To: Richnorth who wrote (485 ) 3/20/2001 8:00:54 AM From: SBerglowe Respond to of 538 Also from Crystal Ball: Msg#: 8930 From: aholt (Art Holt) To: ALL Date Posted: March 19, 2001 at 22:18:05 Subject: Tuesday astro - Closing rally? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm going to do the astro for Tuesday just a bit differently this evening, in part because there are no meaningful short-term transits during trading hours. There is, however, an interesting and potentially significant event transpiring at 8:31 AM ET when the Sun will ingress into the sign of Aries. Several things need to be considered here. To start with, Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and the entry of the Sun into Aries is symbolic of the beginning of things....fresh starts, if you will. With the entry of the Sun into Aries, we now have a time frame in which an intermediate trend change is a real possibility. One other point should be borne in mind. A good deal of the recent market weakness can be placed directly at the feet of the now-concluding Sun in Pisces....a period of time in which investor psychology was dominated by timidity and a certain degree of fear, resulting in the "buyers strike" mentality which I have discussed on several occaisions. This "buyers strike" episode is now ending. A Sun in Aries is the virtual antithesis of a Sun in Pisces in that fear and timidity will now give way to a mentality of boldness and a willingness to act. This is a time in which previously sidelined cash may begin committing itself to the market. One other point about Tuesday. I see no aspects exact at the time of the Fed announcement, but there is a very interesting cluster of three aspects during early evening hours which may well influence trading activity into the closing bell. Moon sextile Venus @ 5:49 PM ET Moon sextile Pluto @ 6:43 PM ET Moon sextile Mars @ 8:57 PM ET All three aspects are positive and packed with a high degree of intensity. As I have mentioned before, sextiles are the most beneficial, and the most energetic, of the positive soft aspects. With a cluster of three sextile aspects in early evening hours, two of which involve volatile planets, one can easily make a case for a strong closing rally no matter what the fed does.