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In Astrology and Stock Market Forecasting, published in 1936, Louise McWhirter said: "The way conditions exist today, man is the victim of the business cycle. With detailed charts and graphs, he can tell you when business began to pick up, and when a recession started, but he cannot tell you these factors in advance, with all his statistical research, because he has no time factor."

Astrology provides that time factor. Saturn takes 28-30 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun, Uranus averages 84 years, Neptune 165 years, Pluto 248 years. Those four outermost are the "astro-economic indicators." By reviewing history to find what patterns they formed during past great depressions, we can gauge when another great depression is likely. Incidentally, Uranus is pronounced "your-an-us," nor "your anis."

The inner planets are those closest to the Earth: Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars and Jupiter. They are of secondary concern because they move too swiftly to mark years or decades of major economic cycles.

Every time the USA has gone through a great depression, the outermost, slowest moving planets have formed what astrologers call a grand cross with the USA's natal Sun and Saturn. Every time Uranus has returned to early Gemini where it was when the USA was "born" July 4, 1776, America has experienced its worst wars. Every time Uranus and Pluto have moved into conjunctions or 90-degree squares and simultaneously come conjunct, opposite or square sensitive points in the US birth chart, America has experienced social changes or upheavals.

Other wars occur when the US natal Uranus is "afflicted" by transiting planets, as happened when the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked. Saturn and Pluto form 180-degree oppositions three times a century, the latest being in effect on September 11, 2001. The previous Saturn-Pluto opposition coincided with the tempestuous period we now call The Sixties; the one before that with what we now call The Great Depression (1930s).

Astrologers speak of the planets influencing but not controlling us. We have free will, intelligence, historic memory, judgment. We don't freeze to death in winter because we're prepared. We can also prepare for economic winters and times of radical social change.