Sunday, December 21, 2025

My Conversion to Heliocentric Financial Astrology | Malcolm Bucholtz

The year 2025 marked a pivotal turning point in my professional journey. When I was first introduced to astrology at the 2012 United Astrology Conference (UAC) in New Orleans, the presentations centered exclusively on geocentric astrology. This approach emphasized planets in signs and houses, retrograde motions, and the purported influence of distant bodies such as Pluto (with its 248-year orbital period), Neptune, and Uranus—even in the context of financial astrology. I accepted these ideas without reservation, as they represented the prevailing consensus among attendees and appeared to be the only legitimate framework.

As an illustrative example from my 2026 almanac, consider the S&P 500 chart above aligned with Venus’s 225-day orbital cycle and 243-day rotational cycle. The April 2025 lows marked the conclusion of one cycle and the initiation of another; the midpoint of a Venus orbital cycle closely coincided with the significant highs on October 30; and the recent December downturn—a failed counter-trend rally—occurred precisely at the termination of yet another such cycle.
Over the ensuing years, I authored books, conducted extensive research, and published newsletters, all rooted in this geocentric perspective. Nevertheless, persistent doubts gradually surfaced: an inner voice highlighted the methods’ inconsistent outcomes. Though I initially disregarded these misgivings, they became impossible to ignore by 2025. Techniques drawn from Louise McWhirter’s 1937 book, “Astrology and Stock Market Forecasting”—which perform admirably when applied with rigor—ultimately proved unreliable in certain instances. Confronted with these recurring failures, I faced a professional crisis and began searching for a more consistent alternative.
 
I eventually uncovered obscure papers by astronomers and mathematicians who, operating outside mainstream consensus, attribute phenomena such as planetary climate change to celestial influences rather than human activity. When integrated with findings from medical journals, their work offered profound insight. These researchers maintain that only five planets warrant attention: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. Distant bodies like Pluto and Uranus can be disregarded owing to their negligible effects. Jupiter and Saturn, by virtue of their immense mass, join the inner planets in exerting gravitational forces on the Sun’s surface during precise angular alignments. Such configurations prompt increased solar radiation in the form of sunspots; although Earth’s magnetic field deflects a portion of this energy, a substantial amount reaches the surface.

Hale cycle sunspot numbers and the rate of change of the Suns orbital angular
momentum, for the intervals from 1710 to 1770 (upper panel) and from 1888 to 1948.
 
Medical research connects this phenomenon to the "sodium-potassium pump model", discovered in 1957 by Danish Nobel laureate Jens Christian Skou. This model elucidates cellular responses, whereby influxes of solar energy trigger biochemical cascades that heighten susceptibility to emotional shifts correlated with variations in solar emissions.

Upon retrospectively examining financial markets, I observed that significant heliocentric alignments among these five planets consistently coincide with heightened volatility or trend reversals across diverse assets—not only in the S&P 500 but also in gold, coffee, orange juice, wheat, corn, oil, and cocoa. While directional outcomes vary (some turning bullish, others bearish, and still others entering sideways consolidation), the effects remain reliable when heliocentric planetary positions are correlated with price charts. This pattern is readily explained through solar emissions influencing human emotion via cellular chemistry. Traditional geocentric constructs—such as signs and houses—prove irrelevant; the critical focus lies solely on the interactions among Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.

In preparing the "Financial Astrology Almanac 2026", I employed the periodogram function—a sophisticated mathematical tool for analyzing time-series price data—to identify underlying cyclical patterns. Virtually all financial instruments examined, including major indices, commodities, stocks, and bonds, display dominant cycles. These frequently correspond to multiples or fractions of Mercury’s periods (88-day orbit; 58.65-day rotation) and Venus’s periods (225-day orbit; 243-day rotation). Deeper scientific literature portrays the solar system as a vast resonance machine: finely balanced and harmonically interdependent, such that altering the motion of any single planet would destabilize the entire structure. As inhabitants of Earth, humans are inherently attuned to these cosmic rhythms—whether consciously or not—and this attunement manifests emotionally in collective market behavior reflected on price charts.

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