Geocosmic weekly preview

Please note that this is an abbreviated weekly column, as I am ending a one-week vacation this weekend (Bahamas).

BRIEF REVIEW AND PREVIEW

Spring has sprung! And it is starting out on a positive note with many global stock indices rallying to new cycle highs following their primary cycle lows of January 20 and February 11. This week, the good news was the announcement by the Federal Reserve Board to do nothing. That is, in typical mutable fashion, the Fed decided not to raise their short–term interest rates, after announcing three months ago they intended to raise rates four times in 2016. That projection is now downgraded to perhaps two rate hikes for 2016.

The no-rate-hike announcement came out on Wednesday, March 16, as the expansive and generous Jupiter formed a harmonious 120-degree trine aspect to Pluto, ruler of all matters pertaining to debt (like interest rates). The Fed chose not to tighten, which would have been more of Saturn-like decision. This, by the way, followed last week’s decision by the European Central Bank (ECB) to lower their rates further into negative territory, while at the same time adopting new quantitative easing bond buying programs. This generous banking stimulus did achieve the intended effect – equites and treasuries went up all over the world. And of course, so too will world-wide debt, unless the bankers can start to finally achieve their desired outcome, which seems to be 2% inflation. It becomes more and more clear that the central bankers intend to inflate their way out of world debt, by continuing the war on “who can achieve the lowest currency value.” In this latest round, clearly the USA central bank (the Fed) is winning. The Dollar is going down, and despite the negative interest rates and new QE programs in Europe, the Euro currency is going up.

However, all of this good news for world markets may be readying for yet another change, for this is the nature of the times when major planets are in mutable signs. Mutable signs pertain to “changes.” Nothing continues in a straight projectory, or trend, for long when the dominance is mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces). Right now, the world is about to enter a wild time band when an incredible mutable T-square involving Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, will enter its three-month peak (March 23-June 29).

From the Jupiter/Pluto trine of last week, March 16, we now head into the second (of three) Jupiter/Saturn square of March 23. Two days later, Saturn turns retrograde on March 25. That same day, Venus will form a T-square with both Jupiter and Saturn. This entire translation takes place in – guess what? –mutable signs. And yet, this is still only the beginning of this incredible spring line up of powerful geocosmic signatures that will last through June.

Anything goes. Everything changes, back and forth, especially concerning decisions, agreements, and treaties. You think you have a deal? Think again. No deal. The deal is that there is no deal, even if we agree to a deal. Your understanding of a deal is not the same as my understanding of the deal, and the deal is always open to change if even one of the parties thinks the change makes the deal a better deal (forget whether or not the other party thinks this is a better deal). Here the problem is not a lack of choice. The problem is that the options or choices never end, even after you have come to an agreement. You might think of this Mutable T-square as “The Epitome of Fickleness.” Allegations of unethical and deceptive behavior are bound to soar now.

It is all part of the larger Saturn/Neptune square (in mutable signs, of course), which means you cannot trust anyone or anybody you see, hear, or read (well, maybe this column). Not to mention that we are also in between a solar and lunar eclipse (March 8 and 23), which started with the solar eclipse in Pisces, which of course is also a mutable sign. Everything is so mutable, unhinged, and not so firm right now that we should all be thinking of taking swimming or flying lessons - anything to get adjusted to being detached from the earth. The lunar eclipse, by the way, happens this week, March 23, in early Aries-Libra. That’s not mutable, but since it is a lunar eclipse, it likely intensifies the issues of people changing their minds and acting out of the bounds of agreements recently made, thus causing friction. The lineup of signatures (and the lunar eclipse) this week can be powerful enough to produce strong price reversals in many markets. Watch especially the energy sector, which is co-ruled by Jupiter.

If you can go with the flow, and not get blown away, this could actually be an enjoyable and entertaining three-month period. But if you are trying to carry out a plan, complete a project that involves the cooperation of other people, this could feel like a flight into madness.