The Long-Term Cycles
My view is that the 72-year cycle and its 36-year half-cycle bottomed March 6-10, 2009. That was the 77th year of the 72-year cycle, which has a range of 60-84 years, although historically all have been between 73-75 years before this one. It was also the 35th year in the 36-year cycle, which is very close to perfect. However, I don’t think it was the 90-year cycle, and its 45-year half-cycle. Historically we note that the long-term cycle troughs in British and U.S. stock markets occur when Pluto is in a cardinal sign. We also note that these lows have always been followed by a secondary low 6-22 years later, and it is possible the second low is lower than the first. As discussed in “The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, Volume 2, Geocosmic Correlations to Investment Cycles,” this happened in the first instance of the 72- and 90-year cycles. The first leg down was in 1762, just after Pluto entered Capricorn the last time around (its orbital cycle is about 248 years). Note that Pluto next entered Capricorn in January 2008. After a healthy 3-5 year rally that saw prices testing its highs of the previous 30 years, the British stock market fell to an even lower low on a secondary bottom in 1784 as Pluto moved into 11 degrees of Aquarius. The next major collapse occurred when the U.S. stock market fell 80% from its then all-time high of 1834-35 (as Saturn and Pluto were in opposition) to its 90-year cycle trough (80 years later) in February 1842 (1762-1842). Pluto was in 19 degrees of Aries, the next cardinal sign. Once again the market rallied, for nearly 10 years to re-test its all-time high again in 1852, before falling to its secondary bottom and 72-year cycle trough in October 1857. Pluto was in 6 degrees of Taurus on this secondary low. It did not take out the low of 1842, but it was close. Once again, a long-term bull market followed, culminating in another new all-time high in September 1929. And then the stock market crashed as prices fell 90% into the Great Depression low of July 1932 when Pluto was in 21 degrees of Cancer, the next cardinal sign. This was both the 90 and 72-year cycle troughs, measured from the lows of 1842 and 1857 respectively. The DJIA rallied over 380% the next five years, but then fell to its secondary bottom in 1938, just six years after the low of 1932. Pluto was still in late Cancer at the time. So what can we learn from this history? First, as already mentioned, a 72- or 90-year cycle has unfolded when Pluto was in cardinal signs. It just so happens that Saturn was in cardinal signs too (or just passed), while Uranus was at the end or beginning of the zodiac (Pisces-Aries). A secondary low tends to form 6-22 years later, but this secondary low has been occurring progressively sooner throughout history. First it was 22 years later, then 15, then 6. The progression implies the next secondary low may be less than 6 years. In between these lows, the market rallies substantially, often testing the previous all-time high. Now let’s look at the current market. I believe a 72-year cycle trough occurred March 2009. At the time, Pluto was in early Capricorn, a cardinal sign, just as it was in 1762. Uranus was in 22 degrees of Pisces on March 6, 2009, in the early part of a sector where it has always been at these long-term cycle lows (23 Pisces to 23 Aries). But Saturn was only 18 degrees of Virgo, not yet in a cardinal sign which marked the devastating declines of the past. Saturn is, however, in the cardinal sign of Libra now (October 29, 2009-October 5, 2012, with the exception of April 7-July 21, 2010 when it retrogrades back into Virgo). It will also be in the cardinal sign of Capricorn, December 2017-December 2020, while Pluto is still there too. One of these two periods could coincide with the end of another sharp decline in U.S. stock prices, in my opinion, that will qualify as the secondary low to the 72-year cycle of March 2009. In the meantime, U.S. and world stock indices could re-test or even make a new all-time high. Another reason why I believe there is yet to be another sharp sell-off in world stock markets is because the 45-year half-cycle to the 90-year cycle did not likely occur in March 2009. This half-cycle is ideally due 45-years after its last occurrence in 1974, which would be 2019 +/- 8 years. It seems most likely to happen when Saturn goes into Capricorn (December 2017-2020), for that will also coincide with the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, which marks the end of the 32-37-year economic “down” cycle. Saturn and Pluto will then enter their waxing phase, when economies tend to begin a more prosperous cycle for the next 16-20 years. But what also concerns me along the way is the seven-passage series of the Uranus-Pluto waxing square of June 24, 2012 through March 17, 2015. The last time these two planets squared one another was in their waning phase of 1932-1934. The time before that was a waxing phase (just like 2012-2015), from 1876-1877, right in the midst of the longest economic depression in U.S. history, lasting 1873-1879. What is also interesting about that period is that it was the only time in stock market history when Jupiter and Uranus were in conjunction to one another and both in opposition to Saturn. This happens June 2010 through the first quarter of 2011. It also happened around the middle of 1872, just before that 6-year Great Depression. Curiously, the stock market was making new all-time highs then, and continued to make slightly higher all-time highs even into early 1874, even as the longest Depression in U.S. history was unfolding. Does this sound familiar? The stock market was soaring, but the economy was falling, and about to fall real hard for the next several years. The stock market finally succumbed and fell hard too, from a double top all-time high in 1873-74, to an 18-year cycle trough at the bottom of the Depression in 1877, right in the central time band of the Uranus-Pluto waxing square, the same type of configuration we are undergoing right now. That is, in 2010, Saturn is in opposition to the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction, just as it was in 1872. The stock market is flying but the economy is still ridden with serious world-wide debt issues that have not been settled. In fact, the debt issues and spending are exploding, when they need to be reduced. The stock market, however, can stay in this “bubble” for some time, perhaps until the Uranus-Pluto waxing square begins in 2012. And then watch out. Just as we witnessed in 1876-1877, another collapse could commence in 2012-2015, and maybe not even complete its bottoming process until the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of January 2020, +/- 18 months. However, before Uranus and Pluto start their square, there may be considerable money to be made in the stock market. For after all, Jupiter will be in Aries through the first half of 2011, and this is a bullish sector of the zodiac for this planet. And it will conjunct Uranus, which is a sign of excessive speculation., Savers will likely move their monies from money markets and bank savings account, which now pay less than 1% rate of return, to the stock market, which has been yielding 70+% returns, with a possibility of much higher to come in the next year. And then the guillotine falls, and savers won’t exit in time. They will be devastated, and the government will try to rescue them by applying more and more restrictions, regulations, fines, and penalties on the evil banking and stock market community. It’s all happened before. And although it seems like everything is changing and different, it’s all the same. We don’t learn from history because we don’t value the study of cycles, and thus we continually repeat the same mistakes under the same cycles time and time again. By the way, the last time Jupiter and Uranus were conjunct in Aries was….July 15, 1927 through January 25, 1928. It was in “lift-off” mode, and the bubble persisted into September 1929. That would equate to September 2012 in today’s terms. 
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