ISBA Newsletter April 2003

Dear ISBA member.
This newsletter presents the following headlines:
1) ISBA Board Election
2) Members Corner
3) Article by Robert Gover
4) Article by Kaye Shinker
5) ISBA Congress in London, November 2003
1) ISBA Board Election
We are pleased to announce that the ISBA Board has welcomed two new board members. One member has been re-elected.
The board now consists of (in alphabetical order)
Mauricio Bernis - Brazil
Karen Boesen - Denmark
Mary Downing - USA
Maarit Laurento - Finland
Bill Meridian - Arab Emirates
Han van Straaten - The Netherlands.
We look forward to cooperating for a fertile ISBA year.
2) Members Corner
It is wonderful to be back! Thanks to all of you who have dropped me a note saying hello!
We welcomed one new member into our ISBA family this month, professional member Gabriel Donleavy of the UK. Please join me in welcoming Gabriel!
By this time next month, my email address will have changed
as my husband is moving out of our house in England early in May, preparing to return stateside. What I'll probably do is have our webmaster, Michael, post my new email address on our website if you need to reach me. I'm also preparing to move into our new home here in Sun City, CA. This should happen at the end of April. We'll get an air shipment from England in at the end of May, which will probably beat my husband back home, then the rest of our things come by sea in 6 to 8 weeks if the war doesn't slow that down too much.
Please remember to contact me if I can be of service to
you!
In Oneness,
barbara may
3) Article by Robert Gover
Robert has contributed another article for all of us. It is titled: Brazil versus American Dominance, and ca be read in the Members area on: www.businessastrologers.com
Thank you so much , Robert!
4) Article by Kaye Shinker
We have received the following article from Kaye Shinker:Salomon Smith Barney did the following technical research.
They determined the reversal dates of trends on the Dow Jones Industrial average of 10% or more. Therefore the date May 21, 2001 was a top and after that date the market went down 10% and on Oct. 9, 2001 the market was at a bottom and moved up 10 percent. Then the Date July 23, 2002 indicates a bottom and after that date the market moved up. The starting date of their research is Aug. 8 1886 when the market hit a bottom and began an upward trend. The end date is Oct. 9, 2002.
The dates given in this analysis are the dates when the trend changed from up to down or from down to up.Although you would expect the market would alternate between up and down, once the move was up 10% and up again and another time the move was down 10% and down again 10%. Still 50% of the charts indicated a reversal up and 50% indicated a reversal down.
The total number of charts is 42. First scan shows that half of the turning points 21 occurred in the first half of a zodiac sign and the other half 21 occurred in the second half of the sign. Thus we can say that position within the Sun sign is not a factor when looking for a reversal. To explore Sun signs further, 8 of the turning points occurred in Scorpio followed by 5 in Gemini. followed by 4 in Libra, Sagittarius and Capricorn, 3 in Virgo and Pisces and 2 in Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, and 1 in Aquarius. The statistic you could trade on is that it unlikely there will be a trend change when the Sun is in Aquarius.
Next Rx Planets.Of these 42 dates of absolute highs and lows in the Dow, 15 had no retrograde planets Mercury through Saturn. Seven of these dates indicated a reversal up and 8 indicated a reversal down.13 dates had Saturn retrograde, 7 indicated reversals down and 6 indicated reversal up and 14 had Jupiter retrograde 5 indicated reversals down and 9 indicated reversals up. Jupiter and Saturn were retrograde together in 3 charts and 3 had Mercury retrograde, 3 had Venus retrograde and Mars was retrograde in 3 charts.
What was interesting about the representation among the signs was that only once was the Moon in Leo. The Moon was void of course in two charts. Seven times the Moon was in Aries, 5 times in Libra and 4 times in Cancer and twice in Capricorn. Thus almost half (19) of the reversals had the Moon in a Cardinal sign.
The market is down more than 10% therefore we are looking for a market reversal. When is it most likely to happen? Is a reversal of more than 10% possible between now and April 25? Using the research I discussed above could we make a prediction? The odds are in favor of a cardinal sign for the Moon. Thus the dates available in Spring 2003 are March 12& 13, March 18& 19, April 1& 2, April 8 & 9, April 14 & 15. Can we trade on this. Not very well. But we can guess that any trend up will have some momentum especially when Jupiter turns direct on April 3. The trend has a better statistical chance of reversal once Jupiter goes into direct motion and no other planets are retrograde.
My summer session of classes in Financial Astrology will begin June 2, 3, and 4. www.astrocollege.com.DATA
Can more be done with these charts? Eclipses could be a factor. Planet conjunctions are a possibility. Here are the reversal dates provided by Salomon Smith Barney. Next to the date #1 is the word up and that means that after this date the Dow Jones average went up. Next to the date #2 is the word down and that means that after that date the average went down. Of course no market goes in a straight line but the trend was up after Aug 8 1896 and it continued up 10% or better then June 17 the trend of the Dow started down and it continued down at least 10% until Nov.9 1903.
1. Aug. 8, 1896 up
2. Jun. 17, 1901 Down
3. Nov. 9, 1903 up
4. Jan 19, 1906 down
5. Nov. 15, 1907 up
6. Nov. 19, 1909 down
7. Dec. 24, 1914 up
8. Nov. 21, 1916 down
9. Nov. 3, 1919 down
10. Aug. 24, 1921 up
11 .Sep. 3, 1929 down
12. Nov. 13, 1929 up
13. Apr. 17, 1930 down
14. July 8, 1932 up
15. Sep. 7, 1932 down
16. Feb. 27, 1933 up
17. Mar 10, 1937 down
18. Mar 31, 1938 up
19. Nov. 12, 1938 down
20. Apr. 28, 1942 up
21. May 29, 1946 down
22. Jun. 13, 1949 up
23. Sep. 23, 1955 down
24. Oct. 22, 1957 up
25. Dec. 13, 1961 down
26. Jun. 26, 1962 up
27. Feb. 9, 1966 down
28. May 26, 1970 up
29. Jan. 11, 1973 down
30. Dec. 6, 1974 up
31. Sep. 21, 1976 down
32. Feb. 28, 1978 up
33. Apr. 21, 1980 up
34. Nov. 29, 1983 down
35. July 24, 1984 up
36. Dec. 4, 1987 up
37. July 16, 1990 down
38. Oct. 11, 1990 up
39. Jan 14, 2000 down
40. May 21, 2001 down
41. Jul 23, 2002 up
42. Oct. 9, 2002 up
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Kaye Shinker
Instructor of Financial Astrology
www.astrocollege.org
Thank you, Kaye!5) ISBA Congress in London, November 2003
The agenda for our up-coming ISBA Congress - the fifth one - is now almost ready and can be seen in detail on www.businessastrologers.com next week.
We think the program is really exciting, and we feel that we have found a good balance between the subjects of financial astrology, business astrology and mundane astrology.
We hope to see a lot of you on November 7-8 in 2003.
The preliminary agenda looks like this
Friday November 7th:
9:00 a.m.-9:05 a.m. Welcome
9:05 a.m.-10:05 a.m. Robert Gover: Planetary patterns and cycles 10:05 a.m.- 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break 10:30 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. Barbara Hamilton: Coaching Leaders Through Personal and Corporate Defining Moments 11:30 a.m.- 11:45 a.m. Break 11:45 a.m.- 12:45 p.m. Mary Downing: Companies and CEOs 12:45 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. Roy Gillett: Astro Events and Major Price Direction Changes in Bond and Equity Markets 3:00 p.m.- 3:15 p.m. Break 3:15 p.m.- 4:15 p.m. Ria Borst: Group dynamics: Working withUunconscious Patterns - workshop 4:15 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. Coffee Break 4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. Ria Borst continues
Saturday, November 8th
9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. Barbara Hamilton: Transformational Leadership - Astrological Indicators for Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence 9:55 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. Coffee Break 10:15 a.m.- 11:15 a.m. Bill Meridian: Recent developments in Planetary Stock Trading 11:15 a.m.- 11:25 a.m. Break 11:25 a.m.- 12:20 p.m. Mary Downing: Predicting the corporate chart. 12:20 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m.- 2:30 p.m. Harald Seeberger: Astrology in detail 2:30 p.m.- 2:40 p.m. Break 2:40 p.m.- 3:35 p.m. Barbara Hamilton: True Power - Astrological Awareness for Leadership & Global Transformation 3:35 p.m.- 3:55 p.m. Coffee Break 3:55 p.m.- 4:50 p.m. Robert Gover: The Role of the USA in the World Economy Projected out to 2020. 4:50 p.m.- 5:45 p.m. Bill Meridian: Planetary Market Timing- Reliable indicators for market timing
Best regards,
Karen & Hannah

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