Planetary Stock Trading

Planetary Stock Trading is a book written by a financial astrologer and fund manager Bill
Meridian.[1][2][3] It is a manual on how to spot stock market winners by their first trade horoscopes and
their astrological transits. Meridian makes use of several concepts in the book which are not common in
traditional astrology, including the use of declinations, the inclusion of asteroids and hypothetical planets,
and the study of first trade charts instead of incorporation charts.

Contents
General concepts
Incorporation charts versus first-trade charts
Asteroids and Uranian planets
Predictive techniques
Bullish and bearish transits
Eclipses and stations
Saturn cycles
Midpoints
Directions and progressions
Mutable signs occupation
Trading tactics
General advice on investing with astrology
Picking a date to start a new business
The earnings surprise method
Criticism
References

General concepts

Incorporation charts versus first-trade charts

Traditionally, when predicting a company's share price, most astrologers use the incorporation dates of the
company. However, Meridian finds that the first-trade dates of the shares give better results when predicting
the price movements. He explains that the incorporation charts dictate how the company is doing, while the
first-trade charts govern the expectations of the investors. Here is a simple combination of possible results
when the two charts agree or disagree:
 Incorporation vs. First-Trade
Good Transits in First-Trade Bad Transits in First-Trade
Good The company is doing well, but falls short of
The company is doing well. The investors buy
Transits in investors’ expectations. The share price is
accordingly.
Incorporation likely to fall.
Bad Transits The company is not doing well, but the investors
The company is not doing well. The
in expect it to get better soon. The share price is
investors sell accordingly.
Incorporation likely to go up.

Regarding the incorporation charts, Meridian notes that different states in the US have different practice. In
Delaware, the exact time of the incorporation is stamped on the formal document, so the transit could be
exact to the minute. In other states like California, the existence of the corporation starts at midnight of that
particular day. In any case, Meridian recommends to use two charts: one with the legal time of
incorporation, another with its first business opening (usually 9 am).

If a trader decides to work with both charts, Meridian suggests that he shall focus on the shared areas. For
example, IBM was incorporated when the Sun was in Aquarius, and it also started trading its shares when
the Sun was under the same sign. Therefore, transits to IBM's Sun (and to the sign of Aquarius in general)
will be more powerful than usual. For example, as illustrated in Example 4 in the third edition, when Saturn
entered Aquarius in 1991 and stayed there until 1994, the share price of IBM resulted in a slump.

Asteroids and Uranian planets

In addition to the major planets used in Western astrology, Meridian also uses asteroids and hypothetical
planets. Here is a full list of the heavenly objects he uses, as well as the financial rulerships he assigns to
them:
 Bill Meridian's planetary interpretations
Object Rulership
Illuminaries
Sun Gold
Moon Any type of walk-in business
Planets
Mercury Communication, short-distance travel, telecommunication, telephone, footwear, trucking
Venus Recreation, cosmetics, fashion, leisure, soft drinks
Mars Construction, sports, defence
Jupiter Publishing, travel, gambling, consumer goods sector
Saturn Real estate, regulated industries such as utilities, capital goods sector
Uranus Most technology such as computers, aviation
Advertising, chemicals, some entertainment business, marine activities such as off-shore drilling,
Neptune
natural gas, oil, photography, tobacco, alcoholic beverages
Dwarf planets and asteroids
Ceres Food, nursing homes
Pallas Computer programming, the immune system, precision instrument
Juno Hospitality, hotels
Vesta The security business (lock, prevention of theft), paper securities such as bonds and stocks
Pluto Biotechnology, financial businesses such as mergers, insurance, brokerages
Uranian planets (hypothetical)
Cupido business related to communities and groups, homebuilding
Hades Waste removal
Zeus Machinery, manufacturing, railroads, automobiles, heavy industries, drilling
Kronos Government-related businesses
Apollon Distribution of all types
Mining, geology, semiconductors, the process of miniaturisation, nanotechnology, disk drivers,
Admetus
containers, building materials
Vulcanus Steel, aluminium, cooper, and other metals
Poseidon Education

Meridian acknowledges that one business could be ruled by more than one planet. For example, a biotech
company which deals with the human body immune system is ruled by both Pluto and Pallas, or a school
for children education is ruled by boh Poseidon and Juno, and so on.

Predictive techniques

Bullish and bearish transits

Here are a list of positive and negative transits used by Meridian. In addition to traditional aspects by
longitude (e.g. square, trine), it also applies to aspects by declination (i.e. parallel and contra-parallel).
 Bullish and bearish transit combinations
Bullish Bearish
Transiting Natal Transiting Natal
Sun Venus Saturn Sun
Jupiter Sun Saturn Venus
Jupiter Mercury Saturn Jupiter
Jupiter Venus Saturn Uranus
Jupiter Jupiter Saturn Neptune
Jupiter Uranus Saturn Pluto
Jupiter Neptune Saturn Nodes
Jupiter Pluto Saturn Asc/Dsc, MC/IC
Jupiter Asc/Dsc, MC/IC Uranus Pluto
Uranus Venus Neptune Pluto
Uranus Asc/Dsc, MC/IC Pluto Nodes
Neptune Sun Pluto Asc/Dsc, MC/IC
Neptune Venus Eclipses Saturn
Eclipses Jupiter Eclipses Pluto
Eclipses Neptune
Eclipses Uranus
Eclipses Asc/Dsc, MC/IC

Eclipses and stations

One shall pay particular attention to the transits made by eclipses and stationing planets. Meridian wrote,
"After spending over 20 years in astrology, I can say that one can come up with a reasonably good forecast
by simply observing the eclipses and the stations." He ranks their influences in the following order,
although he does not explain how this order is derived:

1. Solar eclipses
2. Uranus stations
3. Lunar eclipses
4. Jupiter stations
5. Neptune stations
6. Pluto stations
7. Major aspects between outer planets
8. Mars stations
9. Venus stations

Saturn cycles
Here a Saturn cycle is defined as the ascent of Saturn from the Imum Coeli to the Medium Coeli. Meridian
noted that there is a tendency for the share price to rise during this 14-year period, but it tends to peak when
Saturn reaches the MC. Thus the Saturn-MC/IC transit is important to watch.

Midpoints

Not all natal points are created equal. If a planet happens to be at the center of a lot of midpoints, then
transits to that point will be more powerful. A midpoint refers to the arithmetic mean of the zodiac degrees
of two planets. Say, in a particular chart, Venus is at 0° Aries, Mercury is at 0° Taurus, and Mars is at 0°
Gemini, then Mercury is at the midpoint of Venus/Mars.

Directions and progressions

Meridian claims that he uses both solar arc directions and secondary progressions, but his book only deals
with the latter. One of the related techniques is the progressed lunar cycles. The share price tends to bottom
during a progressed new moon, and peaks during a progressed full moon.

Mutable signs occupation

Meridian noted that many of the stocks that moved sharply had planets in the first 10 degrees of mutable
signs.[4] For example, Caterpillar (CAT) was first traded on 2 December 1929. In the case of CAT, the Sun,
Jupiter, Mars and Mercury were all in the 10 to 13 degree Virgo and Sagittarius, which are mutable signs.

Trading tactics

General advice on investing with astrology

Meridian believes that, while no rule relating to the market is carved in stone, the following guidelines are
helpful for those who want to use astrology in investing:

1. Select a small group of stocks to work with.

2. Select horoscopes that make soft or positive connections to your own.
3. Understand the concept of relative strength.
4. Trade with the trend, as the trend is your friend.
5. Different groups of stocks have different characteristics.
6. Always confirm your selection with technical analysis.

Picking a date to start a new business

Meridian thinks that, to pick the best date to incorporate a business, one should follow these steps:

1. Identify the nature of the business and find the planet(s) which rules it.
2. The best time to start the business is when the ruler planet at conjunction or opposition of a
recent eclipse (with an orb of 5 degrees). By "recent" it refers to nine months before or one
year after the eclipse.
 3. If the above is not available, then the next best time is to start the business is when the ruler
planet is at station. It does not matter whether it is station-direct or station-retrograde.
4. If either are not available, then one shall start the business only when the ruler planet is with
favourable aspects.

Meridian emphasize that, although ideally one shall pick a day meeting all three conditions, the first two
criteria (eclipses and stations) are the most important. If one can pick a time when the ruler planet is at an
eclipse point or at station, then it really does not matter if it happens to be with a bad aspect at the time.

The earnings surprise method

One of the simplest ways to begin planetary stock trading, according to Meridian, is to employ the earnings
surprise method.[4] This involves an analysis of the horoscope of the stock on the day that the earnings are
announced. If there is little contact with the horoscope at the time, the earnings will be in line with
forecasts. In these cases, there is contact to the natal first-trade chart. The advantage to this method is that a
trader is only exposed to the market for about 2 days, the day prior to the announcement and the day after.
In the analysis, concentrate on the MC, Sun and Moon, first natally and then by secondary progression both
direct and converse.

Criticism
There is a section of the book which contains the natal charts of many companies without any annotations.
Some reviewers on Amazon think that this part of the book is quite redundant.[5][6]

References
1. Meridian, Bill (2002). Planetary Stock Trading (4th ed.). New York, NY: Cycles Research.
ISBN 97809646030-1-1.
2. Meridian, B. (2000). Bill Meridian's Planetary Stock Trading (https://books.google.com/book
s?id=HIzmAAAACAAJ). Cycles Research. ISBN 9780964603004. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
3. http://www.books.mec.biz/tmp/books/7CLJXRS6FZTV74LKE4ZS.pdf
4. Meridian, Bill (2003). "First Trade Charts & Case Studies" (http://www.billmeridian.com/first_t
rade_charts.html). Bill Meridian. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
5. "Customer Review - Much ado about a little" (https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-review
s/R2PKR97EV8UVL9/). Amazon. Retrieved 12 Feb 2018.
6. "Customer Review - Not helpful" (https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R21NT57X
8BDKHL/). Amazon. Retrieved 12 Feb 2018.

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