November Forecast
NOVEMBER 1999 FORECAST
last revised UT 02:59 OCT 28, 1999
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MAJOR LUNAR ACTION AHEAD
Some strong lunar action
rears its head in November,
after an
absence of
several
months. Not
since the
July-August
eclipses and
before that the June
SuperMoon have we seen
anything other than ordinary
garden variety
monthly
alignments of
Sun and Moon.
The
SuperMoon full
moon on the 23rd changes all that, initiating a trio of SuperMoons that
stretches into the new year.
First among the train of November lunar events is the Moon's southward
crossing of the celestial equator on the 5th. (See my 1999 Lunar Maxima &
Equator Crossings for more.) It's in effect from the 4th through the 6th - the
Sun's square to the lunar nodes on the 1st helps stir the pot as well - and
particularly strong during the last two days of this period as the Moon turns
new. Next in this procession of significant lunar events is the new moon at 15
Scorpio on the 8th (in effect from the 5th through the 11th, the day the Moon
attains apogee). Reaching maximum south declination on the 12th, the Moon
ushers in another risk window from the 11th through the 13th. Yet another
such window extends a day either way of the Moon's crossing the celestial
equator northward on the 19th. Then there's that SuperMoon full moon at 1
Sagittarius on the 23rd, the day the Moon reaches perigee (closest approach
to Earth). In effect from the 20th through the 26th, and with the Moon
reaching maximum declination north of the celestial equator on the 25th, this
is bound to be the major storm and seismic window of the month.
Add 'em all up, and
you get quite strong
lunar signals for
November 5-13 and
20-26. These are the
major periods when
strong storms,
flooding and
moderate to severe
seismic events
(including volcanic
eruptions and Richter
5 or greater
earthquakes) are
most likely to surge
above and beyond
their normal
background levels.
And by far the
greatest disturbances
of this sort are to be
expected during the
November 20-26 SuperMoon window. Being planetary in nature, these
effects can be felt practically all over Planet Earth. But among the standout
SuperMoon target zones, some of the most notable are likely to lie along a
north-south line running straight through the Arizona-New Mexico border
down through western Mexico and up into west-central Canada; and another
north-south line running through western India. Other potential risk zones
include the eastern and western extremes of Africa, central Spain, central
and northern Europe, and along the India-Pakistan border; plus all of Japan
and central Australia.
SATURN SQUARES URANUS - AGAIN
The
Saturn-Uranus
square that last
reared its head
in July makes
the second of its
"three-peat"
appearances on
the 14th at 13
Taurus.
Remaining
within a degree
of being exact
from the 1st
through the
27th, this is the
dominant
planetary
alignment for
November. In
fact, these two
planets haven't
been more than
five degrees from an exact square since the end of May '99, and won't get
outside that range until January 2000 - only to regenerate in March. So we've
been more or less continually in the shadow of Saturn's square to Uranus for
months now, and will remain so for months yet to come. In particular, July
and November '99 (the first two geocentric Saturn-Uranus squares) plus
January (the heliocentric square) and May 2000 (the last in the geocentric
"three-peat" series of squares) are focal points for this most unusual
alignment. We've already seen some minor Y2K problems, computer virus
flaps and other computer security incidents - as well as stepped-up hacker
attacks - since July. The fun is just beginning.
This current crop of Saturn-Uranus hard alignments is the first in the waxing
square phase since the triple conjunction of these two planets in 1988. The
final alignment in that particular conjunction series took place on October 10
of that year - some two weeks before the "Morris Worm" wrecked the
Internet. I have already stated many times - in my 1999 overview as well in
my monthly forecasts - that I see the Saturn-Uranus square as the aegis of
Y2K disruptions and other accidental or design-flaw outages in, as well as
criminal or terrorist assaults on, the communications network that is the
backbone of the global information civilization. Although financial
infrastructure will be a natural target for much this kind of thing - the banks,
as Willie Sutton observed, are where the money is - the communications
network itself is vulnerable to outages whether by accident (or short-sighted
planning) or by nefarious design. And that can have wide-ranging effects.
Mercury's retrograde (November 5-25) adds fuel to the Saturn-Uranus fire.
Retrogrades of Mercury always elevate Murphy's Law to a ruling principle
anyway. Toss in the Saturn-Uranus square, and things can get cosmically
cross-wired: transportation tie-ups, communications breakdowns, whatever
can go wrong probably will - at the worst possible moment. So double-check
everything, and have a back-up plan ready just in case. You'll probably have
occasion to use it. On the plus side, Mercury's retrograde is useful for
back-tracking to find out what went wrong and how. (There's so much
material to work with at times like this, after all.)
As I've said many times before, I'm not expecting a "head for the hills" kind
of meltdown. But I think it prudent to have anywhere from a few days to a few
weeks worth of cash, food and other essentials handy during this
configuration. And I expect November will bring more examples of the kind
of breakdowns and outages I'm describing here. By this rationale, and given
the sign combination of Saturn and Uranus, some kind of breakdown in
high-technology equities would seem to follow.
Although it's in
effect all month
long, I expect
the cycles I'm
describing here
to reach a
crescendo for
the month on or
about a few key
dates in
November. The
exact date of
the
Saturn-Uranus
square (the
14th) is one of
them, coming
so close as it
does to the
Mercury-Sun
conjunction on
the 15th.
November 5-6
also stand out: the former for the start of Mercury's retrograde as well as the
Sun's square to Uranus that day; the latter for the Sun's opposition to Saturn.
And then there's Mercury's direct station on the 25th.
SUN OPPOSITE SATURN
I mentioned the November 6 Sun-Saturn opposition in connection with a
vulnerable period for high-tech equities, but it's more than that. It's payback
time in general. It's also the approximate midpoint of the Saturn retrograde
cycle that begin at the end of August and continues until just before
mid-January. That Saturn retrograde back in August served to time - as
predicted - the correction in major equity markets. The Sun-Saturn
opposition should be fairly close to marking the bottom - within a week or ten
days, I should think, if it hasn't already happened. (If it has, I have called the
beginning of the correction correctly but misjudged its depth.)
RETURN OF THE RED PLANET
Staging something of a comeback in November is Mars, which made no
major aspects at all last month. As we come into the last 10-12 days of
November, there are a couple of strong Mars alignments forming: the square
to Jupiter on the 21st, and the conjunction with Neptune on the 27th. Crimes
of passion and avarice, awful accidents (some involving chemicals, perhaps
with blinding rain or heavy fog figuring into the picture), thinly-veiled threats,
murder most foul. A good time to keep your nose clean, watch your back, and
steer clear of the kind of places where trouble might strike. Above all, keep
your wits about you: do what you're doing while you're doing it, be here now .
. . focus, focus, focus.
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