Houck's legacy: east meets west -- Uranus enters Aquarius 4/7/2001

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Hello list members:

 

One of the great things Rick Houck did was to blend ideas from western

astrology with jyotish, without causing confusion. Indeed, his hybrid was

usually clearer in its predictive capacity than most other "pure" systems.

But I'm biased here, so please forgive me. So in his approach, we have the

outer planets entering into consideration of the quality of dasha periods

of jyotish planets, and western progressions tied together with planets

involved in papakartari yogas and so on.

 

Rick liked to mix and match systems where it made logical sense. For

example, he found a compelling logic in marrying the outer planet ingresses

with a sidereal ayanamsha. (He actually developed his own, which was

krishnamurti minus one minute.) Interestingly, this is exactly what will

happen later this week: a planet in the western pantheon, Uranus, enters

Aquarius on Saturday April 7 2001, according to Houck/Krishnamurti

ayanamsha. (if one uses Lahiri, this ingress occurs on Monday) In one of

his books, Special Sidereal Ephemeris, he once noted that Uranus ingresses

often coincided with major market moves, especially drops. In 1987, the US

stock market had its worst drop in history (+20%) on October 19. Rick

pointed out that Uranus actually entered Sagittarius two days earlier on

the Saturday, when the markets were closed. For Uranus' next ingress in

1994 into Capricorn, the stock market dropped about 6 or 7% in one day --

not a catastrophe but at the time, it was one of the top ten drops in history.

 

The difficulty in predicting a market drop this week is that Uranus will

not stay in Aquarius -- it moves back into Capricorn in the fall for a

while and then moves into Aquarius for good on Jan 26 2002. In fact, it is

THAT date that Rick earmarked as the time of THE big stock market crash.

Of course, he didn't only rely on this one technique to make such a

prediction. He would always use many other techniques to back it up.

 

Nonetheless, my own sense is that the market may well experience some sharp

volatility at this week's ingress. The current New Moon chart for

Washington (parallax corrected position for Mar 24 2001, 9:41:25 EST)

interestingly also has Uranus acvtivity: Uranus is exactly conjunct the IC,

with less than one degree orb. While the 4th house isn't normally

associated with the stock market, Uranus's angularity does speak to the

greater possibility of surprises generally in US during the coming four

weeks.

 

But with the markets falling so much every day now, how could one tell if

it was a crash!? Good question, but I guess it's a matter of amplitude.

Anything over 5% on the Dow would be significant to me, and 10% on the

Nasdaq. And I notice this incident with the downed US spy plane held by

the Chinese probably won't be resolved anytime soon, so I'm perfectly

willing to link Uranus' ingress into whatever unexpected events come up

around that. :-)

 

So there's my prediction, conditioned with the appropriate amounts of

cautious probability. Inspired by, borrowed from, but not endorsed by,

Rick Houck.

 

Chris