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How the next recession will happen: An astrological view

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Economists struggle to understand the ebb and flow of markets and attempt to find reasons why a market will expand and contract. Astrologers have better tools. They’re not perfect enough to depend on for day to day trading – there are too many variables. One’s own planetary cycles, the peculiarities of each individual company, the global atmosphere and how each individual nation is affected by planetary cycles. But what we can do is observe the larger planetary cycles to predict a general atmosphere of expansion and then contraction.

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-10-13T11:31:00-04:00October 23rd, 2019|Money and markets|1 Comment

Mania and depression in the financial markets

Earlier in December I wrote about the stock market roller coaster of the past year, and since then it’s gotten even crazier, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average careening from 23,693 on December 19th to a low of 21,721 on December 26th, and zooming up over 1000 points yesterday, the biggest single increase in history.

I lay the blame for this erratic volatility partly on the last gasp of Uranus, planet of disruption, traveling through the fiery sign of Aries for the last time through the end of February.

Meanwhile Jupiter (the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-12-27T09:16:26-05:00December 27th, 2018|Money and markets|6 Comments

The astrology of the 2018 US stock market rollercoaster

If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ll remember that the financial collapse of 2008 coincided with the entry of Pluto, planet of destruction and regeneration, into the contracting sign of Capricorn after spending 13 expansive years in optimistic Sagittarius.

At the end of December 2017, Saturn (tests, challenges and the reality principle) moved into its own sign of Capricorn which tends to make people somewhat cautious and risk-averse. The first big dip of the year took place between February 1st and 5th under a challenging aspect from Venus to Jupiter. Venus and Jupiter […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-12-18T17:13:36-05:00December 17th, 2018|Money and markets|2 Comments

Are economists the new astrologers?

A controversial article has been circulating through the financial news for the past year or so that equates economists with astrologers because, its author argues, both are pseudosciences. Ironically, the argument given is that economists were not able to predict the 2008 economic crash:

The failure of the field to predict the 2008 crisis has … been well-documented. In 2003, for example, only five years before the Great Recession, the Nobel Laureate Robert E Lucas Jr told the American Economic Association that ‘macroeconomics […] has succeeded: its central […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-09-03T09:41:10-04:00September 3rd, 2018|Money and markets, Predictions|0 Comments

Money gets a new look under Uranus in Taurus

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about a referendum in Switzerland regarding the very nature of money. You will probably hit a paywall, but here is the relevant portion:

A decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the world is still debating the causes of the financial crisis—down to the meaning of money itself.

In buttoned-down Switzerland, that debate is taking the form of a nationwide referendum set for June 10. Voters are being asked to consider fundamental questions rooted in the crisis: what is money; who […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-06-20T11:38:04-04:00June 20th, 2018|Money and markets, Planetary cycles|6 Comments

Pluto in Capricorn: The Death of Capitalism?

Astrologer Richard Nolle posted a link to this article on Facebook:

At the very moment of its ultimate triumph, capitalism will experience the most exquisite of deaths.

This is the belief of political adviser and author Jeremy Rifkin, who argues the current economic system has become so successful at lowering the costs of production that it has created the very conditions for the destruction of the traditional vertically integrated corporation.

Rifkin, who has advised the European Commission, the European Parliament and heads of state, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-07-31T09:49:26-04:00July 12th, 2016|Future Shock, Money and markets|7 Comments

The astrology of current financial markets

The other day I wrote about the push and pull between the expansiveness of Jupiter merged with the detailed practicality of Virgo (Jupiter is currently in Virgo) that coincides with the transit of Saturn (structure and cold hard reality) through Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius (expansive optimism). The collision of our dreams and fantasies with the real world is not always easy and we are seeing this kind of roiling in the financial markets today.

Of course there are economic realities apart from the astrology that are affecting the markets: primarily the fact that with […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2015-09-28T08:31:59-04:00September 28th, 2015|Money and markets|0 Comments

The astrology of the October 2014 stock market

October is not often a good month for the stock market. But in a market that is overvalued and long overdue for a correction, combined with fears over war and infectious diseases, American optimism hit a new low this week with a precipitous plunge in the markets.

The (Sibley) astrological chart for the US has Sagittarius rising, and Sagittarius likes to do everything in a bigger than life fashion. Americans are famous for overreacting (witness the current hysteria over ebola) and there has been plenty of bad news to react to. While […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-11-18T19:13:40-05:00October 16th, 2014|Money and markets|0 Comments

Uranus/Pluto: The Freelance Economy

When Pluto entered the sign of Capricorn in 2008, there was a huge contraction in the business world as well as a global recession, and many people lost their jobs. Pluto creates major shifts in the affairs of the sign through which it travels, and Capricorn is the sign of the structures that create the foundation on which we live. Corporations, governments, economic structures – all of these are under Capricorn’s domain.

In 2009, Entrepreneur magazine ran this article:

When the economic sky fell last year and CEOs […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2014-06-27T08:57:44-04:00June 27th, 2014|Life, Money and markets|4 Comments

An astrological look at the US economy

A dear friend of mine, who shall remain nameless but I’m sure she’s not alone, been frightened by the dire predictions of another astrologer friend of hers who has predicted that the US economy will collapse in 2014 and 2015. Contrarian that I am, I have a different view.

Yesterday’s post looked back at 2010 to see how we got to the place where we currently find ourselves. Economists say now that we entered the global recession in December 2007 which was just before Pluto entered Capricorn in January 2008, and […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-11-18T19:13:56-05:00April 4th, 2014|Money and markets|2 Comments