Monday's Stock Market

I looked at the Horoscope for Opening Bell for tomorrow's Stock Market. Why not? It's so looking like a downhill slalom at this point.

Straight to the heart of the matter we see that the houses of Banking and of Investments are empty. Money? What Money? Since we've all been gnashing our teeth all week-end over Fannie and Freddie and IndyMac that seems odd. The rulers of these houses, Venus and Mars are doing completely different things in this chart.

Venus rules the 2d house via Libra which is on the cusp. That's the Banking Planet ruling the Banking House, wrong sign but oh well. Venus in the chart is in Cancer in the 11th House unaspected. Unaspected means that Venus isn't relating to the rest of the planets. As she rules the Banking Industry and Money that could be alarming. Cancer rules Housing, Real Estate, Security. 11th House is a Resources House, the resource is friends. The Sun of the NYSE is always in the 11th House (Groups, Committees, Hopes, Wishes) at opening bell so this is an important component of U.S. Stocks. This shows an intense (unaspected) focus on Banking (Venus), Real Estate security (Cancer) and the Stock Market that might be a little stuck right now.

Mars rules the 8th House of Investments, Insurance, Taxes. Mars is aggressive. Well, it's good to see a fighting spirit in this area. Mars also co-rules the Chart as it is conjunct the Virgo Rising on the same degree. Mars does not like to be stuck. That sounds courageous except that Mars is conjunct Saturn (frustration). That's like trying to drive with the parking brake on. Like Venus, Mars is stuck.

Too bad Mars is also squaring the Moon. That's very volatile. The Moon is out-of-bounds and placed in the 4th House which is her own house. This places emphasis on all things Cancerian/4th Housian. Which means, if you don't grow a shell on your back you won't have a house to live in. The Moon is in Sagittarius. This might mean that the media makes everybody a little crazy; or wise, as the case may be. Or it might mean that my Sagg Boyfriend Ben Bernanke will come to the rescue and stop the cascading Dow Jones with his bare hands.

Too bad Pluto is also in the 4th House of this chart. That sort of puts a backed up sewer problem in all things 4th housian. Pluto wants to churn. Churning is a term in Stock Market land where the brokers convince the investors to sell all their stocks and then get them to buy more stocks all over again. They make commissions this way. By this time next month Pluto will be in the 3d house and we'll be glued to the TV becoming experts on all kinds of Olympic sports that we've never heard of. hehehe, right?

Vitality looks good as far as the Sun goes. It is also in Cancer and is strongly aspecting two positive planets, an opposition to Jupiter and a trine to Uranus. It's ruling the 12th House, however, which is only great for people who are on vacation.

Mercury rules both the Ascendant and the Midheaven and is placed in the 10th house of Government opposing Pluto. This shows that the Government is aware of the problem and may intervene in some way. They are trying to rewrite rules to gain control of the greedy banks who pull these stunts. Maybe it just means that we're all sitting back and telling ourselves that they're doing something.

Which brings us to the planet of denial, Neptune. Neptune is still conjunct the North Node and Chiron. They won't be making any major aspects to other planets from the 6th house. 6th House is labor, health, analysis, details, etc. Don't jump out any Windows at any rate or you'll miss the Olympics next month.