ISBA Newsletter December
2004
Dear ISBA member
These are the headlines of December:
1) ISBA-Lilly
2) Member's Corner
3) Georgia Stathis - questionnaire
4) www.stock-compass.com - rom Michael Munkasey
5) Review by Mary Downing
6) Congress 2005
7) New articles in Member's Area
8) New publication by Grace Morris
9) ISBA & financial astrology in the media
10) New employees in ISBA
11) Rise of subscription
1) ISBA-Lilly
This year, it has been very difficult to choose the candidate for the annual
ISBA-Lilly. We all agreed that several of the proposed candidates definitely were worthy of receiving
this mark of honour for a job well-done in either ISBA or within business astrology or financial
astrology. Two candidates had parity of votes and therefore, we have decided to give two members
the honour of an ISBA-Lilly and the appreciation, which follows from their colleagues. The two
members we honour are:
Tim Bost - USA
Vladimir Gorbatceivich - Russia
Tim Bost is awarded the prize for his generosity in connection with sharing his weekly newsletter
with all ISBA-members.
Vladimir Gorbatceivich has been very hard-working in connection with preparing his workshop, which
many ISBA-members also have benefited from. Congrationlations to both of you!
2) Member's corner
Two new members have joined ISBA in November 2004:
Sally Kortekaas, Australien, Associated Member
Jarret Cohen, USA, Supporting Member
We welcome you both in ISBA. We are happy that you are a part of ISBA and we hope you will benefit
from your membership.
Sally Kortekaas sent us the below text in connection with joining ISBA. It is, of course, great
that we are mentioned in more and more mainstream financial publications.
"The "Next Handbook" is a 112 page book I bought in the local newsagent. The publisher
is in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales and has a website, www.next.com.au
There was just one very short paragraph on astroanalysis and giving the business astrology website.
I was surprised to see it because I have never before seen a reference to astrology in any mainstream
financial publication in Australia which seems to be a very conservative country (Sun-Saturn conjunction
in Capricorn intercepted in the ninth house in the national chart.)"
3) Georgia Stathis - questionnaire
We have received the below from Georgia Stathis and recommend that as many as possible answers
the questions and return the answers to Georgia.
Hello Everyone:
I hope that you will help me with a project I am working on for Kepler College. I have been teaching
at Kepler for the last three years and, in fact, we just graduated our very first graduation class
at the Seattle Art Museum in early March.
I have had the good fortune to be able to teach for a few hours now, and, then, hopefully, more
later a beginning curriculum of business, financial and vocational astrology. Right now, the amount
of hours within the terms I have are for three weeks. So, obviously, this is overview material.
I am putting together, first and foremost, a lineage of financial astrologers. In other words,
I am trying to find out from whom you learned, when, from whom they learned, etc, as far back
as you can possibly remember.
The HECB board (governing educational board of Seattle) likes things like history and lineage
so we can keep in the game at Kepler, and I want to make sure we have this down first before we
teach the principles.
So, if you have a moment, I would truly appreciate any information you can give me. Please address
your email to me here at venus2@ix.netcom.com (I have a spamblocker, but you can put your name
in the subject line and I will let you in), or, you can email me at georgia@starcycles.com
A: When you started learning astrology?
B: When you started to shift and focus on financial astrology?
C: What catalyst brought this to your attention?
D: Who or what influenced you?
E: What is your specialty and why?
F: From whom did you learn?
G: Do you know from whom they learned?
H: What years were these?
I: What books were most influential?
J: Did you learn the more traditional technical analysis and from whom?
K: These are some of the questions that might make your task easier. And, finally, if anyone has
Arch Crawford's email, I would love to include him here. Thank you, I am truly grateful that you
are doing this. It will make a difference. Georgia Stathis.
4) www.stock-compass.com - from Michael Munkasey.
Michael Munkasey, USA, has sent us the following:
Jeff Springer of New Jersey who is a graduate of Noel Tyl's astrological courses, has set up a
web site called: www.stock-compass.com
Jeff obtained his U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Series 63 license, which legally
allows him to offer investment advice. Using my company data base (now with over 8,500 company
sets of information included, most with both incorporation and first trade dates) he allows people
to subscribe to the web site and do solar arc searches against the first trade dates.
Thus, for a reasonable fee, you can ask questions like:
-- give me all Jupiter by solar arc hits within five minutes of arc (that is about one month's
worth of solar arc travel) against any company Sun --- or Sun/Moon midpoint --- or ... whatever!
In addition Jeff writes a very informative monthly commentary newsletter on the markets, and in
his letter gives both "long" and "short" recommendation in the market based
on such astrological searches. The cost for an annual subscription to his newsletter is $240.
US -- or $20 US a month. Not a bad price for what you are getting.
His track record? For the past year he has been averaging between 3% and 4% a MONTH with his picks
using my company data base. Please check out: www.stock-compass.com
Michael Munkasey
5) Review by Mary Downing
Stock-Compass is a subscription site offering both a newsletter and a dedicated search engine
for solar-arc and solar-arc midpoint contact to first trade charts. Full subscription to the search
engine (240 searches) is US $210. An expanded service (600 searches) is $540. The newsletter alone
is $240 per year and the October 2004 edition is on the page for your scrutiny.
Stock Compass offers a free trial examination of the search engine. I would very strongly recommend
any potential subscriber seriously investigate if the searches available are sufficient for his
or her purpose before subscribing. You cannot, for example, enter a company and directly access
its data. You must enter either a degree separation or a selected slate of aspects during a given
time-frame. The search engine will then return those companies that had that specific solar-arc
(say Sun to Uranus), or solar-arc midpoint combination along with the company's first trade data.
Unfortunately, it does not tell you exactly when the solar-arc aspect occurred, so long-term searches
are useless without further research on the subscriber's part.
There are no transit options. I gather one must take the first trade data, enter it in one's own
astrology program, if one wishes anything other than solar-arcs. Entering multiple planets requires
re-accessing the search window for each one, creating a combined list. Any error in selection
entry wipes out all selection criteria. Those used to the more modern astrology programs will
find the data-selection screens extremely awkward.
The web site is very, very bare-bones. The FAQ and Historical Performance sub-pages do say that
the search engine will supply solar-arc and midpoint data related to stock performance. With the
exception of the degree-separation fill-in, it does not offer any instructions or suggestions
for applying the data extracted from the data base. In short, the web page itself is hardly adequate
in explaining the product it is offering.
Example of search results: Criteria - Sun target Uranus by solar arc, orb 5 minutes, beginning
Jan 1, 2001 Program found five hits, and returned the following selected data presented just as
it is shown below:
Symbol - Name - First Trade -Time Known - Harmonic - Orb - Category
AVP Avon 04-20-1964 - N 4 4.7
min Retail Cosmetics/perfumes/deodorants
10:00
I could have additionally specified volume and minimum vs maximum price, or specific degree separation,
and narrowed the field by pre-selecting industry category. The harmonic selected was the 8th.
It returned all subharmonics as well.
This could possibly fill an individual investor's needs, but is inadequate for most. That investor
would only use solar arcs as performance indicators, and would have to search one by one to find
out if his target company was so affected or afflicted. The one pleasant surprise is the company
categories and sub categories as selection criteria. However, searching for Sun arc Uranus in
8th harmonic only returned five hits, and none were in the same category. A search for Moon to
Uranus offered only one result, but by increasing the orb to one degree the search yielded 31.
The website cautions that every "submit" counts as a search.
On the search engine screen, we have the following selection opportunities:
- Arcing Planet or point, with optional starting date, price and volume.
- Single Point Target or first part of a midpoint
- Second Part of a midpoint (optional)
- Minutes before partile
- Aspect: options - 4th harmonic, 8th harmonic, 8th harmonic and Quindecile
- Category: extensive list of industry groups and subgroups, but not individual stocks.
The searches produce lists, which can be combined and otherwise manipulated. It might possibly
be a worthwhile offering to a very limited target group. Bottom line: It is expensive, the website
is less than helpful, and the search-product offering is quite limited. The newsletter may or
may not be of interest, but one can determine that by reading the example provided on the web
site.
6) ISBA Congress 2005
The ISBA Congress' early-bird-offer runs out on 1st January 2005. We are looking forward to receiving
your registration to this unique event, where we meet face to face. Communication is completely
different once we have met in person. We are looking forward to seeing you.
7) New articles in Member's Area
Apart from the articles by Paul Nipperess, Australia, which are already sent to the members (Thanks
Paul!) Robert Gover, USA, has also produced an article this month: "Exit Polls and Vote Counts",
by Robert Gover .
You can read the article on www.businessastrologers.com in "Members area" (Thanks Robert!)
Loveen Israni, USA, recommends the following article, which is relevant for business astrologers:
www.armstrongdefensefund.org/martypei/buscycle.htm
(Thanks Loveen!)
8) New publication by Grace Morris
In November 2004, Grace Morris, published her annual publication: "How to choose Stocks to
outperform the Market 2005". You can read it on: www.businessastrologers.com under "Literature"
where you also find Grace Morris' contact details.
9) ISBA & financial astrology in the media
It is always wonderful to see that business astrology and financial astrology are treated seriously
and fairly by the media. This has happened before and will hopefully happen again in connection
the two below interviews, which we have received from two members:
This interview is from Maarit Laurento in Finland: By the way, ISBA is mentioned several times
now here in Finland. First in my television interview, have a look at: http://www.yle.fi/png/arkisto/2004/png020404.html
and today in an economical day paper, to mention a few times.
Manfred Zimmel, Austria, reports the following: I will be interviewed by CNBC (broadcasted worldwide)
on Dec 30, live in the Frankfurt exchange.
Good luck, Manfred!
10) New employees in ISBA
In November, ISBA employed a new webmaster, Klaus Johansen. We would like to welcome Klaus and
hope he will stay with us for many years. If you have material on the presentation of yourself,
which you would like to get onto the web-site, you are welcome to contacting Klaus on the following
address: listemageren@mail.dk
Further, we have made an agreement with Jeannie Mathiasen, who have 15 years of business experience
within strategy, marketing, corporate communication and business development. In 2005, Jeannie
will give us sparring on the development of our organisation. We will get back to this in the
new year.
11) Rise of subscription.
As all financial astrologers probably know, the exchange rate of the US$ is a disaster for all
companies dealing in this currency. This is also the case for our little organisation. The value
of your subscription has decreased by approximately 33 per cent since we fixed the fee. Due to
this, we are loosing quite some income and this is a strain on our budget as our employees, web-hotel
etc. is paid in Danish Crowns.
Therefore, we have decided to increase the annual fee by US$ 10 by 1st January 2005. This will
be for professionals as well as for associated members and support members.
Finally, we would like to take the opportunity to wish all our members a Merry Christmas and a
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Best regards,
Karen, Hannah & Jeannie
from members
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