SAVol7Dec09WesternCo.. - Saptarishis Astrology

September 11, 2001: Pluto and Chiron in Sagittarius; Saturn and Moon in Gemini; Sun inVirgo. Dow had lost 22.9% by December 2001. NASDAQ fell 50.7% from July 2000 high toDecember 2001.Oct. 2007 - Mar. 2008: 19% drop. Uranus in Pisces opposite the US Neptune was the mostinfluential.Sept. 15, 2008: 500 point drop. Full Moon conjunct Saturn-Uranus opposition,conjunct/opposite US Neptune and square US Mars.One of the most fascinating things about the study of astrology is that you cannotpredict anything with absolute certainty. At least I can’t predict the stock market withabsolute certainty. After defining all of 2008 as a crash zone because of a Saturn-Uranusopposition that hit the USA’s Mars-Neptune square—a prediction that proved true—Ipredicted that another exact Saturn-Uranus opposition in September 2009 would bringanother crash, but that one didn’t materialize. After stocks fell in March 2009, theyzigzagged higher to the present, November 2009, even though the Saturn-Uranus oppositionwas closer to exactly hitting the USA’s Mars-Neptune square in September. What this andother similar instances suggest is that the affliction to the USA’s Mars-Neptune becomesmost effective when stocks are ripe to fall. But after a crash, prices are low and ripe to rise,and not likely to fall again when hit again by the same pattern that coincided with theprevious crash.The stock market is not to be confused with the overall economy or the FederalReserve. Talking heads on TV financial news shows often suggest that if stocks rise, theoverall economy is robust and all is well with the Fed. Actually,the stock market is part of the overall economy, as is the Fed. Butstocks can rise while unemployment drags down the overalleconomy and the Fed struggles with gnarly monetary problems.By November 2009, many media pundits declared the“Great Recession,” as they called it, over and done because stockswere rising. But so was gold, as the dollar was falling andunemployment remained around 10% (or closer to 20% by a fullermethod of counting). It remained to be seen whether we werereally beyond the worst of the economic woes that struck in 2008, for the astrology involvedindicates we—in the USA—are headed into another great depression.We have never avoided a great depression in the past whenever the outermost planetsform a grand cross pattern with the USA’s Sun-Saturn square. And by late 2009, the Saturn-Uranus opposition of 2008-2009 was evolving into a T square with Pluto square Uranus,which will move within orb of a grand cross to the USA’s natal Sun-Saturn square. Thisnext grand cross will form gradually. By July 2010, as indicated by the chart below, a Saturn-Uranus-Pluto T-square will hit the USA’s natal Venus-Jupiter conjunction, but not yet bewithin orb of the USA’s natal Sun.175