Part One

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 A theory must start with a premise and then build with facts and possibilities. In this theory a single fact is that there is a world wide economy. An economy that grows and shrinks. One that breathes to a rhythm of a beating heart. But what is the heart? That is one of the enigmas that this theory will try to uncover.

Each country in this world has its own story and its own reason for the strength of its economy. What we have learned and this is another fact, is that by the end of 2008 the world wide economy was like a pin ball machine that seemed to not know where the ball had started and where it would fall. This economic pinball just bounced from stock to stock from market to market from bank to bank and from individuals to individuals. But is that not what was happening before this freefall? The difference is perception.

In 2008 Presidents and Prime Ministers had stepped forward and told the people that the sky was falling and surprisingly the sky fell and fell. Then the worlds bright lights stepped up and said the sky will continue to fall and continue it did. Why? Why did world leaders think it necessary to put to voice concerns that any intelligent person could see would be a self fulfilling prophecy. Once the gloom was clearly heard it was too late. A large rock had been pushed down a long and steep hill. Who was it that would and could stand in front of the ever and faster falling rock and command it to end its destruction? No one.

It is important to remember what an economy is. It is a collection of money that moves around. How fast the money moves and where it stops is called an economy. But there is another fact here and that is the money. It is important to get a clear perspective on money. Money is a fabrication. Where did money come from? Did Adam and Eve have trillions of dollars that they have spread amongst future generations? No. In the beginning there was no money.

Somewhere along the way money was invented as a means to allow someone who did not have goats and sheep to trade to procure a gain from nothing. So money was invented by people who had nothing so that they could have something. The more that was invented, the more the inventors had. Wealth was created.

But now it is 2009 and many people using this invented money have questioned its value. An economy is strong when all believe that money has a high value. In 2009 people believe that money in hand has a high value but many do not have money in hand. Most only have money that will in the future come to them via work and success and investments. If there is no work and no success then there is no accumulation of money and thus money in hand has great value. So we now see that there is another fact and that is that money has two values at the beginning of 2009. The first is as we have seen. Money in hand has a great value and money invested has a low value with an unknown value; a highly unknown value that may rise, fall or stagnate.

Most people should have little trouble understanding the value of money in hand. It then becomes the speculative money that is misunderstood in its value. When a government talks in terms of a trillion dollars it has lost sight of money in hand but it realizes that some of the people have taken too much from the rest of the people so it attempts to give back what it has taken in taxes and what it will take in future taxes. To hopefully create economic growth and what is growth, but money in circulation with each person it touches keeping a little and adding it to their money in hand. If people are lucky their money in hand grows and then they feel a need to invest. Why? To get more money.

It seems strange that if money in hand is the most valuable, that people would want to risk it by giving it to the economy with the hope of getting more when possibly by keeping it in hand all could be well. What this says is that money in hand is not always the greatest value but in 2008/2009 it sure is. So it seems the goal is simple. Make all the money in circulation worth more than the money in hand so there will always be people who take money in hand and give it to the economy. Now here we have a problem. The governments are giving money (billions) to the banks who are not putting it in circulation. The economy is being starved of its life blood by foolish transfers of non active money to places of non activity. An economy is actively moving money. So where are we? Looking for understanding.

There are many places to look to find graphs that will show what has happened. Is the dollar up? Is the pound down? Are stocks trading? Are stocks rising and falling? How is the money moving? For A Theory of an Economy, I have chosen to follow eighteen world wide stock indexes that give insight into rates of flow. It is not that I am widely versed in stocks and stock markets just that the information is readily available.

As an astrologer, the information I need to create astrological cycles is readily known and available via Astrological Ephemeris. This information is basically planetary positions and then how those positions interact with each other. That is all well and good for me as an astrologer who has spent forty plus years studying astrological cycles but how do we make it relate to an economy? How do we make it relate to people who say I have knowledge of stocks and stock exchanges but not an understanding or interest in astrology? The answer is by finding common ground.

The beauty if beauty is the right word of a problem is that if it is large enough and specifically if it involves vast sums of money then any door that might have an answer is a door that must be opened. I will not ask you to learn astrology but will ask you to follow along as this theory unfolds by reading a graph that speaks the language of the stock markets and the language of astrology.

This link will take you to a Stock Market Graph where you will find the daily finishes of eighteen world stock indexes. They are DOW (USA), NASDAQ(USA), S&P500(USA), TSE(Canada), IPC(Mexico), MERVAL(Brazil), Ftse100(Great Britain), FTAS(Great Britain), CAC40(France), DAX(Germany), FTSE EF(Europe), ALL SHARE(South Africa, RTS(Russia), ALL ORDINARIES(Australia), NIKKI225(Japan), HANG SENG(Hong Kong), SGX(Singapore) BSE SENEX(India). These are cross referenced with ten Astrological Planets, Pluto, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the Moon.

The Stock Market Graph starts October 21, 2008 and will be updated each week as we move forward into time. It is scrollable into the past and will be scrollable into the future. The Stock Market Graph should and hopefully will go back to January 1, 2007 and even further to March 30, 2006 to show the full scope of the time frame covered by this theory. It is easy for me to obtain daily stock information as we go forward but it seems difficult (but not impossible time allowing) to go back and capture approximately 650 days of eighteen individual stock index closings (12,000 pieces of information).

The premise of A Theory of an Economy from an Astrological point of view is that the passage of the Astrological Planet Pluto from the Zodiacal Sign Sagittarius into the next Zodiacal Sign Capricorn and its interactions with other Astrological Planets will account for the destabilizing and the re-stabilizing of our world wide economy.

I hope that you see this journey as interesting and will follow our progress on a regular basis.

End of Part One

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A Theory of an Economy

By

Tony Waterfall