Latest on coming market meltdown

Just in on the newswires, selling by corporate insiders has peaked at a level last seen in May 2008. Just another snippet which clues us into what might be coming up for the markets Sept/Oct 2009. For older posts/predictions on this subject scroll down or click here and here.

For orginal article, click here ... or read it below:

Insider Trading and Investor Sentiment Signaling U.S. Stock Market Top

Insider Selling in August Soars to 30.6 Times Insider Buying, Highest Level Since TrimTabs Began Tracking in 2004. NYSE Short Interest Plunges 10.3%, While Margin Debt Spikes 5.9%

SAUSALITO, Calif., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- TrimTabs Investment Research reported that selling by corporate insiders in August has surged to $6.1 billion, the highest amount since May 2008. The ratio of insider selling to insider buying hit 30.6, the highest level since TrimTabs began tracking the data in 2004.

"The best-informed market participants are sending a clear signal that the party on Wall Street is going to end soon," said Charles Biderman, CEO of TrimTabs.

TrimTabs' data on insider transactions is based on daily filings of Form 4, which corporate officers, directors, and major holders are required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In a research note, TrimTabs explained that insider activity is not the only sign the rally is about to end. The TrimTabs Demand Index, which tracks 18 fund flow and sentiment indicators, has turned very bearish for the first time since March.

For example, short interest on NYSE stocks plummeted by 10.3% in the second half of July and margin debt on all US listed stocks spiked 5.9% in July, while 51.6% of advisors surveyed by Investors Intelligence are bullish, the highest level since December 2007.

"When corporate insiders are bailing, the shorts are covering and investors are borrowing to buy, it generally pays to be a seller rather than a buyer of stock," said Biderman.

TrimTabs also reports that the actions of U.S. public companies have been bearish. In the past four months, companies have been net sellers of a record $105.2 billion in shares.

"Investors who think the U.S. economy is recovering are going to get a big shock this fall," said Biderman. "Companies and corporate insiders are signaling that the economy is in much worse shape than conventional wisdom believes."

TrimTabs Investment Research is the only independent research service that publishes detailed daily coverage of U.S. stock market liquidity--including mutual fund flows and exchange-traded fund flows--as well as weekly withheld income and employment tax collections. Founded by Charles Biderman, TrimTabs has provided institutional investors with trading strategies since 1990. For more information, please visit

SOURCE TrimTabs Investment Research

UPDATE Sep 11/09: CNN has now picked up on this story ....

Mexican Astrologer Predicts Market Crash for Sep/Oct 2009

Just arrived in my in box (12:06pm SA time on 27th August 2009) an analysis of the current state of the markets and a prediction for September/October2009 by Mexican astrologer Dr Gonzo Pena - who has two PhD's (mathematics & microbiology). His predictions rhyme perfectly with my forecast dated July 19 2009 which you can read here.

Here is Gonzo's piece reproduced verbatim:

The CNN article I am forwarding below only comes to confirm what we have known all along: that the stock markets have decoupled from the real economy. This explains why even though the economy is in such bad shape, with unemployment and production falling every day more and more, the stock markets continue to rally. The Fed lends enormous amounts of money to its cronies, without interest, provided they use the money to purchase precisely the stocks they (the Fed) ask them to. That's another way how they are artificially driving the current rally.

It's interesting that in the Money-CNN page from where I took this article below, they have a voting poll where any one may vote on two questions"should Bernanke be elected for another term, yes or no?. By voting you may check out the results of the poll: I just found out that "Yes"is up with 69 per cent of the votes!. This tells you immediately how very deluded the readers of this CNN article really are.

Later on today, transiting Saturn will partile orb of conjunction to the US radix Neptune at 22Virgo25, an aspect that can always be trusted to bring down very heavy the stock markets. Except that the stock markets have not been falling thus far. The Moon is still early in Sagittarius, from where it will "T"square the transiting Saturn Uranus opposition, but luckily for the markets, these partiles will not happen until hours after closing bell at the NYSE therefore sparing the markets from an hecatombic fall. Transiting Mars in fall debility in Cancer is opposition transiting Pluto in Capricorn while conjoining US Venus under slow motion transiting Mercury "T"squares from the onset of Libra. These are aspects to expect not just a drop but a real crash of the stock markets as the trading week closes. However, my prediction is that the markets will suffer only a ridiculously mild drop totally out of line with what these aspects in orb would lead us to expect. Why?... Well, that's also because the decoupling is so advanced that the markets are ignoring the transits altogether. Whenever this happens, it's only a matter of time before all the accumulated unfulfilled transits suddenly force themselves in. Many are expecting a stocks crash. Some think it will come in September. Others think it will be in October. The New Moon of September 18 features the Luminaries (Sun and Moon) conjoined at 25Virgo59 separating their conjunctions from Saturn at 25Virgo07. That the orb of the Luminaries conjunction Saturn is separative and so tight, spells clearly that the hard crash is just before this September 18 New Moon. Mars in that New Moon of September 18 is at 14Cancer45 separating conjunction to the US Sun at 13Cancer19 while applying only 3 minutes orb of square to the US Saturn at 14Libra48. this Lunation Mars so tightly square US Saturn when the New Moon Luminaries so strongly emphasize transiting Saturn by conjunction, is telling us that the crash is going to be mighty indeed. We better cover our ears: the thud is going to be loud.

CNN article here

Market Meltdown - Phase 2 Imminent?

Disclaimer: Common sense dictates that one should never take investment advice from someone who is not wealthy. "Not wealthy" is a hat that fits me very well. So, you have been warned. Anything you read below is based on planetary configurations only and you act (or not) upon this information at your own risk.

September to November 2008 saw the markets tanking. The DJIA plummeted to a local minimum of 7,552 on November 20th 2008 after sharply coming off highs in excess of 11,500 in the preceding 12 weeks - a downturn of approximately 35%. Indeed, if one computes the extent of the loss from market highs in October 2007, the November 2008 minimum represented a dump of 47%.

Following a local maxmimum of 9,015 on January 6th 2009, DJIA slid even further downhill setting up a new local minimum of 6,594 on March 5th 2009.

It is currently (Jul 19 '09) trading in the 8,000 -9,000 window and has been since approximately the beginning of May.

The astrological circumstances that correlated to the 2008 meltdown peaked in intensity between last week October '08 and last week November '08. (Remember, there was a 2.5 - 3 month down run that culminated in the local minimum on Nov 20th '08).

These same astrological circumstances are set to recur between 1st week in September 2009 and 1st week in October 2009.

It might be concluded, therefore, that any time from now on, through to October 2009, we will see a significant sell off with the equivalent impact and order of magnitude of the turmoil seen in the last trimester of 2008.

My formal non-wealthy-man prediction is that DJIA will have sunk well below 6000 by end October 2009 at latest.

Remember, take it from whence it comes. This is astrology not finance.

Update: The sentences marked orange contained an error which has now been corrected.

Astrological Crime Prevention and Forensics

I have said it before. In an ideal world astrology would be a respected science and used across multiple disciplines.

Take crime fighting and forensics, for instance. Imagine if everyone's birth data would be logged on a central database. Imagine too if this same database also tracked locational data. For example, if someone were born in London but now lived in Singapore, these records would be entered into the database and accessible by law enforcement agencies.

With this data, it would be possible to track perpetrators and victims of violent crime before the incidents manifested in space-time. A big computer screen would identify who is at risk from whom in any given location on the planet within any given 24 hour window period. Detectives could then monitor these circumstances and prevent the crime from occurring. Victims would be spared the trauma, perps could nabbed and rehabilitated before they commited their atrocities, and lives would be saved. (Remember the movie with Tom Cruise called Minority Report?)

This is not science fiction. Let's take a practical example which is unfolding in real time at the moment. On December 26th 1996 a little girl called JonBenet Ramsey was sexually abused and murdered in the basement of her family home. At first, it was thought she had been kidnapped because a ransom note was found. Her body was later discovered in a locked room beneath the house.

Cops initially fingered the parents as the culprits. They, of course, denied everything and blamed the event on an as yet undiscovered pedophile murderer. No one could make any evidence stick and after a few years the case was closed. Nobody caught, nobody charged, it remains a mystery.

Back to the present. Since mid-March of this year (2009) through to the 3rd week in July, all over the world, there are more JonBenet Ramsey's being born. There is about a 4 minute window each day which sets up astrological configurations responsible for this little girl's traumatic death. And let it be said that it was extremely traumatic. In her final moments she was helplessly abused, tortured and garroted either by a parent, or in the proximity of her parents, who basically resembled gods in her young consciousness. This was an unimaginable betrayal.

The current crop of children with the JBR signature coming into the world in the March-July window are in danger of suffering the same or equivalent circumstances. These kids will be a bit older than JonBenet (who was 6 at the time of her death). The danger zones arrive in 2018-2020, putting them in the 9-11 age bracket.

The possibilities are numerous. Here is just one: a child born today in Cape Town between 8am and 8:04am will have the JBR signature. If this family subsequently emigrates before 2018 to New York state in USA (specifically the Binghamton, Syracuse, Ithaca, Auburn area), the JBR signature WILL activate on March 15th 2018.

Thousands and thousands of JBR carriers born at this time are at risk in hundreds of locations around the planet between 2018 and 2020. Jon Benet herself was not unique – she would have formed part of a batch of children with the signature, some of whom would have activated in 1996. Her particular case was highly publicised. A child of the same age, with the same signature, in the ghettos of Mumbai who suffered the same fate would have passed unnoticed.

The point to all this is that computer technology, astrology, and law enforcement meet in a nexus that can potentially eliminate crimes of this ilk from the planet. The global database with birth and translocation records will identify our hypothetical child born 8:02am in Cape Town this morning as high risk in New York state long before March 15th 2018 arrives. Law enforcement can then surveil the family on the 15th or advise them to take a holiday in California for a few days. Better still, the family would have been advised of the potential before emigrating and they will be living in Frankfurt.

Astrological "Eugenics"

Eugenics is a term, now in disrepute, that refers to the enhancement of Homo Sapiens through selective breeding practices. It fell out of favour largely as a result of Adolf Hitler's abuse of the concept to breed a superior race of Aryans in Europe. This involved the execution or forced sterilisation of those considered racially or genetically impure, while at the same time encouraging a veritable stud farm for blonde teutonics.

Nowadays, with the advent of genetic profiling and the decoding of the human genome, it has become easier to control for the emergence of genetic disorders. This is eugenics by any other name, although none would dare admit to it. So, while the name has changed, the techniques have been upgraded and the game is very much advancing by leaps and bounds as the 21st century unfolds.

Hitler's anthropologists and modern geneticists would scoff at the concept that the date, time and location of birth has any bearing on one's genetic profile. Yet, any astrologer would be able to tell you that certain celestial configurations are repetitively and consistently correlated with birth problems, congenital defects and genetic disorders.

Astrology is even a few steps ahead of science. Geneticists cannot tell you whether you will be a victim of homicide or terrorism at some future date. Neither can they determine that in your 20's your career will take off to such an extent you will become the richest woman in the world.

Imagine being able to plan the birth of your child a year in advance in order to achieve the best possible result, physically, physiologically, genetically, socially, and professionally. Imagine being able to "order" Oprah Winfrey levels of wealth and success for your child?

This is no longer a question of imagining. The potential for an Oprah crops up at least once a year. Women who are about 4 weeks pregnant now (June 4th 2009) are in the running to deliver a child with the Oprah wealth profile towards end of January 2010. The secret lies in the precise time and location of birth. This can be controlled via an elective caesarian and cooperative gynaecologists. (Remember, one also wants to avoid Oprah's formative years - rejected, sexually abused, teen pregnancy, etc.)

At the very minimum, astrological eugenics can vastly reduce the risk of congenital abnormalities and infant mortality.

What you need to avoid a bad result or achieve a good one are these:

1. A competent astrologer
2. A plan
3. Functional reproductive capacity
4. The will to get it right
5. Material resources - you will need to travel to the correct location for the birth and employ gynaecologists who do as they're told.

(Check out this post on Osrail ... and this one too ... dealing with the subject of forthcoming problem dates in the child-birthing department.)

Not everyone can have an astrologer for a daddy. Meet Nikita. She has 1st house Sagittarian Mars-120-MC and 10th house Libra Sol-0-Jup/As with Sag rising. Completely out of control but custom built for success. (Click to enlarge.)



And meet Blaizi. Little guy has got a damn fine Yod with MC at focus, (Uranus-0-Venus)-60-Merc at the base. ie. IC-0-Merc/Ven, and IC-0-Merc/Uranus. This is Leonardo-style intelligence. Who knows what the result will be? We only know it will be a good one.

2012 Series - Part 3 - Thermonuclear War in 2012??

I have compiled a report on the possibility of a globalised conflict of apocalyptic proportions breaking out between 2009 and 2016.

It is too long to post on the blog. Download it here.

Here are some of the conclusions, but you need to read the whole report in order to contextualise them. (The report also deals with the Arab-Israeli conflict.) Feedback welcome. Either post to the blog or contact me directly.

• Analysis of FoW transits reveal that point 1 of Table 1 poses the greatest risk in that it most closely resembles the astrological conditions correlating to the 1st World War. If there is going to be a world war, it would likely break out in the periods stipulated, one of which is in play as this report is being written (May 2009).
• Nearly all major conflicts of the last 100 years (including the two world wars) broke out under squares or oppositions to the three FoW war significators (Pluto, Uranus, Node). If a world war did break out under the current tPluto-FoW Uranus conjunction, it would be somewhat out of character in terms of the historical behaviour of the FoW chart.
• Therefore, based on the historical performance of the FoW chart, the astrological evidence for a global conflict enveloping the world between 2009 and 2016 is minimal. (Not entirely absent, however.)
• If humanity collectively could articulate one single fear for the future, it would relate to the potential for nuclear holocaust. This kind of mass annihilation meme has been rocketing through the ether hand-in-hand with the whole 2012 end of Mayan long count apocalyptic scenario. As mentioned in section D earlier, the FoW chart activity demonstrates unmistakable astrological similarities between both occasions in the past when radioactive fallout has killed large numbers of people. There is no astrological equivalence between these events and any configuration between 2009 and 2016.
• Since a global conflict in the 21st century, on the scale (or greater) of the 1st and 2nd world wars, would necessarily involve nuclear warheads and the deaths of millions of people, the lack of astrological correlates of deaths due to fallout between 2009 and 2016 is further confirmation that such a war is unlikely in this period. Accordingly, the 2012 meme appears to be a case of mass hysteria – based on the evidence of the FoW, at any rate.
• Final Conclusion. The FoW chart shows clearly defined astrological activity correlated to all the major conflicts of the last 100 years. We assume, therefore, that its messages are coherent and applicable to the current era. These messages DO NOT clearly and unmistakably indicate the onset of a globalised world war involving thermonuclear WMD in the period 2009-2016.

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2012 Series - Part 2 - Uranus conjoins Jupiter on Aries point 2010

There is an atavistic fear of 2012 infusing the minds and souls of human beings.

The 2012 bandwagon has been gathering momentum since the 90s. With every new-ager, self-styled prophet, UFO buff, fundamentalist end times freak, or tin foil hat salesman that buys into the vision of the end of the world, so does the meme become more viral. And as the meme infects new hosts, it grows the collective expectation of humanity that something bad is going to happen in 2012. Which of course only makes it more likely that something bad WILL happen.

So, by way of reversing this trend, I have chosen to kick off this 2012 series of posts with some good news. My prediction is:

"In 2010/2011 there is going to be a technological or scientific breakthrough that completely transforms/revolutionises the world - socially, politically, economically. It will be something exponentially beyond the "average" type of progress and innovation we are used to. This development is not a new cell phone or revolutionary miracle medical procedure or some such mediocrity. This is something so big and so far reaching that it will shape the nature of society for the next 80 years at least."

We have become inured to scientific and technological progress. Discoveries are announced almost daily which, as recently as 10 years ago, would have been hailed as miraculous. Just to mention two that occurred last year (2008) ... the invisibility cloak produced by UCLA scientists and the discovery of 45 small exoplanets by Swiss astronomer Michael Mayor. Both these developments were in the domain of science fiction not too long ago.

The breakthrough coming in 2010 will be astonishing even by today's standards. I am not going to speculate what it could be but an equivalent level of impact would be the formal announcement by orthodox scientists and the political elite that extraterrestrial contact has been established; or there have been breakthroughs in antigravity or the harvesting of free energy. Something of this ilk. Whatever it is will be mind-blowing.

The timing of this breakthrough is difficult to pinpoint. There is inevitably a lag between the event and the announcement. If it is as big as the astrology seems to indicate, they could be prepping the spin for months before the public gets to hear about it. A further source of delay could be the filing of patents before the news enters the public domain. Click on the graphic below to expand it. (Open in a separate window because the article refers back to it.)


The astrological correlate of this seminal event is the conjoining of Uranus and Jupiter in 0 degrees of Aries. (Purple square in the graphic.) The conjunction partiles (goes exact) in June 2010.

For the non-astrologers, the blue curve depicts the passage of Uranus through the zodiac. The red horizontal line is the Aries point. The thin grey line is the passage of Jupiter. The two connect around 8th June 2010 at 18 minutes of an arc just into the sign of Aries.

The Aries point represents the start of the tropical zodiac. It is defined by the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator - the vernal equinox around March 21st. This point is not static and retrogrades through the sidereal zodiac by a small arc each year, according to the precession.

An active Aries point in natal astrology depicts the nature of one's public impact on the world. It represents "making a splash". It is also associated with the birth of new enterprises and projects. The Sun's imprint at this point defines the start of the astrological new year. When another planet interacts with the Aries point, there is an energetic projection into reality of the said planet's intrinsic quality.

The effect of the Uranus-Jupiter conjunction is very simply described as "big innovation" or "revolutionary growth". Occurring at the Aries point, as it does in 2010, it portends some kind of astonishing event that transforms the global outlook. The technological or scientific nature of this transformation is inferred in part by the nature of Uranus (the planet with natural jurisdiction over science technology)and partly by an analysis of history. This analysis follows below.

"Coincidentally", the last time Uranus crossed the Aries point, it did so with Jupiter as a fellow traveller. The conjunction partiled in January 1928 at a longitude of 23 arc minutes into the sign of Aries. This corresponded to the peak of the frenzied race to produce technology that could transmit moving images, namely television cameras and receivers (sets).


Many have staked their claim to have invented the television. Of all these, the one who stands out as possibly the most deserving of this accolade is a Japanese man by the name of Kenjiro Takayanagi. He was the first to construct a fully electronic system of television transmission by using a cathode ray tube to display the transmitted image. A close runner up was San Franciscan Philo Farnsworth who pioneered the non-mechanical fully electronic television camera. Takayanagi demonstrated his equipment on December 25th 1927, Farnsworth on September 1st 1928. The Japanese demo was barely a month away from the partiled Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in January 1928. 1928 was also the year the first commercially available TV sets went on sale to the general public.

It is not necessary to describe the sociological impact of commercial TV broadcast on the global culture. To say that it has shaped an era is an understatement. The breakthrough coming in 2010/2011 will be just as transformational.

Click here to read other articles in the 2012 series.

A few good astrologers

"You can't handle the truth!!!", explodes Jack Nicholson in the movie "A Few Good Men". This was voted as one of the top 100 movie lines of all time.

Astrologers love applying this maxim. It helps them to pussyfoot around awkward configs in a client's chart. Instead of telling it like it is, they spin the bad news into something aspirational and not quite so bad.

This is understandable. People want good news. If they are consistently getting bad news from the astrologer, they will find a new astrologer who will paint the picture in rosier terms. Whereupon the first astrologer is left without his $ consultation fee.

So, the temptation for the astrologer is always to spin the story to the client in such a way as to minimise the downside. To soften the blow, they have invented a whole new lyrical jargon. For example, quoting from Robert Hand's "Planets in Transit":

"No matter how unpleasant a Saturn transit seems at the time, it represents what you truly want in life and is helping you to get it. Oh yes? Most people are out of touch with what they truly want. Not me. If you thoroughly understand your needs and wants, you will find that Saturn simply brings about their manifestations. Prove it. The "losses" that Saturn brings are of things that you do not want or need. Crap. I loved my SLK200 which was stolen last week under a Saturn-Mercury opposition. No matter how much you think you want them, let them go, especially relationships that Saturn may end." Yes, when my husband/boyfriend/lover died under my Saturn-Sun square, it was simply Saturn helping me attain what I truly wanted in life.

This type of approach is tailored to the needs of people who are in pain and in need of a comforting message which infers meaning from their suffering. It is NOT the truth of the matter, as most of us know from bitter experience. The purple commentary is far more applicable than Hand's soft treatment of the subject.

Similarly, with natal astrology, hard aspects involving Saturn, for example, are interpreted as "opportunities to learn important lessons" or some such panacea. Alan Oken is probably the best exponent of Saturnine mystical-speak ...

"Saturn can only bring privation to those areas in one's life which are based on falsehoods and which must change. Saturn forces the individual to give up illusions and misconceptions which hold him back from the liberation and freedom which come from the depersonalization of the Self. Saturn requires the death of the personality so that the individuality (the Spirit) can emerge from the destiny of one's being."

In reality, a very simple aphorism applies ... "when shit happens, no matter how you package it, it stinks".

So, now, here is the plain and simple truth. Saturn in hard, tight aspect to a personal planet or light is disastrous. A Saturn-Venus |90| contact within a 1 degree orb in the natus means that the bearer of this config will NEVER have a successful, fulfilling relationship. A hard Saturn-Mars contact creates victims/perps of cruelty, abuse and violence. A hard Saturn-Moon aspect is found in the charts of those permanently on the 10th floor window ledge. And so on. That's it. No quarter given.

Another problem with many astrologers is they use the "you can't handle the truth" principle to mask poor quality astrology. When the astrologer sees a tight Saturn-Venus complex, for instance, he is not too sure what to say about it. In the past, he has observed people who have good relationships with this pattern. Just as he has observed the same configuration in bad relationships. He doesn't understand quite why it manifests in one case but not in the other. As a result, he is reluctant to deliver the bad news because the news might not actually be too bad at all.

The real issue is that Astrology 101 does not teach the difference between active and dormant configurations. For example, a Saturn-Venus square can be active or dormant in the natus. The active variant creates problems. The dormant pattern seldom manifests. All Saturn-Venus squares are NOT equal. The first guy will have a succession of disastrous relationships. The second guy sails through this area of life with barely a hiccup.

So what does the astrologer do when he spots a tight Saturn-Venus contact? He follows the double-speak option. Instead of laying it on the line, he dodges the issue with esoteric misdirection and subjunctives, covering all the bases ranging from total relationship failure to startling success once the native has "worked through some stuff".

It is this kind of generality and banality that gives astrology a bad name. People from the Randi foundation, et al, seize upon readings like this to get on their soap boxes about what a bunch of frauds astrologers are. And, if the truth be told, they are mostly right.

The science of astrology in practiced hands does not lie. A tight, hard, ACTIVE Saturn-Venus contact in the natal horoscope IS a formula for a life of failed or non-existent partnering.

Which is more cruel? Telling someone they will never succeed in relationships? Or giving them hope that they may succeed one day if they undertake some kind of karmic journey of self-transcendence, thereby condemning them to a lifetime of trying, failing, and misery, when they could be doing more useful things?

One understands the reluctance to create negative expectation in people lest you program them for self-fulfilling failure. But an accurate picture must be communicated to the client if the astrologer is doing his job properly. Why should clients be paying us to obfuscate the truth and package it in jargon?

This has got nothing to do with whether they can handle the truth or not. This is about growing the profession into respectability. That will come only with accurate insight and prognosis. Not bluster and generalities.

What constitutes an ACTIVE configuration? One that is personalised through interaction with angles and angular derivatives such as planet/angle midpoints. This is simple to determine but inevitably ignored. Yet, in my experience, it is the ONLY way to distinguish between chart structures that count and those that mean little. It is the only way to know whether a tight Saturn-Venus contact will haunt the native from alpha to omega, or barely cause a moment's discomfort.

A few good men were told "you can't handle the truth!". The truth that astrologers can't handle is how few astrologers can actually see the truth when looking at a chart. The rest have no choice but to take refuge in the pseudo-ethical principle that their clients can't handle the truth and must therefore accept cold reading, bluster, uncertainty and spin that covers all the bases, as the standard in astrological practice.

Global 'Flu Pandemic

On 27th January 2007, I contributed some work to an astrological forum specialising in predictive astrology. In the posting, I predicted the outbreak of a global 'flu pandemic before December 2009. Click here to link to the relevant post on the forum where you can read the original prediction with its date stamp.

The post is duplicated below:

The 3 global flu pandemics of the 20th century occurred during periods between Jupiter sq Neptune and Jupiter cj Neptune.

Spanish flu (H1N1 virus) 1918-1919, 20-40 million dead worldwide, Jup-Nep sq to cj from Jul 7 1916- Apr 24 1920.

Asian (Chinese) flu (H2N2 virus) 1957-1958, 1 million dead worldwide, Jup-Nep sq to cj from Sep 18 1954-Sep 24 1958.

Hong Kong flu (H3N2 virus) 1968-1969, 700,000 dead worldwide, Jup-Nep sq to cj Sep 7 1967-Sep 16 1971.

The Spanish and Asian flu pandemic cycles ended with Jup cj Nep in fixed signs (Leo & Scorpio).

Currently, (Jan '07) we are in the waning Jup-Nep square which culminates in a conjunction in 24-27 degrees Aquarius. A fixed sign. The period commenced Jan 28 2006 with the first of three Jup sq Nep hits. The final conjunction is on Dec 21 2009.

I had concluded that the H5N1 bird flu media hype was just a scam to help governments funnel more $$$ to drug companies. Now, I am not so sure.

The way people die from flu definitely has a Jupiter-Neptune feel to it. Quoting from Wiki on the subject of H1N1: "People without symptoms could be struck suddenly and within hours be too feeble to walk; many died the next day. Symptoms included a blue tint to the face and coughing up blood caused by severe obstruction of the lungs. In later stages, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that filled the lungs, and patients drowned in their body fluids."

Has anyone done any work on the Neptune-Jupiter cycle and global pandemics?

Influenza is a term apparently coined by Italians who linked this disease to the influences of celestial bodies. I wonder which ones they were looking at?

In the last few weeks, a swine 'flu outbreak has swept through Mexico City and into the southern states of USA such as California, Texas and Kansas. In the last few days, an outbreak has been reported in NY. While the mortality rate remains relatively low, compared to the numbers of people infected, it does have the potential for a global pandemic. The swine 'flu is the H1N1 variant, precisely the same as that which decimated the world from 1918-1919. At the time, the world had just emerged from a brutal conflict, the likes of which had never been seen. The global mood was, to put it mildly, depressed. Currently, the global mood is similarly depressed due to the financial meltdown and descent into poverty for millions of people.

In the light of the astrological correlates, I believe we should be taking this threat very seriously, as we move into the southern hemisphere winter.

If it is in NY already, it is only a matter of time before it hits London, Johannesburg & Cape Town.

Don't panic. The swine 'flu may well be a flash-in-the-pan and easily contained within the next few weeks.

It may also interest you to know that a study comparing allopathic and homeopathic treatments during the 1918 'flu outbreak proved unequivocally that homeopathy gives one the best survival option. In a sample of 24,000 cases treated allopathically, there was a mortality of 28.2%. A sample of 26,000 cases treated homeopathically showed a mortality of 1.05%. In simple terms, if you catch H1N1 your chances of dying are 28 times higher if you go to a "normal" doctor versus a homeopath.

Click here for a list of homeopathic 'flu remedies. Or here.

Stay well.

UPDATES:

Just heard from San Antonio, Texas, that the health department is shutting down schools in the area, in an effort to contain the pandemic. Steele High School in Schertz-Cibolo is closed,
others could follow soon.

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Spanish astrologer Javier Reinoso has today (Apr26 09) discovered correlates between the Black Death pandemic 1347-1351 and celestial patterns currently in play.

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White House meeting today (Apr26 09) for special briefing on swine flu.

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Check out these links:

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-04-27-flu-fears-dampen-talk-of-tentative-world-recovery

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090426/swine-flu-world/

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gnGyxVMQxYHNqDfUaLOZlicWiLWA

http://www.businessinsider.com/swine-flu-pandemic-would-cost-trillions-2009-4

http://www.norwaypost.no/content/view/21943/1/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/26/2552882.htm?section=world

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/25/mexico-city-cancels-all-p_n_191373.html

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-04-26-global-flu-epidemic-fear-rises-more-us-cases