Silver dropped to 15.67 on the same day

REVIEW

This is our last column of the year, and what a year it has been for the world and for the nation. We would be happy to review it, but we did much of that that in this year’s Forecast 2017 Book. To Financial Astrologers, it will forever more be known as the Saturn/Neptune waning square year, which correlated with 1) the nastiest USA presidential election in our lifetime, offering two candidates who had higher disapproval ratings than approval ratings, thus making it an election against a candidate more than for a candidate, 2) interest rates bottomed, and 3) crude oil prices bottomed.

In the last week before the holidays, several stock market indices soared to new all-time highs or at least multi-month highs, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which came close to 20,000, but stopped a little short at 19,987 on December 20. That is still within the time band for a primary or half-primary cycle crest as outlined in our Special Report sent out last week, related to the Jupiter/Uranus opposition taking place on Monday, December 26.

In fact, this period surrounding Jupiter in opposition to Uranus is important for all markets, including precious metals, crude oil, currencies, and treasuries. It is interesting to note that as the DJIA made a new all-time high last week, the S&P futures did not, for a case of intermarket bearish divergence. Likewise, Silver dropped to 15.67 on the same day, December 20, its lowest level since April 11, but Gold held above its multi-month low of 1124.30 made the week before. This is a case of intermarket bullish divergence. However, given this is a holiday season market, and Mercury is retrograde (December 19-January 8), these signals may not prove to be reliable. We will have to wait and see what it looks like in the first week of January.

SHORT-TERM GEOCOSMICS AND LONGER-TERM THOUGHTS

If the markets don’t move much during the next week or two it won’t be due to a lack of geocosmic signatures. If they do make substantial moves, it will be in accordance with the abundance (12) of geocosmic signatures that are in force, December 19-January 12. This is a time when traders tend to go on vacation, volume is light, and price activity tends to be subdued. However, this is also a time of intense geocosmic activity that – in normal markets – would have a high correspondence to major reversals of trends, as well as unexpected and possibly disruptive conditions in the natural and/or geopolitical world.

We are already witnessing another bout of increased terrorist activity related to these signatures, most notable the Jupiter/Uranus opposition, combined with the change of direction of Uranus in Aries, as it moves from its retrograde to direct motion on December 29, with an orb of influence up to 12 days either side. Uranus in Aries can be dangerous. It can also be very exciting and filled with new ideas, new hopes, and new visions for the future. The ideas may be radical, but they can also be brilliant.

Thus, we enter 2017 with a sense of both excitement and trepidation about “What will happen next?” With a cardinal T-square now in effect late November through January 12, and then again February 22-April 21, we need to get use to the idea that it is impossible to get use to anything. These are signatures suggesting a very unknown quality is afoot. We can have hope, and we can expect changes and surprising events, but we don’t know the form these changes or surprising events will take. The whole world will be in a heightened state of vigilance, watching for something new, as well as something amiss. The vigilance will focus upon liberties and freedoms, key terms related to Uranus. Will they be expanded, or will they be trampled upon? And if the latter, who will have the courage (Aries) to speak up?

One of the wonderful things about my life is that I get to know some very unusual and brilliant thinkers about the world, the world economy, and the world of finances. One of those profound thinkers – Ted Lee Fisher – gave me a call this week, and we had a conversation that helped me to a much clearer idea of what to anticipate in the next 1-3 years, given my knowledge of rhythmic and geocosmic cycles. Ted will be our featured guest at the forthcoming MMA Investment Retreat in San Diego, March 9-13, and for those who attend, this will be a rare treat, as Ted lives in Phuket, Thailand now. You will not see him doing many public presentations or interviews, and to have this legend in commodities trading join us for four days is – for me – an honor.

So, what did Ted and I discuss that cleared my head about the next year? You can get an idea from this web site I found at http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/gold-trump-will-make-gold-great-again, combined with the ideas I discuss in Forecast 2017 (now out). It is a big subject -  too big for this column, but let’s just say it has to the do with the Saturn/Pluto balsamic phase (2016-2020) and the “Great Reset,” which I think will fully get under way following the Sun/Saturn ingress (together, conjunct) in Capricorn on December 21, 2017. It will also be on the Fed’s solar return that year (next year, 2017). It is a subject I will discuss January 13, 2017, in Zurich, Switzerland (see Events). I think a great political, governmental, and financial reset is being conceived as we enter the “dark stages” of Saturn/Pluto cycle, just before the birth of a New Era in 2020 +/- 1 year. It is a great time to be alive, especially if you understand the cosmic play.