26, 2019   Solar Annular                          132                              4Cp6

I will use this list and include details on the current eclipse. The first one is Jan 6, 2019, Saros cycle 122.

Each eclipse is a member of a Saros cycle. I will go into details later.

Basically, the Saros cycle shows an 18 year cycle which repeats backwards in time. These are not exact but highlight the same themes. We are looking for similar themes.

For Saros cycle 122 that means the following years will have similar themes. The third previous cycle is 18 * 3 = 54, which is 1964/1965. The exact eclipse date is Dec 4, 1964. The third eclipse in a Saros cycle will shadow the same area on Earth.

I am concentrating on the 54^th year which is 1964 / 1965.

2001

            Some of the themes in 2001 are:

• Ariel Sharon wins election in Israel (Feb. 6). Right-wing leader chosen overwhelmingly as nation's fifth prime minister in just over five years during worst Israeli-Palestinian violence in years. Background: Middle East.
• The long-simmering resentment of Macedonia's ethnic Albanians erupts into violence in March. The rebels seek greater autonomy within Macedonia. After six months of fighting, a peace agreement is signed (Aug. 13). British-led NATO forces enter the country and disarm the guerrillas. Background: Macedonia and the Balkans.
• U.S. spy plane and Chinese jet collide (April 2); Sino-American relations deteriorate during a standoff. The 24 crew members of the U.S. plane were detained for 11 days and released after the U.S. issued a formal statement of regret.
• Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is delivered to UN tribunal in The Hague to await war-crime trial (June 29).
• Without U.S., 178 nations reach agreement on climate accord, which rescues, though dilutes, 1997 Kyoto Protocol (July 23).
• In response to Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. and British forces launch bombing campaign on Taliban government and al-Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan (Oct. 7). Bombings continue on a daily basis. Background: Afghanistan.
• Irish Republican Army announces that it has begun to dismantle its weapons arsenal, marking a dramatic leap forward in Northern Ireland peace process (Oct. 23). Background: Northern Ireland Primer.
• At a UN-sponsored summit in Bonn, Germany, Afghani factions meet to create a post-Taliban government (Nov. 27). Hamid Karzai is selected as head of the transitional government (Dec. 5). Background: Who's Who in Afghanistan.
• Taliban regime in Afghanistan collapses after two months of bombing by American warplanes and fighting by Northern Alliance ground troops (Dec. 9).

• Israel condemns the Palestinian Authority as a "terror-supporting entity" and severs ties with leader Yasir Arafat following mounting violence against Israelis (Dec. 3). The Israeli Army beOklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeighexecuted (June 11).

• gins bombing Palestinian areas. Background: Middle East.
• Terrorists attack United States. Hijackers ram jetliners into twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashes 80 mi outside of Pittsburgh (Sept. 11). Toll of dead and injured in thousands. Within days, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda terrorist network are identified as the parties behind the attacks.
• Anthrax scare rivets nation, as anthrax-laced letters are sent to various media and government officials. Several postal workers die after handling the letters (throughout October).

1983

            Some of the themes in 1983 are:

• Pope John Paul II signs new Roman Catholiccode incorporating changes brought about by Second Vatican Council (Jan. 25).
• Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., 50, political rival of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in Manila (Aug. 21).
• South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Seoulapparently strays into Soviet airspace and is shot down by a Soviet SU-15 fighter after it had tracked the airliner for two hours; all 269 aboard are killed. (Aug. 30).
• Terrorist explosion kills 237 US Marines in Beirut (Oct. 23).
• US invades Grenada (Oct. 25)

1964 / 1965

Some of the themes in 1964/1965 are:

-          The Civil Rights Act of 1964

-          The first US combat troops arrive in Vietnam

-          Brezhnev becomes the 1^st secretary of the Communist Party

-          China detonates it’s first Atomic bomb.

-          Malcom X shot to death. Riots

-          France withdraws its Atlantic fleet from NATO.

-          There are others but this should get the idea across.

Look for the same themes in 2019. Here is the chart

The Bradley Indicator

This stock index forecasting tool was designed by astrologer Donald Bradley and published in 1947 in a booklet titled "Stock Market Prediction".

On the cover this tool is called the Planetary Barometer and inside the booklet it is called a Siderograph. Now it is simply called "the Bradley". The

Bradley is meant to forecast major and minor turning-points (where a trend will reverse) in either the Dow Jones Industrial Average or SP500 indexes. Bradley's work was obviously on the DJIA.

It does not forecast or anticipate whether that turning-point will be a high or a low. It has no polarity. The Bradley may turn up while the DJIA turns down. The amplitude of the Bradley swing is also not important. It only finds periods where trend changes occur.

It should be understood Astrologers in decades gone by who had no computers, spreadsheets, or databases to analyze data typically worked with much smaller data sets than we do today. This maybe why the Bradley worked so well when it first came out in 1947 but now is somewhat unreliable. Now, it goes through periods where it works fairly well but then can stop operating for months at a time. Originally it was for geocentric astrology (Earth centered) but there are now heliocentric models (Sun centered) and others.

In Bradley's own words:

"At no time must the reader gain the impression that a siderograph, as such, is a prediction of what the stock market will actually do. Nevertheless, observation proves that basic reversals in collective attitudes, clearly predicted by the line, are inevitably mirrored in stock averages"

So if the Bradley only identifies trend changes, what are trend changes?

- a rising market changes to a falling market

- a rising market changes to sideways

- a sideways market starts going up

- a sideways market starts going down

- a market going down changes to a rising market

- a falling market starts going sideways

The red line is the Bradley Indicator.

And a chart for today, Dec 21, 2018. We await a reversal. The first couple of weeks in 2019 could be difficult. I’m holding Gold.