Measuring
longitude on the earth is measured from a fixed meridian. Greenwich is usually
taken. Longitude in this sense is the angular distance through a place, such as
New York City from the fixed meridian, Greenwich. It is always measured from
East to West. Astronomical books tell us that the angular distance of a point
from a great circle is the angle subtended at the center of the sphere by the
intercept of the secondary of the great circle through the point between it and
the great circle. The angular distance of one great circle from another is the
angle between two great circles. This is the same as the angle subtended at the
center of the sphere by the intercept of their common secondary, lying between
them. Positions of cities are determined that way.
Their explanation of celestial longitude is as
follows: The celestial longitude of a body is the arc of the ecliptic
intercepted between the first point of Aries and the secondary of the ecliptic
through that body. The value found is always expressed in
degrees and minute and counted from the first point of Aries.
A given
longitude of 85°15' means that the planet is 85°15' distant from 0° Aries. The
value would be shown in our ephemeris as 25°15' Gemini, for we have the sign of
Aries 30° long, the next sign of Taurus also 30° in length, absorbing together 60° of our 85°15', leaving for the sign following, Gemini,
25°15'. In the ephemeris all the work is done
already; they are given.
Using the Tables as shown in the ephemeris and checking any possible relation
between the
longitudes of the various planets to the stock market as a whole, I found critical
degrees in the Ecliptic. The effect of these critical degrees upon the market
as a whole is astonishing. Whenever Mars or Jupiter arrive at these locations on the
Ecliptic in longitude, there is a change in the market. At times we find several planets arriving on one
and the same day at critical degrees making a change of trend a surety. These critical degrees are valued
for each sign of the Zodiac. They are located at 0°, 5°, 17°30', 25°.
Supposing Mars passes into the sign of Virgo as will happen on September 26th,
1936. We should find changes coming into the market the moment this planet passes
over the 1st degree, over the 5th, the 17 1/2th and the 25th degree. This
phenomenon occurs through every sign of the Zodiac. The same is true with
Jupiter; it also applies to other planets in a minor way. A planet such as Sun,
Mercury or Venus due to their
fast motion reach these degrees so often and soon that they cannot be used as
indicators singly, only in
connection with several hitting on one and the same day. It means a change for
example, when Mercury happens to be at 5° of a sign, Venus passes 17°30' of
some sign and the Sun may enter into a new sign, thus crossing 0° and
this all on one single day. In case Mars or Jupiter happens to pass one of
these critical degrees also on that specific day, you surely will have a change
in the market. Under change, we understand a new cycle. Therefore, when the
movement happened to be upward until
the day the change is due, we should move downward or, when other indices allow
it, we can make a gap upward. You should have ample facilities on hand to
distinguish which has to happen, especially when you know that the event
is due on this day. In such a case watch your method #1 if an 8 1/2 move is
completed; watch the volume as we approach the time for the change; watch all
the factors of the other methods and combine those indicating a downmove and separately those indicating a possible gap upward and weigh carefully.
We also
must know that the various planets have various effects in the different houses and
you have to search old charts what effect each planet actually did have in past
cycles upon the
market. This is one reason why I find the movements of the various commodities
much easier and surer than those of individual
stocks. I have made myself charts for practically every commodity for thirty,
forty years on a daily basis, such as wheat, cotton,
cottonseed oil and it is from checking back the effect of the planets that I arrive at what the
effect should be now. With stocks, you only have a handful that are older than
twelve or fifteen years. They have not gone through a series of major cycles as
yet and therefore you have to rely on secondary factors, which, as you may well
realize, are not absolutely safe. This brings me once more to the statement
that you should concentrate on one or two single stocks or commodities, because
if you know only one and well, you can make all the money you can use and then
some. Later on I will bring another
reason to warrant this statement.
The other tables given in the ephemeris are not
required for our work, such as latitude, declination. Thorough tests on my part
have revealed that they do not contain such critical points.
This method operates,
of course, in harmony with the others. Many times you will be able to detect
small, sharp moves that otherwise would not be understood and that would cause
uneasiness.
Explaining the simplest
astrological methods you now will note that we are drifting completely away from price and
swing into time only. We move away from the dollar that are
in the market and measure Nature’s change of mind in the feelings of the human
trader.
Price changes become an "accident" while time changes are the concrete facts. These
changes are caused by planetary positions in the heavens and are known and the
direction of the flow of the tide can be easily arrived at. The planetary positions act only when a definite
degree, a definite minute and second is reached in the Zodiac. Such events
can be calculated to the second when they must happen, not when they may happen.
On such a day, hour, minute and second all the
cycles of our other methods will also agree and produce a bottom or a top. On
that day you then must either buy
or sell, as the case may be, ask no questions, expect no replies. The time of
the cycle is up, the public changes its mind, its attitude
towards stocks or commodities, a condition which cannot be felt physically, but
figured. Is anything easier, safer? Bear in mind, that the markets are to the
laymen a common gambling ground, to a few an open book, consisting of rhythms
of pre-destined amplitudes,
not a maze of uncertainty and guess work. Buildings, twenty stories high are
filled with Statisticians, selling analyses of stocks on strength of earning
and what not to the
greedy, by the hundred thousand, knowing as little as the statisticians themselves;
on the contrary, they recognize them as "Giants of
Finance and Economics" and pay them for their "information"
hundreds of dollars each per year, which, as far as the market is concerned, is not worth the paper
on which it is printed.
Millions of people are successful in their
own lines of business. They observe subconsciously the laws of Nature. The
swings of business are not so pronounced as those of the market. The same laws,
of course, remain underlying. Most businesses supply necessities of life and as
long as we have people living, they must purchase such necessities. The profits
in such enterprises are strictly limited by keen competition. Man, as a rule,
chooses the easiest path to earn a livelihood. Comparatively few work out of
this rut. These few, however, step right into enormous difficulties, especially
when entering the markets. They try to operate in the market under the
identical laws which they carried along from their line of business. But they
find that these laws will cause them to gradually, but surely, lose their
money.
Still, the stock market and commodity market afford
the greatest possibility of making money constantly without much risk, without
much effort, provided the work is done exclusively within certain laws and
rules, however far fetched and unbelievable they may sound to the
average business man. This is the secret of the market. The operations of the
multitude are wrong and necessarily so. Who else would carry the costs,
commissions, taxes, the fairy-like brokerage offices down-town? The proof is seen in the
persistent and steadily dribbling losses taken by the majority of investors,
speculators, traders, bankers and others. Only those who have within themselves
vibrations attuned to the market
responding thus automatically to tops and bottoms, or those who have
been able to use
Nature's laws, can measure with great exactness the dates of change. The first
group will never be able to forecast movements. It simply is a
"something" that causes them to buy or sell and discover later that they were "right again".
Their response is spontaneous, but does not go beyond the present.
When
making commitments in a stock,
by either buying or selling it short, creates immediately thereafter a somewhat
mixed
feeling of hope and fear within any man. Supposing he bought a stock. He hopes
the market will be favorable to the upside so that he can realize a profit; at
the same time he fears that the market might not go up; in fact, he dreads a
downmove. To conquer this feeling is almost impossible, at least with the millions who merely guess which way
"the cat might jump". Even with all the methods explained
herein, it is difficult to overcome this feeling, although it
gradually will wear off.
At times, when an important move is in the making, which is about the only time to visit a
broker's office, watch the crowd in
their psychology! This is more fun than a Broadway show! See these creatures buck Nature's laws, respectively abiding to the same
whichever you may call it, buying stocks or commodities right at the top of a
move, happy as children who just received a "gift", while on the
other hand, when Nature provides a bottom in the market, these same
crowds, sell the erstwhile previous bargains for the proverbial song, far below
actual values, fearing they might go lower. Nature is generous, but wicked
withal. The market shows these sides in the truest fashion.
The law of critical
degrees as given above refers to the market as a whole and, when following them
in individual stocks, you are apt to take severe losses, although you may be right as
to the trend of the general market.
Therefore,
I had to do some more research to overcome this difficulty. Here is the result:
Each
stock reacts (also commodities) at
specific degrees and minutes of the Zodiac to one or two planets in one or two
positions. Taking wheat for example, we note that Venus and
Mars and no other planet brings about the changes therein. These two
planets, as they cross 23°20, respectively 12°16' of a
sign, produce changes. The stock Philip Morris acts only on Venus and the
changes occur when Venus passes 17°30' of any sign. Each stock must be searched over a period of time and the planets
bringing about the changes decoded.
In 1935, wheat made its
important tops and bottoms exclusively the moment Mars passed
12°16' of a sign. A rough sketch will show it:
At the same time, Philip Morris (MOs) acted as
follows:
Venus
at 17,30' Aries gave a bottom on March 12th, 1935
"
" " Gemini bottom April
30th, 1935
"
" " Cancer bottom May
28th, 1935
"
" " Leo top June 24th, 1935
"
" " Virgo top July 31st,
1935
From
August 18th, 1935 until September 30th, Venus moved retrograde and its motion was very slow, accounting for the
sidewise movement in that specific stock during this period.
You may note in this example that in the sequence of the signs, we
miss the sign of Taurus. This sign does not bring about a change in this stock.
You further note that we have three bottoms to begin with and two tops to end
with, so that some other planet is playing into this stock that brings about
the reversal not found quoted herein. You may plot the daily motion of this
stock for 1935 and find that planet yourself and the degree and minute that
must be used.
I found that Cottonseed oil responds to the motion of Mercury-Neptune,
that the prices of butter simply move up and down according to the aspects of
Jupiter-Venus and, aside of that, in perfect ellipses.
end of method #6
