Avoiding the Black Swan

How Astrological Cycles Impact Social, Political, and Economic

Trends And How This Can Benefit Your Portfolio

by Joyce Levine

"Millionaires don't consult astrologers,billionaires do." – J.P. Morgan

Analysis of Cycles Include Meanings of:

Planets

Signs

Planetary Relationships (aspects)

Long-Term Trends

• Neptune –what's idealized for 14 years • (164-year cycle)

• Pluto –defining problems of timeframe• (246-year cycle)

• What Neptune idealizes, Pluto destroys

• Pluto in Capricorn 2008-2024

Neptune in Capricorn – 1984 – 1998

• Characterized by:• President Reagan's term of office from 1981 -

1989 & Margaret Thatcher's term of office from 1979 – 1994

• Free market and free trade emphasis• Financial deregulation• Decline of unions• CEOs idealized, beginning of skyrocketing

executive compensation• Defining movie of time – Oliver Stone's Wall

Street "Greed is good"

Looking Back to Last Pluto in Capricorn 1762-1777

• Revolutionary War began in 1775

• Stamp Act

• Stamp Act Rebellion, Townshend Acts

• Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party

• Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

–Pursuit of self-interest – Free trade extolled

– Attacked special interest groups, including international bankers, corporate conglomerations, and trade unions

– Warned "If governments can borrow without check, then they are more likely to wage war without check, and the costs of war spending will burden future generations, since the war debts are almost never repaid by the generations that incurred them."

Repeat of Planetary Cycles from the 1930s – Saturn, Uranus,

Pluto1930 – 1932

• Saturn: status quo, restriction, limitation, property, land, houses, conservatism, tradition, big business

• Uranus: freedom, independence, erratic conditions, revolution, economic change—strikes, riots, new technology

• Pluto: death and rebirth, transformation, power and control, dictators, taxes, debt, other people's money, irrevocable changes

Significant Market Decline Still to Come

• Expect: • Tariffs – restrictions on free trade• End of deregulation • Breakdown of banking system and world-wide economic

system• Problems at Federal Reserve, World Bank, World Trade

Organization• Executive compensation reined in• Conspicuous consumption over – frugal is in• Voter uprisings against unfair taxes• Emerging countries to rise up against exploitation, involves

developed countries and multi-national corporations• Food and commodity shortages • Complete restructuring of financial systems worldwide