{"id":13666,"date":"2014-10-16T07:59:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=13666"},"modified":"2014-10-16T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:59:46","slug":"the-astrology-of-the-october-2014-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/blog\/the-astrology-of-the-october-2014-stock-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The astrology of the October 2014 stock market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"11725379_s\"<\/a>October is not often a good month for the stock market. But in a market that is overvalued and long overdue for a correction, combined with fears over war and infectious diseases, American optimism hit a new low this week with a precipitous plunge in the markets.<\/p>\n

The (Sibley) astrological chart for the US has Sagittarius rising, and Sagittarius likes to do everything in a bigger than life fashion. \u00a0Americans are famous for overreacting (witness the current hysteria over ebola) and there has been plenty of bad news to react to. \u00a0While it\u2019s true that Mercury retrograde periods often bring reversals, they are typically not so dramatic as the one we saw yesterday. \u00a0This was a highly reactive and emotional \u201cfreak out\u201d<\/a> that brought added drama to what would normally have been a\u00a0pullback from inflated markets.<\/p>\n

This chart tells the story:<\/p>\n

\"October<\/a>
Source: Google<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can see that the Dow began its rapid\u00a0decline on October 8th, the day of the lunar eclipse. \u00a0Eclipses are known for heightening emotion, and this eclipse, with the Sun at 15 Libra and the Moon at 15 Aries, sat right on the Sun\/Saturn square in the US chart which would have activated the inherent anxiety in the US national consciousness. \u00a0 As if that weren\u2019t enough, transiting Saturn is approaching a square to the Moon in the US chart which will be in exact alignment in mid to late November of this year. \u00a0So don\u2019t expect the anxiety level to decline, and in a global world where everything is connected, this will affect markets the world over.<\/p>\n

All the news is covering is the big drop in averages, but some stocks actually went up yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The big news, though, should be the small-company\u00a0Russell 2000<\/strong>. Not only was it far less volatile than the its big-cap brethren, it finished up on the day. And not just a little bit up, but up 1% at 1,072.45. For an asset class that was\u00a0busy getting beaten up<\/a>\u00a0as recently as last week, that\u2019s quite a turnaround.<\/p>\n

It might also be good news for investors. I spoke with\u00a0Richard Bernstein<\/strong>\u00a0ofRichard Bernstein Advisors<\/strong>\u00a0today and he pointed out that the fact that small caps have been outperforming could be a sign that \u201cthe healing process has begun.\u201d The reason: \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from the emotional \u2018let\u2019s short every beta we can find\u2019 to looking at fundamentals again,\u201d he says. In this case, the fundamentals are that of the U.S., which still look relatively strong despite\u00a0disappointing retail-sales and Empire State manufacturing data<\/a>\u00a0this morning, versus Europe, which could be sliding back into recession<\/a>\u00a0once again. Small caps have the less exposure to Europe than large caps, Bernstein says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

This favoring of small cap stocks and smaller companies is interesting in light of the square of Uranus in Aries \u2013 the individual \u2013 against Pluto in Capricorn \u2013 the corporation. \u00a0I wrote recently that this planetary cycle is fostering the \u201cfreelance economy,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and it\u2019s possible that we will see the breakup (Pluto) of larger corporations (Capricorn) into smaller ones that are more agile and more easily able to adapt to changing times.<\/p>\n

Smart investors take advantage of market declines to snap up undervalued stocks, so there are opportunities here. \u00a0THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE, but I know that I will be prowling the bottom, looking for good buys.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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