Mystic Rectangle Wednesday: Stock Market Hump Day

Someone left a comment yesterday at my blog called "Mystic Rectangle Tuesday: Stock Market Rise" where I was talking about the NYSE chart for that day. There was an incredible 400+ point rise, the biggest in 5 years. The person wanted to know if I had thoughts about today's Venus-Pluto opposition. When I looked at the chart I noticed that there was a Mystic Rectangle in today's chart and Saturn would be back at the same spot 4 Virgo where it was on this day. http://outthecometsass.blogspot.com/2008/03/mystic-rectangle-tuesday-stock-market.html

So did today's Market rise 400+ points also? Hell, no, that would be too hunky dory. Today's Market went down more than 100 points. I heard on NPR it was due to credit fears.

As the Market opened Mars was conjunct the South Node and the Ascendant. Saturn was also in the 1th House. The March 11, 2008 chart had an empty 1st house. Venus-Saturn-Mars-Pluto were in a Mystic Rectangle configuration which was not angular. But there was a huge stellium in Aquarius in the 9th house and the Sun was conjunction Uranus and the Midheaven in Pisces. That's pretty hopeful. I can literally hear Jiminy Cricket singing when you wish upon a star while looking at this chart. As for fears on that day, Saturn was in the 3d house and retrograde. Not being angular, being Retrograde and placed in a positive configuration could keep Saturn's fears quiet.

First of all, in today's chart, there wasn't a real Mystic Rectangle, the planets were out of orb. Saturn was in the 3d house at opening bell. Today's chart had a conjunction of Mars to the South Node and the Leo Rising with Saturn also in the 1st House. Saturn in the 1st House wouldn't be taking many risks.

In March, Mars was opposing Pluto. Today it was opposite Neptune and the Nodes and was very prominently placed on the ASC-DESC axis. Mars-Pluto is willful. Mars-Neptune is flaky. Instead, Venus was opposing Pluto and conjunct the Full Moon Sun and Moon at the last degrees of Gemini and Sagittarius. The t-square that this opposition makes to Uranus in the 8th House is much stronger than the Mystic Rectangle. This was confusing me. Gemini and Sagittarius might be wanting to play games. The square from Uranus in the 8th House of Investments said that things would be unpredictable in the financial markets.

It's a nice exercise to compare these charts. Overall, I don't think that reading the Stock Market Charts according to each day's charts is ultimately the best forecast tool but making predictions certainly isn't my thing. I just like to practice seeing how the stories unfold after the fact and comparing them against the chart.

ADDITION: The Department of Justice implemented a major sting operation on Wednesday concerning the Sub-Prime Mortgage mess. They've arrested more than 400 people, I believe, since March. Venus at 1 Cancer: Money & Real Estate.:

The property market investigation, known as Operation Malicious Mortgage, relates to a number of types of alleged mortgage fraud.

"Operation Malicious Mortgage and the Bear Stearns case demonstrate that the Department of Justice is determined to detect and to punish mortgage fraud and to help restore stability and confidence in our housing and credit markets," said deputy US attorney general Mark Filip.

The Justice Department said it was pursuing 144 cases against the 406 defendants.

Sixty of them were arrested on Wednesday alone.

---http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7464298.stm