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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

The Mars effect, February 2017: Stocks, politics and personal power

“Event Unknown”

Mars went into Aries on January 28th and will remain in that fiery sign of will and adventure through March 9th. While in Aries, Mars is at its most potent and the aggressive force is permitted full expression, unhampered by the niceties of signs like Libra or Pisces, by practical considerations such as Capricorn and Taurus would exercise, or by reason and intellectual processing such as Gemini and Aquarius would instigate. It is pure, unadulterated need and drive.

Mars is also bold and especially in Aries, does […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:50:55-05:00February 21st, 2017|Planetary cycles|11 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

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

The Jupiter/Saturn dance, retrogrades, and financial astrology

The qualities of Jupiter and Saturn are diametrically opposed to each other, but an integration of the two is absolutely essential for successfully surviving on Planet Earth.

Jupiter represents the principle of expansion and the seeking of experiences that imbue our life with meaning. Jupiter teaches confidence and openness and inspires a quest for philosophies and religions that appear to us as truth. Saturn counters the expansion of Jupiter with contraction – Saturn requires that we apply limits to our freedom and plants the seeds of self-doubt so that we […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2013-12-12T07:24:19-05:00December 12th, 2013|Money and markets|2 Comments

Pluto retrograde hits the stock market

The US stock markets saw their steepest declines of the year today after a week of downward movement as Pluto slowed down to a crawl in preparation to turn retrograde today.

A very brief (5 minute) study disproved my initial theory that Pluto retrograde events correlated with a downturn in the stock market. But every market period is different and brings with it unique combinations of planetary energies that affect investors in different ways.

The stock market has been on an upswing since November, buoyed by the perception that the financial crisis is […]

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