Flash Crash 2:45

On May 6, 2010 the Stock Market wigged out after lunch and made the 2d biggest point drop ever, around 1,000 points, before regaining most of its value by the closing bell. Whew, who mixed up those martinis?

A while back I wondered if the Saturn-Uranus opposition would cause some sort of techno/trader weirdness in the Market. There was a conjunction of Saturn to Uranus back in the big crash of 1987 which seems like it may have been a cause factor. That conjunction was in Sagittarius and right on top of the 2d house cusp in the Opening Bell chart. (Oct. 17, 1987) I sort of think that with Saturn and Uranus trying to cooperate there tends to be some of that same annoying thing where man has to chase the machine he has created. Turns out that this crash probably has more to do with Jupiter and Chiron in Pisces.

I'm not sure if anyone's located a cause for the crash. I mean, why May 6? Well, Mercury was Rx .... nah, Mercury goes Rx 3x a year every year year after year. Anyway, they never really seem to come up with reasons for why these crashes happen. The Sun is in the 11th House every day at Opening Bell, that's a good starter reason. Good old 11th House wake up call.

Flash Crash Opening Bell
May 6, 2010 9:30 am New York, NY

Sun 16 Taurus (H11); Moon 21 Aquarius (H8); ASC 13 Cancer; MC 23 Pisces; NN 15 Capricorn

Market begins to drop
May 6, 2010 1:00 pm New York, NY

Moment of Impact
May 6, 2010 2:45 pm New York, NY

In addition to the Mercury Rx 4 Taurus (H11), there are a number of biggees. The Nodal Axis was conjunct the ASC/DESC in the Opening Bell. And Pluto had just barely preceded it by about 9 degrees. That weakens things. I figured it indicated sabotage of some sort, but it could have just as easily been the Martians or the Martinis.

The Saturn opposition to Jupiter-Uranus was very close to the IC/MC axis. Times when this opposition hits one of the angles might be better for some of the techno gliche activity.

There was also a volatile t-square with Sun 15 Taurus squaring Moon 21 Aquarius opposing Mars 15 Leo. These 3 show some kind of emotional trigger thing. Here they in the Resources Signs in the Resources Houses so in a Stock Market chart I suppose one could expect something big to happen on that day, especially with the Nodal Axis hanging over the ASC/DESC line.

After lunch this t-square passes over the Ascendant. The Sun is conjunct the Midheaven. And the Moon is shootin shit with Neptune and Lilith on the Descendant. Neptune and Lilith? Martinis involved.

Mercury and Venus are in Mutual Reception so this shows ability for a lot of chatter in the markets. And Mercury is Retrograde which is great for any kind of clerical error. Supposedly the computers took over and were placing trades on their own according to mathematical principles. The Uranus-Neptune mutual reception had to have something to do with that as well.

The bottom of the market hit around 2:45. Venus was conjunct the Midheaven. I guess the traders quit trading. The Sun was in the 9th House in a Grand Trine with the Virgo Ascendant and the North Node. Maybe some sort of foreign investment deal made?

Today I found a link on a blog to a Wall St. Journal article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703957604575272791511469272.html) which compares this Flash Crash with a Flash Crash from 1962:

1962 Flash Crash
May 29, 1962

Sun 8 Gemini (H11); Moon 15 Aries (c. MC); ASC 2 Leo; MC 17 Aries; NN 13 Leo Rx;

The Sun is again apex of a t-square from H11. This time it squares Pluto Virgo (H2) opposing Chiron (H8).

Interesting other connections. Again, there's a Mercury Rx so Mercury is looking suspicious.

It's interesting that both crashes occur in May. Taurus takes up most of the Month and Taurus rules Money and Banks so could be the culprit. But the Sun, Mercury and Venus are all in different signs in each year. The WSJ article says that complacency among traders might have been one of the major reasons because both of these crashes were preceded by years in which there was a steep rise in the market.

Also interesting is that both Jupiter and Chiron were in the sign of Pisces. Jupiter and Pisces need to learn how to handle their alcohol better. These things always happen after lunch. Anyways, the Sun mosies over the Midheaven sometime round noon and goes into a sort of giddey-up rodeo act as it travels through the 9th House of the Centaur and down into the 8th where it gains equilibrium.

I looked at some of the suspected causes given for this last Flash Crash on Wikipedia and tried to relate them through astrolocality to see if any looked prominent. Some company out in the Midwest is blamed for posting a trade that went berserk. This is where the Chiron line goes through. Since Chiron is in the same sign in both charts maybe this would be a good place to look.

****NOTE ADDED 10/8/10: According to editorial in USATODAY (10/7/10 issue) "Flash-crash analysis leaves investors reason to worry" the reason for the crash is related to a money management firm in Kansas, Waddell & Reed. The firm "decided to unload $4 billion in stock futures contracts, using a computer algorithm programmed to sell regardless of price, so long as trading volume stayed robust. High-frequency traders provided that volume as their computers bought and sold rapid fire, creating a kind of feedback loop that signaled Waddell's computers to keep selling even as the prices of the futures contracts, and the underlying stocks, plunged." "If anything, the report is disquieting in how long it took to simply figure out what happened, and in its lack of concrete proposals for preventing a recurrence. The truly scary thing is that all this happened in a relatively benign trading environment." Chiron can't heal its own problems and in the sign of Pisces we definitely get the sense that there's stuff out there that can't be figured out. Merc Rx never helps, of course.

There was some mention about some kind of currency exchange situation with Japan and that looks a bit suspicious as well because a Pluto line runs between Japan and North Korea. Jupiter is in Pisces in both Flash Crash charts so Jupiter lines might show something. I don't understand how the market works enough to say either way.

Jupiter Loses a "Cloud Stripe"

A recent set of photos taken of Jupiter show that the Jolly Old Guy has lost a Cloud Stripe. How appropriate is that? considering that Jupiter is in the sign of Clouds, or of Cloudy thinking at any rate. Jupiter is also in strong aspect with the t-square of Saturn-Uranus and Pluto. These are the 3 signs that create trauma and loss when they are working together. Jupiter's really stressing right now. He's also been traveling really fast.

Article from Yahoo is here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100513/sc_space/jupiterhaslostacloudstripenewphotosreveal

I think that whatever scientists learn about Jupiter right now will be very useful in learning to predict major earth events like earthquakes and volcanoes.

Big Foot Sightings!!!

Neptune rules the feet and Jupiter is currently in that sign. Since Jupiter enlarges everything it touches I sort of have been paying attention to what Fashion Designers are doing to people's feet. They're making em big! A double Pisces fashion designer, Alexander McQueen designed some huge shoes last year called "Lobster Shoes." They literally look like lobsters. They are huge. And they've really caught on. Turns out that McQueen was a double Pisces. Tragically, he committed suicide earlier this year just after Jupiter entered Pisces. The Saturn-Uranus-Pluto t-square would have been hitting a huge opposition in his chart that includes the Nodal Axis, Sun, maybe Moon, Chiron, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto. His Mother had just died the week before. That's really sad.

I love big shoes, wear clogs all the time, so I began to wonder if there were currently more Big Foot sightings this year than in previous years. Big Foot is the hairy guy/media sensation who is seen every once in a while through his footprints or in photography. He is said to be 6-10 feet tall, weighs 500 pounds and is covered in hair. Sounds like those two containers of yogurt I put into the refrigerator last Spring. Maybe one of my Mother's old boyfriends from the 70s. Either way, I think he's a hoax. He doesn't seem to show up during Jupiter in Pisces transits either which is a real clue that he's not genuine (only my opinion of course).

There's a database which lists BigFoot sightings around the U.S. and Canada. http://www.bfro.net/GDB/ It looks from the Stats like Big Foot took a road trip through the U.S. last year, 2009. Perhaps an unemployed computer programmer? That costume is probably tax deductible and so is the gas. Jupiter was in Aquarius last year.

The Big Foot story has been around in the Pacific (I literally first typed Piscific) Northwest since the olden days. The Native Americans had a story. Stories like these are great to tell to the kids. It keeps them from getting up in the middle of the night and wandering off. Anyway, I wouldn't put it past the dark scary trees up in the Northwest to be containing a couple of these critters. There's room for all kinds of things that go boo up in those forests.

Then the lumberjacks came along. Some guy named Raymond L. Wallan had one of his friends carve him some big feet and he had himself pulled along the back of a truck to help him get a big stride. He was said to be a real practical joker. Anyway, this Big Foot footprints were discovered by other loggers around August 1958 in Del Norte, CA. They took plaster footprints and everything. Who knows?

Raymond L. Wallan
b. Apr. 21, 1918 Clarksdale, Missouri

Sun 1 Taurus; Moon Leo or Virgo; NN 26 Sagittarius; Jupiter 12 Gemini

Sighting Aug. 1958, Del Norte County, CA

Sun either Leo or Virgo; NN 2 Scorpio; New Moon in Leo around Aug. 14, Full Moon near end of Month in Virgo-Pisces

Well, Wallan's Jupiter was in Gemini and I'd assume that would be a great placement for a person who wanted to tell Tall Tales. Plus, he had natal Sun conjunct Mercury Rx squaring a conjunction of Saturn-Neptune in Leo. That's a lot of repressed creative talents, for sure. This guy was his own little Hollywood movie.

In 1967 two guys photographed Big Foot. They were named Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin. The film has always looked phoney to me and I was around 7 or 8 years old when I first saw it. A friend of Patterson's said that it was Patterson in an Ape Suit and I believe the friend.

That Sighting and Filming:
Oct. 20, 1967 either 1:20 pm or 3:30 pm Bluff Creek, CA

Sun 27 Libra; Moon 24 Taurus; ASC 10 Capricorn (1:30pm); 16 Aquarius (3:30pm); Jupiter 1 Virgo

There are discrepancies about the timing of the event. I'm delighted that we even have a choice. Which is the best Ascendant for an event that describes a guy walking around in an Ape's Suit? Capricorn or Aquarius? I pick Capricorn. Aquarius would dress up like a Gray and dash off in his UFO. However, when we look at Patterson's chart with the idea that he was the dude in the suit, we gonna pick Aquarius.

Roger Patterson
b. Feb. 14, 1926 Wall, South Dakota

Sun 26 Aquarius; Moon Pisces or Aries; NN 24 Cancer

Those crazy Aquarians! Patterson was going through his Neptune square from Leo (N) to Scorpio (t) to the degree. Nobody believes anything anyone sees or does during their Neptune Square. This was a big one (so to speak) too! for Patteron because Neptune in his chart is involved in a big t-square opposing Sun conjunct Mercury and with apex Saturn in Scorpio. This is another Mercury-Saturn-Neptune connection. Hmm.

So then we bring in Patterson's but, a Libra, Robert Gimlin, who's basically celebrating his upcoming Solar Return.

Robert Gimlin
b. Oct. 18, 1931 don't know where

Sun 25 Libra; NN 5 Libra; Moon Capricorn or Aquarius

Gimlin also has a conjunction of Sun to Mercury. These guys all seem to have Sun-Mercury conjunctions. He was approaching a Jupiter Return and a Nodal Return so it was time for him to do something really fun.

Patterson had natal Jupiter in Aquarius and Grimlin has Jupiter in Leo.

Jupiter was at 1 Virgo that day in a Grand Trine with Mars and the NN. So, we're not finding my Jupiter in Pisces anywhere involved. That must be when BigFoot hibernates. Sounds plausible. But we sure are finding a lot guys with Sun in strong aspect to Mercury and Neptune and that means ... I don't believe anything they say!

On the days of this sighting, the first filming, Mercury was stationing Rx in conjunction with Neptune in Scorpio and opposed by Moon at some point during that day. So the Sun-Mercury-Neptune connection is represented in the event chart as well.

In 2007 a Hunter named Rick Jacobs also filmed a Big Foot. This one looks pretty real. What can I say, the animation's getting better.

Big Foot filmed again
Sept. 16, 2007 Ridgway, Pennsylvania

Sun 24 Virgo; Moon Scorpio or Sagittarius; NN 6 Pisces; Jupiter 13 Sagittarius

This is the most believable of the charts. There's a t-square with apex Sun squaring an opposition of Mars to Pluto. That's Big Scary, Monster stuff. Jupiter was at 13 Sagittarius and that's real close to my Descendant, though, so I may just be getting charmed by a fib, once again.

No birth chart for hunter Rick Jacobs. His lucky day. Maybe he's got the missing Jupiter in Pisces. They are so elusive. You know Neptune.

A Zoologist Dr. Fahrenbach says that he's gotten so close to Big Foot while on hiking trips that he could smell him. Ugh! What could be worse than the perfume lady at the department store? Answer: smelling BigFoot.

Here's a very legitimate report written by Fahrenbach about BigFoot's characteristics. http://www.bigfootencounters.com/biology/henner.htm

A 15.6" long foot. Wow! That's one hell of a big sock you'd have to knit. Buy me an extra skein! Wish Alexander McQueen were alive to design the BigFoot collection. Maybe he already did. Rest In Peace.