Moonscope 8th – 14th June

Monday – Tuesday 7:59am The Moon in Sagittarius
The Moon is at her most optimistic and upbeat in Sagittarius. We are motivated by a need to seek the truth, and we are ready to pursue a new vision. We are not interested in details but want to focus on the bigger picture. Spontaneity and having fun are the key. We don’t want to plan ahead, and prefer to “go with the flow.”

The Moon in Sagittarius generally favours the following activities: Adventurous activities that involve “winging it”, travelling, higher education, starting publishing projects, advertising and marketing, sports and physical activities. It’s a great time to party and go out and enjoy yourself.

Tuesday 8:01am – Thursday 8:52pm The Moon in Capricorn
With Moon in Capricorn we become aware of the need for structure and planning ahead. We are motivated by a desire for success. Achievement and accomplishment are of paramount importance. We don’t want to waste time, energy, or resources. This is a very productive time when we look at our life seriously and realistically.

The Moon in Capricorn generally favours the following activities: Setting long-term goals that yield slow but steady results, practical endeavours, career issues, making a business plan, practical investments, working, organising, putting structure into your life.

Thursday 8:54pm – Sunday 9.31am The Moon in Aquarius
Attraction to all that is new and unusual, and an instinctive need for improvement, characterise the Moon in Aquarius. Reactions are more intellectual than emotional, and interactions are more impersonal than personal, under this influence. This is a great time for social gatherings, dealing with group ideals and goals for the future, brainstorming, new ideas, and progressive changes. We are open to new methods of doing things and we have our eye on the future.

The Moon in Aquarius generally favours the following activities: Unusual or radical pursuits, going out with friends, mixing with an entirely new set of people, group projects, trying out something new. Most of all it is a great time to “do your own thing” and focus on your individuality.

Sunday from 9:33am The Moon in Pisces
We don’t want to face reality while the Moon is in dreamy, impressionable Pisces. It can be a wistful, sensitive, intuitive, and compassionate time. We are especially imaginative, and our intuition reigns under this influence. Boundaries and walls come down, as Pisces energy merges and blends. It’s a time when details are overlooked and feelings defy description.

The Moon in Pisces generally favours the following activities: Creative and artistic endeavours, mystical or spiritual pursuits, meditation, inner soul development, music and drama, going on a retreat, activities involving water.

Moonscope 1st – 7th June

Monday – Tuesday 3:16am The Moon in Virgo

Taking care of business is a major theme where your emotional orientation is concerned now. You crave order and practicality, and you want to get things accomplished. You aim to have everything in its place and anything that gets in the way of this gets on your nerves. Health and work goals take on greater importance for you now.

The Moon in Virgo generally favors the following activities: Mental pursuits, work activities, service to others, animals, analysis, editing, reading, writing, and any detailed work.  It’s a great time to catch up with the housework and the filing. Routine jobs tend to go more smoothly and are more satisfying.

Tuesday 3:18am – Thursday 10:43am The Moon in Libra

Your relationships are the key to your emotional fulfillment at this time. Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying – and the lack of them can be emotionally unsettling. Close personal ties to other people are a focal point for your feelings and you want to create peace and harmony with everyone.

The Moon in Libra generally favours the following activities: Relationship and partnership issues, activities involving teamwork and cooperation, activities related to beauty and elegance, social pursuits such as going out to a movie, having a party, meeting up with your friends.

Thursday 10:45am – Saturday 8:23pm The Moon in Scorpio

Moon in Scorpio is all about intensity.  Whether it’s passion, elation, sorrow, or desire, emotions are felt more deeply than ever. We are motivated by the desire to get to the bottom of things, and we instinctively read between the lines. Superficiality won’t work for us now. The Moon in Scorpio urges us to uncover our own power, and it’s an excellent time to rid ourselves of old fears and limiting habits. It can be an intimate and passionate time.

The Moon in Scorpio generally favours the following activities: Anything connected with your finances, especially joint finances, taxes, accounting and banking. Having a soul connection will be of importance whether it be you’re your partner or someone you meet. It’s a great time to do in-depth research and to clear out anything that is past its sell-by date.

Saturday 8:25pm – Sunday The Moon in Sagittarius

The Moon is at her most optimistic and upbeat in Sagittarius. We are motivated by a need to seek the truth, and we are ready to pursue a new vision. We are not interested in details but want to focus on the bigger picture. Spontaneity and having fun are the key. We don’t want to plan ahead, and prefer to “go with the flow.”

The Moon in Sagittarius generally favours the following activities: Adventurous activities that involve “winging it”, travelling, higher education, starting publishing projects, advertising and marketing, sports and physical activities. It’s a great time to party and go out and enjoy yourself.

Moonscope 25th – 31st May

Monday – Tuesday 6:57pm The Moon in Gemini

Our basic instinct is to communicate, think, and learn under the influence of Moon in Gemini. We are motivated by a desire for variety and by an instinctive curiosity. The Moon in Gemini is light-hearted, breezy, and curious, but it can also be restless and unreliable.

The Moon in Gemini generally favours the following activities: Mental and communicative actions, often doing more than one activity at once. Reading, learning, letters and emails, errands, writing, teaching and making short trips are highlighted under the Gemini Moon. It’s also a great time to get out and about and socialise with lots of different people.

Tuesday 6:59pm – Thursday 7:43pm Moon in Cancer

Emotional security, a sense of belonging and nurturing are uppermost in our consciousness: these issues are felt instinctively at this time. You want roots; you crave a sense of intimate connection that will last, you want to feel secure and loved. You may also want to go into a cocoon and enjoy some quiet solitude.

The Moon in Cancer generally favours the following activities: Domestic activities, those that involve awareness of your personal needs. Family get-togethers, meeting up with close friends, eating at home, looking after someone that maybe you have neglected for a while, relaxing by the water or in nature.

Thursday 7:45pm – Saturday 10:16pm Moon in Leo

A need to be the centre of attention takes hold in your life now – a craving to give and to be appreciated by others. This can be an expansive, creative, and even romantic phase. It’s when you want to take charge of your life and organise everything and everyone.

The Moon in Leo generally favours the following activities: Creative activities, activities involving children, generous undertakings, acting, theatre, finding out “who you are” and what makes you tick. It can also indicate a new romance or love-affair.

Saturday 10:19pm – Sunday Moon in Virgo

Taking care of business is a major theme where your emotional orientation is concerned now. You crave order and practicality, and you want to get things accomplished. You aim to have everything in its place and anything that gets in the way of this gets on your nerves. Health and work goals take on greater importance for you now.

The Moon in Virgo generally favors the following activities: Mental pursuits, work activities, service to others, animals, analysis, editing, reading, writing, and any detailed work. It’s a great time to catch up with the housework and the filing. Routine jobs tend to go more smoothly and are more satisfying.

Trust Yourself

I was recently asked how it was that I knew to sell my property portfolio in the UK at the beginning of 2006, why I sold all my stocks in favor of gold and silver, and why I am convinced now that the recent actions by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department are likely to fail and will affect not only Americans but people all over the globe.

How did I get it right, when so many others missed it entirely? Well, I do keep an eagle eye on world markets, property prices, stock movements, currency exchange rates and commodities and I use a lot of “left-brain” analysis to draw some of my conclusions. However, this is not the only method that I employ. In addition, I utilise my “right-brain” intuitive abilities to see whether the actions of the authorities actually “feel right.” With all my financial decisions, I look at the issues from a completely rational point of view and then I draw on my instinctive and more emotional impulses to create a full picture of the situation.

If something “feels wrong” no matter how wonderful the deal may look – and I have been offered many “fabulous deals” – I would not get involved if my antennae were telling me that something was not quite right.

Here were a few of the early warning signs that made me feel uncomfortable and begin to question the decisions of the powers that be:

•  I couldn’t make sense of how nations could consume beyond their means indefinitely.
•  It didn’t make sense to me how a system that is based on a continual expansion of credit would make an easy transition to a no-growth or contracting environment.
• As a mortgage broker and financial consultant at the time, I could not see how people who were making less than $30k per year or who were even unemployed were given loans by the banks to purchase $500k houses with no money down and have any hope of every paying them back. Banks were becoming more and more irresponsible with their lending and there had to be.
• Consequences to these actions in the medium to long term It did not seem possible that money could continue to expand faster than the economy in the long term

We are now moving into a period where many leaders and the media are hyping up the possibility that the economic crisis will soon be behind us and I would like to show you how you can programme yourself to listen very carefully to your own inner voice, even if you cannot articulate what is wrong – it’s very important to start to learn to trust your own instincts when a story just doesn’t add up. This will be happening more and more and it is up to you to start thinking and feeling for yourself. For too long now, we have been programmed to listen and trust our governments, our health service, our banks, our treasurers and the media instead of our own inner voices.

There were many investors involved with Bernard Madoff who recently said that they had suspicions and concerns over the years about the steadiness of Madoff’s returns. Yet, despite those worries, they kept their money with him. If they had trusted themselves and decided to move their money to an institution where they did not have these gut-level concerns, they would probably be in much better shape right now.

Here are a few major issues that do not add up at the moment that I am focusing on:

•  how is it possible for a nation that is insolvent to borrow money from a financial system that is also insolvent to bail out insolvent financial institutions?

Does this make any sense to you at all? Until I can gain an appreciation for how we can borrow our way out of this mess, I will maintain a very protective stance on my finances and assets. I am very doubtful about the overall solvency of all our financial institutions and therefore I strongly resist any advice to go ahead and buy stocks because they are “very cheap” right now and they “always go up in the long run.” If you are hearing this kind of advice from your professional advisors or friends and family, ask them how it will be possible for nations that are already insolvent to continue borrowing money from a financial system that is also insolvent to bail out insolvent financial institutions?

• how are we going to return to a renewed period of economic growth based upon more consumption when baby boomers ( the wealthiest people in the economy) have seen their two primary forms of wealth – stocks and property – fail in the same decade?

Growth requires consumers to spend more money on more things, but older people generally down-scale their lives, cut back on their spending, pay down their debts and add to their savings.

I hear many commentators already calling for a bottom and searching for signs that a recovery in consumer spending is happening. The danger here is failing to appreciate the extent to which our recent excesses were simply over the top and are very unlikely to be repeated any time soon. The banks have far from declared all the liabilities on their balance sheets so there will likely be another huge wave of defaults that will require even more bailout funds.
In the US right now, the Fed is now “monetising debt” – i.e. printing money, and runs the very real risk of a massive devaluation of the US dollar. Of course, I would strongly suspect that this is actually the goal of the Fed, although they will not come right out and say that. Competitive currency devaluations have been a feature of every global financial crisis and are the preferred way of relieving the strains built up by the past periods of excess.

What should you do about this? Trust yourself, and take actions accordingly. Take responsibility for your actions by educating yourself well about issues that you do not fully understand, and do not trust or assume that the authorities know better than you do. Listen to your instincts, act on what you know to be true, and steer clear of the things that don’t make sense to you. Most of all listen to that “inner voice” for it is usually spot on.

Good luck.

The Great Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction of 2010

The Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction is coming up next year and whenever it is in Aries or Libra, there is always a great scientific breakthrough that impacts the world. It will occur in June 2010 at 0 degrees Aries, Sept 2010 at 28 & 29 degrees Pisces and Dec 2010 – Jan 2011 at 26 degrees Pisces.

When Jupiter and Uranus move into an alignment of 36 degrees, usually during the preceding year, we get a glimpse as to the nature of this breakthrough. The last Conjunction in Aries was when Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic. Not just an American Experience but a World Experience, an achievement of the Human Race. In July 1969, when it occurred in Libra, man landed on the Moon.

In 1968, during the 36 degree approach, we began sending astronauts around the Moon, preceding the actual lunar landing. This vanguard alignment will occur around the middle of 2009. At that time, humanity will become aware of the breakthrough about to occur. This is also true of the changes that will occur in our personal lives as a result of the Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction— we will begin to sense them, the new direction in our lives, during 2009.
Jupiter and Uranus are aligned every 14 years but only every 42 years does this alignment occur in Aries or Libra. In any sign, I have found this Conjunction to represent an expansive time in my life:

1969— I won a scholarship to Chethams School of Music and which marked the beginning of my studies for becoming a concert pianist.

1983 – I changed careers totally and won a scholarship to Manchester Business School to study for an MBA and move into business and finance.

1997 – I moved country and took up astrology as my full-time career.

Think about what happened to you during these cycles in your own life. There were difficult experiences but, overall, these were highly expansive periods in my life. It is a progressive cycle so that it is much easier to do progressive things.

Where this Conjunction falls in the natal horoscope shows where we feel compelled to take a risk with our lives, to experience adventure, to explore our creative potential and to overcome the fears in our lives. Some of us will not want to change and will resist the changes, whereas others will take a leap of faith into a new dimension of being. The world is changing and we must, with the motivation of the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in both Pisces and Aries, change with it.

Relating and intimacy under this Conjunction will be experienced through a sense of community, connecting with what has been lost in a new, dynamic way.

In modern times, when humanity takes a leap in consciousness, this is paralleled with great advances in technology, psychological understanding of ourselves and a renewed demand for human rights. Especially with the conjunction in Aries, there will be many technological breakthroughs connected with one very major breakthrough. Such a major breakthrough can stun the thinking of the masses, uprooting us from the past so that we can take a leap of consciousness. Zero Aries is the “World Point” so that this specific conjunction will have a global impact. We live in exciting times!!

Please comment and make any suggestions as to what you think the breakthrough might be!

Moonscope 18th – 24th May

Monday – Wednesday

For the coming week, the Moon is in Pisces on Monday 18th May until 11.29am on Wednesday 20th May.

We don’t want to face reality while the Moon is in dreamy, impressionable Pisces. It can be a wistful, sensitive, intuitive, and compassionate time. We are especially imaginative, and our intuition reigns under this influence. Boundaries and walls come down, as Pisces energy merges and blends. It’s a time when details are overlooked and feelings defy description.

The Moon in Pisces generally favours the following activities: Creative and artistic endeavours, mystical or spiritual pursuits, meditation, inner soul development, music and drama, going on a retreat, activities involving water.

Wednesday – Friday

The Moon is in Aries 11:29am on Wednesday until Friday.

We’re motivated by a strong desire to start fresh. A gut instinct to start something new is with us now, as well as the energy to do so. Our pioneering impulses are strong, and we feel energetic, spontaneous, and enthusiastic. We may also be tactless and impulsive. Excess energy is best channelled into physical activity.

The Moon in Aries generally favours the following activities: Quick actions that yield immediate results. Doing something nice for yourself. Taking action on something that you have been putting off for a long time. Being assertive and sticking up for your rights. Taking on a new challenge or starting a short-term project. 

Friday – Sunday

The Moon is in Taurus on Friday 4.39pm until Sunday.  

We are motivated by the desire for serenity, security, peace, and comfort. The Moon is at her most sensual and constant in Taurus. Our basic impulses are to relax, resist change, and “to stop and smell the roses”. Life slows down a little, and we have more time to breathe. We may also be inclined to “dig our heels in” and insist on our own way.

The Moon in Taurus generally favours the following activities: physical actions that yield solid, tangible results. It’s a great time to take action concerning your finances and your personal possessions. You may begin a potentially long-term relationship, play and listen to music, make changes to your home and surroundings or go out for a delicious meal.

Sunday

The Moon is in Gemini Sunday May 24th at 6.33pm

Our basic instinct is to communicate, think, and learn under the influence of Moon in Gemini. We are motivated by a desire for variety and by an instinctive curiosity. The Moon in Gemini is light-hearted, breezy, and curious, but it can also be restless and unreliable.

The Moon in Gemini generally favours the following activities: Mental and communicative actions, often doing more than one activity at once. Reading, learning, letters and emails, errands, writing, teaching and making short trips are highlighted under the Gemini Moon. It’s also a great time to get out and about and socialise with lots of different people.

Moon Signs – What they Mean

The following short interpretations of Moon signs refer to general conditions that affect the population in general.

When the Moon is in Aries
We’re motivated by a strong desire to start fresh. A gut instinct to start something new is with us now, as well as the energy to do so. Our pioneering impulses are strong, and we feel energetic, spontaneous, and enthusiastic. We may also be tactless and impulsive. Excess energy is best channelled into physical activity.

The Moon in Aries generally favours the following activities: Quick actions that yield immediate results. Doing something nice for yourself. Taking action on something that you have been putting off for a long time. Being assertive and sticking up for your rights. Taking on a new challenge or starting a short-term project. 

When the Moon is in Taurus
We are motivated by the desire for serenity, security, peace, and comfort. The Moon is at her most sensual and constant in Taurus. Our basic impulses are to relax, resist change, and “to stop and smell the roses”. Life slows down a little, and we have more time to breathe. We may also be inclined to “dig our heels in” and insist on our own way.

The Moon in Taurus generally favours the following activities: physical actions that yield solid, tangible results. It’s a great time to take action concerning your finances and your personal possessions. You may begin a potentially long-term relationship, play and listen to music, make changes to your home and surroundings or go out for a delicious meal.

When the Moon is in Gemini
Our basic instinct is to communicate, think, and learn under the influence of Moon in Gemini. We are motivated by a desire for variety and by an instinctive curiosity. The Moon in Gemini is light-hearted, breezy, and curious, but it can also be restless and unreliable.

The Moon in Gemini generally favours the following activities: Mental and communicative actions, often doing more than one activity at once. Reading, learning, letters and emails, errands, writing, teaching and making short trips are highlighted under the Gemini Moon. It’s also a great time to get out and about and socialise with lots of different people.

When the Moon is in Cancer
Emotional security, a sense of belonging and nurturing are uppermost in our consciousness: these issues are felt instinctively at this time. You want roots; you crave a sense of intimate connection that will last, you want to feel secure and loved. You may also want to go into a cocoon and enjoy some quiet solitude.

The Moon in Cancer generally favours the following activities: Domestic activities, those that involve awareness of your personal needs. Family get-togethers, meeting up with close friends, eating at home, looking after someone that maybe you have neglected for a while, relaxing by the water or in nature.

When the Moon is in Leo
A need to be the centre of attention takes hold in your life now – a craving to give and to be appreciated by others. This can be an expansive, creative, and even romantic phase. It’s when you want to take charge of your life and organise everything and everyone.

The Moon in Leo generally favours the following activities: Creative activities, activities involving children, generous undertakings, acting, theatre, finding out “who you are” and what makes you tick. It can also indicate a new romance or love-affair.

When the Moon is in Virgo
Taking care of business is a major theme where your emotional orientation is concerned now. You crave order and practicality, and you want to get things accomplished. You aim to have everything in its place and anything that gets in the way of this gets on your nerves. Health and work goals take on greater importance for you now.

The Moon in Virgo generally favors the following activities: Mental pursuits, work activities, service to others, animals, analysis, editing, reading, writing, and any detailed work.  It’s a great time to catch up with the housework and the filing. Routine jobs tend to go more smoothly and are more satisfying.

When the Moon is in Libra
Your relationships are the key to your emotional fulfillment at this time. Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying – and the lack of them can be emotionally unsettling. Close personal ties to other people are a focal point for your feelings and you want to create peace and harmony with everyone.

The Moon in Libra generally favours the following activities: Relationship and partnership issues, activities involving teamwork and cooperation, activities related to beauty and elegance, social pursuits such as going out to a movie, having a party, meeting up with your friends.

When the Moon is in Scorpio
Moon in Scorpio is all about intensity.  Whether it’s passion, elation, sorrow, or desire, emotions are felt more deeply than ever. We are motivated by the desire to get to the bottom of things, and we instinctively read between the lines. Superficiality won’t work for us now. The Moon in Scorpio urges us to uncover our own power, and it’s an excellent time to rid ourselves of old fears and limiting habits. It can be an intimate and passionate time.

The Moon in Scorpio generally favours the following activities: Anything connected with your finances, especially joint finances, taxes, accounting and banking. Having a soul connection will be of importance whether it be you’re your partner or someone you meet. It’s a great time to do in-depth research and to clear out anything that is past its sell-by date.

When the Moon is in Sagittarius
The Moon is at her most optimistic and upbeat in Sagittarius. We are motivated by a need to seek the truth, and we are ready to pursue a new vision. We are not interested in details but want to focus on the bigger picture. Spontaneity and having fun are the key. We don’t want to plan ahead, and prefer to “go with the flow.”

The Moon in Sagittarius generally favours the following activities: Adventurous activities that involve “winging it”, travelling, higher education, starting publishing projects, advertising and marketing, sports and physical activities. It’s a great time to party and go out and enjoy yourself.

When the Moon is in Capricorn
With Moon in Capricorn we become aware of the need for structure and planning ahead. We are motivated by a desire for success. Achievement and accomplishment are of paramount importance. We don’t want to waste time, energy, or resources. This is a very productive time when we look at our life seriously and realistically.

The Moon in Capricorn generally favours the following activities: Setting long-term goals that yield slow but steady results, practical endeavours, career issues, making a business plan, practical investments, working, organising, putting structure into your life.

When the Moon is in Aquarius
Attraction to all that is new and unusual, and an instinctive need for improvement, characterise the Moon in Aquarius. Reactions are more intellectual than emotional, and interactions are more impersonal than personal, under this influence. This is a great time for social gatherings, dealing with group ideals and goals for the future, brainstorming, new ideas, and progressive changes. We are open to new methods of doing things and we have our eye on the future.

The Moon in Aquarius generally favours the following activities: Unusual or radical pursuits, going out with friends, mixing with an entirely new set of people, group projects, trying out something new. Most of all it is a great time to “do your own thing” and focus on your individuality.

When the Moon is in Pisces
We don’t want to face reality while the Moon is in dreamy, impressionable Pisces. It can be a wistful, sensitive, intuitive, and compassionate time. We are especially imaginative, and our intuition reigns under this influence. Boundaries and walls come down, as Pisces energy merges and blends. It’s a time when details are overlooked and feelings defy description.

The Moon in Pisces generally favours the following activities: Creative and artistic endeavours, mystical or spiritual pursuits, meditation, inner soul development, music and drama, going on a retreat, activities involving water.

The World Economy & What You Can Do

Here are my thoughts for the future economy:

There will be major changes in the phone companies – not necessarily for the better – they will try to streamline things and will eliminate a lot of the things that were working.

The government needs to have more control over the monies that are being used for bailouts. There must be much more accountability. For example, AIG have been given $180bn in bailout funds but what have they done with all the money?

There will be much unrest in the oil industry. Oil wells will get blown up, watch out for wildcat strikes, explosions and arson. There will be major changes in the oil industry – some will be at the pump and some in production, but we will all feel it.

There will be an increase in violent crimes.

Food will become scarcer and there will have to be more government programmes for the destitute. In the US we will see more tent cities.

There will be more natural disasters than ever before in the history of the world.

There will be an increase in infant mortality with more homeless and more orphans globally.

People will do a lot less travelling and as a consequence, the airlines will hurt a lot more.

The ones who will suffer most will be importers and exporters of produce eg. meats, fish. Getting stuff to market will be harder and transporting perishables across great distances will become too costly.

The clothing industry will take a severe cut.

Millions more will be unemployed.

On the plus side (at last!)

Education will go up a notch

Health care coverage will go up a lot

Insurance companies will be held more accountable and so will hospitals.

For the first time in years, people will hold onto their money rather than spend it.

Insurance companies will have to provide more coverage for less money.

With the policies that the governments around the world are implementing, I think there could be at least 10-15 years of hardship ahead of us.

Here are some tips:
Get your health sorted out NOW. Get anything fixed up that needs to be dealt with while we still have access to medical and dental care.

Consolidate and pay off your debts.

Choose a career that is more likely to grow and think about starting to train for it now: for example, technology, sustainable living, local food production, teaching others how to be sustainable, community connections and networking.

Get you car fixed up and keep it well-maintained.

Consider developing a small tract of land where you could grow vegetables, chickens and where you would at least have food to live on.

New Zealand

As far as New Zealand is concerned, although the banks are not stable and there will be economic hardship as in the rest of the world. There is one big difference: New Zealand can be self-sufficient. We do have resources, fishing, hunting, livestock, arable land and if necessary we could all live well in this country. We are in a very fortunate position and hopefully in the months and years to come we will work together in closely-knit supportive communities to help one another grow and flourish.

Venus goes Direct – what does this fortell?

Venus went retrograde on March 6th at on that day, the Dow Jones Index hit its lowest point in 12 years at 6470. During the entire Venus retrograde period, the Dow Jones has rallied, at no point being close to the low it was at on March 6th. What remains to be seen is if there is a fall now that Venus went direct on April 17th. Will Financial Astrology predict this accurately?

If we examine the rallies since the big crash in September 2008, most have lasted about 6-7 weeks and have rallied between 1640 and 1770 points. This current rally has lasted 6 weeks and has gained 1720 points. So it is very much looking like we will see a reverse trend in the weeks to come. However, as with everything in astrology, nothing can be taken in isolation. It is vital to synthesise the activities of all the planets and see the bigger picture.

So what else is going on?
With Jupiter fast approaching its conjunction with Neptune in late May through mid-July, there is a strong possibility that we will see further optimism and more rallies in the stock markets. This aspect normally brings optimism and faith in the future and may well bring more investors into the market, thus causing an upswing.

There are two important ingresses this week: Mars enters Aries on April 22nd and Venus also enters Aries on April 24th. Aries is a cardinal sign and this would suggest that there will be changes in policy from central banks around the world. Venus is also squaring Pluto from April 3rd to May 2nd and this could result in yet another large company – probably a bank or a car company – being taken over by the US government.

Whilst there could be some temporary good news on the horizon, there are other factors that do not support this optimism. With the 20 month opposition we are currently in with Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces – expect more job losses, more unexpected crises, more banks failing, more companies being taken over by governments around the world.

The challenge with this opposition is to find the right balance between more regulation to wipe out dishonest business practices, with policies that reward innovation leading to new jobs and economic growth. With Saturn coming up to the third of its five oppositions to Uranus on September 15th 2009, followed by the first of three Saturn-Pluto squares beginning November 15th 2009, I seriously think that the aspects indicate that we will be in for more economic challenges in the weeks and months ahead.

The End of Depression?

We keep on hearing from the experts around the world that maybe this crisis is nearly over. We are coming through it. They will quote all kinds of dodgy information such as the fact that Wells Fargo posted huge gains this quarter, far above analyst’s estimates….that Intel announced larger than expected profits today…that unemployment is falling…
I would suggest that you take it all with a pinch of salt. How can this crisis be over when there is still an unknown figure of toxic assets that are still sitting on banks’ balance sheets. It has been said that JP Morgan alone has derivatives of over $90 TRILLION on its books! So the G20 figure of $5 trillion stimulus over two years pales into insignificance.

Look around you and see that this is far from over and it is time for us to start thinking for ourselves, to start taking responsibility for what we believe and see. It’s time to kick the junk-news habit, listening to the “powers that be” and to start questioning all around us. At least with the internet there is a plethora of opinion, news and information out there – the new revolution is for us to THINK and to join up with like-minded people. It’s time to make the decision that we are unwilling to be controlled any more. The systems have let us all down badly and it is time for a new world order.

The job losses are the worst since the Depression, credit cards and imploding, the housing market has not bottomed, governments will collapse, there will be a devaluing of all currencies, more hate groups will emerge, more crimes, more vandalism, protests will intensify, religiosity will rise, markets will fall further……….

Yes, it does not sound good, but isn’t it better to be aware and to prepare, rather than being shocked and have the rug taken away from you?

What can you do:

• Consider buying gold and silver
• Reduce your standard of living voluntarily before it is done for you
• Don’t buy everything you want – only buy what you need
• Don’t dream about getting rich- dream about covering your needs and being at peace with your neighbours
• Do something nice for at least one person every day
• This is the start to creating a new world – one that we will enjoy living in and feel safe and secure

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