Mystic’s Financial Astrology Update

This financial astrology briefing is not what I think should happen, it’s what I think will happen. Nor is what I think you ‘should’ do. It is not investment advice – talk to a certified accountant or advisor who knows your unique circumstances for that. This is my opinion, based on astrological trends and theories.

(1) Property – If you want to sell property, do it sooner or be prepared to put it off for a long time. The advantage of buying now would be that you could paint the bathroom indigo or get ten cats. More practically, you could have a garden. But if you were buying it with the hope of capital gains in the next ten years, no. It’s a comparison of rent payments versus loan interest and the upfront cost of purchasing against the downsides of renting. In this climate, both options have advantages.

To be hideously blunt, if there was a depression (a drop in GDP of 10% or more), you could more easily up and move from a rental if you needed to. Or negotiate the rent down. Your garden could be portable. But if your mortgage is reasonable/paid off, owning the place means you can turn it into a little hive of industry or fix things faster than most landlords. Whatever you’re doing, objectively crunch all the numbers and factors. There is no longer an inherent status or advantage in owning. We’re nearing the end of a Jupiter-Saturn in Earth cycle (see below) and far more innovative living solutions are the future. Eg: Ingenious forms of sharing resources.

(2) Debt  – Smash credit card debt as fast and savagely as you can humanly manage. It’s difficult because, if your work has become unviable because of CV-19 or your entire industry is at threat, credit cards and loans are not funding your ‘fun’ – they’re filling in to help with necessities. Even so, they’re a drag on your future so minimize them if you can. It’s been so long since we saw real interest rates but they can go up. Central Banks don’t want them to, of course. They are spruiking negative interest rates as ‘the solution.’ But there is a growing feeling against this style of banking and it’s not a fringe movement Read this if you’re up for an intensive, highly informative take. Interest rates rising could be unavoidable: Brilliant for savers and pensioners who live off the interest from savings, not crash-hot for people with significant debt. The upcoming Saturn-Uranus square has the feel of a clash between central-banking ideals and a return to more locally managed economies.

(3) Crypto-Currency – Investigate alternative currencies. Money, as many of you know, is not what it used to be.  Fiat currency (government-issued legal tender) is worth a lot less, because of the artificially suppressed interest rates. And banks are legally allowed to keep just a fraction of the money you deposit with them actually at call. The rest is used to ‘grow the money supply.’ Any book or article by Satyajit Das has brilliant info on all this. As interest rates are so crazily low, money deposited in the bank is not going to make any gains – a deliberate plan on the part of Central Banks wanting to encourage growth aka debt.

If you’re a Gen X or a Pluto in Leo person, you’ll recall the thrill of going into the bank as a kid and having your passbook updated to reflect the money the bank was paying you in interest. That is gone, for now. Enter cryptocurrency. It’s fast-moving (up or down) and volatile but it is not subject to fake limits. Bitcoin, the original crypto – was first mined (launched) on January 3, 2009 – with these words embedded into it as a snark at Fractional Reserve Banking: The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks. 

At that time, Jupiter was at 29 Capricorn, approaching the degree of December 2020’s Jupiter Saturn conjunction. Mercury (currency, ideas, merchants) was at 1 Aquarius, the exact point of it, and approaching the North Node in Aquarius (9 degrees). Venus and Neptune were also in Aquarius, albeit later in that sign. Taking the debut of Bitcoin as an indicator for all cryptocurrency, you can see that the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Aquarius is activating the original creation chart to a massive degree. If even one of the big ones is taken up by – say – a supermarket chain, things will evolve rapidly. Many merchants don’t accept cryptos because the value fluctuations make it tricky but there are multiple developments in the works – eg: e-commerce facilitator Stripe is backing Stellar Lumens.  For an intelligent status-quo take on cryptocurrencies and how/if they could integrate into the current system (or replace it) see this. (disclosure: I have some Ravencoin and Ripple).  I have a theory about astro-tracking some of these but I will wait till I’ve tested it some more before citing it lol.

(4) Stocks  – If you’re educated on a company or an industry and it’s not over-valued, buy some shares in it. If you don’t know what you’re doing it, stay out of it and leave it to the flash trading algorithms. I don’t have time to read the business pages as much as I want to so I just have a small amount of money in a super high-risk equities fund. Note: Not for everyone. My 2nd house is Pisces so this feels right. I know that sounds bad and the money is not ‘safe’ at all but it backs seed ventures and weird trends.

I picture the people running it as Space Dust Shamans who dabble in neuromancy and blue lotus futures. The returns are amazing but of course, the fund could go belly-up in a second. Managed funds are also handy in that if there is something weird happening – between the USD and the Yuan for example – these people will be across it. Or causing it, whatever. It is also automatically diversified. That axiom about eggs and baskets is for real. However, be aware that the Mars squares to Saturn + Pluto are full-on. The financial astrologer Ray Merriman has pointed out that the New York Stock exchange’s natal Jupiter-Neptune opposite Mars-Moon in Aries is affected by these cardinal squares all the way until 2021. If it got nutty enough, fundamentally good stocks could be down for ages.

Another line of thought which I don’t espouse but which would be crazily ahead of time – like Neptune in Aries or something – would be to invest in dystopian shares, like whatever armaments manufacturer makes Putin’s weaponry or the business owned by the biggest oligarchs with CIA links in Belarus. And, more pleasantly for ethics and utopian beliefs, micro-lending is becoming a bigger deal, especially with banks covering themselves by rejecting a lot of worthy cases. And, if in doubt, invest in  You Corp – the same vegetable garden that makes good economic sense could also enhance your health.

(5) Precious Metals – If you can get even a small chunk of gold or silver and keep it safe, why not? It’s the archetypal and most ancient method of exchange. It is also immune from bail-ins in most places. While the official line is that a bail-in (where the government takes a percentage of people’s deposits to ‘save the economy’) would be extremely unlikely, it’s the fact this legislation exists which is fuelling the rise of gold bugs and chit-chat about it. If you don’t know, a bail-out is when tax-payer’s money is used to bail out the banks and a bail-in is when they just take it from your account. This is a good explanation. But again, while it is not as volatile as cryptocurrency or some shares, gold and co are sensitive to global trends. It cannot, like interest rates, be gamed. but it’s not always logical. However, precious metals seem to do well when people don’t trust their government. There are old-fashioned theories about gold being good when there are strong Leo/Sun aspects, Silver with the Moon or the sign of Cancer, and so on. Silver rose with the North Node in Cancer but of course, enough people buying in because of these folk-associations will drive up the price.

(6) Business – I’ve covered this before in Uranus in Taurus posts, but ultimately the new economic era will be good for healers, ecologically aware businesses and agriculture, people who make or fix things, building biology, tech, art, science, and medicine + any other field that will benefit from decommodification and decentralization. The current situation is challenging and destabilizing but it is transitional. Situations are fast-moving and in constant flux. Most people are at least able to be more nimble and informed than monolithic government departments and corporations. It’s possible that Jupiter-Saturn in Aquarius will see more use of digital + tech to streamline government processes – in a far more sophisticated way than anything seen to date. Fewer rorts and exploitation, more fairness, and quality support where it is actually needed.

(7) Privacy and Ideology – Consider resetting your privacy metrics and, that there could also be good business or vocational opportunities in this field. Cybersecurity and all of the associated scenes are going to be increasingly important. “Learn to code” is a cliche because it’s actually an excellent idea. The increased likelihood of weird space weather and cyberattacks is another reason gold, silver and even cash at home are becoming less fringe than they used to be. Saturn square Uranus is also a more reserved sensibility in general. Struck by not only stress and health fears but the potentially volatile nature of disagreements on health, medicine, government, and potential surveillance, people will be sharing their opinions less. We’re emotionally distancing and intellectually decentralizing. Everything is going Aquarian: many of us will feel less pressure to ‘fit in’ and naturally gravitate to people more simpatico. The mainstream is stagnant.

(8) Where To Live – Moving away from the cities is a big theme du jour and I get it. If you can work from home and can get a superior house at a saner price point further out in a regional town or similar, why not? Many first-world cities have been mismanaged, polluted, and over-developed to the point that their magic is diminished. Commercial Real Estate outside of Central Business Districts is probably the most viable form of property job for the near future. It’s too soon to know whether this is going to stick or not. If it does, then there will be a lot of J.G. Ballardian city-scapes, repurposed towers and malls turned market gardens.

The contrarian Aquarian position would be to wait till the ‘out of the city’ trend was peak-happening and then acquire a rock-bottom priced cheap triangle of city space, from an offshore corporation that just wants it gone. Another point: if you are a single person, charging off to the country or even a regional area may not be the haven you think it will be. The classic modern city neighborhood vibe with late-night shops, a culture of individuation, and privacy-respecting easy acquaintanceship may not be as possible further out.

The Monetary Metaphysics 

In 2018, I developed a dog park friendship with an extremely wealthy, self-made individual. We did not discuss money or even the economy but I asked him once which investment he recommended. “A vegetable garden,” he said. He was talking about fuel reserves and supply chain disruptions even then. I learned a lot from this guy and he was right about the vegetable garden.

The fact is that with or without Cv-19 and the associated lockdowns, job losses, government expenditure, something would have been up with the economy in 2020. The 2008 crisis was not properly remediated and wages were already at a historic low even as the stock market was at a ludicrous, artificial high and still is.

The markets and many big businesses are being propped up by taxpayers’ funds or money created out of the aether. Regardless of what you think of capitalism, this isn’t it.

Don’t Believe Artificial Highs

2020 is the scene of three major cycles that are significant in financial astrology: Saturn conjunct Pluto, Jupiter conjunct Pluto, and Jupiter conjunct Saturn. The first two were and are in Capricorn, a sign associated with the establishment, business, and governance. Uranus is in Taurus, representing currency and agriculture, among other themes.

Financial Astrology is a varied and complex scene, with many conflicting schools of thought. I am going to be doing more posts on it and some of the more compelling characters who pioneered it at a later date.

But one of the more fascinating ones was William Gann, a Gemini with Jupiter in Aquarius square Neptune in Taurus: speculative and inclined toward the supernatural. He was Moon, Uranus, and Ascendant in Leo.

He had a speed boat named The Coffee Bean, after his most successful investment. He learned to fly so he could get to certain places to play their lottery at an appointed time, wrote a science fiction story featuring his take on Atlantis, and used astrology, numerology + sacred geometry.

Trader William Gann Used Astrology, Numerology & Sacred Geometry

He is most renowned for having told all his clients to sell their stocks on the eve of the 1929 crash. Interestingly, his more famous peer, Evangeline Adams, was telling people to buy up at that point.  Gann’s charts and theories are still in circulation today but – in my opinion – often distorted by people who know a lot about finance but less about astrology and vice versa.

I’m reading all of his works and theories as primary texts as a back-up for if I can’t get to him on the astral plane and if I can confirm anything useful, I will share it.

Old-style financial astrology was often based on “rules” – almost like the ones about cutting hair if you want it to grow or a farmers almanac. Buy metals when the Moon was in an Air sign and only sell stocks when the Moon is waning. There is a heap of Vedic astrology associations of elements to commodities as well.  The relationship of oil stocks to Neptune is a sub-genre unto itself and the study of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle alone is voluminous. It’s considered the most important indicator in financial astrology in that their conjunctions – every 19.85 years – signal a new money-biz focus.

Saturn-Pluto and the associated Cv-19 situation exposed myriad defects within the neoliberal global order. It is complex and the entire episode will be argued and chronicled by historians for years to come. But astrologically, at least, the worst of it – health-threat wise – is conquered by late September 2020 (Saturn Direct) and more obviously so by Saturn back into Aquarius in December.

Astrologically, The Worst Health Threat Is Over By Saturn Direct In Late September

Jupiter-Pluto over 2020 represents the freakish, ruthless ingenuity of the billionaires who are acting like Batman villains, extracting mucho money from the system, taxpayers and earthly resources, trying to ‘shape the world’ or perform large-scale acts of epochal altruism/whacko ideas. Because apparently just paying your tax is too dull. I get it. If I was a billionaire, I’d do something about ley lines and heavy cash-strapped small governments to employ druids.

And Jupiter-Saturn on the Equinox this December is the first such conjunction in Air since the 13th Century. It’s GOOD. It represents scientific advancement and a return to valuing thinkers, culture, and ideals. We are coming out of a Jupiter-Saturn Earth cycle. Since 1802, the broad emphasis has been land, agriculture, ‘proper’ qualifications, and so on.

At the beginning of the last Jupiter-Saturn cycle in Air, King John was compelled to sign the Magna Carta, guaranteeing more rights for non-aristocratic people and bringing royalty under the rule of law. On the darker side, that era was also the Crusades and the Inquisition – both ideologically inspired ventures. It would be undesirable – to say the least – if “fact check” degenerated into “thought crime: you can’t say anything non-approved by the government.” Or billionaires and tech tycoons.

Fact Check Must Not Be Allowed To Degenerate Into Thought Crime

Jupiter-Saturn element shifts represent a new sensibility and Uranus in Taurus = currency changes, possibly to the world reserve currency or fiat currency itself. If you’re big on history, check out the Jupiter-Saturn dates here and draw your own funky conclusions. Every cycle, the second alignment is in the upcoming cycle element. Eg: Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Libra in 1980.

And, as the financial astrologer Raymond Merriman points out, in 2000, Jupiter-Saturn in Taurus (last of the Earth cycle for a long time) was square Uranus in  Aquarius. 2021 is going to be the reverse of that: Saturn in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus. These will be exciting times with loads of opportunities for growth and progressive, planet-saving initiatives. Aquarius is – loosely – ‘the people’ and Uranus = new technology.

Imagine tech and digital genius deployed to improve the existence of everyone – including animals – on the planet and create a more sustainable ecology. It is possible and as stressful as things are now, it’s a breakdown of many inequitable and illogical systems at once. Stay calm, do your research, and keep your mind/eyes open.

*For a more ‘how we got here‘ take, read this Economic and Financial Crisis Astro post from Feb 2019 or Freak In About The Economy from June of that year.