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PREDICTION
The Planctary Barometer and How 10 Use It
By DONALD A. BRADLEY
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Foreword by Llewellyn George
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1984
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‘mal publication 1980 by the Llewellyn Foundation for Astological Research
Second Impr: ssion 1968
Third Impression 1982
Fourth Impression 1983
Filth Impression 1984
Second Edition 1984
ISBN: 0-87542-046-X
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FOREWORD
LTHOUGH this text is not primarily intended to be a stock market
forecaster, yet by judicious operators i is quite likely to become their
‘most valued treasure for anticipating trends ancl changes which are due
to mass mind activity.
11 tells how to properly chart that psychological activity in eomplianee
with well known operations of plunetary Forces.
Those who hitherto have been unaware of the potency of maj planetary
aspects have an amazing revetation in store, Read the last paragraph on page
40 and the second paragraph on page 42, then see thase things all graphed
simply in Figure 10 on page 43
I is not the intention to promote stockmarket activity, but rather to show
nd to prove the correspondence between planetary operations and market
responses, This book does that in a clear and startling manner
Those who are already conversant with astrological principles will Find a
unique method for drawing graphs and previewing the dates and relative
strength of good and advers' ie for
their personal and pusiness activities.
pects which may be consulted as
The book is a step forward in economic and personal research trom an
‘standpoint and as seh its importance cannot be over-estinated, It
‘evening by the fireside” book of entertainment: but a book for
persons studiously endeavoring to learn the why and wherefore of trends and
changes affecting life, using the stockmarket as the example. Every market
\l every student af horscopy should find this text not ony highly
astrologie:
operator
interesting, but extremely valwable for extending their fund of necessary
knowledge.
Llewellyn George— CONTENTS —
FOREWORD ...
THE MYSTERY OF MASS PSYCHOLOGY ..
HUMAN RESPONSE TO OUTSIDE FoRcES
TIDES IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN .
CYCLES WRITE WORLD HISTORY 4
RCH FOR CAU: s
THE 34-YEAR BUSINESS CYCLE 8
PLANETARY ASPECTS ARE THE SECRET «0.0.0.0... °
‘THE JUPITER-URANUS ASPECT CYCLE feces H
PLANETARY PERIODS AND SYNODS ves n
STANDARD ASTROLOGICAL SYMBOLS. .....0-.00000+ 6
ASPECTS IN ACTION . 0
THE EXPERIMENTAL BASIS OF OUR IDEA ....... 20
ESTIMATING THE POWER OF ASPECTS .........00-eccesesee 2
‘THE LINE OF ASPECTIVITY .....
COMPUTING THE TERMS 7
A WORKING EXAMPLE «0... ccccsscsseeeesesseneessseneeesseeee 28
XAMPLE WORKSHEE »
THE 1946 SIDEROGRAT AS AN EXAMPLE se
ITS PROMISES AND LIMITATIONS «. 30
BIBLIOGRAPHY 4s— ILLUSTRATIONS —
Figure 1: THE MAJOR ASPECTS 0
Figure 2: THE 15-YEAR BUSINESS AND JUPITER-URANUS CYCLE n
Figure 3: INTERPLANETARY ANGLES ILLUSTRATED. 8
Figure 4: THE OBSERVED EFFECTS OF VENUS-URANI
nt TE URANUS ASPECTS, »
Figure : TOTAL OBSERVED DEVIATIONS IN STOCK VALUES,
Ae tthe infRoenee of Venus Uranus Aspects 1898-1947 2
Figure 6: THE SINE CURVE OF ASPECT POTENCY 2s
Figure 7: VALENCY OF CONJUNCTIONS 2%
Figured: 1926 1LONG TERMSCOMPARED WITH PRIMARY TRENDIN STOC
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igure 9: 1946 MIDDLE TERMS: INTERMEDIATE SWINGS IN MASS PSYCHOLOGY. 32
Figure 10: THLE 194 MARKET RECORD AND SIDEROGRAPIL a
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ble PLANETARY PERIODS OF ORBITAL REVOLUTION 15
able HE INTERPLANETARY S¥NODICAL PERIODS Is
Table Hk CONVERSION OF MINUTES OF ARC TO.
DECIMAL PARTS OF A DEGREE 2%
‘Table 1Vs SINE CURVE VALUES FOR NATURAL ASPECT ORB 3744
The Mystery of Mass Psychology
THERE WAS DANGER of panic in the nation’s vital trading markets when
the unparalleled rising spiral of inflated prices suddenly halted in early
ebruary, 1948, The halt and sudden drop in commodity prices was only
temporary, however. How and why this unexpected break took place remains
‘a mystery of mass psychology, for it was a spontaneous phenomenon the
ination over, No important current event could be blamed for those few feverish
days.
“The Associated Press released a brief analysis of the slide in prices shortly
alier the shakedown, Tis unnamed writer commented, “The psychological
factors the joker inthe economist’s deck of cards. It isthe bigunknown which
most frequently upsets his predictions.”
Euson B, Smith, financial editor ofthe Boston Herald, once wrote,“ Most
‘men who have made a success of their own personal investments never attempt
‘o explain the minor Nuctuations of the stock market. They admit they do not
tinderstand what makes people want to buy stocks ne day and sell them the
next in the absence of any news affecting the broad background. While we Jo
rot go in for astrology oF sunspots, we must confess that there seem to be
ible factors which influence the emotions of stock market people which
Yo not respond readily to analysts
What are those subile forces whieh, despite their elusive nature, alfect
men's minds and emotions so powerfully? Many purely mechanistic explan
ations have been offered hy experts, but only those who claim an astrological
origin for these influences seem able to anticipate and predict their eventuality
to any accurate degree, Current news, government moves and technical
developments can never by themselves suffice to explain market activities
The very suddenness with which major changes in tend occur discounts many
of the more publicized theories. Only those explanations rooted in astrology
are adequate.
TSIDE FORCES
HUMAN RESPONSE +
ASTROLOGERS since time immemorial have been aware of the Fact that
planetary movements, positions and relationships, in some peculiar way
influence the collective as well as the individual mind, They have always
known that important astronomical phenomena aire responded to both bygroups and single persons. Perhaps the reaction is entirely individual, and that
the mass response is the product of all the individual reactions, multiplied by
te number of individuals concerned with a common objective, In market
‘matters, this is the product of millions of personal responses. How and in what
manner the celestial stimulus is responded to is a matter for the scientist to
decide
Theories about this are endless, although we might well mention a few of
the more striking, lotical ones, It is believed by some that astrological
influences play directly on the enclocrine system ofthe body. the ductless glands
bearing the brunt of the impact and reacting according to the quality of the
influence. This is a rational theory. for science is certain that human behavior
is closely allied to the endocrine glands
Others advance the proposition thatthe acid-alkaline balance in the blood
varies, so that the temperament is correlated with this continuous vatiation,
Known medically as the “pH curve.” a graph of the relative degrees of acidity
wc alkalinity in the bloodstream of a patient appears to show also the patient's
changing moods, When the curve is low, the individual is depressed and
disgruntled. A high curve correlates. generally speaking, with periods of
cheerfulness and ambition, That the key, or part of it, 10 the mystery of
Personal and collective psychology lies in variations of blood constituents, is
an extremely interesting possibility.
Maybe the very delicate nervous system of an individual, and groups of
individuals simultaneously. responds to planetary influence. Negative influences
could disturb the nervous equilibrium with repercussions in the thoughts and
actions. Positive influences could soothe the disposition so that the person
‘might rely more on forethought and maintain a more optimistic outlook.
Numerous adherents to astrology have noted tite sedative effect of favorable
planetary aspects and the disturbing, impulse-whetting action of adverse
vibrations
Body metabolism is often suggested as the primary seat of respose to
astrological forces. Cell subdivision, known technically as mitosis, might
undergo definite variations in its erstwhile uniformity, as a direct reaction to
those forces, Astrologers correctly refer to favorable influences as anabolistic
in action, and unfavorable influences as catabolistic, Too rapid catabolism, of
cell-destruction, would doubtless have a negative effect on the disposition,
Persons interested in ramifications of this theory will find much of interest in
works on constitutional psychology and psychosomatic medicine, and in a
Hule book entitled, “How Planets Affect You.” (Llewellyn: out of print.
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There are many other eyeles affecting man with causes’ outside our
immediate word, Well brown among these is the cletromagnetic eye
biology whichs caused bythe relationship ofthe sun moun. Even tadpoles
are seriously affected by this sol-lunar eye, which, meutetally, proves the
wisdom ofthe oft ridiculed practice of plantingsnder vious circumstances of
the moon in the sky, What stimulates and pacifies the pully wog, stimulates and
patcifies the human being, periodically
E ct ions ofthe moon are phenomena
Even the daly rising, setting and culminations of
important to certain indus, the communications el patieulary thas
also been proved that earthquakes have a preference for happening with the
moon in special regions of the sky.
‘of several phases of social
Solar activity itself is the greatest determinant vf -
behavior, Outbursts in certain components of the sun's radiation for periods of
time seem to coincide with an increase in the death rates from various diseases
as well as from suicide. The question of the reality of extra-terrestrial
3influences is no longer denied or doubted by the present, new generation of
Scientists who are avidly exploring a universe undreamt of by their forebears,
CYCLES WRITE WORLD HISTORY
EARCH EMBRACING MANY FIELDS of scientific pursuit and all
lable historical records proves that the climate ofthe earth as a whole goes
through long cycles. World-climate shifts from cold to warm periods and from
wel 10 dry periods with an amazing yen toward regularity. Dry periods
accompanied by colder weather take place about every 170 years, every third
such “cold drought” being severe in its effects.
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Professor Raymond I, Wheeler, eminent psychologist of the University
of Kansas, heads this study project which finds an important correlation
between world climate and political history. Dr. Wheeler's analysis of an
‘immense accumulation of data shows that great international changes occur on
these shifis from warm to cold and vice versa. Nations deteriorate on the shift
from warm to cold, the study reveals, What is probably most fascinating
among the findings is that totalitarianism is representative of world-wide
political sentiment during warm periods. Democracy is vivified and sought
after by men during cold periods. Intervals of cold droughts usually coincide
with eras of civil wars. International wars are fought, for the most part, during
warmer times, The Wheeler project has idemtiied basic mass-psychological
patierns with every climatic condition found in the global weather cycle.
Public attitudes and popular ideas are directly colored by the general nature of
the world-climate prevailing at any time.
Astrology offers a logical explanation for this 170-year rhythm in world
activities. It is hardly a coincidence that every cold-drought is synchronized
with one of the solar system's major planetary configurations, Called a great
‘mutation in astrological parlance, a conjunction of the planets Uranus and
Neptune occurs every 171 years, on the average, These conjunctions are
within effective orb for 15 years befure and after their centeal date of coming-
together in the sky. This Uranus-Neptune cycle leaves a continuous impression
‘on the unwinding setoll of world history in inciting those conditions in man and
natural affairs described
Central conjunctions of Uranus and Neptune took placein the A.D. years
of 110, 281, 453, 624, 796, 967, 1139, 1310, 1481, 1653 and 1824.* Each of
these ephochs is _at or near the dead center of a period of serious cold
The years cited nak the general cenes ofthe 30-year fluence a work, They are computed Tor the
‘onjuntions i mean heliocentric longa, anda forthe apparent geoceli) tines of oeutence
‘The tinesmargin allowed for his ference is nearly # whole deende
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drought recorded in the annals of history and seience. Its no surprise tothe
astrologer that lowered mean temperature, lack of much rainfall, political
Stress and civil war itself should be typical af our earth's response to these
vibrations, Uranian influences alone have long been recognized as revolutionary
Jn action, Neptune is peculiarly associated with meteorological matters, and
flso with canons of idealistic thought, Astrologers are generally agreed that
Nepiune ts the planct of “isms” and ideologies which provoke national and
ternational changes of attitude. Uranus is disruptive in action and progressive
divihe Tong fun, Neptune, on the other hand, is said to determine workt
sentiments which have an emotional base, Conjunctions of these divergent
forces bring about the years of famine and civil strife which make and break the
great economic and political structures we call nations.
The primary precipitation-and-temperature cycle is obviously connected
with a particular interplanetary periodicity. There are dozens if not hundreds
of other cycles in man’s social and natural environment which ean be traced 10
similar causes, Relations af wo or more planets to exch other as viewed from
the earth are called aspects. The positions of any moving heavenly body across
the great star-spangled backdrop of the sky are called transits. Inastrology, we
inake use of the term transit to mean the location ofa planet by the sign of the
Zodiac it occupies. Aspects and sign-transits of the various planets are the
fimndamental causesof eycles on earth, Although not actually zodiaeal factors,
ations of certain planets and changes in the elements of planetary
fe found to be strong components in the astrological theory of world
orbits
eyeles.
‘Above and beyond true physical phenomena is the strange tendency of
‘world affairs toward cycles which reflect the general connotations of successive
zodiacal signs. This is apparent if one reconsiders the famous historical
analyses of Oswald Spengler in the light of astrology, Spengler’s anthropo-
morphic outlines of spiritual cultural and political “contemporary epochs:
secm to follow a fascinating zodiac of characteristics, commencing each broad
swingin mankind's affairs with typical Aries qualities, and culminating after
ten more eras, with Piscean attributes, The reason for this inclination is
inexplicable, at the present. as no astronomical connection hs been discovered.
Mention of such interesting matters lays the groundwork for our
immediate subject—that of applying astrology ts a calculable gauge of
contemporary economic conditions.
THE SEARCH FOR CAUSE!
MANY ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS were acquainted with the effects of
3these periodicities, and regulated state, religious and agricultural activities to
accord with them. A kind of balanced economy resulted, for men were in step
with the cadence of their environment. The first recorded mention of applying
astrological dynamics to the problem of business forecasting in modem times
appears to have been in 1543, during the Renaissance, Christopher Kurz of
Antwerp, we are told, had devised an astrological system for predicting the
course of the money market, Ever since the attempts of Kurz, which were
mildly successful, ambitious individuals have tried to contrive methods for
predicting stock market movements through astrology.
The solar theory of market cycles has been popular with economists since
1801 when Sir William Herschel hinted of a possible connection between sun-
spot changes and weather conditions. Weather influences crops, and crops
alfect prices, Astronomer Herschel's suggestion was a fertile one, for when the
Perivdicity of sunspot activitiy was established in 1857, investigators found
the anticipated relation between weather and solar spottedness. The
sunspot theory remains valuable even today, although economists are now
convinced that solar radiation and its attendant phenomena are but part of the
story of economic rhythms, Other, mnore important rhythms than the
sunspot eyele have been found for which no such explanation can suffice
‘The first daring attempt by an economist to account for an economic cycle
by aan asttonomical factor apart from sunspots seems to have been made in
1914, with the proposition of Professor I1.L. Moore. Moore theorized that an
8-year eycle in crop yields found by him could be explained by the 8-yeareycle
in the inter-relationship of the earth, sun and planet Venus. Every 8 years an
inferior conjunction of the sun and Venus, as viewed from earth, is so nearly
‘exact that we narrowly miss seeing a transit ofthat planet across the sun's disk
Assuming the existence of streams of electrons flowing directly from sun to
‘earth (now established as fact), itis plausible that a definite interference in
solar radiation is caused by Venus, Moore's suggestion is not without its
‘merits, although the 8-year rhythm he isolated is not now considered relatively
important
Sir William H. Beveridge is one ofthe men to whom the world owes a debt
‘of gratitude for the stupendous contributions, both scientifie and sociological,
that he made during a noteworthy career. One of these ephochal contributions
was his statistical analysis of wheat prices and rainfall in westem Europe
Lough three centuries, published in 1922, Without advancing any propositions
of his own, he ventured to say that the many regular, periodic movements
affecting weather and crops may be accounted for through similar oscillations
in the sun, the moon, or even the planets
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The search for extraterrestrial causes of business cycles has gained
considerable momentum since the early years of our century, until we now
fa legion of independent investigators tracking, down every possible lead.
The great body of these research workers, however, scem infected by that
strange defiance of the astrological tradition t wshionable in ordinary
intellectual circles, It seems they have failed to find the forest forthe trees in the
way by neglecting the vital universe of the astrologer. To suggest to them that
planetary and zodiacal influences may be the clue they seek is sefent
heresy, and their error is perpetuated with almost ridiculous fanaticism. They
untled over the gaps in the physical knowledge of cycle causes, but
nation rooted in what tw them is a
inst astrology, which has
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remain adamant in a defiance of any exp!
medieval vagary. The block of psychic resistance
slifled the progress and practicability of modem science, is slowly crumbling
under a growth of evidence which tends to prove the validity of planetary
influence. The astrologer, long maligned for his lack of a seat in universitatus,
‘will one day be vindicated by other scientists whose anti-astrology stereotype
will give way to goed academic sportsmanship—to the benefit of all
concerned.
iunforunate, however, that temps by bonafde astrologers them
acves have not been fatfl as ther station promises. A numberof
Serle works basins endothe eal sections
fave been published sine 1932, although none of thse staes text a
eth onsidrton ha eonomtsaendy kn Thetandanent
bruins cytes of specie Tength with which te average businessman i
Pamir have not been adequately treated by any ofthe astro-economst
tise repos hae reached! the public In rit. However. despite ste
shortcomings in the literature of financial astrology or astro-economics.
trust these worksisadsiableifuot ecessary acti shoulthe layman
ato ly appreciate te bread of the information alteady gleaned by
workers this et
fed researchers befure application
‘Much work has yet to be done by qualified r ation
of astrology tothe study of economic oseillatons can be reduced to deine
workable system. Nevertheless, we offer in this brochure an integrated
technique for approaching such a finality. The acme of such a system would be
its accuracy in calling all the turrs in economic tides beforehand, although this
goal will never be fully realized, due to the complex nature of our society, and
the problems posed by an elastic phase-lag.
Before discussing at length the method for pre-caleulating the swings in
sass psychology —which is the most sensitive imlex to stock market action—
a