Astrological Cycles

Trading with the Moon

Trading the Moons, which can be done with amazing success at times, is not about statistics which don't tell the whole picture because of inversions which actually make the stattistics weaker and less significant than they really are. You can buy Full Moons and sell New Moons, just like you can buy in November and sell in May using the seasonal statistics, and greatly increase your buy and hold profits in both cases as seen in the graphs below. More information can be found in an interesting study of the effects of the Moon on Markets of the G7 group. However looking at the Moons closer using a line chart to accentuate the turning points, we see that they are quite accurate and profitable especially in an emotional market. Over the last 9 months they inverted 7/9 times or about 44% of the time, but such inversions can be detected as they occur with regular techinical analysis tools to determine chnages in direction and momentum.

Charts courtesy of StockCharts.com

Charts courtesy of StockCharts.com

Uranus-Pluto Aspects

These aspects have different periods due to the elliptical path of orbits. Uranus is generally considered a difficult planet in Square aspects, and the ones to Pluto coincide with difficult periods worlwide and its effect shows up with marked lows in the US markets. The Opposition and Conjunction aspects appear to have a corresponding positive effect but not as marked and precise as the Squares. This pattern is in agreement with other long-term secular and cyclical studies, pointing to 2012 as a difficult period.

Heavenly returns

I have plotted the orbits of the 3 large planets over the last 100 years. Note that peaks and throughs have marked some very important turns like in 1932, 1949, 1973, 1999 and to a minor extent even 2003. The next potentially significant dates are in 2009 and 2017.

Bradley Planetary model

Donald Bradley designed this model in 1948. It is the sum of planetary aspects and the declinations of Venus and Mars. Aspects are assigned positive and negative weights, but the declinations of Mars and Venus have the most effect. At times this model tracks the market quite well but inversions are common and the magnitude is not predictable. It is best at predicting major turning points, sometimes accurate in the direction and rarely in the magnitude.

The table below is from Bradley's model and list the positive and negative conjunctions (planets within 0-15 degrees of each other. According to his work the large planets are not positive when near in the sky, while Mars is negative with every other planet. The smaller planets are positive with just about every other planet especially Venus who is positive with every one except Mars.

Conjunction	Moon	Sun	Mercury	Venus	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto
Moon		+	+	+	-	+	-	-	+	-
Sun	+		+	+	-	+	-	+	-	-
Mercury	+	+		+	-	+	-	+	+	-
Venus	+	+	+		-	+	-	+	+	+
Mars	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-
Jupiter	+	+	+	+	-		-	-	+	-
Saturn	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-
Uranus	-	+	+	+	-	-	-		-	-
Neptune	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	-		-
Pluto	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-