April 2012 begins with a truncated week

Markets are functioning only on April 02,03 and 04 th.

Lunar effects for first fortnight of April 2012.

Lunar declinations:

April 05: Moon crosses the equator North to South

April 17/18---Extreme south declination.

Full Moon and Perigee only on April 06,Saturday.

True Nodes become direct on April 10 to April 13, 2012 ( Tuesday to Friday)

So the Moon effect on Nifty will be visible only next week. 

Aspects in Market time today:

Moon quincunx Pluto 09 .00 am. Aspect already over and separating.

Ascendant activates the Mars Rahu ketu square at 09.43 am.

So Nifty may look to decline a little initially.

Sun trine Moon at 13.41 hrs.

This could create an upmove till about 14.48 hrs.

Moon square Jupiter 14.48 hrs

Nifty may decide to move down in the later session.

Mercury forms minor positive aspects with sun mars and ketu.

Moon bi quintile (positive) Pluto at 03.30 pm.

Short covering may be seen towards the closing.

No major reversals seen in the truncated week. Celestial actions seem to be reserved for next week.

A Financial Astro view of Nifty March 26 to 30, 2012

March 26, 2012

Sun Uranus conjunction was on March 25, 2012. So today the market may exhibit initial bullishness.Moon is in Taurus emerging out of a conjunction with Jupiter and moving towards Venus, all three in Taurus.So this should be an overall positive day, maybe not overly positive because of several negative overhangs which we will see now.
By 11.09 am Sun is in-conjunct with Mars ( a negative development.)
By 11.32 am, Moon reaches its Apogee, that is its farthest position from the Earth.( a potentially reversal sign)
By 11.39 am, Mercury becomes in-conjunct with Saturn ( another negative development.
So by around 12 to 12.15 pm, Nifty may reverse its upward movement
At 13.01.34 pm, Moon becomes trine with the Ascendant. So will this stop the downward movement?
By 3.30 pm, the developing Sun Rahu trine becomes closer ( it will become tomorrow early morning). So maybe the market will close positively today.

March 27, 2012

 Sun will be trine with Rahu when the market opens.  Moon also is emerging out of a conjunction with Venus.Mercury applies to Moon in a sextile aspect ( positive development), which will end by 10.05 am.
So we may expect an up move till about 11.23 am., with gradual weakening or tossing around from 10 15 am to 11.23 am.

After 10.05 am, Moon also starts going into her void.She remains in that condition for rest of the trading day.All positive long range trines have started separating. Mars-Pluto, Jupiter-Pluto,and Saturn -Neptune, all begin to lose their positive bias.By 3.30 pm Sun Rahu trinal effect also would wane off.So the market could weaken after 11.23 am and end the day negative.

March 28, 2012


Moon moves into volatile Gemini and squares Mars first thing.Not a very auspicious beginning! By 9.19 am, Moon`s true Nodes begin to reverse and start direct motion.Not natural for them because the Nodes are supposed to move in a retrograde fashion.In that condition they ae conjunct Moon. Again a negative development.( This will also weaken the developing Rahu Uranus trine temporarily.)
Nifty may open lower.
Meanwhile Sun is approaching its square station with Pluto.In fact Pluto which rules huge debts is in loggerheads with several celestial friends.
I suspect Nifty will  open and close lower this day.

March 29, 2012


March Series settlement day.
Moon reaches a high Northern declination and reverses direction. There may be attempts for positive moves, but with Pluto Sun square nearby, it looks like the markets will close lower again.

March 30, 2012

Moon continues to form a square with Uranus- market could open a little lower.After 2 pm, we may expect a mild recovery, because Moon is getting sextile to Mars. For the week it looks like Nifty prefers to go down to its previous supports.

5163 seems to be the temporary floor. Failing which it is 5111.More weakness, then look to 4900 levels. 5341 seems to be the first overhead resistance.

Please use your technical levels as advised by your consultants and advisers to enter and exit the markets. This is an educational and learning attempt to understand the celestial correlation of the markets.
Have a great week..

Planetary aspects of slow moving planets- Mumbai coordinates

Here is a tabulation of slow moving planets and their immediate effects on the markets.

Nifty -a technical view for the week March 26 to 30 2012

Monthly momentum is slowing. Weekly downtrend is continuing, albeit slowly.Daily seems to be emerging from sudden weakness.....

Let us begin by analyzing our expectations of last week.

Nifty opened at 5337, moved slightly higher and then went down to 5238, to finally close negatively  at 5257, on Monday, March 19, 2012.

On March 20, 2012, it opened at 5257 moved up 40 points to 5297, reacted to 5233 and closed marginally positive at 5274.

On March 21, 2012, it moved pretty positively to close at 5364.

On March 22, it retraced the entire up move of the previous day and closed very negatively at 5228, lower than the opening of March 21, which was 5267.

March 23, saw some recovery and Nifty closed positively at 5278. For the week Nifty had lost 39 points.

I had expected a bit more overall bullishness but evidently the conjunction between Moon and Retrograde Mercury had more lessons for me! It was a huge down day.( March 22, 2012)

In fact since then I had got into detailed analysis mode and have understood several lunar principles which govern the market. There is tremendous wisdom in the words of W.D.Gann- the fast moving planets are the key. With Mercury ruling 17% of the Nifty Index component industries (Software and telecom) little wonder then that Mercury influences Nifty pretty strongly. I have here a detailed graph which brings out an observation that multiple lunar events are necessary to bring in timing into the market.

The other posts are about my technical take on Nifty and the coming week from an astro perspective.

The coming Sun Uranus conjunction in Aries

Week beginning March 19, 2012

This should be an interesting week with a New Moon in Aries acting as a pivotal point. Will the Nifty go down first and then rally towards 5630 to form a double top? Let us see what astro technicals has to offer:

A rap on my Knuckles!

A pre 1992 budget, full of taxation and marginal sops took the wind out of the bulls. And for me it was a demonstration of the power of the Nodes ( Rahu and Ketu) along with Mars ( R) and what they could do to the markets.

I have shown a chart of the 1965 March sky and a comparison with the present celestial position. Even though our BSE traces its history to the 1950s, we have documented index values only from 1979. And so I have gone to Dow Jones Industrial Averages.I could not get a graphical representation of 1965 March price movements but I have managed a tabulation of numerical values. You can see how the Dow peaked on March 15, 1965 and gradually went down. This despite some powerful signature formations!

Chart for Indian Budget 2012-13 as of March 16, 2012, 11 am

At 11 am on March 16, 2012, at New Delhi,Ascendant is at 05:12:04 of Gemini. Mercury is the sign lord, Mars is the star lord, Sun is the sub lord and Jupiter is the sub sub lord. Mars is India`s 7th lord as well as a lord who specifies lagna or ascendant. This stands for a great initiative to push things forward, yet subjected to diktats from other partners. Since Transit Mars is retrograde and square both the nodes, we could expect trouble from the opposition which will reach a zenith by March 20 or 21 and thereafter wane.

Since the Ascendant at the time of the budget is conjunct both Mars and Uranus some very unexpected positivwe announcements may be in the pipeline.Since transitting Moon is conjunct pluto, this could be a reformatory step towards bringing down the external debt or something to do with taxes. Moon is in trine with Venus and Jupiter in Aries and with Mars ( R) in Leo. So the markets could suddenly rise during the budget session. This is expected to be a positive day for the markets.

Nifty Futures Technical view March 14, 2012