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JUL/AUG 2010 YOURTRADINGEDGE 35
raders new to the markets can be completely consumed by the markets, as with a new toy, with so much to learn that it leaves little time for other interests. WD Gann however, as a seasoned trader had a much more diverse set of interests than many people realise, and they weren’t just tied to markets.
Gann’s other interests and studies centred on astrology. He liked to work out the potential outcomes of elections, and to forecast weather, wars, races and even the lottery. Doing so was
his second great passion, after health.
A matter of balanceHealth was number one on Gann’s priority list, with capital at number three. Gann believed a person’s health can be observed by looking at their birth chart. In the old days, a person would go to a medical astrologer for help identifying which fruits, vegetables and herbs would balance their chart. For example, if a person had Mars in Aries he would have a hot head; if he had Venus in Aries he would have a cold head. If
you have a hot head, your feet will be cold, so you have to heat up your feet using certain herbs, to regain a balanced constitution.
Medical astrology is a lifetime study. Finding the physical balance for your health and thus your mind can be greatly assisted by seeing a Chinese herbalist, who can give you herbs to help balance your body, enabling you to avoid a chemical imbalance that can affect judgment.
The planetsWhen the planets move around to hit your birth chart they trigger events in your life, including (but not limited to) health problems and other negative periods in your life. Such planets are called malefic planets. During such cycles, Gann headed to the Silver Spring resort for months and relaxed, taking his books and continuing his studies, as was stated in ‘Tunnel Thru The Air’ (TTTA).
PreparationIf you can prepare for bad periods in your life by working on your health and fitness, as well as by saving and eliminating debt, you can get through these times more easily than can people who neglect these areas of their life. Gann said, “If you prepare for the worst, you
HealthDavid Burton explores the trading methodology of WD Gann, your health and the health of nations.
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don’t have to face the worst.” However, very few people seem to prepare for such times.
MoneyGann said, “Money is only a means to an end.” When your health is poor and/or you are in a bad cycle, it does not mean your judgment is impaired. The way to identify such a cycle is if you have three losing trades in a row. If that happens, you should possibly consider not trading for perhaps six to twelve months, and live off the interest that
you have saved in good times. If you push things in bad periods, you will just lose more money. Gann recommended that you trade only three to four times per year per commodity. Commodities needed to meet all his rules. He sometimes traded every three days, but only when his cycle was right. His public trading in October 1909 was near the start of the thirty-six-year Hebrew annual cycle, which began on 16 September 1909.
The Hebrew cycle shows Gann was born with Sun in Taurus in 1878. The Hebrew cycle started in 1909 with Mars in Capricorn, which is a trine (120 degrees) to Taurus.
Your personal health is your personal responsibility. You must take care of your diet, not overeat, and remember to exercise. Drug companies make money from sick people, and theirs is an extremely profitable business.
The death of WD GannWD Gann forecast his own death in 1955. In fact, his commodity charts had no dates past June that year on them.
Gann was born at 10:34 am in Lufkin, Texas on 6 June, 1878 and he died on 18 June 1955. Gann wrote TTTA in 1927, and Robert Gordon (who was Gann, in the story) was born on 9 June 1906. From 1878 to 1927 is 49 years, (fatal, 7 x 7) and from 1906 to 1955 is 49 years. On 5 June 1955, there was a lunar eclipse exactly opposite his Sun. The Moon was in his fourth house (Cancer), and the Moon rules the fourth house and Cancer. The stomach is the body part that is ruled by Cancer – and Gann died of stomach cancer when Pluto also transited his ascendant and Moon at the same time. Gann was born with Mars in cancer, which means he would have had irritable stomach walls, haemorrhage of the stomach, bilious vomiting and other related problems most of his life.
FiGURE 1: ThE AUsTRALiAn BiRTh ChART
FiGURE 2: UniTED sTATEs OF AmERiCA BiRTh ChART
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The health of a nationAs with personal health, you can look at countries, cities, towns and even prime ministers to see where things are going in the future. To assess the health of a nation you would look at ingress, eclipse and lunation charts.
The Australian chart was ‘born’ 1:35 pm, 1 January 1901, at Sydney.
The Australian Birth Chart (figure 1) shows many planets in the eighth house in Sagittarius, and Taurus rising, which is one reason people generally think of Australia as the lucky country. Being a Capricorn country, its people are generally down to earth and understand commonsense, even if they don’t always act in commonsense ways.
Because of planets like Jupiter and Venus in Sagittarius, Australians often like to look at the good times and forget the bad. This may become a dangerously optimistic position to hold in coming years. In October 2010, Australia is likely to have an election, and, based on cycles, the Labor government is unlikely to stay in power.
In the Australian chart we will have many malefic planets aspecting the natal planets, transiting Saturn square natal Saturn, transiting Uranus square Mercury, transiting Mars opposite Moon, transiting Saturn square Sun and transiting Uranus square Neptune.
The ingress charts for 21 March 2010 show Neptune on the ascendant, Moon in the fourth house, of real estate, and Saturn in the eighth house, of debt. This quarter has had a little real estate correction up, with the bigger trend down. This shows inflation.
The ingress charts for 21 June 2010 show much the same as figure 1. However, now Uranus and Jupiter are in the second house, which is opposite Saturn in the eighth, suggesting a financial collapse in the
market. Mars in the seventh may mean problems for the Australian government with partners from overseas.
The ingress charts for 23 September 2010 show Neptune in the
second house, which means the Australian government continues spending.
According to the charts, Australia’s biggest economic problems will appear in 2012 and from 2017 to 2020.You have to prepare three to five years in advance, especially if you are selling real estate, because that is not a liquid market, like cash.
The United States of AmericaThe USA was ‘born’ on 4 July 1776.
The United States’ major problems start at the end of 2010 with Saturn conjunct natal Saturn. In my view, it will have completely collapsed by 2022, when Pluto is opposite its natal Pluto. That will be 90 years from the 1932 depression, which is a quarter of Gann’s 360-degree chart in years. The charts suggest that the most troubled time for the world will be between 2016 and 2022.
The major eclipse in August 2017 will cause a worse drought than the 1933 dust bowl (figure 3) as it goes through the central United States. It is similar to what Gann forecast in TTTA. Droughts cause the biggest depressions, because no money is changing hands. I guess the politicians will talk about global warming again. All the financial problems in the world involve two key types of people, politicians and bankers.
Although people think the worst is over, it hasn’t started. The real trouble starts soon, with a major meltdown this year and in 2012. If the governments around the world have spent their stimulus money on one meltdown, what are they going to do when they have three, four, five or more over the next ten years? In my opinion, although governments think their stimulus packages will be repaid by boom times, they are not going to happen.
David Burton has been studying and using financial astrology and the methods of WD Gann since 1980. Visit www.schoolofgann.com and www.commhedge.com.au or email [email protected] for more information. AFSL No: 241371
FiGURE 3: ECLipsE DROUGhT ChART FOR 2017
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