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chart major changes in landmasses, and thus in the nations of people who live onthem.The modern USA is a bit different in this regard, for although there were uncountedpeoples living in the Western Hemisphere before Columbus ran aground in what we nowcall the Bahamas, native populations were almostentirely obliterated by diseases they had noimmunity to, brought to them by explorers twocycles of Pluto-in-Capricorn ago, the late 1490sthrough the early 1500s. The newcomers to theAmericas then created nation states on theEuropean model.The USA was born when it separated fromits mother country, England. That separation isI want to emphasize that my systemfor predicting crashes doesn’t work100 percent of the time, but it hasworked since 1857 with but fewexceptions.dated July 4, 1776, although it was really more a process than this specific date implies. MostAmerican astrologers accept this date as the birthday of the USA but argue about what timeon July 4, 1776 the actual birthing occurred. In other words, when did this new nation takeits first breath, free from dependence on its mother country? The time most astrologersaccept for this event is late afternoon of July 4, 1776, usually designated as 5:10 PM and called“The Sibley Chart.”I prefer to use what is usually called the “Gemini Rising” chart, mainly because themost influential founders were Masons and this chart puts Venus, Jupiter, Sun and Mercuryall in Cancer in the 2nd, the “money house.” The rapid rise of this new nation to the world’smost expansive and wealthiest is a kind of testimony, I think, to a birth time of 2:15 AM.Also, that time puts Uranus in Gemini on the Ascendant, and “Uncle Sam’s” persona to theworld certainly fits the astrological reading for that combination.No matter what time on July 4, 1776 we use for the birth time, the system I have comeup with for predicting stock market crashes works by transit-to-natal angles to two importantpositions in the USA’s nativity. For calculating crashes, it doesn’t matter what houses of aWestern style chart they fall in. Well, it matters to any astrologer who wants to explore thefiner points of the USA’s situation at any given time, but not to anyone who only wants topredict when the next major stock downturn is likely.Long ago I gave up trying to predict the stock markets day to day. It seems to me thatso many influences are involved in daily movements, it’s impossible to predict daily ups anddowns by any astrological method more than 70 percent of the time. Although the Lunationand Mars often trigger major daily moves, you could lose your shirt trying to rely on themover time.It’s said in the USA that when the New York Yankees win the World Series, stockswill rise during the coming year. I haven’t researched this but word on the street is that thisstock predictor works 100 percent of the time. Of course stocks can rise in numerical valueduring times of inflation, when investors lose money because the increased numbers ofdollars they make buy less than the fewer dollars they’d invested.I want to emphasize that my system for predicting crashes doesn’t work 100 percent ofthe time, but it has worked since 1857 with but few exceptions. It doesn’t enable you topinpoint the precise time of a crash, but it does give you a “zone” of time within which acrash is likely, very likely, or practically certain. In other words, on a scale of 1 to 10, itenables investors to bet the downside and win better than 90 percent of the time.Since the last quarter of 2007 we have been in a “crash zone” according to my system.The downturn that began in late 2007 turned into a full-blown crash by the summer and172