The astrological studies of the currency markets.
By M. Preobrajenski © There are many possibilities for astrological studies in a modern financial world, the researches can be done in a various directions.
However in 1996 when this particular study has began the choice of the markets available for the practical investigations was limited. Thus the first task was to determine the direction of the studies. What are the markets that can provide you with an information on a daily base? Where can we try to use the obtained results? The major question was the following: what market is available for the real work?
The occidental stock-markets (both commodities and stocks) were practically not available because of the regulations of the law and informational limitations. The Russian market was not interesting because its fluctuations did not reflect the real actual economical processes. It was not the market of economical objects but the market of political subjects and thus was not appropriate for the serious studies. So the only choice was the international currency market FOREX , the most available one in every field.
There are three major general divisions or three major groups in the existing markets, and each of these groups has its own peculiarities if seen from the astrological point of view as well as from the others.
The 1st group is the markets of agricultural products and commodities markets. There is a big collection of literature on astrological investigations of this theme. Basically it covers the description of the mundane processes and their correlations with the price fluctuations of one particular product.
To the 2nd group we may attribute all the securities (stocks) markets, in which you can gain profit playing on the fluctuations in stock prices. The major “cast” here are the economical subjects - enterprises, companies, banks, stock-markets, and others so that we do not have any difficulties with a concrete astrological charts. As a general rule, the charts of the foundations of the stock-markets and companies and the first trade charts are used here, etc.
The 3rd group is the currency market where the game is held upon fluctuations of the exchange rates. The peculiar and characteristic feature of the international currency exchange market is that it reflects the whole complex of the world economical, financial, political relations and processes in a real time, and the major characters here (mentioned before apart) are the largest finacial and political groups, the fact that builds a serious obstacle to any attempt to define the concrete astrological points (charts).
There is no literature dedicated to the astrological researches of the FOREX market (although I am sure that such researches do exist) so I needed to start from the beginning. It is clear that the role of the mundane astrology in a description of the processes which take place at the exchange market shouldn’t be the least - the object of these researches is a global one. However the primal research didn’t present any relevant results. Clearly, we have found some individual correlations between some particular astrological events and some particular currency fluctuations: such are the ingressions of planets, lunations, eclipses, mutual aspect of the transiting planets and so on. But we found it impossible to use such kind of information for predicting the turning points of the market tendencies, their force and duration with the required accuracy.
Once all the attempts to find the required consistent patterns by means of examining the different mundane technics were over, we made a decision not to work using the “chance” methodology but to summarise statistically the planetary positions in comparison with the moments of noticeable fluctuations of the currency rates. The idea was to expose the “sensitive degrees” characteristical for the currency market. The purpose of getting the relevant results, however, demanded to overcome certain difficulties.
First of all, the currency market is still too “young”. The free fluctuations of the currency rates, i.e. the fluctuations which are regulated by the market and not by the states, were introduced to the international practice since 1972-1974 only. When this research was started even Saturn, such a meaningful and important planet, didn’t pass through the full cycle, I do not even mention the other distant planets. Thus the major part of the statistical data obviously was not acceptable for a relevant studies.
The inner planets were divided into the groups, the statistical proccessing of which was made separately: 1) Jupiter, Saturn and transsaturnal planets; 2) Mars; 3) Sun, Mercury and Venus. For the studies we used the daily and weekly graphics of the rates of the major currency pairs since July 1974 till may 1997 (swiss frank/usdollar, usdollar/yen, pound/usdollar).
According to the different type of the dynamic the market can be divided into segments - ascending and descending trends; the sections of a small recoils of the market, which do not step out of the chosen trend border - corrections; and sections without any significant changes of the rate. Analysis of the graphics was also made in three groups: 1) points of shifts of the tendencies (marked as “R” in the following text), 2)the moments of the strong movement (“S”), 3) the correction periods (“C”).
The diagrams were built based upon the received data showing the distribution of the planetary positions by degrees (independent of the zodiacal signs positions) from 1° to 30° for the days of significant changes of the market. The similar distributional graphics were built in all the three categories of the market movements separately
An analysis of the peak points of all the graphs allowed us to clarify the main zones of the “sensitive degrees” of a currency market. Such degrees are: 5°-6°, 8°-9°, 11°-12°, 15°-16°, 19°, 21°, 24°, 26°-27°, 29°.
The next phase of the work was to localise the given degree zones in signs. For each planet in every discovered degree we have counted the quantity and direction of the “hits” at the market from every sign of a Zodiak. According to the results of this calculations the appropriate location for each zone has been found:
5°-6°, 11°-12° - in Aquarius;
15°-16° - in Aquarius and Pisces;
8°-9°, 26°-27° in Capricorn;
19° - in Aries;
21° - in Pisces;
24° - in Cancer and Capricorn;
29° - in Cancer.
It turned out that the discovered distribution of planets coincides almost totally with the Chart of the Big Mutation (26 January 1842 06:18 Gr), which is described in details in the book of Barbara Coval “Time & Money” (see ill.1). Only the zone of 24° “drops out”; we might consider it either as a mistake in calculations or as an influence of the unknown factors, or attribute it to the nearby zone of 26°-27°, where the Venus of the above mentioned chart is situated - 26°39’ of Cancer.
The further work with the chart of a Big Mutation confirmed the significance of this chart for a daily analysis of the currency market. The observations has shown that the most noticeable influence has the major, quintil and karmic aspects as well as the aspect 1/7 . The influence of the quintil-set of aspects is close to that of the sextiles and trines, the karmic ones and 1/7 are closer to squares. When the transits are negative the courses move towards the most strong currency of the pair, and vice versa, with a good transits the courses move in opposite direction. The market observations allow us to make a conclusion that the aspects to the planets of the Big Mutation chart do not demonsrate the patterns of fluctuations of a concrete currency, but rather show us the behavior of the “hard” currency in relation to the “soft” ones.
I have to mention that the observations over the currency fluctuations are, in turn, the richest source of researches in astrology. The discovery of some peculiarities of the work with the transits appeared as a “secondary product”of such a researches. For example, we have found out why do the same aspects work remarkably in some cases and hardly work in anothers.
Let us consider conjunction and opposition. Such a transit might be aspected, either well (sextile, trine) or bad (square) by another planet. Correspondently the market would move to the one side or to the other. But without any “confirming” transits neither conjunction nor the opposition influence the market significally, no matter what the nature of the transiting planet is.
I would like to warn the astrologers who would try to make predictions based on the obtained results. Although the significance of the chart was confirmed by the practical work the chart does not describe the full totality of the situations at the currency market. Here, for example, is only one of many problems: we have plenty of currency pairs but we are not able to make a prediction based on the only one chart which of these pairs would react stronger to this or that transit. The further researchers show that the astrologer needs the whole set of other charts which are necessary for a succesfull prediction of the major currency rates.
We can not also ignore the fact that the time of a new Big Mutation is coming and the disribution of forces in a world economy began to change. Thus, the introduction of euro have influenced on the character of the market in a big scale, and this process is far from being finished. So the predictions of the currency market requires constant researches.
M. Preobrajenski, Moscow Russia.
I can be reached by e-mail - chernigo@mail.ru