Power Shift on Wall Street

 

The power dynamics are shifting on Wall Street. Individual investors are winning big—at least for now—and relishing it. An eye-popping rally in shares of companies that were once left for dead including GameStop Corp. , AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and BlackBerry Ltd. has upended the natural order between hedge-fund investors and those trying their hand at trading from their sofas. While the individuals are rejoicing at newfound riches, the pros are reeling from their losses. https://on.wsj.com/2NLCGIZ

A chart for NYSE as given by Astro-Databank  [1] is reproduced here.  What immediately catches our eye is the opposition aligned with the meridian. Venus is very appropriately  in the money sign Taurus. Jupiter, the ruler of 5th house of speculation, is conjunct Neptune which introduces a danger of being trapped in overextension and  bubble schemes. These schemes can give easy money when the going is good but when Saturn, which is opposite Jupiter-Neptune, is activated a reality check follows.  And that is exactly what is happening now with transiting Pluto-Saturn moving over the  radix Saturn/MC in  the  Saturn-Jupiter-Neptune combination aligned with the meridian.

Discussing, Pluto-Saturn, Liz Greene wrote:

We know a good deal about collective consciousness, which concerns the rules and structures that society creates and by which we supposedly learn to live with and cooperate with each other. But the underground stream that runs beneath the surface of those structures – that is a mystery. We only recognise its existence when it bursts into external life, and one of the ways in which it shows itself is that an entire group or country goes berserk and you have one of those gigantic upheavals or revolutions which ends in a bloodbath.

The hidden stream that Liz Greene refers is a good metaphor for our own hidden power. Among other things, Pluto-Saturn is about  self-empowerment.  Along our empowerment path, we at times receive friction, pressure, and criticism from Saturnian sources: authority figures, bosses, parents, institutions, and those in charge of things. This can make  us  hesitant to become an authority figure because all our lives we have felt safe obeying an outer authority.

When we  confront our fears and take responsibility for what is ours to clean up, we  will feel a sense of accomplishment, and often relief, in doing so. Our empowerment journey is inextricably linked to becoming an authority figure, dealing with those who run things, and overcoming doubts about our abilities through long term, hard work.

Finally take a look at the January New Moon chart at New York. Notice that the New Moon conjunct Pluto-Saturn is  powerfully placed on the lower meridian and also conjunct radix Saturn [26cp] and the MC of the NYSE chart. With Pluto in Capricorn structures that have too much power are being challenged. The experience of tyranny, the corruption of money, the obliteration of individual freedom, can all be part of this cycle.   Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008, a year that the financial markets won’t soon forget. Many of the world’s financial systems soon revealed rot at the center. The correction that followed is ongoing. The world is looking for new guidance, for rulers worthy of the task. It is time for individuals to empower themselves.

 

[1] http://goo.gl/j0R8dO