ISBA Newsletter March 2003

Dear ISBA member.
We have the following headlines for you in the March Newsletter:
1) Board Election
2) Grace Morris - Conference
3) Members Corner
4) NEW!! - Article of the Month
5) New Article in the Members Area. Robert Gover
6) March Article. CYCLES WITHIN CYCLES WITHIN CYCLES By Robert Gover
7) ISBA Member Opportunity: Sell "The ISBA Book on Business and Financial Astrology" and earn percentage of sales.
8) This month's smiley.1) Board Election
On March 10 and 11 - ISBA's birthday - we are holding the elction for the non-European seats on the board. Each member is elected for a term of 2 years and we look forward to receiving lots of votes. You have two votes - please mail you choice to info@businessastrologers.com
The candidates eligilble for election are:
Mary Downing - USA
Bill Meridian - The Arab Emirates
Mauricio Bernis - Brazil.2) Grace Morris - Conference
We have received the following from Grace Morris. Maybe some of our members live close to where the conference is held and may thus be able to participate.
"The 13th World Conference of Astro Economics will be held on 5 & 6 April 2003 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Thirteen outstanding speakers in the field of business and financial astrology will present their research and work in market timing, fund management, interest rates, the economy, international trading and currencies, stocks and sectors, commodities, precious metal, practical investment strategies, real estate cycles and future trends. Speakers include Tim Bost, David Burton, Arch Crawford, Dr. Al Larson, Alphee Lavoie, Michael Lim Chuan Seng, Ray Merriman, Grace K. Morris, Michael Munkasey, Larry Pesavento, Ted Phillips, Jr., Georgia Stathis and Byron Tucker.
For further information, visit our Website: www.astroeconomics.com or fax 1-815-464-8163." Visit our Website: www.astroeconomics.com
3) Members Corner
We have a bunch of good news this month!
First of all we want to welcome two new members who joined us in February:
Piort Skrzyp - Poland
Kenneth Soerensen - Denmark.
I, Karen, am very pleased indeed to be able to welcome our much missed membership director Barbara May. Welcome back from a long illness. We have missed you so much, Barbara!
Dear ISBA members ~
After an unexpected hiatus of six months, I'm ready to resume my duties as your membership person. It has been an eventful time for me, and the beginning of a new life here in California. I had parathyroid surgery in December, and my husband Hoyt came to visit in January, liked Sun City, and said to look for a house to buy! He's retiring come June or July, when I expect to get him back from England. We went into escrow on a home here on Monday February 24th. Ths will be our retirement home, though I expect to continue working as an astrologer. It means a great deal to return "home". Southern California is where I was born and raised & spent most of my adult life, so I have lots of family and friends here. I have, however, missed my ISBA family and I'm pleased to be able to serve you once again as membership director. ISBA has held a special place in my heart ever since I heard about it from Karen and joined. The area of financial and business astrology has a necessary place in the world of astrology, and is just beginning to come into it's own. It's exciting to share and watch people learn how much fun it can be. Everyone needs passion in their life, and one of mine is astrology. Especially business and financial astrology. I'm looking forward to hearing from all of you as we go through the year. To the new members I haven't met yet, please know I'm here to serve you, and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. I'll do my best to help! In Oneness, Barbara May4) NEW!! - Article of the Month
Our members have expressed interest in ISBA being more outgoing in showing the public what business astrology, financial astrology and also mundane astrology can be used for - though analyses of current events.
Therefor we are initiating "Article of the Month", which will be in the monthly newsletter as well as on the web site: www.businessastrologers.com - on the initial page, to make it accessible to the public.
Alll articles will be kept accessible for the public.
We encourage all members able to write articles that are relevant to our profession as well as to the political and financial situation world wide to contribute articles for this purpose.
This month's article is written by Robert Gover, USA, and can be read in this newsletter. Thank you, Robert!5) New Article in the Members Area. Robert Gover
In addition to this month's article, Robert Gover, one of ISBA's most industrious writers, submitted another article in the ISBA members area: Future stock market crashes and the coming depression.6) CYCLES WITHIN CYCLES WITHIN CYCLES By Robert Gover
ISBA Astrocycles
CYCLES WITHIN CYCLES WITHIN CYCLES
By Robert Gover (Copyright 2003)
Down here on Planet Earth, we humans seek regularity and predictability. We use numbers, mathematics, to find and define cycles of all kinds. Our crowning achievement in this regard is the clock. Using Greenwich, England, as our common longitudinal point, we have devised a way to mark time predictably and consistently. Our measurement of time is based on the predictable, consistent spinning of our Earth as it orbits the Sun. The Earth wobbles or rolls in a way that brings our four seasons, and we mark those by another measurement: the Solstices and Equinoxes, calculated by Earth's position within the Solar System's surround of constellations, corresponding to astrological Signs. When we apply our precise mathematical measurements to stock market ups and downs, we find some fairly consistent cycles. But we also find smaller cycles within larger cycles which "distort," or make stock market cycles not nearly as consistent as clock time and seasons. Daniel Ferrera's "Special Stock Market Cycle Report,"
(www.sacredscience.com) deals with the phenomenon of market cycles. (See graphs at the end of this article.) Ferrera says: "There is a long-term cycle in U.S. Equity Markets of approximately 17-18 years...Anyone that takes time and observes the history of stock averages will certainly see this trend." The key word is trend. When we apply cycles to stock markets, we leave the mathematically precise predictability of clock time and enter the less precise realm of trends. Ferrera points out a longer cycle of 42-43 years, noting that the Equity Markets made their 20th Century extreme low when "the lowest point reached in the 'Super Bear Market' cycle from 1929-1947 was reached in July of 1932." Ferrera explains that "one of the potential reasons that the 1929 crash was so severe was the phasing of the 18 and 42 year cycles. They both peaked in 1929 and started their down cycles leading into the worst stock market correction in history (about a 90% drop), which was also a major contributing factor to the 'Great Depression'." Ferrera mentions Louise McWhirter's benchmark work, "Astrology and Stock Market Forecasting." McWhirter tracked the Moon's North Node as the primary indictor of stocks and business in general. The Node's full cycle averages 18.6 years. That seems close enough to Ferrera's 18-year "Super Bear Market" cycle to be relevant.
"The high point of business volume is reached when the North Node transits Leo," said McWhirter. "As the North Node goes through Cancer and Gemini, business volume is above normal, but slowly going to normal...When the North Node enters Aquarius, the low point of business activity has been reached. As the Node transits Capricorn and Sagittarius, the normal position of the business curve is below normal going to normal." McWhirter stressed that when her system didn't work, it was because of "distortions" brought by aspects from Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. One prime example was that the North Node was in Taurus when the Crash of 1929 occurred. The distortion then came from Saturn in Capricorn square Uranus in Aires, which in turn squared Pluto in Cancer, opposite Saturn. Ferrera's longer 42-year cycle brings to mind Uranus which takes 84 years to orbit the Sun, so the 42-year cycle is half an orbit of Uranus. Using the Great Depression of the 1930s as our key to Uranus cycles--because that's when stocks hit record lows--we note that Uranus was opposite the US natal Saturn then, as well as square transiting Saturn. Forty-two years previous when Uranus was conjunct the US Saturn was 1887-1888, and 42 years prior to that, when Uranus was opposite the US Saturn, we had the great depression of the 1840s. Moving ahead in clock time, Uranus was conjunct the US Saturn in 1972, when stocks hit a cyclical low, and will next to be opposite in 2014-2015. "For those that want to look for a possible planetary phenomenon that correlates to 18 years," says Ferrera, "I suggest you look at the synodic cycle of Saturn and Neptune from a heliocentric view. Each 180-degree of synodic movement takes approximately 18 years." You'll find that both heliocentric and geocentric synodic cycles of Saturn and Neptune occur within the same years, although specific dates differ.
Example: the heliocentric Saturn-Neptune conjunction of 1936 was precise in June; the geocentric conjunction made exact hits in March and September. Stock market cycle analysts seem to avoid the longer cycles, such as the conjunctions of Neptune and Pluto twice a millennium, and the 248-year average of the erratic Pluto's orbit around the Sun. There is also the 171 Uranus-Neptune cyclical conjunctions, and the 127 year Uranus-Pluto conjunctions which could be taken into account, the most recent correlating with that dramatic time we now call "The Sixties." It can be argued that records of stock markets as we know them now do not extend backward in time far enough to give us cogent records of these longer cycles. But it seems to me that if we consider, say, the Pluto cycle within the overall cultural/economic context of times past, it can tell us much about the period we're moving through now. Which, in turn, can help us see why 18-year and 42-year cycles are often distorted, their regularity disrupted. Deduct 42 years from 1932 four times and it will take you back to 1764, when Uranus and Pluto (in Sagittarius where it is now) were separating from a square that had coincided with the French and Indian War, and the Colonies were heading into the period of turmoil culminating with the American Revolution of 1776. Also, Saturn and Neptune made their 18-year conjunction in 1773. If we view stock markets as a measure of trade, then history suggests trade in 1773 hit a bump, even though for American Colonists then trade was primarily with the Mother Country. Britain was trying to rig trade so the Colonies paid more for the French and Indian War, and/or the wider-spread Seven Years War which had drained the British Crown's coffers. The Stamp Act of 1765 was a climatic point in this regard. In tandem with slave uprisings and social upheavals of various kinds, a mood of rebellion led to the Declaration of Independence and the war that ended in the USA becoming a separate entity. The point is that contemporary stock market cycles are made irregular because they are cycles within cycles within cycles, ad infinitum. The overall celestial context is perpetually changing, so that no single cycle ever reoccurs within the same contextual pattern. History repeats but does not duplicate. This isn't to argue with Ferrera's market cycle analysis. It is valuable for investors to be aware of the 18 and 42 year cycles. However, for a more refined prognostication of future market trends, other cycles can also be taken into account, for they distort the clock-like regularity of the 18 and 42 year cycles. For example, there is the 30 and/or 60 year Saturn cycles of great depressions in the USA since 1776. Making a distinction between what are often loosely called depressions and recessions, great depressions are the worst of times and the longest lasting. There have been four great depressions in US history: the 1780s, 1840s, 1860s and 1930s. Each has coincided with Saturn's approximately 30 year orbit, but each has also included a 90-degree square formed between Saturn, when it arrives in mid-Capricorn, with Mars, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto simultaneously in mid-Aries. This square in turn forms a grand cross with the US natal Sun-square-Saturn when depicted on biwheel charts. This great depression grand cross has never formed without correlating with a great depression, and no great depression has occurred without the grand cross being extant. From 1607 when the first British Colony was founded at Jamestown till the 1780s, Saturn's sojourn through mid-Capricorn did not coincide with a simultaneous square to another of the "malefic" planets in mid-Aries. So although this grand cross cycle is astrologically more complex, it is also a more reliable indicator of future great depressions, and thus also for stocks. Another reliable indicator is the cyclical Uranus-Pluto square. When compared to the US natal chart in biwheels, the history of the USA and Uranus-Pluto squares have marched in lock step. The last one coincided with the great depression of the 1930s. The one before that coincided with the great depression of the 1870s, and the one before that the landmark events of 1820-21. Pluto was in Sagittarius square Uranus in Pisces during the French and Indian War. During the Uranus-Pluto square of the 1670s, an event called Bacon's Rebellion occurred in the Colony of Virginia: African slaves and English indentured servants burned down Jamestown. During the early years of the Jamestown Colony, the Uranus-Pluto square of 1619 coincided with the then-revolutionary introduction of African slaves into the Virginia Colony. Uranus-Pluto squares have never failed to mark revolutionary turning points in US history, changing the economy. The Uranus-Pluto square upcoming will make seven direct hits between 2012 and 2015. Before that, beginning in 2008, it will move in and out of a 7 degree orb, then will linger within orb till 2019. Unless my research is faulty, one has to go back to before the birth of Christ to find a Uranus-Pluto square as long-lasting as this. What this long Uranus-Pluto square (forming a grand cross with the US Sun-square-Saturn during its
zenith) suggests is that the 2000-teens are going to be transformative. Ferrera's projection for the 2000-teens: "There is likely to be some kind of "financial panic" after...2013 that takes the market down to make its 42-year cycle low in the year 2016. Remember that this has historically been an extremely important stock market low." By factoring in the record-long Uranus-Pluto square, a good case can be made that the financial panic will begin sooner than 2013. The slower build-up of the Uranus-Pluto square beginning in 2008, based on its historic impact, suggests the stock markets are in for a long, slow decline, bottoming around 2014-2015 when the square is most precise and thus the need for major reforms more obvious. It is hair-tearing to go beyond Earthbound clock time and contemplate the more complex 12-handed Solar System clock. It's definitely not in sync with Greenwich Mean Time. Astronomical calculations and computers now make finding planetary cycles easier and more accurate. But deducing what upcoming cycles within cycles indicate, based on past history and present trends, suggests we have a lot more to learn about correlations between historic turning points and repeating planetary cycles.
7) ISBA Member Opportunity: Sell "The ISBA Book on Business and Financial Astrology" and earn percentage of sales.
The ISBA book on Business and Financial Astrology is, as mentioned last month, now ready for sales in the e-book. format. It will be sold through, among other channels, Amazon, Astrologycollege.Com and ISBA's own web site.
We would like to ask ISBA members with own web sites to allow the ISBA book to be sold through their site to sell as many copies as possible. If you choose to do so, you will of course be refunded a percentage of the book price - the percentage is yet to be decided. Until then we would like to hear from members who will participate in the sales of the book.
In next month's newsletter we will offer a percentage of book sales to members who will assist in other ways. See further details in the April newsletter.
The ISBA book is approximately 400 pages at a price of USD 50.8) This month's smiley
Danske Skeptikere, (Danish Skeptics) counting among its most prominent members Mogens Winther and Claus Flodin Larsen ( www.skepticreport.com ) who work closely with James Randi of the USA and Geoffrey Dean of Australia, open a discussion forum on their web site in January - quite a revolution. It was opened under a Retrograde Mercury.
This discussion forum is now shut down, since the members couldn't agree what the proper "religion" was. The skeptics were represented by Christians, Satanists, Fascists and other nice people - last week it resulted in a major fight, where the Satanists continued to an intense effort to exclude the Christians. An astrologer even tried to mediate between the various lines of belief in a vain hope of keeping the democratic debate a live - to no avail!
The rest of us infidels could simply lean back and enjoy the show which had a high entertainment value. The skeptic moderator and fascist/satanist Ole Wolf concluded with the
words:
The Discussion Forum is closed
The discussion forum for Danish Skeptics is now closed. With regret I, the administrator of the bulletin board have realized that Skeptica prefers to ally with people from the Christian missionary society "The Dialogue Centre", and that members of Skeptica do not refrain from verbally attacking people whose personal values they disapprove of. If Danish skeptics feel that they aren't heard enough in the public debates, I do not hesitate to attribute this to their behaviour. If the alternative to the alternatives are people from Skeptica, I doubt that anything is won.
- wolf -
And thank you very much for this gem!
Warm regards,
Karen & Hannah.

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