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People are so eager to make money that using astrology to get some is actually catching on. The study of money & the markets is really two-fold: How you can make money by betting on individual stocks (or playing the horses), and how astrology reveals the overall ups and downs of the market & the economy as a whole.

As there seems a lot of wishful thinking about astrology & money, we will highlight 4 books for your interest (all shown below, this page):
 Planetary Stock Trading
Money: How to Find It With Astrology
Sepharial On Money
What Are Winning Transits

See the blurbs for descriptions.

In addition, there is the analysis of the natal chart for its income producing potential. Some people have a way with money, some don't. Both have planetary indicators. See these books, also shown below:
Money: How to Find It With Astrology
Mapping Your Money

Income potential shades rapidly into just plain work, the ultimate fate for most of us. See the page on Vocation & Work.

Indicates a book on our Top Ten list. If you would like to find more books like it, click on the star.

PLANETARY STOCK TRADING, revised & updated 3rd edition - Bill Meridian, $54.95
 Contents:
Forward to 3rd edition;
1. First trade charts, what are they?;
2. Interpretation of natal first trade horoscope;
3. Does a lunar cycle affect market averages?;
4. Case studies (examples 1-33);
5. Computerized stock selection & portfolio management;
6. The future of financial astrology;
7. Methodology;
8. Industry planets;
9. Market analysis for astrologers;
10. Case studies II (examples 34-53)
    The charts themselves:
  • 33 DOW first trade charts;
  • 20 DJTA first trade charts;
  • 15 DJUA first trade charts;
  • 368 NYSE first trade charts;
  • 100 NASDAQ first trade charts;
  • 97 OTC first trade charts;
  • 100 Mutual fund charts (based on date of inception);
  • 32 Foreign funds charts;
  • 16 Financial institution charts (eg, 6 for the NYSE, charts for the DOW, Fed, NASDAQ, etc.);
  • 2 FTSE chart examples;
  • 54 FTSE first trade charts;
  • List of inactive stocks from previous editions of this book.
Appendix: Zodiacal sort of planets from all the charts in the book (with ticker symbols).

Comment: A compilation of 1000 first-trade charts, which is a chart set for the moment a stock is first traded on the NYSE. Unlike incorporation charts, first trade charts show the ups & downs of trading (ie, stock prices), rather than the ups & downs of the corporation behind the stock (makes sense to us). This is the book to use if you want to be a day trader. Find a chart that's about to be hit with a lot of transits all at once (go to the appendix, grab yor ephemeris) & either buy & watch the price go up, or borrow & short sell them. Tips & techniques, many sample charts, lots of analysis. Among the 1000 charts are the complete Dow Jones & many S&P, OTC & NASDAC stocks, as well as charts of selected mutual funds, foreign funds (NYSE) & the FTSE (London). Also included are charts for the various exchanges themselves. Meridian & Alphee Lavoie of A.I.R. Software have written a computer trading program (not included), the price of that is around $1000. The book is a lot cheaper, & it's the best ever book on astrology & investments. Valuable book for traders, written by one who knows. 380 pages. Cycles Research, oversize paper.


SEPHARIAL ON MONEY: The complete texts of LAW OF VALUES; SILVER KEY; ARCANA OR STOCK & SHARE KEY - Sepharial, $19.95
 Contents:
Law of Values:
Introduction
1. General principles
2. Planetary values
3. Effects of transits
4. Effects of aspects
5. Sensitive points
6. How to invest
7. How to average
8. Considerations

 Silver Key:
Publisher's note
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
The future method
Science of numbers
Some considerations
Names & numbers
Finding winners
Winning colours
The lunar key
How to set the figure
Elongation of motion
The test
Polarity
Selection
The aspects
Favourites
Gravity & evolution
A calculator
Something to come
A warning
On speculation
Conclusion
Tables of sidereal times
Tables of ascendants

 The Arcana, or Stock & Share Key:
Publisher's note
Axiom one
Axiom two
Axiom three
Axiom four
Axiom
The decanates
Nature of aspects
Axiom
Axiom
Sign rulers
Specific house indication
The chart of the heavens for London
Comment: Sepharial (1864-1929) had a life-long dislike of luck. He challenged himself to find what he called scientific rules that would eliminate chance. And, according to his own accounts, he succeed.

In Law of Values, he suggests buying stocks immediately after they have been clobbered by Saturn, with the price as low as it will get, and then selling the stock immediately after being hit by Jupiter, when the price is likely to be as high as it will ever go. And living off dividends between the two.

In The Silver Key, a book on horse-racing, Sepharial examines, and discards, conventional numerology, colours and symbols, in favor of a method based on the Moon, weights and tides. His results are impressive.

The Arcana, or Stock and Share Key, was one of a number of secret financial manuscripts which Sepharial sold by subscription only. In it, you will discover the secret to using the Meridian in day trading. Sepharial also gives instructions for using dispositors and decans. This is first time the Arcana has appeared in print.

Astrologers looking to improve their techniques, as well as investors looking to improve their portfolios, will find these books of interest. It's my suspicion the famous American investor, W.D. Gann, was in reality Sepharial's best student. Entirely reset, these three books were on his suggested reading list.

Click for an excerpt from Law of Values.

Astrology Classics, 139 pages.


MONEY: HOW TO FIND IT WITH ASTROLOGY - Lois Rodden, $23.95
 Contents:
I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction; 2. Overview; 3. House systems; 4. Aspects;

II. Work: 5. Employment; 6. Self employment; 7. Unemployemnt; 8. Planets in the 6th house;

III. Money: How to Find It with Astrology: 9. The medium of exchange; 10. Financial attitude; 11. Houses of the commercial horoscope; 12. Vocational indicators; 13. Wealth; 14. Business wealth; 15. Performance wealth; 16. Inherited wealth; 17. Lottery winners;

IV. Success: 18. The midheaven; 19. Data & sources

Comment: With this book you can find out the best way of getting money in your life. Should you get a job, should you start a business, or will you be unemployed? If you are to be wealthy (which, let's be real: few of us ever will be), will you get rich in business, will you be a famous movie star, will you inherit, or will you be a lottery winner? For the lottery, page 181 gives 10 astrological rules. To win big (and she defines "big"), you need to have 6 or 7 active in your chart, either natally or by transit. Also examines the 12 different signs on the natal Midheaven. Explore the options in the horoscope to achieve the good life, find the spotlight for success, activate wealth potential, determine the careers that hold the most promise, find the best time to implement decisions and much more. By the author of all those volumes of chart compilations ( Astro Data, Profiles of Women, etc.) and head of Data News Press.

275 pages. AFA, paper.

May, 2006: New edition in stock.


MAPPING YOUR MONEY: Understanding your financial potential - Kris Brandt Riske, $19.95
 Contents: List of charts; Introduction; 1. Astrology: the basics; 2. Your money mindset; 3. Money houses; 4. Money planets; 5. The other planets; 6. Second-house & eighth-house aspects; 7. Earned income; 8. Inheritance; 9. Speculation; 10. Consumer credit; 11. Entrepreneurs; 12. Case study: Mel Gibson.

Appendices: 1. Step-by-step guide to mapping your money; 2. Money trends; 3. Map your money using the CD-Rom. Glossary; Bibliography.

Comment: This is the author's second book in this series, and easily the best so far. Riske is a rising star at AFA (she's in charge of publishing) & has an outstanding book on weather forecasting to her credit.

Surprisingly nuanced, in this book are the essentials of astrology & money. Brandt defines the "money planets" as Venus, Mars & Pluto (ruling Scorpio). The "money mindset" is Sun, Ascendant, Moon & Midheaven. The money houses are 2nd & 8th. Brandt considers each of the signs on these two cusps and also delineates their rulers. Further, she interprets aspects the money house rulers make to planets elsewhere in the chart, and, additionally, defines them by the houses & signs they actually occupy (eg, Jupiter ruler of the second in Libra, or the 11th house, etc.). Chapters on earned income, inheritance, speculation, consumer credit & entrepreneurs are largely full of short case studies. The writing, overall, is brief & to the point, without jargon.

Llewellyn, 220 pages.


WHAT ARE WINNING TRANSITS - Joyce Wehrman, $3.95
 This little monograph sums up the author's marvelous system, which, in brief, identifies those fleeting, daily moments when you can win games of chance. It goes something like this: In the daily rotation of the earth, every degree of the zodiac passes through every point on the daily chart. Your job is to find when degrees, significant to your chart, are on the daily 2nd, 5th & 8th houses (Koch houses only). So, for example, what time today will your natal Jupiter be exactly on (or making a hard aspect to) the 5th house cusp? What time today will your ascendant be exactly on today's 5th house cusp? These moments last 2-4 minutes at a time, they can be hard to find. Joyce's technique requires an exact birth time (down to a minute or less), Joyce gives you a short-cut to finding it. Does it work? Yes. I used to play Vegas solitaire on Windows 3.1 years ago, killing time (wish I had time now). Hours & a hundred games would go by, all of them bust. Then a brief "window" of time would open & I would nearly break even in a game. The next game I would come out a bit ahead & then (the fun part), I would win the next five games outright (all 48 cards on the 4 aces), playing as fast as I could. And then it would fade as rapidly as it started. Two minutes later, all the games were bust & stayed bust for the next several hours. I observed this phenomenon dozens of times. But my experience was mere play. To know these times in advance requires (rather involved) calculations, which can be got through ACS in San Diego. (There used to be a computer program, but I believe it has been withdrawn. Ask Matrix.) So this book will tell you when you can win. Lois Rodden's book will tell you if you can win big. Bill Meridian's book will tell you how to do it with stocks. 15 pages. ACS, small paper.


CONTEST CHARTS - Doris Chase Doane, $11.00
 Contents: Fundamental Approach - wording the question, contest chart data, judgment, guidelines, aspects and their orbs; Prize fights; Sport games; Political elections; One against the field; Other contests; Varied times and locations; Role of progressions and cosmodynes; Auxiliary aids - moon aspect, planetary hours, electional chart. 79 pages. AFA, paper.


BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GEOCOSMIC STUDIES FOR FINANCIAL MARKET TIMING - Raymond Merriman, $15.95
 Contents: Introduction to geocosmic studies and financial market timing; Getting started - using the proper tools; Using the ephemeris; Understanding planets; The signs of the zodiac; Determining aspects; Using the aspectarian; Using computers to determine clusters. Appendix: the sign of the zodiac in astrology. 55 pages including references. Seek-It, oversize paper.


750 OVER THE COUNTER STOCKS - Carol Mull, $33.00
 Contents: Introductory chapter; Charts: Industrials, Public utilities, Transportation, Finance; Incorporation dates; Footnotes; Alphabetical index.

Comment: These incorporation charts of industrials, utilities, transportation & finance stocks date to the mid-1980's & it is certain that many of these companies exist no more. As with her book on the Standard & Poor's 500 (above), buy this book for Mull's excellent two-page overview of the five phases of the growth of a new business & the financing methods favored at each stage. According to Mull, the phases are 1. Research & development, 2. Start-up, 3. Expansion, 4. Work-out, 5. Buy-out. An excerpt:

In Stage 3, the business will incorporate & raise capital by selling stock and/or finding venture capital. The stock probably will go public at around ten cents a share and begin to attract public notice around fifty cents per share. [These are 1984 prices.] A plant will be found, workers are hired, press releases are written & mailed, advertising becomes important. Then will come a crisis period during which either one of three things will happen. The company may fail and go bankrupt in a very short time. Or it may very slowly rise to about $2.00 per share and remain there for for the next fifteen or thirty years. (This often happens to companies that have been incorporated at around nine in the morning & have a twelfth house sun, even though the remainder of the chart is favorable.) The third possibility involves the two or three out of a hundred companies who grow rapidly, pay off their loans, buy back their stock, make a profit and move into Phase 4. (pg. 1)
The charts that illustrate this book are old dot-matrix printouts from early Matrix Astrology Software programs. Crude but readable. Most of them are not timed, eg, are set for noon.

AFA, 431 pages, oversize. The bindings are brittle, you are cautioned that pages will fall out.


WINNING WITH ASTROLOGY - Evelyn Nagle, $7.95
 Contents:

The following are paragraph headings:
Introduction
Astrological tools
Learning astrological shorthand
Approximate planetary travel time
Daily planetary motion
Zodiacal signs
Aspects
Reading your natal chart
Reading an ephemeris
Matching degrees & signs

Comment: Reprinted by the AFA in September 2007. Now that I can read it, let's go page by page. It's not a big book.

Pg. 1: Title page. Pg. 2: Copyright page. Pgs. 3-4: Introduction. Pg. 4: Required tools: Natal chart, ephemeris. Pg. 5: Practice writing astrological glyphs. Pg. 6: How long each planet takes to orbit the sun. Pg. 7: How much each planet moves per day. Pg. 8: Glyphs for planets & aspects. Pg. 9: Conjunctions, oppositions & squares defined. Pg. 10: List of signs that square & sextile each other. Pg. 11: Signs that trine each other; abbreviations for the angles in a chart. Pg. 12: The author's natal chart: Evelyn Nagle, born March 25, 1929, 10:26 am, Gallitzin, PA (the abbreviation used in the book is "Gltzn"). Pg. 13: How to read the Matrix chart printout, c. 1985, which was abandoned by 1990. Pgs. 14-15: More about how to find your way around the Matrix chart printout, or any printed chart, for that matter. Pg. 16: The planetary positions in Nagle's chart, listed in order of 0 - 30 degrees. Pg. 17: How to read the ephemeris printed on pg. 18. Pg. 18: March, 1988, from the Complete Planetary Ephemeris, 1950-2000, published by the Hieratic Publishing Company. This was an outstanding book. Pg. 19: R denotes retrograde, adjusting GMT to your local standard time. Pg. 20: Midnight GMT in US standard times, the planetary positions for March 2, 1988, listed next to Nagle's natal planetary positions. Pg. 21: Search for aspects between the two lists given on the previous page. Pg. 22: An evaluation of transiting aspects found, positive/negative. Pg. 23: Use this technique to find your own critical aspects. She suggests a journal noting the effects of the transiting moon on your chart. Pg. 24: Four "never" rules in gambling, the name & address of the AFA (supplier of ephemerides), three web addresses where you can get on-line natal charts.

And that's it. All 24 pages. Do you see anything in here that looks like astrological gambling advice or instruction?

Let Nagle have the last word. From page 3: "The winning system I am about to teach you is the result of nearly twenty years research. This research has been tried and tested for all types of games of chance, but mainly for races, bingo, lotteries, football pools, junkets to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, and has produced substantial winnings for the participants."

AFA, 24 pages.


BUSINESS ASTROLOGY 101: Weaving the web between business & myth - Georgia Anna Stathis, $39.95
 Contents: Part 1: Basic Premise (Thriving, not just surviving, Weaving the web between business & myth); Part 2: The Basic Ingredients (Solstice points, elements & qualities; Rulerships; Mythological signatures of planets: Vocational & business indicators; A theory of houses; Synodic cycles); Part 3: Techniques & Strategies (Planning & the lunation cycle; Saturn/Jupiter career cycle; Delineating the corporation; Real estate process); Part 4: Putting It All Together (Two cases studies: woman, man); Bibliography & Appendices.

Comment: This is a strange book. There is a lot of outstanding astro-business info in the book, and there is a lot that isn't. They are thoroughly mixed. A chart for the Safeway buy-out (a grocery store chain) is shown next to the chart of a chiropractor (pgs. 99, 101). The Jupiter/Neptune cycle of 11.9 years is described as "slam dancing while others rap in the same hall" (pg. 168). Part elementary astrology book, part astro-career guide, part corporation analysis, part real estate guide & I don't know what else. Like the work of many self-published authors, this book needs editing. It's not that things should be taken out or others added, but the book as a whole needs better organizing. Star Cycles Publishing, 391 pages.


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