WORLD WATCH
Astrology as an Economic Indicator Saturn in Virgo & Libra
By Sherry Henderson
One of my colleagues in our monthly astrology discus- sion group suggested that the planet Saturn, during its transit in Virgo exhibits a time of gas shortages/price hikes. I’ve been mulling over this theory for the past year since it has now moved into Libra. It seemed to be time to research the subject. What I found was not only interesting, but it seems to be a way to predict the economic climate of the modern world. Of course much more research would need to be done. Here I am only following three Saturn transits covering about sixty-two years.
There are a number of astrologers who use this tool to play the stock and commodities markets, but this is fresh ground for me and as a novice who is almost completely disinterested in mundane astrology (I prefer it as a tool for personal transformation), it struck me that others who had not delved into this little under- stood area might benefit from my research.
I decided that if Arthur was right and Saturn rules earth and minerals, along with oil, which is a mineral too, then why not look at gold along with this analysis to see if we can predict a gold bubble? I would have typically either looked at the Sun or Pluto for gold, especially mining and Neptune for oil, but just for the sake of research, I decided look at Saturn.
Saturn in Virgo
If you look at 1949 when Saturn entered Virgo and follow it until 1951 when it made its exit, you can see a slight spike followed by a gradual downward trend in crude oil. This is unclear to me why oil remained stable due to the coup in Iran in early 1951. Iran’s new nationalist leader, Mohammed Mossadegh, moved to nationalize his nation’s oil reserves. The crisis ended on 19 August 1953 when Mossadegh’s government was overthrown in a U.S.-sponsored coup d’état. While this seemed to
affect crude oil prices little, I would have expected oil prices to spike. This obviously requires more research to determine why things remained stable in the world oil markets.
The second rise is extreme in 1976. Although it was dramatic, crude oil prices did not peak out again until Saturn again entered Virgo in 1978. Saturn enters Virgo again in September of 2007, almost thirty years later, and crude oil prices shot to a record of around $147 a barrel in July, 2008.
This takes me to the next phase of my research – gold. Even though the ban by Roosevelt in 1933 on American’s owning gold created a spike, it does not follow my theory about the gold bubble, following the oil bubble being connected with Saturn. Old Saturn was innocently hanging out in Aquarius during that time. But in the past thirty-year cycle, it has held true. A gold spike followed the crude oil spike in both 1980 and in 2011. Gold peaked in 1980 to an inflation-adjusted price of almost $2500 per troy ounce.
There is a theory postulated by Michael T. Klare, a pro- fessor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency, in which he states that recessions follow an oil bubble and gives the logic. (
http://www.alternet.org/authors/3454/).
Saturn in Libra
August 1951- October 1953. Although economists view this period as stable, I remember that we had difficulty in my personal experience. People scrimped and the school lunch program was feeding more than a few stu- dents. Most of my neighbors kept their heat turned low and few owned luxury items. During this time there was
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