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MMA Comments For the Week
Beginning August 18th, 2003

by Ray Merriman

Copyright 2003. All Rights Reserved

Most of the world’s stock indices covered in this weekly report continued upwards last week to new highs for this year. Everything continues on track according to our prior forecasts of a possible 50-week crest to be achieved within 12 trading days of the Jupiter-Uranus opposition, which takes place August 29. This 14-year astronomic cycle has the highest correlation to primary or greater cycles of all the geocosmic signatures in effect this year, according to the studies I reported in The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing Volume 3: Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles.

In Europe, the German Dax attained a new high at 3470.50 on Friday. It closed at 3443.90, still up considerable from its major cycle trough of 3299.80 on August 7, which right in the middle of our previous reversal zone (August 5-8). The London FTSE index soared to a new high for this year of 4266.40 on Friday, before settling back to close at 4247.30. The Swiss stock index and Netherlands AEX also made new highs for the year on Friday, reaching 5137 and 324.30 respectively. Both indices closed near those highs too on Friday.

In the Far East, both the Australian All Ordinaries and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng indices made new highs for 2003. The All Ordinaries topped out on Thursday at 3156.50, before settling back to close at 3142.80. The Hang Seng soared to 10,435 on Friday, and closed the week at 10,425. The Japanese Nikkei Index also had a strong rally, rising from 9252 on August 8, all the way up to 10,038 on Friday, August 15. This was slightly off the 10,070 yearly high attained last month, thus creating a possible double top chart formation. It closed the week at 9863.

In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Averages made a weekly high of 9337.20 on Friday, which is a little short of the 9361 high for the year achieved on July 31. The NASDAQ Composite however was far off its high for the year, rallying only to 1705.30 on Friday. Both the DJIA and NASDAQ closed near their highs for the week.

We now begin a very intense geocosmic time band containing several aspects to Jupiter. As stated earlier the Jupiter-Uranus opposition of August 29 is the most important. But leading up to that, we find both the Sun and Venus in conjunction to Jupiter this week, on Thursday and Friday. Since the principle of Jupiter is to expand or increase, and since the market has been rising, it would appear that these indices could continue higher into these dates.

But the principle of Uranus is that of sudden surprises, when the unexpected can happen, causing markets to either suddenly reverse, or just explode with an energy not anticipated. Not only does Jupiter form an opposition to Uranus on August 29, but Sun and Venus do as well on August 22 and 24. Stock markets around the world could be explosive by the end of this coming week, and possibly into the following week. Large point swings are suggested. 200 point up (and maybe down too) days may be in evidence in the Dow Jones Industrial Averages.

For the past few weeks, I have also focused on the Mars retrograde in Pisces. As Mars retrogrades in the heavens, it is coming back close to the tropical position of Uranus, which is also in Pisces. Those not only will the Sun and Venus oppose Uranus, but it will also be in opposition to Mars on August 26 and 28. Adding concern to this intense set up is the fact that Mars is closer to the Earth now than it has been in thousands of years. The nature of Mars, as stated so many times before, is assertive or aggressive. But it is in Pisces, where this dynamic may be distorted, because Pisces represents the principle of passivity. So we have a very intense passive-aggressive collective psychological environment suggested by the celestial arrangement.

In financial markets, it would seem that this could be the basis also for large price swings, first one way, and then another. Of all the planets that we study, and their correlation to market prices, these three planets – Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus – are the most explosive. They tend to coincide with large volume and large price swings. And they are all in aspect to one another – along with the Sun and Venus – from August 18-September 10. The midpoint of this intense cluster is August 31, which is very close to the Jupiter-Uranus opposition itself of August 29. And I didn’t yet mention that on August 28, Mercury will begin its retrograde motion through September 20, and Pluto will end its retrograde motion, and Jupiter will enter into Virgo where it will remain for the next year. This is plain and simply one of the most highly charged geocosmic periods in a very long time that starts this week.

What can we expect outside of the markets? Well, many of us just experienced one of the correlates to Uranus, as the Northeast United States just encountered its worst electrical blackout ever. The source of this electrical failure is still not certain as this is being written. Uranus rules electricity, and things like electrical blackouts and failure of the system to curtail it. But Uranus rules other things too, like hurricanes and earthquakes and strong winds suddenly occurring, that present threat to human lives. On the positive side, Uranus can coincide with periods of pure brilliance, the generation of new ideas that can benefit masses of people. It is very inventive, very progressive. But it can also be very explosive and spectacular in a dangerous since too. It is not usually a period suggestive of reason and calm, but rather over-excitement and even hysteria.

That is why I am concerned where these world stock markets are concerned. I could make a case, based purely on my knowledge of astrology, that the high for the year may occur between now and September 10. The rally upwards may become very exciting, even explosive in a positive sense. And then something completely unexpected happens, and these markets suddenly reverse. Perhaps an eye should be kept on North Korea during this period, or any nation in the world where the leader of that country may be given to erratic, unpredictable, and even dangerously irrational (and perhaps passive-aggressive) behavior. With Mars retrograde in Pisces, and Uranus so prominent, anything is possible, from amazing revelations and solutions to gigantic problems facing the world today, to the creation of new problems and new threats by people (even so-called leaders) who will possibly be considered crazy and unstable. The art of compromise and diplomacy will likely be in great need, in a world besieged by an ever increasing polarity of highly-charged beliefs of being “right and good” (and by deduction, others must be “wrong and bad”).

Disclaimer: No guarantee as to the accuracy of this report is being made here. Any decisions in financial markets are solely the responsibility of the reader, and neither the author nor the publishers assume any responsibility at all for those individual decisions. Reader should understand that futures and options trading are considered high risk.

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