I believe the Bradley has the market continuing up at this point.
here is what Richard Nolle has to say:
astrology. See the section above. Please note: this forecast is expressed in terms
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This is arguably the
most significant
month of 2000,
astrologically
speaking. Home to
the year's two major
hard aspects - the
Jupiter-Saturn
conjunction (the
"Great
Chronocrator") and
the Saturn-Uranus
square - May
continues, and is in
many ways a
culmination of, the
watershed political
and economic events
of the year 2000.
Years from now,
we'll look back on
2000 as the turning point in a cycle of economic development: an old cycle
sputters out in exhaustion, a new one emerges from the debris of the old. The
clash between the so-called old and new economies reveals that there's only one
economy. It has gone through cycles of boom and bust down through the ages -
and the contrast between these tends to be most pronounced at times when new
technology is radically transforming the economic environment. With these two
great generational aspects at work this month, all else more or less fades in
comparison.
Always, at such times, there's a cry to protect old industries and power centers,
combined with a rush to invest in the new. Buggy whip manufacturers want
government guarantees, while investors pour money into dozens of auto
companies that won't be around a few short years later. Meanwhile the pundits
proclaim that the new order has ushered in an end to the old business cycle. Then,
all of a sudden, old industries are gone and the new ones are winnowed out so that
a few strong survivors remain and many competitors disappear - either acquired
by the strong, or driven bankrupt by them. And once the dust clears, the
realization is reborn that practicalities like supply and demand trump fashionable
"new realities" every time.
We've been in just such a shake-out period off and on all year, which accelerated
last month as Jupiter drew closer to Saturn and Saturn in turn moved in on its
square to Uranus. Both celestial patterns become exact this month, so May is
bound to be the approximate if not exact turning point: the time when the old
paradigm collapses and the new one arises out the debris left behind. As I've
already indicated, you can't look for this new paradigm to spring full grown in an
instant, like Athena from the brow of Zeus. It's an ongoing process that will take
the better part of a generation to manifest and be recognized.
The kind of electronic magic that characterizes today's high technology is one
fundamental focus for this kind of change. Its merger with other emerging
applications - molecular (including genetic) engineering, nanotechnology, quantum
engineering, etc. - will give rise to the dominant technology of the next couple
hundred years. Microscopic and submicroscopic miniaturization through control of
chemical, quantum and genetic matrices that serve as manufacturing templates as
well as direct applications will be the real new technology.
None of this will be
fully apparent this
month, except in seed
form. What is bound to
be apparent now is the
vulnerability of today's
technological darlings:
bubbles burst,
gateways and portals
and "e-tailers" wither
on the vine or get
swallowed up.
Meanwhile real
infrastructure builders
and creators survive -
and not just the
electronic
communications
darlings, but also the
biotech pioneers and
the financial
infrastructure that feeds all of these. As I've said before, this is a shake-up rather
than a general collapse - although it will mean the collapse of vulnerable
companies whose products or services are revealed as hype rather than
substance.
The same pattern that dominates the economic and technological underpinnings of
civilization will also be seen in the religious and political fields: the "new" wiz kids
get showed up as just the latest bunch of "young Turks". They're not really
different, they're just a batch of fresh faces. The same struggle continues: "meet
the new boss, same as the old boss." Some of the highest-echelon powers that be
leave the stage in these fields, with a drama not seen in decades. But those who
take up the mantle of leadership do no more than that: they take their seat on the
throne, as it were - but they don't really change things a lot in the beginning.
Of course there's more to May than the great socioeconomic and cultural turning
points symbolized by the Saturn-Uranus square and Jupiter-Saturn conjunction.
We also have some risk windows for severe storms, flooding and moderate to
severe seismic action (Richter 5 or greater quakes as well as volcanic eruptions).
These are strongest within plus or minus three days of the 4th and 18th, the new
and full moon respectively. Additional risk periods include the 8th and 9th (Luna
at maximum north declination), the 13th and 14th (Moon crossing the celestial
equator southward), the 22nd (tail end of Luna reaching maximum south
declination), and 28th-30th (the Moon's northward crossing of the celestial
equator).
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