Astrologer Urges Investors to Stay the Course

    CHICAGO, IL, August 26, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Financial astrologer Grace K. Morris, MA, has this advice for those fretting about whether to get out of the stock market or stay the course: hang in there!

The meltdown of stock prices at exchanges around the globe is a scary development. And the temptation to hit the panic button often and hard may be hard to resist.

"But a study that analyzes more than 100 years of cyclical stock market activity in the U.S. suggests that while the market was obviously poised for a sharp correction it will not be testing a new cyclical low anytime soon," she said.

Morris is business editor for the Astrology News Service (ANS) and is editor and publisher of the Astro Economics Stock Market Newsletter. She also is author of How to Choose Stocks to Outperform the Market, which is updated annually.

Her optimism is based on the highly researched 18.6-year cycle first described by financial astrologer Louise McWhirter in her 1935 book, Astrology and Stock Market Forecasting, The cycle tracks the transiting lunar nodes.

The mathematically calculated lunar nodes are sensitive points in space where the moon's orbit around the earth intersects the earth's orbit around the sun - the ecliptic. The north or ascending node is where the moon's orbit crosses north of the ecliptic, and the descending or south node is where it crosses the ecliptic to the south.

Moving in a clockwise direction in opposing astrological signs, it takes the moon's nodes 18.6 years to travel through the 12 astrological signs. McWhirter's theory is based on the moon's north node position.

Historically, the economy has predictably peaked when the north node reaches 29 degrees of Leo and the south node is at 29 Aquarius. If the pattern holds as it has since before the American Civil War, the next market peak will not arrive until May 2017.

Morris says each peak is followed by a plateau period (May 2017 through Aug. 2018), and then a slow decline from above normal to normal levels (Nov. 2018 through Jan. 2022). The slow transition to a below normal economy should begin after Feb. 2022.

"In the meantime the economy and stock market should still have a very good run," she said.

The Astrology News Service (ANS) is jointly sponsored by the American Federation of Astrologers (AFA), the Association for Astrological Networking (AFAN), the International Society for Astrological Research (ISAR), the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR), and the Organization of Professional Astrologers (OPA).

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