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25th July 2010, 07:31 PM
GLOBAL CATASTROPHE ALERT...
July 25th, 2010
Clive Maund
http://www.clivemaund.com
We don`t normally mention Astrology on www.clivemaund.com because although Clive Maund has a good working knowledge of Astrology and has used it for many years in his personal life and found it most helpful, applying it to markets is another ball game and requires a special talent. So we have stuck to Technical Analysis and left applying Astrology to the markets to others. However, the planetary alignment that is set to reach maximum intensity during the next two weeks is of such immense power and has such major implications, that we would be foolish to ignore it. To those reading this who would scoff at applying Astrology to the markets and world affairs I would merely point out two undeniable facts. One is that the widely known Arch Crawford, who uses Astrology extensively amongst other tools to make his predictions in his Crawford Perspectives, was ranked #1 Stock Market Timer for the period October 1 2007 through October 31, 2009, and you don`t do that by coincidence. Secondly, many seriously wealthy people, who are above and beyond peer group pressure and don`t have to give a damn what other people think, openly use Astrology in their lives. That`s enough justification - we will shortly proceed to examine exactly what is going on, but first a very quick lesson in the most important planetary harmonics, even the most basic understanding of which will give you a glimpse of the enormity of what is going on.
In Astrology the most disharmonious and stressful aspects between planets are the square (90 degree aspect) and the opposition (180 degree aspect), while the most harmonious and flowing aspects are the trine (120 degree aspect) and the sextile (60 degree aspect) which in degrees is half a Trine. Persons born with a lot of squares and oppositions in their horoscopic charts start life with "a bad hand" and usually face a long struggle to attain inner harmony and success in life, while those born with a lot of trines and sextiles in their charts lead lives of relative ease and privilege. These planetary aspects also have a macro effect on the world at large, determining the destiny of countries and economies etc and also correlate with natural disasters and wars. While it is tempting to label the stressful aspects as "bad", particularly if you feel that you have been getting the "rough end of the stick", in developmental terms they are necessary. Just as we know that pain is necessary to prevent us causing inadvertent damage to our bodies, times of stress and crisis are necessary to bring about needed changes that would not otherwise occur. There are millions and millions of people who would not lift themselves out of their comfy armchairs at all, were it not for the need to earn the money to pay the bills to prevent the ever threatening extreme stress that would be caused by not being able to buy food and having the utilities such as electricity cut off. Take a good look around any city center on a weekday morning - it doesn't take much to figure out what motivates people. We will now take a look at a visual representation of the principal harmonious and stressful aspects on a cicle that represents the heavens.
The two pictures below show the most complete and extreme harmonious and stressful harmonics respectively that are possible. The first picture shows what is called a Grand Triangle or Grand Trine, which is made up of a series of trines running around the chart. The second picture shows the Grand Square or Grand Cross, which is made up of a series of 4 square aspects running around the chart, which of course involves 2 oppositions at 90 degrees to each other. In both of these pictures the more planets that are involved and the closer the aspects between them, the stronger the pattern and the more powerful the energy involved.
http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/gcgt.gif
Now here`s where it gets really interesting. If you understand that the Grand Cross represents a blocked energy pattern that is characterized by extreme disharmony, discord, opposition, and stress. all of which are of course a breeding ground for conflict, then you at once grasp the immensely powerful symbolism of the Christian cross, which is associated with the suffering of Christ, and you also comprehend the horrific negativity of the Nazi Swastika made up of a cross with tails, made more ominous by its thick black lines and the surround of blood red. This was a flag which dripped evil and just by itself revealed the intentions of the regime which spawned it and generated so much suffering. At the other end of the scale we have the 6-pointed star, the Star of David (see below), which represents pure harmony, being as it is two Grand Trines overlaid, whose points make a chain of harmonious sextiles (60 degrees) around the circle. Please note here that this observation is wholly apolitical - I am commenting here solely on the geometry and astrological symbolism of the the 6-pointed star, not on the actions or politics of the Jewish state.
http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/starofdavid.gif
As a fine example of the beneficence and harmony of the Grand Trine finding expression in the life of an individual, we have the English singer Robbie Williams, whose chart (just showing the planets involved in the Trine) is shown below. Robbie once said "I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams" - it sure helps to have fate on your side. For a bit of light relief after reading this, here is a song by Robbie.
http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/robbie.gif
Alright, so what have we got coming up in the sky right now? - this is what we have got...
http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/grandcrosswhitec.gif]/img]
The chart is for the 6th August this year when the planetary aspects are at their tightest and the fast moving moon swings into position to complete a Grand Cross pattern. These aspects are starting to come into effect in a big way this coming week and will intensify until their early August peak. Because this pattern is forming in the early degrees of what are called Cardinal signs, starting with the Jupiter - Uranus conjunction around the start of the zodiac circle at the beginning of Aries, it is known as the Cardinal Climax. It is very important to understand that such configurations are EXTREMELY RARE EVENTS - according to Crawford, it is most powerful aspect in Earth's written history. Note that not everything can be explained here, as I am trying to write an article, not a book.
So, what does this extremely tight and tense astrological configuration mean for the world? In interpreting this pattern it helps to understand that disharmonious aspects to planets can bring about the following negative manifestations - Mars: aggression, conflict and war, Jupiter: inflation and excess, overreaching, Saturn: authoritarianism, austerity, privation, poverty, Uranus: sudden developments, revolution and anarchy, Pluto: chaos and mass destruction leading to fundamental transformation. All of these planets are involved in this tight grouping, and for clarity planets that are not involved in it are not shown, which includes the Sun. Looking around at the world today we have a number of threatening disasters or catastrophes, as follows: just yesterday we had N Korea threatening to lob nukes if the joint S Korea and US military exercises go ahead. Well they are going ahead, and while it looks like just another empty threat by N Korea, a miscalculation could be made leading to catastrophe. Israel or the US could attack Iran, although this looks more likely to happen later. With regard to the natural world the Three Gorges Dam, which is coming under enormous pressure due to relentless rainfall, could breach, which would be very bad news indeed for the folks downstream, and in the Gulf of Mexico the massive undersea oil reservoir could dome up and burst, leading to an unstoppable flood of oil escaping, although the writer is no geologist and does not know if this is physically possible - and these are just the things that I know about. Major earthquakes and flooding and other natural disasters would also be typical manifestations. Finally this terrible configuration hardly augers well for the stockmarket, which could crash with very little warning, and it is certainly in position to do so. The fortunes of the Precious Metals depend on what disaster or combination of disasters manifests - for example an attack on Iran, or N Korea lobbing nukes would be expected to drive them higher, whereas a self-feeding stockmarket crash would probably take them lower in the absence of such an attack.
Do the negative implications of this extreme planetary configuration have to manifest immediately? Not necessarily, although they probably will, but there could be some time lag. For example Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in July - August 1990, between a solar and lunar eclipse and just before an extremely malefic Grand Cross in the heavens in fixed signs, see chart below, but was not kicked out until the next pair of eclipses 6 months later, in Operation Desert Storm. The symbolism of this Grand Cross could not be more apt, with Mars, the god of war, and Pluto standing for catharsis and mass destruction being involved - six months later Saddam Hussein's army was humiliated and sent packing and the Kuwaiti oil fields were set ablaze.
[img]http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/gulfwarwhiteb.gif
Please note that this article may appear on some public websites.
July 25th, 2010
Clive Maund
http://www.clivemaund.com
We don`t normally mention Astrology on www.clivemaund.com because although Clive Maund has a good working knowledge of Astrology and has used it for many years in his personal life and found it most helpful, applying it to markets is another ball game and requires a special talent. So we have stuck to Technical Analysis and left applying Astrology to the markets to others. However, the planetary alignment that is set to reach maximum intensity during the next two weeks is of such immense power and has such major implications, that we would be foolish to ignore it. To those reading this who would scoff at applying Astrology to the markets and world affairs I would merely point out two undeniable facts. One is that the widely known Arch Crawford, who uses Astrology extensively amongst other tools to make his predictions in his Crawford Perspectives, was ranked #1 Stock Market Timer for the period October 1 2007 through October 31, 2009, and you don`t do that by coincidence. Secondly, many seriously wealthy people, who are above and beyond peer group pressure and don`t have to give a damn what other people think, openly use Astrology in their lives. That`s enough justification - we will shortly proceed to examine exactly what is going on, but first a very quick lesson in the most important planetary harmonics, even the most basic understanding of which will give you a glimpse of the enormity of what is going on.
In Astrology the most disharmonious and stressful aspects between planets are the square (90 degree aspect) and the opposition (180 degree aspect), while the most harmonious and flowing aspects are the trine (120 degree aspect) and the sextile (60 degree aspect) which in degrees is half a Trine. Persons born with a lot of squares and oppositions in their horoscopic charts start life with "a bad hand" and usually face a long struggle to attain inner harmony and success in life, while those born with a lot of trines and sextiles in their charts lead lives of relative ease and privilege. These planetary aspects also have a macro effect on the world at large, determining the destiny of countries and economies etc and also correlate with natural disasters and wars. While it is tempting to label the stressful aspects as "bad", particularly if you feel that you have been getting the "rough end of the stick", in developmental terms they are necessary. Just as we know that pain is necessary to prevent us causing inadvertent damage to our bodies, times of stress and crisis are necessary to bring about needed changes that would not otherwise occur. There are millions and millions of people who would not lift themselves out of their comfy armchairs at all, were it not for the need to earn the money to pay the bills to prevent the ever threatening extreme stress that would be caused by not being able to buy food and having the utilities such as electricity cut off. Take a good look around any city center on a weekday morning - it doesn't take much to figure out what motivates people. We will now take a look at a visual representation of the principal harmonious and stressful aspects on a cicle that represents the heavens.
The two pictures below show the most complete and extreme harmonious and stressful harmonics respectively that are possible. The first picture shows what is called a Grand Triangle or Grand Trine, which is made up of a series of trines running around the chart. The second picture shows the Grand Square or Grand Cross, which is made up of a series of 4 square aspects running around the chart, which of course involves 2 oppositions at 90 degrees to each other. In both of these pictures the more planets that are involved and the closer the aspects between them, the stronger the pattern and the more powerful the energy involved.
http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/gcgt.gif
Now here`s where it gets really interesting. If you understand that the Grand Cross represents a blocked energy pattern that is characterized by extreme disharmony, discord, opposition, and stress. all of which are of course a breeding ground for conflict, then you at once grasp the immensely powerful symbolism of the Christian cross, which is associated with the suffering of Christ, and you also comprehend the horrific negativity of the Nazi Swastika made up of a cross with tails, made more ominous by its thick black lines and the surround of blood red. This was a flag which dripped evil and just by itself revealed the intentions of the regime which spawned it and generated so much suffering. At the other end of the scale we have the 6-pointed star, the Star of David (see below), which represents pure harmony, being as it is two Grand Trines overlaid, whose points make a chain of harmonious sextiles (60 degrees) around the circle. Please note here that this observation is wholly apolitical - I am commenting here solely on the geometry and astrological symbolism of the the 6-pointed star, not on the actions or politics of the Jewish state.
http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/starofdavid.gif
As a fine example of the beneficence and harmony of the Grand Trine finding expression in the life of an individual, we have the English singer Robbie Williams, whose chart (just showing the planets involved in the Trine) is shown below. Robbie once said "I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams" - it sure helps to have fate on your side. For a bit of light relief after reading this, here is a song by Robbie.
http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/robbie.gif
Alright, so what have we got coming up in the sky right now? - this is what we have got...
http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/grandcrosswhitec.gif]/img]
The chart is for the 6th August this year when the planetary aspects are at their tightest and the fast moving moon swings into position to complete a Grand Cross pattern. These aspects are starting to come into effect in a big way this coming week and will intensify until their early August peak. Because this pattern is forming in the early degrees of what are called Cardinal signs, starting with the Jupiter - Uranus conjunction around the start of the zodiac circle at the beginning of Aries, it is known as the Cardinal Climax. It is very important to understand that such configurations are EXTREMELY RARE EVENTS - according to Crawford, it is most powerful aspect in Earth's written history. Note that not everything can be explained here, as I am trying to write an article, not a book.
So, what does this extremely tight and tense astrological configuration mean for the world? In interpreting this pattern it helps to understand that disharmonious aspects to planets can bring about the following negative manifestations - Mars: aggression, conflict and war, Jupiter: inflation and excess, overreaching, Saturn: authoritarianism, austerity, privation, poverty, Uranus: sudden developments, revolution and anarchy, Pluto: chaos and mass destruction leading to fundamental transformation. All of these planets are involved in this tight grouping, and for clarity planets that are not involved in it are not shown, which includes the Sun. Looking around at the world today we have a number of threatening disasters or catastrophes, as follows: just yesterday we had N Korea threatening to lob nukes if the joint S Korea and US military exercises go ahead. Well they are going ahead, and while it looks like just another empty threat by N Korea, a miscalculation could be made leading to catastrophe. Israel or the US could attack Iran, although this looks more likely to happen later. With regard to the natural world the Three Gorges Dam, which is coming under enormous pressure due to relentless rainfall, could breach, which would be very bad news indeed for the folks downstream, and in the Gulf of Mexico the massive undersea oil reservoir could dome up and burst, leading to an unstoppable flood of oil escaping, although the writer is no geologist and does not know if this is physically possible - and these are just the things that I know about. Major earthquakes and flooding and other natural disasters would also be typical manifestations. Finally this terrible configuration hardly augers well for the stockmarket, which could crash with very little warning, and it is certainly in position to do so. The fortunes of the Precious Metals depend on what disaster or combination of disasters manifests - for example an attack on Iran, or N Korea lobbing nukes would be expected to drive them higher, whereas a self-feeding stockmarket crash would probably take them lower in the absence of such an attack.
Do the negative implications of this extreme planetary configuration have to manifest immediately? Not necessarily, although they probably will, but there could be some time lag. For example Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in July - August 1990, between a solar and lunar eclipse and just before an extremely malefic Grand Cross in the heavens in fixed signs, see chart below, but was not kicked out until the next pair of eclipses 6 months later, in Operation Desert Storm. The symbolism of this Grand Cross could not be more apt, with Mars, the god of war, and Pluto standing for catharsis and mass destruction being involved - six months later Saddam Hussein's army was humiliated and sent packing and the Kuwaiti oil fields were set ablaze.
[img]http://www.clivemaund.com/charts/gulfwarwhiteb.gif
Please note that this article may appear on some public websites.