I know that, for some astrologers, this topic looks like blended muesli, with little bit of fruits, herbs, vitamin, oats and curry powder all mixed up (oh yes, I have been offered this kind drink before), but I did some serious observation on it and I decided to write it down.
It was this morning when I woke up from the colourful rainbow dreams including the fact that the US supreme court voted favoured for the marriage equality (almost all my fellow astrologers feel the same) and a nice gay pride on weekend, and suddenly we heard the funeral bell (or alarm ) of Euro and the Greek financial crisis. A big part of the world stock market crashed and this made me turn on my computer and look up planets positions, and I noticed that Mars was opposite the Galactic centre by Antiscia. This is not the first time such configurations appeared during important economic events.
As a Mundane astrologer, I do understand that we are going to face Jupiter-Saturn waning square this summer and we are undergoing the Moon wobble period while Mars is out of bounds at the moment. Moon wobbles happened when the Sun conjoins or squares Moon Node Axis. Usually, the political and economic situations are not stable during such time frames and many astrologers associate huge natural disasters with Moon wobbles; therefore, despite Jupiter-Saturn square and Mars being out of bounds, I am going to talk about how antiscia work on important Mundane events (political, economical and natural disasters), especially when it contacts with Galactic centre
Galactic Centre
I notice that many events happened when outer planet transits to 26 degrees of Sagittarius, the Galactic centre, where I usually find political and economical upheavals .
If we look back to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which is seen as the beginning of the Great Depression, an important economic event of the 20th century, we can see that Saturn was wandering around the Galactic Centre by then and it was tightly conjunct the Galactic Centre between August-October 1929. People devoted themselves to the investment market frenetically and got lost, showing an inclination of losing control and order. In 1958, when Saturn was near the Galactic Point for that whole year, there were establishments of numerous political parties and announcements of heir to the throne and conflicts of boundaries of territories, events that possess the characteristics of Saturn.
Galactic centre is an interesting subject to study. 3 Europe leaders have Mars on 26 Sg: they are French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Putin; other important politic figures also have planets on 26 Sagittarius, including the Pope Francis, Edward Snowden and many whistleblowers. I have been working with Mandi Lockley and Mechthild Belton on this topic for a year and will publish it soon, and I will also talk about it in 2016 FAA conference in Sydney.
Antiscia
When I attended Olga Morales’ Astrology for Gann Traders course, I learned that Antiscia should not be ignored in the study of financial astrology. I did learn the meaning of Antiscia from many Horary astrology teachers but I was fascinated by its effect on financial astrology.
This ancient technique has been ignored for a long time, and even some horary astrologers do not take it seriously. The word “antiscia” comes from Greek which means “shadows”, and it suggests that when two planets are linked by antiscia, they influence each other by invisible effect – the influence cannot be seen, or the deal and link is under table. My colleague Marcos Pachett, a professional herbal medicine practitioner, also points out that antiscia suggests some hidden factors of illness in the Decumbiture chart. Besides, I also notice how antiscia influence political and economic events.
Antiscia is the mirroring zodiac degree from Cancer-Capricorn axis. If a planet posits at 1 degree of Cancer and another planet on 29 degree of Gemini, they are associated by antiscia. Ancient astrologers told us that, in antiscia, 1 degree of Cancer equals to 29 degree of Gemini, 2 degree of Cancer equals to 28 degrees of Gemini; also, 1 degree of Capricorn equals to 29 degree of Sagittarius, 2 degree of Capricorn equals to 28 degrees of Sagittarius, and so on.
Antiscia is based on the length of daylight. When we measure the length of day time on the first day when Sun ingresses Cancer (Summer Solstice), it has almost the same length of daylight as when the Sun is at the last degree of Gemini; and the same goes when the Sun is at 1 degree Capricorn and 29 degree Sagittarius. The length of day time 15 days after Spring Equinox will equal to 15 days before Autumn Equinox.
Calculation
You will find out that this is not a mistake for the ancient text books to state that 1 degree Cancer equals to 29 Gemini, but as computer calculates charts in a different way, and we should know that ancient astrologers start a sign from 1 degree but computer program starts a sign from 0 degree, so you will find my calculation a little bit different from those ancient books; however, my method will fit the calculation of computer program.
To find the antiscia of a planet, we first check what sign that planet locates and find the sign it mirrors. If it is Cancer, we will find that its antiscia will be at Gemini; if it is Libra we will find its antiscia at Pisces. Here is the table of it .
Cancer = Gemini
Leo = Taurus
Virgo = Aries
Libra = Pisces
Scorpio = Aquarius
Sagittarius = Capricorn
The next thing we need to do is to find the antiscia degree. We can simply subtract the planet’s degree from 29 degrees 59 minutes.
For example, if a planet is at 14 degrees 30 of Aries, we find that antiscia will be at Virgo; then we take 14 degrees from 29 degrees and 30 minutes from 59 minutes, and the answer will be 15 degrees and 29 minutes Virgo. If there is a planet around this location that we just find out, we say these two planets are linked by antiscia, and they have a hidden effect to each other. There is also an opposition point to this which is called contra-antiscia, which has a similar function. I will try to use a tight orb for antiscia as it is a point instead of a planet, so I suggest the orb should not be more than 2 degrees, and I will also only use conjunction and opposition (contra-antiscia ) .
Antiscia and Economic crisis
Let us check a few critical economic timing (a few examples have already been pointed out by Olga Morales in her course) before we start. Please notice that here I will simply focus on the sensitive point of antiscia but I do not want people misunderstand that I ignore the effect of planetary circles or forget to apply event timing with radix chart (for example NYSE chart) or eclipses and Ingresses charts of the following cited years, all of which are extremely important for financial astrology studies.
1987 Stock market crisis
If we examine the chart of the day when S&P500 arrive highest point before fell on 25 Aug 1987 , we have:
Mars 1 Vi 44 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 28 Ar-Li 15
Jupiter 26 Ar 40 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 00 Vi-Pi 19
Saturn 14 Sg 33 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 15 Cp-Cn 26
Uranus 22 Sg 44 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 7 Cp-Cn 15
Neptune 05 Cp 22 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 24 Sg-Ge 37
Pluto 07 Sc 33 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 22 Aq-Le 26
Chiron 27 Ge 40 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 02 Cn-Cp 19
N.N 03 Ar 31 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 27 Vi-Pi 28
Notice that Chiron is opposite to the Galactic centre.
On 19 Oct 1987 Stock market fell so called Black Monday
Mars 6 Li54 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 23 Pi-Vi 05
Jupiter 24 Ar 32 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 05 Vi-Pi 27
Saturn 17Sg 23 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 12 Cp-Cn 36
Uranus 23 Sg 40 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 06 Cp-Cn 19
Neptune 05 Cp 30 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 24 Sg-Ge 29
Pluto 09 Sg 19 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 20 Aq-Le 40
Chiron 28 Ge 44 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 01 Cn-Cp 15
N.N 02 Ar 18 Antiscia and C. Antiscia at 27 Vi-Pi 41
Uranus and Neptune at this moment were conjunct by Antiscia and near Galactic centre, Uranus were out of Bounds
Russia economic crisis 1998
S&P 500 fell on the 17 July 1998 as the Russia debt crisis broke out, we have Jupiter stations, Saturn-Uranus wild square which is extremely important to capitalism and financial liberalisation, and a Saturn-Neptune square; Mars was out of bounds at that moment. If we compare these two examples of 87 and 98, we will see:
Venus on 27 Ge 40 exact conjunct Chiron ’s position on 87’s chart
Mars on 7 Cancer 31 right on the Antiscia of Uranus on 87’s chart
Jupiter on 28 Pi 03 right on the Antiscia of N.Node on 87’s chart
Economic crisis 2000
On 1 Sep 2000 which S&P 500 fell from another historical high, we have Mars on 20 Leo 12 opposite Pluto on 87’s chart by Antiscia.
Credit crunch 2007 – 2009
On 20 Feb 2007, S&P 500 came to a high point then started to fall due to worry about credit crunch; by then, Saturn on 20 Leo; Mars of 1 Sep 2000 chart conjunct this position, and this location is opposite to Pluto of 87’s chart by Antiscia.
On 9 Oct 2007 the S&P500 fell again because of the Credit crunch. Mars was once again out of bounds, and this time:
Venus on 1 Vi , conjunct the Antiscia point of Jupiter on 87’s chart
Mars on 4 Cn make it’s C.Antiscia on 25 Sg near Galactic Centre
Jupiter on 15 Sg 33 conjunct Antiscia of Saturn on 87’s chart
Uranus on 15 Pisces square Saturn on 87’s chart
Neptune on 19 Aq conjnct 87’s Pluto by Antiscia
Pluto on 26 Sg Galactic centre and conjunct Mars on same chart by Antiscia
On March 2009, when the S&P500 came to a historical low point, we have:
Pluto on 3 Cp , its Antiscia on Galactic centre and opposite Chiron on 87’s chart
Greece crisis 2015 ???
On these important timings of Economic crisis, I repeatedly notice that Galactic centre plays an important role either by planet position, conjunct or opposite by antiscia. This makes me wonder how close we are from another economic crisis. I took a look on 29 June 2015’s chart, the first trading day after Greece officially denied the offer from Eurogroup and imposed control on money, which brought forth a fall on global stock market. The background astronomical information are Jupiter-Saturn square , Moon wobble, Mars out of bounds and stationary Chiron before retrograde.
Sun on 7 Cn conjunct 87 Uranus by Antiscia
Mars on 3 Cn opposite Galactic centre by Antiscia
Venus Jupiter on 20 and 21 Leo , opposite Pluto on 87’s chart by Antiscia
Pluto on 14 Cp the Antiscia on 14 Sg conjunct 1987 Saturn by Antiscia
I have been being asked if Greece would really leave Eurozone for many times, and I don’t really think “leaving or not” is an important issue as we have all prepared for this for a while. What we need to know is we are facing a huge economic upheaval. It doesn’t not matter if Greece will stay in Eurozone or not.
If you simply check the national chart of Greece, you will notice that Pluto is transiting near its descendant, and the Greek economic crisis or “euro crisis” indeed started when Pluto was near 10 degree Capricorn and started to form Uranus-Pluto square. This degree is important for most modern countries which choose the 1st January as their birthday and those organisations which choose this date to start their service, as they all have 10 degrees of Capricorn Sun. This includes the birth chart of Euro. Transiting Saturn conjunct Chiron on Euro chart , Transit Chiron right on Euro ‘s Jupiter , the real test maybe come again when transit Saturn conjunct Euro’s Pluto later this year and Transit Neptune will square it , in another word , the Saturn Neptune square and Jupiter Saturn Square of 2015 2016 will hit Eurozone badly .
I don’t want to simply say that this is the cause and we should not judge a situation simply by looking at the transits, ignoring mundane astrology techniques and natal charts. There are so many factors that we should consider, like eclipses, comets, ingress charts, country’s solar return, progression and direction, etc. As this article mainly focuses on antiscia, I will not continue to analyse Greek financial debt crisis and Euro crisis in this article but maybe another one.