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Where is your greatest abundance?
- Career?
- Marriage?
- Inheritance?
- Relocation?
- Partnerships?
- What type company?
- What size company?
- Commissions?
- Royalties?
- Gifts?
"There is only one success -
to be able to spend your life
in your own way."
Christopher Morley
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Wealth Astrology
Income from the Second House
There are many significators of wealth in the Natal Chart. Most Astrologers
will tell you that the basic consideration is the "natural" sign associated to the 2nd House, Taurus.
And that "natural" ruler of Taurus/Second House, Venus.
Marcella has Gemini on her Koch Second Cusp, so the "accidental"
ruler of her 2nd House is Mercury. So, then she, or her Astrologer, should study the tight-orb Planetary aspects,
and house placements of, primarily, her Mercury and, secondarily, her Venus. But most Astrologers don't know that
you should, also, study the Midpoints aspecting her Mercury (or Venus).
Personal development is revealed by your Ascendant and planets in your 1st
House, and your income is revealed by your 2nd Koch cusp sign and planets in that house.
When I refer to the Planets in a House, I'm including several factors: 1
- that Planet rules a Sign that's on another House cusp, so there's a link between those two Houses; 2 - that Planet
is aspected by other Planets, so there's a link between each of those pairs of Houses; and 3 - that Planet is conjunct
Midpoints or aspects Midpoints.
Lois Rodden states that while the 2nd house reveals how you make your income (gross income), that it's the 8th
house that reveals what you keep (net income).
Blake Finley reminded me that the 8th house is financial transactions with others, including business deals, debts,
taxes, income from joint undertakings, and inheritance.
Barbara Watters states that the 8th house is the house of politics. Yes, the Ninth house is about dogma, rhetoric
and legal codes (besides "the opiate of the masses"), but it's the 8th house that reveals who gets what
from the pot.
Income from the Other Eleven Houses
Each subsequent house is the 2nd house of the prior house.
Since the 2nd House reveals your Value System, the 3rd House reveals the
income derived from that.
Since the 3rd House reveals your communication acumen, the 4th House reveals
your income from that.
Since the 4th House reveals your domestic scene and land, the 5th house
reveals income derived from your home or property.
Since the 5th House reveals your getting in touch with your "inner
child," the 6th House reveals the income derived from that.
Since the 6th House reveals your work ethic, the 7th House reveals income
derived from that.
Since the 7th House reveals your partners, the 8th House reveals income
derived from them.
Since the 8th House reveals your partners resources, the 9th House reveals
your income from that.
Since the 9th House reveals your travel or extensive communication, the
10th House reveals your income derived from that.
Since the 10th House reveals your life goal, the 11th House reveals your
income from that.
Since the 11th House reveals your friends and associations, the 12th House
reveals your income from them.
Since the 12th House reveals your spiritual awareness, the 1st House reveals
your income from that.
Non-Players
According to Michel Gauquelin's research on House placement, suprisingly,
the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto don't seem to be significant factors regarding career choice
or being outstanding in a career.
The research of the anonymous Magi Society did not find much mileage for
the Moon, Mercury, Mars, nor Saturn.
Gauquelin Sectors
The more significant zones seem to be mostly what we call the Cadent Houses.
Primarily from the 5th degree of the 12th House to the 5th degree of the 1st House, and from the 5th degree of
the 9th House to the 5th degree of the 10th House. Secondarily, from the 5th degree of the 6th House to the 5th
degree of the 7th House, and from the 5th degree of the 3rd House to the 5th degree of the 4th House.
The Moon seems to the significator for writers. Mars for jocks. Jupiter
for actors and politicians. Saturn for researchers.
The Magi's Magic Lamps
Look for 2-degree orbs for Parallels, Contra-Parallels, Conjuncts, and Trines
between Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Not only in Natal Charts, but, also, regarding Transits,
Progressions, and Solar-Arc Directions.
Sun/Venus - Snuggle bunnies.
Sun/Jupiter - I am the State.
Sun/Uranus - Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Sun/Neptune - "If you could read my mind, love."
Sun/Pluto - I AM.
Venus/Jupiter - Party hardy.
Venus/Uranus - You can leave your hat on.
Venus/Neptune - Sensitivity.
Venus/Pluto - Show me the money.
Jupiter/Uranus - Politics, Travel, Astrology.
Jupiter/Neptune - Classical arts.
Jupiter/Pluto - Big business & politics.
Uranus/Neptune - Airplanes/flying. Electronics/computers.
Uranus/Pluto - Was it explosive for you, too?
Neptune/Pluto - Things that go bump in the night.
Some exceptions include: Mars with Pluto is only useful for professional
atheletes, and Saturn seems to sharpen the mind when it makes nifty aspects to Mercury or Uranus.
Travel Astrology
Familiar with the bibical quote that "a man is seldom a prophet in
his own land"? And recall the advice of "Go west, young man"? Well, besides TIMING (transits, directions,
progressions) being important as to WHEN you will strike it rich, LOCATION is an important factor for WHERE you're
more likely to find your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. For further information, see my Travel Astrology web site.
Too Much Craziness On Wall Street?
by Pierre Belec, October 16, 1999
NEW YORK (Reuters) - There may be more money than brains on Wall Street.
Veteran traders say it's outrageous how the stock market swings from optimism to pessimism, based on investors'
changing views of the economic reports du jour or Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's utterances on interest
rates and the stock market.
The tug-of-war has reached new intensity following back-to-back increases in interest rates by the inflation-wary
Fed over the summer months.
Some leading stocks have had weekly price swings of 5 percent to 7%. The Dow Jones industrial average -- the world's
most closely watched stock gauge -- acts more like a pinball machine, flipping a gain of 200 points into a loss
of 250 points, all within days. The Dow hovers at 10,000 after backtracking from August's record high of 11,326.04.
This week, the volatility was at the same feverish pace as investors rushed to "re-price"
stocks after weighing the latest economic reports for clues about whether the Fed will raise interest rates a third
time.
Greenspan again rattled Wall Street Friday, warning that investors should not under-estimate the risk of today's
stock market.
Is this kind of volatility good? No, say some experts.
It's disruptive and not in the interest of long-term investors, they say. It can eventually become a frightening
agent that chases the dedicated traders out of stocks and into less risky investments.
Traders have detected an unusually high level of anxiety in the market as investors sensed that stocks can't keep
rising forever.
The risk premium -- the return investors demand to cover the risks of putting their money in stocks -- has been
running high for so long that people are now more nervous than ever about losing the money they've accumulated
over the past four years.
"The volatility is very typical of what happens at the later stage of a bull market," said Bill Valentine,
investment manager at Valentine Ventures LLC. "It's kind of like people being in a theater and somebody yells
'Fire' and the crowd runs for the door at the same time and creates a problem for everyone."
The unusual level of volatility may be a sign that a larger wave of investors could be heading for the exit.
"Nobody wants to be left in the burning theater," Valentine said. "Yet, when people realize the
place may not be burning down, they walk back into the theater -- which explains why the market has shaken off
losses and rallied in the past."
Valentine said Microsoft Corp. President Steve Ballmer may have given Wall Street a wake-up call -- a sort of fire
alarm -- last month when he warned that computer stocks were overvalued, including his own company's shares.
Ballmer's comments that the "gold rush" in technology stocks had reached "absurd" levels triggered
a one-day slide of more than 200 points in the Dow, wiping out billions of dollars of Microsoft's stock value.
"As long as there's an orderly exit from the theater, or we all stay in our seats, then we're all going to
be OK," Valentine said, referring to the market. "What we don't want is everybody to do the same thing
at the same time, which would be to bail out of stocks."
For four years the market has been on a moonshot flight, ignoring warnings that stocks are over priced. The market,
however, has managed to avoid the "Big Selloff" all of these years. The reason: People have held onto
their stocks.
But there has been a dramatic change in the bull market's personality since the Fed started raising interest rates.
The once mighty U.S. dollar has fallen on hard times. While corporate earnings are expected to be good in the third
quarter, the numbers will be stacked against a lousy third quarter in 1998, which will make them look better than
they really are.
Also working against the Street is the recovery of overseas markets, which has robbed the United States of its
reputation for being one of the few great bull markets on the globe.
The proof: Japanese mutual funds were the biggest gainers in third quarter as investors piled into the group amid
the perception that Japan's economy is crawling back to life after nearly 10 years of no growth.
The interest-rate story has completely turned around.
A year ago, Wall Street was toasting the Fed's steady interest-rate policy. But now, the master mechanics of the
economy are in an interest-rate raising mood, which could further destabilize the market.
Interest-rate increases are one of the few things that can stop a roaring bull market in its tracks.
Valentine said Greenspan and his dozen regional bankers have too much power over the stock market and the retirement
goals of millions of Americans.
"The central bank should be stripped of its right to set interest rates as a policy," he said. "It
should not be a committee decision. Putting too much power into the hands of a few people, and ultimately onto
Greenspan's shoulders, is inconsistent of what's in the best interest of a free market economy."
The bond market, he said, can determine interest rates more normally and efficiently than a bunch of bankers.
Valentine said Wall Street is caught in an "almost perverse obsession" with Greenspan, who is constantly
hunting inflation and gunning for preemptive interest-rate increases to keep the economy from over-heating.
"It's become a ludicrous practice," Valentine said. "But the ultimate harm is that when the market
pays too much attention to the Fed, at the exclusion of other important things, it makes itself vulnerable."
Other commentators also agree the Fed board should stop messing with financial markets.
"For myself, I favor a more modest and open Fed, with less of an inclination to dominate the financial news,"
said Louis Rukeyser, publisher of Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street newsletter and host of the financial television
program "Wall Street Week."
"And, most of all, I'm convinced that considerably more humility would be justified in place of the silly
and potentially dangerous hubris that tries perennially to tell the stock market that government bureaucrats know
better than the market does, itself, the proper level at which it should be trading," he said. "But don't
hold your breath."
Who is fueling the market's volatility?
"In part, it has to do with this day-trading phenomenon, which has made some people rich but it's also made
a lot of people poor," said John Geraghty of North American Equity Services, a consulting firm. "The
truth is that there are more failed day traders than there are successful ones."
In day trading, people plop down several thousand dollars and they are handed a brokerage house's "technical
trading secrets." But usually, the firm's secret recipes, which are supposed to crank out profitable trades,
are no better than anybody else's technical secrets.
With the traders coming into the market basically using similar technical indicators, it's a sure thing that they
will generate tremendous volatility in the market.
"Volatility is basically a good thing for the market, but when the swings become too aggressive, they become
dangerous for stocks because it forces people to look to other investments," Geraghty said.
"Most investors are willing to accept a degree of market volatility, but if they start to believe that their
cash will be at risk, then at some point, prudence will dictate a flight to safety into bonds or money funds,"
he said.
For the week, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 630.05 points at 10,019.71. The Standard & Poor's 500
index lost 88.61 points at 1,247.41 and the Nasdaq Composite index was down 154.74 at 2,731.83.
Those who can do. Those who can't should second guess the mass psychology mood swing of their
fellow investors by using Financial Astrology. Contact Andrew Homer at Astrologer@starheart.net
 
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