Yemen Rocks the Gate of Tears | Pepe Escobar

No less than 25 years after 9/11, the Angel of History once again delivers a powerful kick. Five years ago, we had the astonishing imperial humiliation in Afghanistan, accomplished in a matter of days. Now, we have the astonishing humiliation of Epstein Syndicate vassal Saudi Arabia in Yemen, also accomplished in a matter of days.

» Bab al-Mandab is an international corridor, but it is part of Yemen's territory. « 
Yemeni PM Mohammed Ahmed Miftah, September 10, 2026.

Serial humiliations now follow the Empire's path like a plague—and we're not even talking about the impending, stratospheric, twin strategic defeats in West Asia and the black soil of Novorossiya. Emperors' heads used to roll in Ancient "Divide and Rule" Rome for much less.

September 10: Three Saudi brigades and allies, along with their light and heavy weapons, have surrendered to Houthi forces across the Hays, Al-Mokha, Al-Khokha, Taiz, and Al-Jawf fronts. Ansar Allah called it the largest mass-capture operation in modern warfare.

The overall collapse of the Saudi mercenary gangs in Yemen is so swift that even Epstein Syndicate mainstream media has been forced to acknowledge it. The Ansarallah Rolling Thunder is seizing cities; islands; capturing thousands of thugs; liberating all prisoners—and greeting them amnesty; taking control of an untold number of US tanks and weapons—Afghanistan reloaded; and being greeted as liberators of Yemeni land across the whole tribal spectrum.

Barefoot, but with the heart of a lion.

 

And of course Ansarallah from now on, officially, has taken full control of the mega-strategic Bab al-Mandab, or "Gate of Tears". As iconic images go, Mohammed al-Houthi, cousin of Supreme Leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, was spotted in liberated Al-Jarrahi driving one of countless armored vehicles abandoned by mercenary UAE-controlled gangs. 

Footage from the seized Bab el-Mandab coast shows a Houthi fighter at Hisn Murad declaring, "We don't need missiles. We don't need drones." He says artillery along the Murad coast and on Perim will stop non-compliant vessels and "cut any and all shipping now."

The intel behind the Ansarallah Rolling Thunder—described as the largest mass-capture operation in modern warfare—was carefully coordinated with the IRGC. The Axis of Resistance was fully aware that after devastating Iranian attacks on the Jordan bases, the US was strangled in its capacity to help the Saudis prevent a Yemeni onslaught.

September 11: Saudi Arabia says Iraqi-launched

drones struck its East-West Abqaiq-to-Yanbu Pipeline.

And onslaught it was, along the entire Yemeni western coast: from Hays to Al-Khokha and Al-Mokha via Al-Wazi'iyah, including the military camps of Khaled and Jabal al-Nar, plus Red Sea islands. Hizam al-Assad, member of the Political Bureau of Ansarallah, interviewed by Al-Mayadeen (English translation here), reaffirmed the "strategic importance" of the whole western coast, "and the region of Al-Khokha, the region of Hays, as well as the region of Al-Mafqa up to Dhabab and Miyyun, as well as the Yemeni islands in the Red Sea."

Hizam al-Assad also detailed the attempt by the Saudis "to create a form of social dissociation in these regions, whether through their 'Daeshization,' or through the exacerbation of many regional, sectarian and confessional particularisms." Context is key. In 2015, Riyadh assembled an Arab-style "coalition of the willing" to basically expel Ansarallah/the Houthis from the capital Sana'a. Major fail—even by installing a blockade of Yemeni ports, and bombing indiscriminately (I was shown several targets, some rebuilt, from Sana'a to Sa'ada). Starting in 2022, a sort of unofficial ceasefire was in place, via a memorandum of understanding. The Saudis broke it in July, attacking the runway of Sana'a airport.

How We Won the Western Coast

Hizam al-Assad confirmed that "we had estimates that the occupier would fall in these regions from within (…) We estimated that the community would rise up and expel it (…) The withdrawal was in fact rapid and disorderly for the enemy (…) The enemy has no cause in Yemen, especially the local instruments, who carry out Saudi agendas for money."

 

» The curse of Allah is upon the wrongdoers. « Quran (11:18).

 

Western characterizations of Yemeni "aggression" once again don‘t even qualify as pathetic. Hizam al-Assad clarifies that "we have a trajectory within the framework of operations imposing the equation of ‘blockade for blockade’ and 'escalation for escalation,' and this is our primary orientation. And had the Saudi enemy not sought to disrupt this trajectory and break this equation (…) our trajectory is clear: to wrest away the legitimate Yemeni rights, and to break the blockade imposed on our country by the Saudi enemy."

The US Navy was previously de facto expelled from the Red Sea by advanced Yemeni military capabilities—including hypersonic missiles, 100% locally manufactured. Seems like Riyadh did not understand the lesson. The Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed that the Saudis launched dozens of air raids, "across the governorates of Taiz, Hodeidah, Marib, and Al-Jawf", carried out by F-15s and Typhoons taking off from King Fahd base in Taif and King Khalid base in Khamis Mushait. Unflapabble spokesman of Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier Yahya Saree—who I had the honor to meet last year in Yemen—confirmed that Made in Yemen surface-to-air missiles forced Saudis and mercenaries to abandon the base in Taiz, one of those specifically designed to harass Yemen.

 

» O you who have believed, if you support Allah, He will

support you and strengthen your footing. « Quran (47:7).

Taiz is key: one of Yemen's largest cities. Ansarallah is now in full control—a massive strategic asset. As strategic assets go, few compare to Mayun island—also known as Perim, smack in the middle of the Bab al-Mandab. There’s a military airfield and a military base built by the UAE with Israeli cooperation, crammed with high-tech weapons. All that is now Ansarallah property. Now that Ansarallah controls virtually the whole western coast, what’s left to conquer is essentially Marib—for the oil and gas fields—and the port of Aden, which congregates the bulk of the mercenary forces regimented against Sana'a.

Saudi Arabia's Lose-Lose Predicament

The Ansarallah Rolling Thunder complicates the chessboard in West Asia—and beyond—to a mesmerizing degree. The price of oil is out of control. The IRGC is warning about launching a new weapon that "will give imperialists a heart attack"—as in shattering the wobbly American naval blockade.

The much-spun Mecca Defense Alliance is facing its first serious birth pangs. Turkjiye is somewhat already embedded in the Saudi war on Yemen—as Turkish drones have been falling like flies inside Yemen for weeks now. Pakistan has meekly warned that the defense pact could become operational—only to backtrack and state that it does not apply to a pre-existent situation (as in the Saudi war started in 2015). MBS should organize a pilgrimage to the Gate to shed his strategic Tears. Anything Saudi, even seagulls, won't cross the Bab al-Mandab under supervision of the Yemeni Armed Forces.

They have no fifth-generation jets, no Patriot batteries, and no billion-dollar defense contracts. What they do have is something no American money can buy: the heart of a warrior who refuses to kneel.

Now couple it with the Big Bang: the coordinated multiple strike on the Abqaiq-to-Yanbu pipeline, the last remaining route for Saudi oil exports after the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a massive 100 km black smoke column rising to the desert sky captured on Sentinel-3 satellite imagery.
 

A large smoke plume over the desert southeast of Medina, along

the East-West pipeline (Petroline) toward Mahd adh-Dhahab.

 

Consequences: expect production costs for nitrogen fertilizer plants from Europe to Asia to go totally out of control. Wheat, rice and maize yields are certified to fall, drastically, in tandem with skyrocketing diesel prices. Irrigation and harvesting will become a privilege for the wealthy. Ansarallah now has the luxury of installing a toll gate, arguably multi-layered, in the Bab al-Mandab, if they want it. Yet no exceptions for Riyadh; the dumb desert bedouins will only get a list of harsh demands.

Saudi Arabia’s prospects are dire, as it’s entering the worst possible lose-lose configuration: onshore oil infrastructure in tatters, maritime export routes blockaded. The verdict is not pronounced, yet. But it walks and talks, ominously, like Saudi Arabia being set up to fall, reduced to a desert wasteland, to the benefit of the usual suspects.

 

Reference:

Pepe Escobar (September 11, 2026) -  Yemen Rocks the Gate of Tears.

» The Italian intelligence agency knows very well that the catastrophic attack was planned and carried out by the CIA and Mossad, with the help of the Zionist world, to accuse Arab countries and persuade Western powers to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. « — Francesco Cossiga, former President of Italy, Corriere della Sera, 2007.  

25 years ago, on September 11, 2001: The United States Government, working in tandem with Israel and Saudi Arabia, MASSACRED close to 3,000 innocent American citizens IN COLD BLOOD. They used expert-controlled demolition (thermite, fuses, blasting caps) to bring down these massive buildings, which, according to one of the chief architects of the towers, were made to take MULTIPLE impacts from jet planes, then BOLDLY LIED to your face, telling you it was "pancake theory." 

See also:

Pepe Escobar (July 30, 2026) - Iran's Methodical Gutting of US Power in West Asia. 

Foad Izadi (July 29, 2026) - "Iran Will Make Sure the US Economy Is Destroyed." 

 TPR (July 21, 2026) - Al-Aqsa Triangle: Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab, and Suez Chokepoints. 

Gerry Nolan (2025) - Yemen Is Where Empires Go to Die. 

Captain Dan Hanley (2025) - The Truth Behind 9/11. 

DJIA vs Dominant Weekly Cycle Composite Through H1 2027 | Branimir Vojcic

Red line in upper panel: significance-weighted composite of the three lower-panel sines,

mapped to the black DJIA log-scale weekly closes.

 

►  41-week cycle: 205 trading days ≈ 297.1 calendar days
►  25-week cycle: 123 trading days ≈ 178.3 calendar days
►  15-week cycle: 77 trading days ≈ 111.6 calendar days

As of today all three weekly cycles remain in decline. The composite, based on Vojcic’s analysis, projects a major swing low around October 21, followed by sustained higher highs and higher lows in the DJIA through H1 2027, reaching around 60,000.

 

Reference: 

Branimir Vojcic (September 9, 2026) - All Three Dow Cycles Point Down. Don't Panic Yet. (video)  

Physics-Based Forecasts of Investment Sentiment | Jeffrey A. Hansen

Hansen's February 2026 paper Physics-Based Forecasts of Investment Sentiment proposes that shifts in investor optimism and pessimism correlate with heliocentric planetary orbital geometry, sunspot activity, and Schumann resonance stability, rather than solely with economic news. The clock of investor sentiment is a roughly 90° Sun–vertex angle (86°–94°) between the Mercury–Saturn center, weighted by tidal force (T ∝ m/r³), and the Jupiter–Neptune center, with weights fitted in December 2000 to Hansen's Market Resilience Index (MRI). Clusters of these configurations define Anxiety-Free Periods (AFPs)—multi-month stretches of investor optimism—that typically fade when the final 90° column expires (plotted orange in charts below).

 

Geometry of the Inner Orbital Center (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) and the Outer Orbital Center (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; Jupiter and Saturn sit in both centers): two mass-weighted planetary-group centers with the Sun at the vertex. When the angle is near 90° (Hansen uses 86°–94°), an AFP column is active, plotted as orange bars/columns in the US Stock Market Price Level chart below.

Physics Times the Turn; Economics Sizes the Move

Across thirteen AFPs from 1933–2024, the average cumulative gain is about 28%, followed by a 13% post-peak decline—near the 98th and 95th percentiles of duration-matched history. Physics is proposed to time the turn; economics to size it. 

 

Thirteen AFPs, named by the year of the price peak (1933-2024, exact dates in the chart above): geometry window = first 90° event through last 90° event; prior/post lows and returns are his market annotations (visually dated orange on the DJIA chart below). Average prior low is about 2½ months before the first event. The fourteenth cluster is the 2026 AFP (not in the 1933–2024 sample). Appendix U dates its 90° Fridays as Apr 24–May 22, 2026; Aug 07–Sep 18, 2026; and Nov 20–Dec 04, 2026. There is no completed peak/post-low for that episode yet.

US Stock Market Price Level (Log) vs. AFPs, 1920–2024.

A century of prices with orange AFP columns; column height represents intensity.

Each column is one 90° configuration event. A cluster of those bars is one Anxiety-Free Period.

2026 has three columns (late April–May, August–September, November–December).

 

Pre-peak ("boom") and post-peak ("bust") cumulative returns for the thirteen Anxiety-Free Periods since 1933, with empirical percentile ranks based on duration-matched periods in the full weekly Dow Jones Industrial Average history. The ranks measure the share of same-duration historical periods with less extreme returns. High percentiles show that gains consistently fall in the extreme tail, while declines do so in most cases. 

From Orbital Angles to Schumann Standing Waves to Human Physiological Entrainment

Market impact is attributed not to the angle itself, but to a four-step causal chain ending in Schumann-type modes, the Earth's ionospheric waveguide ringing at approximately 8, 14, and 21 Hz. A 90° configuration is hypothesized to laminarize solar emissions, stabilize ionospheric height, and lock global standing-wave frequencies near 14–21 Hz; this coherence is then linked to analytical optimism, with overlap in the 13–30 Hz EEG band.

Hypothesized causal mechanism for Anxiety-Free Periods. The diagram proposes a causal chain from solar-system geometry through solar emissions, ionospheric stability, global electromagnetic standing waves, and human physiological entrainment. It is repeated at the start of each section, highlighting the relevant step; here, Element 1 is highlighted.

Established Space-Weather Physics and Speculative Solar-Geometry Links

Stabilized solar output and ionospheric height extend accepted space-weather physics; the solar-geometry and cognition links remain speculative. Intensity scales with outer-group clustering, measured by Sun-to-outer-center distance, which is offered as the reason 1937 and 1987 were violent while 2006 was mild. Intensity is already represented by the column heights in the US Stock Market Price Level chart above.

 

Ap Index, F10.7, and Sunspots as Fellow Travelers

The same geometry used to time AFPs is associated with tighter co-movement among Ap Index, F10.7, sunspots, and Oulu neutron-monitor counts when the outer planets cluster. Geomagnetic and radio-flux series are treated as companions of standing-wave stability rather than as separate daily trading signals.

 Correlations of Solar Energy Metrics by High Intensity and Low Intensity Weeks.

Ap, F10.7, sunspots, and Oulu neutrons co-move more tightly when the outer group is clustered.

The Frozen Eight-Driver Orbital Model

An eight-driver orbital model—six frozen orbital-geometry factors covering planet-group angles, distances, and clusters, plus the predicted AFP and M-Spike series—was calibrated through late 2000 and then frozen. Using NASA coordinates alone, it forecasts the 14-week RSI from December 2000 through April 2024. Here, 14-week RSI means Wilder's Relative Strength Index calculated on weekly bars with a 14-week lookback: Hansen's proxy for multi-month price momentum and investor sentiment, rather than the more common 14-day RSI. The M-Spike is a short-term orbital-geometry factor—not an RSI or an AFP—computed from planet-group positions and read on DJIA/S&P prices as a multi-week M pattern: lift, mid-dip, rebound, and fade. About 88% of predicted turns match actual turns within ±1 week, versus a chance baseline near 0.25% (p < 0.001).

Predicted and Actual 14-week RSI for the US Stock Market, December 1, 2000–April 1, 2024.

Frozen-model path versus realized RSI and log price; the 88% out-of-sample test begins here.

 

When Price Rises but Sentiment Does Not

When actual RSI runs below the geometry path, as in 2007–08, Hansen interprets the divergence as economically driven pessimism despite rising prices. Pre- and post-event weekly returns around 26 individual 90° events differ less than 0.01% (p < 0.0001).

 

 Predicted and Actual 14-week RSI, Periods A and B. Arrow A marks the 2007–08

actual-RSI divergence below geometry; B marks an AFP in which both rise together.

 

The Limited Schumann-Resonance Test

Usable standing-wave data exist only from June 2015 through December 2021. However, it is not a published Schumann-resonance product. Hansen built the series himself from British Geological Survey magnetometer records at Eskdalemuir, Scotland. Within that window, the predicted 2017 AFP series is associated with frequency stability in modes 2–3 (p < 0.001), although R² is only about 0.05—the most direct test of standing-wave market impact, but also the thinnest.

 

US stock-market price and indicators for the 2017 Anxiety-Free Period and M-Spike episodes, June 05, 2015–December 31, 2021. The chart overlays market price, episode indicators, and ellipses A–D marking notable relationships between price patterns and episodic signals. It also shows modes 2 and 3 electromagnetic standing-wave stability, measured on weekends from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time and lagged approximately two weeks. 

Sunspots as the Longer Proxy

Solar activity is more stable during 21 of 26 90° events and more often declines by day +21 after an event ends. Shorter geometry-defined M-Spikes (53 cases, 1940–2023) show weaker weekly-return significance (p ≈ 0.19).

 

Mega Cycle and Phase 1 Valuations

The same inner–outer angle maps onto a four-phase Mega Sentiment Cycle. Phase 1, from 0° to the AFP at 90°, has accounted for about 32% of weeks since 1942 but 53% of returns, with higher S&P 500 P/E ratios but no corresponding growth differential.

 

Mega Sentiment Cycle (2004–2027), showing its four phases, the timing of Anxiety-Free Periods, and the changing Inner Center–Sun–Outer Center angle. Stock Index Price refers to the DJIA, S&P 500, or related ETFs. 

How Panic Is Supposed to Spread

A Geoffrey Moore-style adoption model divides the market into Pioneers (~15%), Early Majority (~35%), Late Majority (~35%), and Laggards (~15%). Micro geometry is said to move the Pioneers, while the Mega cycle moves the slower half. During Phase 1, roughly half the market remains optimistic, so valuation alone is judged unlikely to force a crash larger than 30%.

 

The 2026 Live Overlap

Phase 1 of Hansen's Mega Sentiment Cycle—the long inner–outer angle from 0° up to the next AFP at 90°—runs from autumn 2022 until the first 90° column of 2026, projected for late April–May, with peak geometry-driven euphoria in late May, a second lift by early August, and a third close in early December. A moderate M-Spike overlaps the first column, making April–June the unstable hinge.

 

The chart (December 06, 2024 to January 01, 2027) shows the US stock-market price level (log) through July 18, 2025—the analysis date—along with the drivers of the three 90° configuration events comprising the 2026 Anxiety-Free Period and the M-Spike as of June 2025. Forward map showing the three 2026 AFP columns, overlapping M-Spike, May peak, and June hinge. US Stocks refers to the DJIA, S&P 500, or related ETFs. 

2026 AFP Map and the Boom-Then-Fade Hypothesis 

Hansen's sketch is: enter several weeks before an AFP, hold through the cluster high, exit on the Micro Market Resilience Index; he prefers equal-weight S&P 500 or the DJIA as cleaner sentiment gauges. That is a multi-month calendar, not a daily trigger and not proof that high valuations cannot break.

 

2026 is one such labeled window: three separate 90° columns, not a continuous anxiety-free bid into year-end. The first and strongest was late April–May (peak late May). An overlapping M-Spike made April–June the hinge—historically a dip zone, not a melt-up. A weaker second lift was dated August–September. The third column, late November–early December, ends the cluster; Hansen's average script is a boom during the bars and about −13% after the peak. 2006 barely rose, so an AFP is not a guarantee of higher prices. November–December is the close of the episode, not "anxiety-free until Christmas."

 

Use that map to watch whether price, Ap, sunspots, and standing-wave stability follow the boom-then-fade pattern. For next-week risk keep short-horizon Ap/Kp and real-time L1 solar wind—those still have skill. The Schumann link rests on one AFP and $R^2 \approx 0.05$; 2026 is the live joint test of cavity-mode coherence, solar-metric co-movement, and that price script. Do not size as if the mechanism were already proven. Hansen's paper is research, not investment advice.

 

Reference:

Jeffrey A. Hansen (February 2, 2026) - Physics-Based Forecasts of Investment Sentiment: 

Evidence from Past Boom-and-Bust Periods and the Anticipated Dynamics of 2026. 

Jeffrey A. Hansen is founder of CPM Investing LLC and an asset-allocation researcher who began in geophysics and natural-resource exploration, later evaluating quantitative investment managers at Russell Investments, advising investment firms on technology adoption and product development, managing global multi-asset funds at Nikko AM America, and since 2015 specializing in asset-allocation research and ETF model portfolios for individual investors. 

Hansen's latest August 7, 2026 forecast.

S&P 500 vs. Hansen's "Micro Driver" (data input and formula undisclosed), digitized from the weekly chart in his August 7 forecast above and plotted against the daily S&P 500 for clarity. The "Micro Driver" path shows rising prices into Sep 4 (Fri), a trough around Oct 2 (Fri), followed by a higher peak around Oct 16 (Fri), a trough on Nov 27 (Fri), and a weaker bounce into Dec 25 (Fri).

Hansen Anxiety-Free Periods 1933-2051

The model uses two planetary centers of gravity: the Inner Orbital Center, a weighted mix of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, and the Outer Orbital Center, a weighted mix of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, with a line from the Sun to each center. Hansen's AFP clock is simply how close the opening angle is to a right angle. He counts a "column" when it falls between 86° and 94°. Because the inner planets move quickly, the angle wobbles in and out of the band, so an AFP is usually a handful of orange bars or columns spread over a few months, not one solid year. To calculate Hansen's Anxiety-Free Periods through 2051, his published weights and NASA/JPL planetary positions were used.

Hansen AFPs, 1933–2051: Orange columns mark weeks of Anxiety-Free Periods, when the Sun–vertex angle between the inner (Mercury–Saturn) and outer (Jupiter–Neptune) planet-group centers (black curve in the lower panel) falls within the 86°–94° band; column height quantifies the number of weeks within the band. The upper panel overlays AFPs with a black line showing detrended DJIA weekly closing values. Looks pretty random. Hardly something worth betting the farm on.

Hansen Anxiety-Free Periods (2026–2051).

 

There are 16 clusters from 1935 to 2051. After the current 2026 AFP, the next full cluster is November 2032–July 2033. Then comes a long empty stretch: the angle falls toward 0° (the two centers lined up) and does not re-enter the band until a weak July 2050 graze and a full 90° column in January 2051. Gaps with no AFPs are 2027–31 and 2034–49. 

 

2026 Real-World Test: Watch Timing Window. Respect Uncertainty. Never Bet the Farm.

The orange AFP columns are a real, rebuildable orbital clock. However, they are not a price clock. The Dow's detrended path already has its own slow waves—wars, inflation, bubbles, QE. An AFP arrives roughly every 7–13 years, so some columns will naturally land near highs, selloffs, or dead middles. That happens with or without the 90° angle doing anything. 

Hansen's stronger claim is window timing. But his sample is only thirteen episodes: +28% on average, followed by −13%, with durations matched to extreme percentiles. Misses matter: 2006 barely moved; 1937 and 1987 were ugly. The proposed chain—stable Sun → ionosphere → Schumann → mood—rests on a tiny Schumann window and an R² ≈ 0.05. The "Micro Driver" projection line in the August 7 forecast looks impressively strong, its inputs and formula are understandably undisclosed, and it could be a weekly spectrum-cycle composite projection, unrelated to the AFP columns. The M-Spike formula is also unpublished, though it can be deduced as an exactly repeating, non-astronomical 55-week/385-day mystery cycle, with p ≈ 0.19.

 

So 2026 is a fascinating real-world test of Physics-Based Forecasts of Investment Sentiment—but still not proof that the theory works or doesn’t. Orbital geometry can be projected indefinitely into the future. And trader and investor sentiment? Maybe not. If 2026 fails to deliver the usual boom-then-fade, that failure is evidence against the theory. If it rhymes, fine—but it is still one more cluster, not a law. Watch the timing windows. Respect the uncertainty. Never bet the farm on orbital geometry—nor anything else.

 

See also:

TPR (2026) - S&P 500 vs. Ap Index: +3-Day Lag and Limits of Multi-Week Forecasting.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2001) - Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets.

Mark Douglas (2000) - The Probabilistic Mindset of Successful Traders.

Refilling America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve | The Orange Ape

 

 Chupóptero.

 

» THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY! «

Bombing. Killing. Hijacking. Looting. Intimidation.

Triumphs of the Orange Ape.

September 4, 2026: The Orange Ape dismisses his six-month war

against Iran as "small potatoes," saying, "It’s not a big thing:

We got Venezuela."

» Trump's dementia is growing, fueled by his excessive narcissism and megalomania. He won't listen to anyone anymore. And the two people who are running the United States government right now are the deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, and the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought. That's about as dangerous a situation as you can imagine. The budget director doesn't believe in the Constitution, and the other fellow—it's hard for me to come up with the words adequately to describe his understanding of government. The people who ran Germany in the 1930s come to mind. « — Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, September 4, 2026.

 Quem Deus vult perdere dementat.

  

See also:
Ron Aledo (January 4, 2026) - US Decapitation Operation "Absolute Resolve" in Venezuela.

Jeffrey Currie (July 29, 2026) - Lose Hormuz, Lose the Dollar, Lose Hegemony: Game Over.

SCMP (August 29, 2026) - Trump says US has deal with Venezuela

for control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves.

S&P 500 vs. True & Mean Lunar Nodal Speed | September to December 2026

Financial markets correlate closely with the 4–14-day cycle of the True Lunar Node (North Node/Rahu) as it moves through its retrograde, stationary, and direct phases. This cycle is best illustrated by charting the True Lunar Nodal Speed against, for example, the S&P 500, where "speed" refers to the node's geocentric motion, measured in degrees of longitude per day.

 

Last station: Sep 04 (Fri) 03:57, Retrograde (Rx) → Direct. Next: Sep 07 (Mon) 03:12, local maximum

(+0.0190°/day), then Sep 09 (Wed) 15:18, Direct → Rx. True = Mean on Sep 13 (Sun) 07:35 ( EDT).

 

The True Node is predominantly retrograde, with a negative speed averaging −0.053°/day. It regularly slows, stations (speed = 0°/day), and briefly turns direct, reaching speeds of up to +0.0015°/day, before resuming its retrograde motion. These stationary periods are most pronounced and prolonged near eclipse seasons, which occur roughly every 173 days, when solar perturbations of the lunar orbit are strongest.

Around eclipses, the lunar nodes can shift rapidly between direct, retrograde, and near-
stationary motion, coinciding with sentiment extremes and elevated market volatility.

Expect potential short-term changes in trend when the True Lunar Nodal Speed (blue solid line in the charts above):

► changes direction, shifting from retrograde to direct and back (speed = 0°/day); or
► reaches a maximum or minimum extreme

► equals Mean Nodal Speed 

 

Depending on the season, most True-Node speed swings last 7–8 days (69%).

 

Retrograde (Rx) → Direct repeats every ~13.5 days (6.7–15.8). 

 

Direct is a short poke (~3.6 d); retrograde is the body (~9.9 d); together they make the ~13.5-day station clock. 

 

2026 Q1 — Daily OHLC bars of the S&P 500 vs. True and Mean Lunar Nodal Speed;

 annular solar eclipse Feb 17, total lunar eclipse Mar 03.

 

2026 Q1 — 4-hour OHLC S&P 500 vs. True and Mean Lunar Nodal Speed. 

Blue wave is True Node speed on price scale; dashed blue is speed = 0 (direct above, retrograde below); red dashed is mean speed. Blue dates are stations/extrema in ET. Red vertical dates are True speed = Mean speed. Gold = solar, purple = lunar eclipse. 

 

 Q1 2026: True Lunar Nodal Speed at 0°/Day, at Extremes, and Equal to Mean Nodal Speed.

 

However, neither the daily nor the 4-hour chart follows the node. They may answer it, late or early by a bar or two on the 4-hour chart, and sometimes not at all. There hardly is any 1-to-1 correlation. What the speed curve is good for is identifying the hours when a crowd's appetite changes. A station (speed through 0°) is the useful alert: the True Node has stopped adding longitude or stopped subtracting it. That pause often appears as a change of character in the next one to three 4-hour bars—wider range, a failed break, or the first close that refuses the prior drift—rather than as a guaranteed reversal print at the exact minute.

Extrema serve a different purpose. A deep retrograde minimum represents a maximum rate of withdrawal; in Q1, the January 16 and January 30 lows, and in Q3, the July 12 and July 26 lows, fell within or just behind washout clusters already underway. The signal is not "buy the timestamp." It is "the selling has reached a dated climax window; now wait for the 4-hour structure to stop making lower lows after that window." The brief direct maxima are weaker. They last only a few days and often mark nothing more than a pause within an existing drift. Trading them as tops is therefore unreliable; in this sample, they more often mark a pause in the existing drift than a reversal of it.  

  

2026 Q2 — Daily OHLC S&P 500 vs. True and Mean Lunar Nodal Speed.

 

2026 Q2 — 4-hour OHLC S&P 500 vs. True and Mean Lunar Nodal Speed. 

 Q2 2026: True Lunar Nodal Speed at 0°/Day, at Extremes, and Equal to Mean Nodal Speed.

 

True nodal speed equal to mean speed is mostly a mid-wave event, not a turn. Red dates on these charts sit on the slope, not at the crest. Use them as confirmation that the osculating node has fallen back in step with the secular drift, which on the 4-hour chart tends to coincide with a continuation bar rather than a reversal. The April 2026 stretch is the clearest illustration of slope over event: from the April 4 minimum through the April 10–11 station and maximum, the 4-hour market rose with the wave. May 30 is the counterexample: a deep minimum against a market that only chopped at the highs. A minimum that does not meet a 4-hour breakdown is not a trade.

Delay is the practical rule. Weekend stations (e.g. March 21, May 30, June 14) spend their first reaction in Sunday–Monday futures and only then in the cash session; do not treat the Saturday timestamp as a Monday open. Intraday, the usable lag is one to six 4-hour bars. July 31 into August 2 is the best sequence in the file: station, then maximum, while the 4-hour S&P left the July hole and ran. September 4, 03:57 EDT, retrograde to direct, presents the opposite texture—an event at the local high, followed by a fade in the later bars of the same day. The same class of event, two market answers. The distinction is the 4-hour structure already in place when the node arrives. 

 

2026 Q3  — Daily OHLC S&P 500 vs. True and Mean Lunar Nodal Speed;

total solar eclipse Aug 12, partial lunar eclipse Aug 28; last S&P 500 bar Sep 04.

 

2026 Q3 — 4-hour OHLC S&P 500 vs. True and Mean Lunar Nodal Speed. 

 

  

Q3 2026: True Lunar Nodal Speed at 0°/Day, at Extremes, and Equal to Mean Nodal Speed.

  

Used as a short-term timing method, then: ignore lobes shorter than six days; treat the seven-to-eight-day swing as the holding window; take stations as tempo alerts and extrema as climax windows; and require the next 4-hour bar to confirm. 

 

2026 Q4 — Nov 09 16:45 is the deepest Rx of the year (−0.241°/day)—furthest from the mean.

 

 

 Q4 2026: True Lunar Nodal Speed at 0°/Day, at Extremes, and Equal to Mean Nodal Speed.

(Date and Time calculated for New York City, ET).

 

And, as always, what is being practiced here is attention and precision, not prediction: any market still has to print a reversal in its own highs and lows. Used this way, the inflection points and crossings in the True and Mean Lunar Nodal Speed curves may serve as a reminder to pay closer attention during the upcoming nodal events listed above. But for a short-term trader simply looking to make money in the markets, better to ignore them altogether and focus on market structure, price action, and risk management instead  (Williams, Unger, Huddleston, Burke).

 

See also: 

TPR (2026) - S&P 500 vs. True Lunar Nodal Speed.