tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73801406639302833362024-02-19T15:10:23.368-08:00Alchemist Apprentice Workshop<b>The Alchemist Apprentice Workshop</b>
<br>Experimenting in the practicality of Alchemy, Astrology, Herbalism and HypnosisBennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-89445830048917733802013-02-13T08:08:00.000-08:002013-02-13T08:08:19.733-08:00Renewed VigorOk - so I haven't posted anything in a year but with the studying I've been doing and the success I've been having, it's almost time to change the name of the blog altogether. So, starting last January, I went pro on taking Astrology Horary questions and have had a pretty successful run. I'd say I'm about 70% accurate. This year, starting in January, I've been studying the Elliott Wave Theory and a great e-book called The New Elliott Wave Rule. Google it. It makes so much sense. As a result of that book, I've formalized a trading plan with penny stocks (anything under $7). <br />
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I run my scan on <a href="http://www.finviz.com/">www.finviz.com</a> with the following requisites. <br />
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The Average Volume must be over 1 million. <br />
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The Current Volume must also be over 1 million.<br />
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The Price must be under $7<br />
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The Average True Range must be over 0.25.<br />
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I'm looking for each chart that I invest in to return at least $0.15. <br />
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Go to <a href="http://www.freestockcharts.com/">www.freestockcharts.com</a> and pull up the chart. You'll want the following drawing tools - Fibonacci Retracement, Lines, Text and Moving Average.<br />
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Follow the counting guidelines of the Elliott Wave Theory and don't forget about the New Rule. This is essential to determining where a chart is in the wave format. Don't worry about every chart that you look at. If the one you're examining gets too confusing - move on to another chart. You WILL find one that is easy to count.<br />
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Once you have what you think is the proper count, use your Fibonacci Retracement tool on the last completed wave. This will help you gain an idea of the next swing point.<br />
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To confirm this, you'll want to use a 10 day Simple Moving Average and 30 day Exponential Moving Average. Follow the entrance strategy found at <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/">www.swing-trade-stocks.com</a>. <br />
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This is my trading strategy. You may have a different system or find that my system is either not clear enough for you or that it doesn't seem to work for you. That's fine. This is not a guaranteed system and anyone who says they have a guaranteed system - STAY CLEAR!<br />
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So we have an entrance - here's my exit. The good thing about penny stocks at over 1 million in volume and an ATR over 0.25 is the volitility. When they go up, they can go up big. That also means the go down big too. I'm looking for a return of $0.15, so if my loss on the first day is $0.15 I'm going to bail. This helps minimize your losses.<br />
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Now you can do one of two things. If your return the first day is $0.15 and you think from your analysis that the stock is going to continue to go up - hang on to it and follow the exit plan outlined at <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/">www.swing-trade-stocks.com</a>. It's a good exit strategy. I've used it but it's too safe for me. I'm looking for quick returns. So, if I've hit the lottery on a chart and it goes to $0.15 or above - I'm selling it by 3:40pm to collect my winnings. If it only goes up a nickel and still looks like a viable stock, I'll hang on to it until I get my $0.15 return. However, if it looks like it's going to trade sideways for the next week - it's gone. I have other charts that I'm looking at and don't have time to waste my money on the hope that it might go up.<br />
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Simple and sweet.<br />
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Here's another catch. The SEC does not consider swing trading as day trading. They consider it investing. They define day trading as buying and selling the same stock within a single day four or more times per week if those four trades account for 60% of your trades. So if you have all of your eggs in one basket, and you buy/sell the same stock in one day - you can only do this three times in any one week, otherwise you have to have a margin account of $20k or more. I don't like margin accounts. If I loose my money and the margin, I'm in twice as much trouble. <br />
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My advice is stay away from margin trading unless you want to begin shorting stocks - also a viable way of making good money with the Elliott Wave Theory. In order to short stocks - you MUST have a margin account with $20k. Most people reading blogs don't tend to have that king of cash, so for the time being - don't do it. <br />
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Perfect the long position trading and then get into more complicated stuff. Me? I'm good with never shorting stocks. There are literally thousands of stocks traded per day and at least one of them is on an uptrend. <br />
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Good luck!Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-59885841609782986142012-01-21T15:50:00.000-08:002012-01-21T15:50:43.485-08:00Falling WhistlesI happened across a concept that I feel really needs more attention.<br />
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<a href="http://www.fallingwhistles.com/about/">http://www.fallingwhistles.com/about/</a><br />
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Apparently the war in the Congo is more deadly to children than their adult counterparts. I was so disgusted by the actions of the two warring factions of sending children to the front lines of their war with nothing but a whistle.<br />
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Please take the time to view the website of the Falling Whistles.Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-59852051697393679712012-01-20T14:56:00.000-08:002012-01-20T14:56:14.900-08:00Stock UCFCOK - so I know I've been putting a lot of focus on stock trading, but I think that anyone interested in pursuing the Hermetic Sciences full time will need some sort of monetary spring - hence the swing trading. Now - I put my order in on Sunday and it executed on Tuesday (Monday was a bank Holiday due to Martin Luther King Day). When I put the order in, the stock was at $1.21, so I put in for 404 shares. This would give me a total purchase of $488.84. A $10 commission would bring me just shy of $500. <br />
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Remember, my total account is $544. $38 profit from the first trade and an additional $6 from the second (if I had sold when I should have i.e. the first day).<br />
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So when my order executed on Tuesday, the total cost of my shares actually went to $505, add $10 commission to that, and I'm dipping even further into my profits.<br />
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On review of this chart, I should have noticed two things - first I wanted it to be worthwhile, so I deluded myself on the Horary chart and convinced myself is was worth buying. After looking at the stock chart, I should have also paid attention to the volume. I know that on Craig's website, he doesn't put much stake in the volume - but, volume basically tells you the amount of interest in a stock. If there's no interest, there's little movement either way. I'm once again getting dragged through the mud.<br />
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So I'm putting my sale order in now. If UCFC's first open price hits $1.30 then I will have made $0.20 on this trade. Not what I was looking at.<br />
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I promise I will start concentrating more on the rest of what this blog is about, from here on out. Stay tuned for the rest of the How To Predict series, a pictorial on preparing an alchemical elixir and tips for hypnotic techniques in the weeks to come.Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-21045556653790302412012-01-15T19:11:00.000-08:002012-01-15T19:11:28.086-08:00January 15th Stock Pick of the WeekOk - so I screwed up.<br />
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Here's the deal. I thought I should buy into CHRS back on Monday, which I did. And because it didn't give me that profit I was looking for on day one, I figured I would hold onto it and follow the trailing stop loss strategy found at Swing Trade Stocks.com. It's a good strategy. The problem is that it basically dragged me through the mud, trudging and slowly drowning me. My original get out price was $4.55 since I got in at $4.70. And granted the stock hasn't dipped that low (it's only at $4.65) but it's been an entire trading week, and that's just not swing trading. That's bordering on buy and hold investing (bit of an exageration). What I should have done was sold on Monday. The stock went up the first day. I was excited. If I had put my sell order in that night, my trade would have executed at about $4.95 - it's opening price on Tuesday. This would have given me the $6 profit after trade commissions that I was looking for. But did I listen to my astrological chart, wherein I predicted I woul be profitable if I entered the trade on Monday? Nooooooooo. I had to get all analytical on myself, over think the situation and say "Well the chart didn't say that I would lose money if I stayed in longer than a day". <br />
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That'll teach me. <br />
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In any event - on with this week's pick.<br />
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I figure now would be a good a time as any to explain how I search for stocks. I use FinViz.com's stock screener. First I choose the Descriptive screen for price. I'm looking for anything under $5. Risky, I know but I'm only dealing with $500 right now so I can't really expect to turn a profit on $50 stocks. Then under the technical screens, I want the price to show below the 20 Day SMA, but above the 50 and 200 Day SMA. This should limit the stocks to a single page. I then take a closer look at these stocks by running free charts on stockcharts.com. The technical analysis tools I'm using at this site right now are Williams %R with a parameter of 3 instead of 14 (the default), as well as Volume, Full stochastics, a 10 and 200 Day SMA, and 30 Day EMA. If you're following this and want to do the same, let me know if I'm not being clear on the directions.<br />
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The stock this week is UCFC. The price is really low. It has sold off pretty strong for a couple of days, the Williams %R is well below -80, it's the first pull back into the TAZ after a breakaway (mid December) and should be ripe to move into an upwave. This is going to be a scalper, like the last two. I think I'm going to buy Monday morning and sell Monday night but we'll see how it performs before making that final decision.<br />
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I'm going to cheat on this game. I'm going to pretend that I actually made the righ decision to sell CHRS. otherwise I won't have the money to buy into this next stock and ride this wave. In the real world, obviously I wouldn't be able to do that. I'd have to wait until my sell order for CHRS places before putting in my buy order for UCFC, but since I'm only playing a game with virtual money - it's really not that bad. C'mon, I'm learning here, and isn't that more important?<br />
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The reason for the scalper position I'm taking on this one is mainly based on the Horary Reading I just did. Virgo rises, ruled by Mercury who is in Capricorn, peregrine and moving to combustion. His only beneficial aspect right now is Venus - ruler of my second house (money), and he's even separating from that. Notice here that Mercury also rules my 10th (career). And while he is accidentally strong by being angular in the 4th, he is greatly debilitated and has no essential dignity. Look at Mars, peregrine and conjunct the Ascendant. This does not bode well for the Querent (me). Nor does the Moon (my consignificator) have any real strength in Libra and moving to a square of a peregrine Sun. The malefic Moon and Saturn both in my second house afflict the matters of my second house.<br />
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The one saving grace to my money is that Saturn is a noble malefic being in his exaltation. Clearly, any long term investing in this stock spells disaster for my money.<br />
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But here's the good thing. Jupiter is the natural significator of money. He and Venus are in mutual reception of each other by rulership and just beginning to separate from an easy sextile aspect. Jupiter is in the house of my partner's money (8th house). Venus, my money, is in the house of my servants (6th). I'm trying to get my money to work for me by investing in my partner (UCFC). Jupiter is also the ruler of the 4th (resolutions). Now, my conclusion to this is that because these planets rule the houses that they're in by exaltation and are in mutual reception by rulership, the goodness that they promise will be supernaturally strong. Basically, the power that they have right now will not last but it will be a good thing. <br />
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It's confirmed by the fact that they are separating. Frawley might say that according to the stars, this slight separation is the stars way of saying that the plan is already set in motion. Indeed, I seem to have already made up my mind on this stock before consulting the stars.<br />
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Maybe I'm just deluding myself, but the last horary chart confirmed when to invest. It was my own ignorance that kept me in the stock. This current chart is also telling me to jump in and then jump right out. Hopefully I have the guts to do it. Here we go...Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-90381178028219568292012-01-10T18:40:00.000-08:002012-01-10T18:40:37.409-08:00CHRS: Still the Stock pick of the weekI just wanted to ensure that I was posting on a daily basis while testing this theory about using horary and stock screening to pick a time when to enter a stock. If I had a couple thousand dollars to throw at this stock I would have put a sell order in last night (Monday, January 9th). This would have gotten me out with a hefty profit since it went up 20 cents in one day then opened really high this morning. But since I don't have that much money, I'm following my exit strategy. <br />
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If I lose $15 on the total invested amount, I'm out. This will help me keep my loss to a total of $35 after trade commissions. So, today we're up by 11 cents. I got in yesterday at $4.70 per share and now it's at $4.81, down 9 cents from yesterday's close but still more than when I got in. This is to be expected, which is why swing trading tends to be a buy and hold for two to three days. <br />
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The last trade was just pure luck based on the previous day's volume. If I had more confidence in that other stock I would have hung on to it, but as was seen there was no point since it dropped right after I sold it.<br />
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I'll keep posting this week on this particular chart until I sell. Next week, I'll screen for another stock - showing you exactly how I find the stock and then I'll cast another horary chart to see when to enter. If I like the way both charts look we can test the hypothesis again. If not, I'll keep trying until I find the right method.<br />
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Stay tuned....<br />
<br />Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-4948042645556341452012-01-08T19:37:00.000-08:002012-01-08T19:37:04.593-08:00Stock of the Week: CHRSSo we're still looking at CHRS. I recommend you go to <a href="http://www.freestockcharts.com/">http://www.freestockcharts.com/</a> and pull up a chart on CHRS. Add some technical indicators such as Williams %R (make sure to edit the span from 14 to 3). You can also add the EMA and SMA. EMA should be 30 and SMA should be 10. Make sure you change the chart pattern to candlestick. On freestockcharts.com you can switch between daily and minutes. If you are looking at daily, you will notice that the stock has now dipped into the TAZ as defined by Craig on his Swing Trade Stocks.com site. The Williams %R indicator has dropped to below -80 and it has sold off for at least two days.<br />
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Looking at the Elliott Wave and Craigs 4 wave system, we see that the chart must be getting ready to head back up.<br />
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I apologize for not writing more in the past week. This week I have been studying horary charts and professionally giving delineations so I've been consumed with astrology. Notice that I did run a chart and posted it as my last blog post. My prediction was that the CHRS chart would be ripe to invest in about 5 days. I'm going to take the plunge. My fears with this chart are that the volume is still relatively low, but Craig doesn't put a lot of stock in volume unless there is a major spike in both volume and price. <br />
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There are no earnings reports coming out for this company right now so all of the basic indications that this is a worthwhile chart are there, and manifested five days after the horary question was asked.<br />
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So here we go: I take $500 and invest $490. Right now the price quote is $4.69 per share. I'm going to buy 104 shares. That puts my total investment at $487.76 plus a $10 commission. I need the stock to jump up about 25 cents in order to make a $6 profit after buy/sale commissions. Pretty reasonable considering that we're hitting a former resistance as well as former support level.<br />
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Crossing my fingers, trusting my delineation and looking at the stock chart...Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-90624926517895947152012-01-02T14:23:00.000-08:002012-01-02T14:23:23.153-08:00Horary of the Stock Pick January 1stSo I had to do the best with what I have and I wanted to post my reading before the stock CHRS does anything this week. The opening bell for this week is not until tomorrow morning, Tuesday January 3rd. I said that I wanted to learn how to do Astrology along side picking stocks so here goes.<br />
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Horary can't pick a chart for you. I doubt any branch of real astrology can do that. What Horary can do is tell you whether or not you're on the right track. In Warnock's case study book there is an example of a business venture that someone asked. The question is essentially, "Will I profit from a business partnership with Mr. X?" I find this to be quite fitting with picking a chart. Mr. X is the company that I want to buy into - in this case CHRS.<br />
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First things first. The first house represents the Querent, that's me. The ruler of the 1st house is Venus. Now, the question was asked around noon time on Sunday and the ruler of the hour was the Sun, so the chart's not radical but like Mr. Warnock's case we can still obtain judgement.<br />
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The 7th house is cusp is in Scorpio, ruled by Mars. He's down in the 5th house having fun, kind of. See, he's in the sign of Virgo which is ruled by Mercury both by primary and exaltation, and he's in hurting condition but we'll get to that in a minute.<br />
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The Moon is in the 12th house which is the weakest of the bunch, so she really can't make anything happen. Right there we should say to ourselves, "This really isn't going to happen". But I want to confirm this.<br />
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Let's look at some of the other aspects. Venus, that's me, is in mutual reception with Saturn, who's not in poor zodiacal state. In fact, being in Libra, he's exalted and it's he has Honor of Triplicity. So he's pretty strong right now. The only thing not good for him is being in the Sixth House which is cadent but that's outweighed by his dignities and the mutual reception with the Lord of the Ascendant. What does that tell us? Well, Saturn rules both Capricorn and Aquarius, which means he rules both the 10th and 11th houses. In other words, he rules my job and my salarie. Saturn being in the 6th (servants) and mutually received by Venus in the 10th, we can say that I want my salarie to work for me and my salarie wants to serve me ( insomuch as it has desires...). <br />
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This would seem to be good but we have to look at my treasury and my partner's treasury to determine whether or not this is wise to put the two together. My treasury (2nd house) is Gemini, ruled by Mercury. My partner's treasury, 2nd from the 7th (i.e. my 8th) is ruled by Jupiter. If you know anything about this at all it really doesn't look good.<br />
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First, let's talk about my partner's money and then we'll get to mine. Jupiter is in Taurus, which is where he is exalted. Great! But look again. He's opposed Saturn. Booo! And he's in the 12th house (secret enemies). So not only is he afflicted and weak, but what little promise he had for me was to work against me anyways. Double booo!<br />
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Now let's look at my money. Mercury rules Gemini, the 2nd house in this chart. Mercury in this chart is in the 8th house. The house of death. Ouch. To make matter's worse, he's in his detrmiment and afflicted by a square with Mars (my partner). This indicates obstacles and difficulties between my money and the partner. And, oh yeah, the South Node of the Moon is in the 2nd. Mercury would need a lot of help from a really strong benefic planet to come out of this situation smelling halfway decent at all. But alas, the greater benefic Jupiter (Mercury's dispositor) is also Peregrine, in the 12th and afflicted as we have already seen. The next one on the list? The Sun. Nope. Sorry. He's also Peregrine. So we come to Venus. Venus is actually in great shape and aspects Mercury from a sextile. This is great!... no, wait. Mercury direct and fast is moving away from this aspect. This means my money did work for me not that long ago, but not anymore. (Which we saw by the 7.7% treasury increase)<br />
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Ok fine, but we have one last thing to consider. The Moon. We already said she was in the 12th house. She can't really affect any thing strong. We could say that there is a translation of light going on. The Moon separates from a sextile with Venus and her next move is a sextile with Mercury, so the light that Venus once cast onto Mercury can be restored to him by casting it onto the Moon who will then cast it back to Mercury as she moves to a Trine with him in five units of measure.<br />
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But wait there's more. If this wasn't my chart and I was able to give a completely clinical reading, I would say that it's best to wait about five more days from the time of the question before doing anything. If it will be profitable, then it should manifest around that time. This puts us at Friday. Any sooner and my money is gone.<br />
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If my astrological reading is correct, it seems to match with my reading of the stock pick to begin with. So, I'm crossing my fingers and waiting to see how this plays out.<br />Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-19686877159975520372012-01-01T09:52:00.000-08:002012-01-01T09:52:58.945-08:00Stock Pick of the Week: January 1st, 2012Happy New Year everyone! While I can't report that I had a stellar return on last week's pick I can say that it wasn't a waste of time. Last week I said I wasn't going to buy into it... yet. I wanted to wait and watch it play out. Thank goodness I did.<br />
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Last week there was only 4 trading days because of the observed Christmas Holiday on Monday. So we notice that the candle stick pattern from the Thursday and Friday before looks like it's a bullish pattern and indeed on Tuesday, it did jump up... a little. Not enough for an investment of $500 to turn any sort of profit. In fact, because Wednesday closed lower than the Tuesday close, I may have made a couple bucks on the trade but then lost it all plus more on the trade commissions.<br />
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Right now this stock is kind of playing out the way I thought it would. William's %R is dropping, volume is leveling out and the candles are getting ready to drop into the TAZ. According to Elliott Wave, we're looking at entering the 4th wave this week. Also according to Craig's 4 wave system, we're entering the 4th wave as well. This would be a great time to short the stock if we had enough money to do it. Unfortunately, you need a minimum of $2500 to short stocks so for now we're going to wait.<br />
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Remember, I'm only investing $500. That means that the risk comes pretty quick. I want to be absolutely sure that I'm going to make at least a $5 return after commissions on each investment, preferrably more. Thank goodness I had such a high return last month. It padded the cash reserves, removing emotions so I don't feel the need to get in on the first tempting stock I see. That leads to excessively risky trades.<br />
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Just like Mr. Warnock said about reading Astrological Charts, with reading a Stock Chart, you need to be almost clinically objective, even when it comes to taking losses. We're not always going to have winners. That's just reality.<br />
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And speaking of Astrological Charts and Stock Charts, I had someone ask me if I ever thought to combine the two fields. I would love to learn how to do that, so this week I will scour the internet to find hints and clues. In the meantime, I'll cast an horary chart and post my interpretation next week.<br />
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Until tomorrow...Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-88819244431280194372011-12-30T15:55:00.000-08:002011-12-30T15:55:41.765-08:00The Most Beautiful ThingThe most beautiful thing that a person can hear is their own name, and likewise the most insulting thing is being addressed incorrectly. Names have an almost magical power.
An interesting study of ancient magic (and even some current practices) reveals that spirits and daemons could be controlled simply by knowing the name of the spirit, daemon or god that one wished to invoke. The Seal of Solomon suggested that the old wise king was able to erect his magnificent edifice through the control of daemons, or magic spirits, simply by knowing their name. Also during this time in history, each town was governed by a Ba'al, or Lord, and each one had its own name - typically the one that the town was named after. When Moses asked the burning bush who he should tell the children of Israel was the God that summoned them back to the land of their fathers, he was not given a name. If moses had told the children of Israel that the name of their God was Baat or Gimmel (if those are even real names) then those same children would erect effigies. And indeed they did when Moses went up into Mt. Sinai and left his brother Aaron in charge. The people demanded a god to worship and he obliged with a statue.
Let's bring this a little bit into the future and relate this to hypnosis.
Hypnosis deals directly with the subconscious so you'll really need to pay attention and be somewhat clinically objective of yourself. Perhaps your name is Bill, but for some unknown reason your co-worker keeps calling you Bob. Aside from the fact that you've corrected him time and time again, and it being really annoying to have to do so, deep down there's a twinge of hurt. He doesn't recognize you as an individual.
How about if someone you think you've never met before approaches you at the shopping plaza? "Hey Bill" she says. You don't recognize her and, aside from wondering where she heard your name before, you're thinking somewhere inside you, "I'm actually important enough for her to have taken the time to find out who I am." Your ego has been fed.
Now let's bring it home to hypnosis.
If I have a client who seems very resistant to my suggestions, I will subtly drop his or her name into the script. Subconsciously they say, "What was that? He said my name? Maybe I should pay attention. What else will he say?". At that point, I've got them. There is a very special thing that happens when you have someone's suggestibility - their head turns. This is meant to be taken quite literally. The client's head actually turns toward the hypnotist like a flower to the sun. Until that happens, until you have their undivided attention there is a little lack of confidence on the hypnotists part.
What we're trying to do is earn your trust. If you turn your back, it means you don't trust us. We work and work and work to try to understand how you trust so that we can learn how you... well, how you learn. If we can't figure it out, then the session fails (not the client's fault at all).
Now, addressing someone by name is also a matter of mutual respect and equality. The last name is used as a matter of deference. Yes, Mr. Smith or No thank you Miss Jones. But first names are informal - used by friends, family and equals. It's assumed that in session you're being addressed by the first name. A first name symbolizes vulnerability and vulnerability equals trust. Think of this in a very primal manner. An animal afraid of something will curl up in a fetal position, using his back as protection. In humans, the most resilient part of our body is our bony back. Our front exposes the soft tissue organs, our visceral vulnerability. When we are vulnerable, we let down our filters and guards, allowing more learning or suggestibility. We are literally more open to suggestion. Therefore, we want the client to physically face us when hypnotized and the easiest way to expose that vulnerability is by addressing the client by his/her first name.
Told you names have power.Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-57711688828006024342011-12-29T18:23:00.000-08:002011-12-29T18:23:54.015-08:00Interview: Christopher Warnock, Esq. Renaissance Astrology (and a free gift)I was fortunate enough to have a nice long chat with Christopher Warnock, a leading Traditional Astrologer who runs the website <a href="http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/">Renaissance Astrology</a> and his own <a href="http://renaissance-astrology.blogspot.com/">blog</a>. After five minutes into the interview, I realized that it was going to be both the easiest and most difficult interview I've ever had to conduct. First off, the man knows his stuff which is refreshing but it also makes my follow-up work a little more taxing and time consuming. I asked him one question and he was off, being overly generous with his knowledge of astrology. I only had 4 real questions for him, simple enough right? He talked for over an hour! Below is only a glimpse of what he shared with me. I just didn't have enough time to transcribe the entire conversation, and to be honest - there's just too much for a single blog post. You really need to take one of his courses to fully grasp some of the concepts outlined below.
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It's necessary to point out that before he even begins teaching his students, he claims it's necessary to teach them how to think. They need to change their view of reality before they can begin to contemplate the way real Astrology works. A man after my own heart... er... well, we have the same feeling towards what he calls the modern "world view". First off, if you come to this blog with a staunch belief in Modern Astrology, you will need to go back and read a few of my other posts regarding how the universe really tends to operate. Astrology as we know it today is really only about 100 years old, as Mr. Warnock says, whereas Traditional Astrology dates back thousands of years. There must be a reason its light was somehow kept fueled, if even only dimly.
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Without any further ado, here are the simple questions I asked and an overview of the answers he gave. If you want to know more about the interview, feel free to leave a comment and I will gladly respond.
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<b>How did you come to study law <i>and</i> astrology?</b>
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I studied law first. I went to college originally in the US then I studied at St. Andrews, which is the oldest college in Scotland. It was supposed to be for a year and I ended up staying for three years and graduating from there, so I kind of started to move off the track there - and I actually studied Renaissance history. And so at that point I could choose between studying at Cambridge and get a PhD or go to law school, and I thought "Oh, I'll be rich and powerful so I'll do that". So I went to law school, University of Michigan, and they kind of trapped us into large law firms either in New York or Washington D.C. so I went to D.C.
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At the same time I realized that I was interested in following a spiritual path so I decided to look around and read and explore that. Then I had a case involving the definition of a month, and a month is the amount of time it takes the moon to orbit the earth. So I got interested in the study of those types of cycles and that's essentially what astrology is, the study of cycles. So I originally looked at Modern Astrology which is predominately psychological and is very new age. It's fine if you want to look at someone's birth chart and figure out their personality, it works fine for that. If I was a psychologist or social worker I would definitely be doing a chart on every person that came in because it would be helpful, but that's about all it can do.
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Modern Astrology is very stripped down in terms of technique, the real problem with modern astrology is that it's trying to graft spiritual science onto this materialistic philosophy. And I was frustrated with that because I would read the stuff and it would seem pretty interesting but then get further into it and there didn't seem to be anything to it. Then I discovered Traditional Astrology, and Traditional Astrology is the Astrology practiced in Europe between 1200-1700. That was much more complex, based on traditional philosophy and is capable of making much more accurate predictions and has much more technique that was lost. I immediately could tell that's what I wanted to do so I started studying that and I had a number of teachers. I learned by correspondence which is essentially the only way to learn it because there's only a few people studying it or teaching it. Unless you happen to live right next door to them, you're not going to be able to find a teacher in your home town.
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And then I developed the traditional astrology, and I got into astrological magic and that's kind of my own thing. I essentially had to rediscover that myself. Based on what's called electional astrology, which is choosing time to do things, like get married, you need to be able to know how to choose times for talismans in astrological magic.
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Astrology has kind of taken over, and I joke that Law is my hobby.
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<b>How Long have you been practicing astrology?</b>
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I've been practicing for about 12 to 13 years.
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<b>And you were able to reintroduce astrological magic into the common era in that short period of time? I mean, if you do a search online looking for traditional astrology, your name is the first one that pops up.</b>
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Yeah, I have a strong web presence which can be a little misleading because there are people that are out there that are doing... first of all there are probably other people out there doing astrological magic that I don't know about, but in terms of the web, I just dominate that, but that's just because in the United States there's not as many professional horary astrologers.
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<b>For somebody who is just starting out, and thinks that astrology is a nifty little past time that they want to try to get into, what do you say?</b>
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That's fine. But the first question you want to ask is what do you want to get into, modern or traditional or even vedic. There's no more astrology than there is cooking - there's only different schools.
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I'm pretty adamant with my students about the philosophy, it's something called their world view. World view is not just your conscious philosophy but its also your unconcsious views of reality - it IS your reality. With world view, we assume there's only one reality and that's our reality and how could there be anything else. So the idea that people in the past thought differently than us, well they were just wrong.
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If you have a world view where magic is possible suddenly magic becomes possible. It's important that if you're going to practice Renaissance astrology or any spiritual art or discipline, if your doing it with your philosophy or reality that there is no spiritual realm which is the way most people think these days, its doomed to failure. And that's kind of the canker at the heart of this New Age spirituality and certainly Modern Astrology. It's that if you ask them how it works they can't tell you, or they'll say it's like gravity or sun spots or something which it's not. It's inherently non-sensical.
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<b>Since we do live in a very atheistic materialist society and people want empirical evidence that something works, do you have any particular chart that stands out in your mind that lends evidence to the fact that horary astrology does work?</b>
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You can't prove something that's impossible. It's scientifically impossible to prove astrology, because in science there is no spiritual realm, so there's no point in proving something that's impossible - so all that evidence would have to be rejected. There's no point in even having a discussion about it. Unless someone is willing to say, "Yeah the spiritual realm exists" - but to say to someone who's a staunch atheistic materialist whether it's conscious or unconscious "Well I can prove astrology" it's like they have to reject it, because they know that no matter what you say they have to say no, it can't work because right from the get go it's impossible. And they say that for extraordinary claims you have to have extraordinary proof. For something to suffice to prove that it's a scientific theorom wouldn't be enough for astrology because astrology is impossible.
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<b>How many charts do you think you've done in the 13 years that you've been practicing?</b>
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Horary, I'm probably getting up around 3,000 questions. Natal, maybe five, six or seven hundred - maybe closer to six hundred.
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And it's funny because I get people who will argue with me and they've done maybe five charts, or they've done their own natal chart, or they read a book on horary - and I'm only now starting to get good at it. I think it takes about 2000 charts to start to get good at it.
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The other thing too is that there's a big difference between trying to take a look at your own chart and taking a look at somebody else', because in order to ask a question you need to be emotionally removed from it.
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Frivolous questions, or questions just out of curiousity don't work very well either.
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So you need to be emotionally involved to ask the question, but you have to be clinically objective to answer it. And unless you're doing it professionally, it's hard to get the experience that you need to really get good at it.
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<b><i>Fin</i></b>
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That's really not the end of the interview, but there's just soooo much that I didn't have space for. And as promised I have a gift for anyone who posts on my blog.
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Please visit Mr. Warnock's <a href="http://renaissance-astrology.blogspot.com/">blog</a>, read his posts and comment something worthwhile. After you've done this, come back and comment on my blog that you have indeed done it and I will e-mail you an e-book on traditional astrology that Mr. Warnock gave to me about a year ago.
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<a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/7-steps-to-astrological-prediction-part.html">Step 1 Ask the question</a><br />
<a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/7-steps-to-astrological-prediction-part_15.html">Step 2 Cast the chart</a> <br />
<a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/7-steps-to-astrological-prediction-step.html">Step 3 Determine if chart is radical or fit to be judged</a> <br />
Step 4 Delineate the condition of each planet and luminary <br />
Step 5 Determine primary significators <br />
Step 6 Observe relations of significators <br />
Step 7 If an outcome is determined, then predict the time it is determined for <br />
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Delineating the condition of the planets and luminaries is an essential step and makes delineating the rest of the chart much easier if it's done before looking for the Primary Significators. Lilly has a chart in his Christian Astrology and I highly recommend using it for every chart until it is fully committed to memory. It's an elementary pointing/grading system which will tell you how much dignity versus debility a planet has.
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You have to delineate the state of at least three planets in order to determine if the chart is radical or fit to be judged, two of which are your primary significators (Lord of the 1st and the Moon). Why is it necessary to delineate all of them? All planets have to be considered in every question. There is no point at which a planet does not have something to do with the event. They may not have as much bearing on the case as your primary significators, but they still affect the outcome. Not only that, but once you really get into determining an answer, the planets you thought were the primary influence in the matter can quickly change to other planets by virtue of dignity, debility or aspect.
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One tip I will tell you to watch out for (and again more experienced Astrologers will tell you it's not always necessary but I like to err on the side of caution) is the Fixed Stars, one in particular is Caput Algol (the head of Medusa). Fixed stars are obviously not fixed in place but they move slowly enough that they seem not to move at all. Caput Algol is somewhere around 25 Taurus. If a planet is conjunct this star, it is considered debilitated.
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Lilly's chart for delineating planets can be found on page 115 if you have a copy of the traditional text.
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Come back tomorrow for a free gift and an interview with the leading Traditional Astrologer Christopher Warnock, Esq.Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-65946287908592624232011-12-27T16:42:00.000-08:002011-12-30T16:04:37.437-08:00Acetic Acid PreparationSome of the prepatory work for alchemy and working with metals is getting your chemicals together. In several sources, I've read that Acetic Acid is used quite frequently in alchemy but I couldn't figure out why... until I started this prepatory work. Acetic acid is used to draw out the salt of a metal - particularly when working with lead. The resultant "Salt of Saturn" is pretty cool.
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This is really the first step in alchemy. Ancient alchemists needed some way of being able to break down the metal without just melting it. You can burn flesh and you can burn an herb - but when it comes to working with metals, you can't just put it in fire. All this does is melt it. So we need to break it down somehow - and with an organic material. This is important. It must be organic, pertaining to life (-ic meaning pertaining to, and organ meaning life.) Modern acetic acid is concocted in a commercial laboratory void of real life.
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So the easiest way to start out with preparing your acetic acid is to go to the grocery store and buy some red wine vinegar like I did. If you really want to get into it, you can first brew your own wine and let it turn into vinegar, but for all intents and purposes many sources say that grocery brand vinegar is just fine.
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I apologize for the sideways pics. As soon as I figure out how to correct that for you I will. If you click on it though, you'll see more pics of the process described below.
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In my pictures, you'll see that I started out with just two liters and a third empty bottle. This isn't nearly enough to keep myself well supplied. You'll see why as you get to the end of the slides. Empty half of each bottle into the third bottle so that the two original bottles may be laid on their side without obstructing the the mouth of the bottle. We're going to freeze them this way. Once they have been sufficiently frozen, we're going to place them upside down in glasses. Acetic acid has a much lower freezing temperature than does water, so what happens is the organic material and acetic acid melts first and drains into the glass. What's left over is approximately 50% of the original vinegar. I continued to do this until all of the vinegar had undergone this freezing and draining at least once. Then I did it two more times. By the time I was done, I had less than 25% of the original product left.
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But wait... there's more!
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This doesn't have to be overly expensive, but to do it properly and without actually killing yourself through improper ventilation, you need to spend at least a little bit of money.
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I'm still not done yet. There's more water in that last container, even though it looks really dark. Once it's properly distilled, it's supposed to have a yellowish color and honey like consistency. I haven't distilled it yet mainly because I don't have all of my equipment together. My retort and erlenmeyer flask are at my lab partner's house. Plus I had to go out and buy a candy thermometer because the common food thermometer doesn't measure high enough. I needed something that would measure up to 150 degrees celsius.
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My next step is to boil the majority of the rest of the water off, then I will distill the remainder at least two times with my retort. All of this HAS to be done in glass containers as acetic acid will draw off material from metal. That's its purpose, but we don't want it to do that yet.
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Considering that I have about a third of a liter, I'm not expecting a lot of acetic acid by the time I'm done but I'll keep you posted.Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-20910849845225944962011-12-26T16:01:00.001-08:002011-12-26T16:01:09.479-08:00Trivium<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I did a quick Google search for images and came across this one. Actually, the one I found was a little more simple without as many lables. In fact, it really only had the three main circles, the planetary symbols and the words Espirit, Ame and Corps (Spirit, Soul and Body). </div>
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The concept is replete throughout history and several religions, but I thought this was quite impressive. It's relatively simple but still complex. The Spirit and Soul combine to create the Body, a concept I have posted elsewhere. Within the circles we see the circumpunct labled "Or", French for Gold. The crescent is labled "argent" (Silver) and then Saturn is labled "Plumb" for lead. The Plumb, or plumbum, is Latin for Lead which we derive from the Romans who invented a "plumbing" system. A Plumb Rule is a tool used in ancient times by dangling a piece of lead from a string and comparing it to a wall or any perpendicular structure to ensure that it is properly upright. Freemason's use this design as the badge of the Junior Warden in a Lodge.<br />
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Around the outside we see the French words for Air, Fire, Water and Earth - the four elements. Notice that air, the spiritual soul, is at the top. As we move down towards the earth, fire and water combine to create the body. Fire is archetypically male and water is archetypically female, and the corporal manifestation of their combination creates earth (ame corporal, espirit corporal labeled along either side of the picture).Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-62730700454868439622011-12-25T17:19:00.000-08:002011-12-25T20:42:41.480-08:00Stock of the Week: December 25thOk - before I get onto this week's stock, I want to address my success last week.
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Let's consider all of the details. First, I had $500 to start with, less $10 for the purchase commission - so I ultimately had $490 to spend on a stock. DVAX was originally quoted at $3.07 last Sunday, but since it opened at $3.00 on Monday, my trade executed lower, and I actually got in at that lower price. So my total account looked like this:
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$477 stock value (159 shares at $3ea.)
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Total Portfolio Value of $490 (original $500 less $10 commission)
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On Monday, the stock closed up at $3.02, but then on Tuesday it went up to a total share price of $3.23. Multiplied by 159 shares = $36.57 total profit! Wednesday, when the market opened, my order to sell was executed but this time at $3.37. Nice! That's a $58.83 profit!
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Since I'm working with such small numbers, I sold on Wednesday because I really don't have the luxury of waiting another day to really follow the trailing stop strategy found <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/trailing-stop-loss-order.html">here</a>. Not only that, but I've told myself that I want to make a 5% monthly return on my trades. With these profits, I've already hit that mark and with only one trade. Let's see how that works out.
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If I had a total portfolio value of $490 and take my $58.83 profit, my portfolio value just increased to a total of $548.83. Now, since I'm selling I will have to pay another commission fee of $10. This drops my total value to $538.83 - I've made $38.83 in two days. That's a 7.766% return. Since I've already surpassed my mark, I could sit back and not invest for the rest of the month. I want to remove emotions from the trade and since I have a goal in mind, I figure its easier to take my profits and live to trade another day - but I also want to continue increasing my revenue.
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This week, I'll bank the $38.83, and only trade on the original $500. Less the $10 commission, I have $490 to spend on this week's stock seen below. Same rules as last week. If my portfolio drops by $15, I sell and get out of there to minimize my losses. Worse case scenario, I lose a total of $35 and I still have a portfolio value of $503.83.
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So this week I'll be looking at Charming Shoppes, Inc.
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I'm not actually going to buy into this stock yet. It doesn't have the right feel. I'm hoping that it will turn around in about two or three days. Notice the <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/candlestick-patterns.html">engulfing pattern</a> of the last two days. Thursday closed down really low but then there's a nice hammer candlestick on Friday. This looks to be an indicator that the stock will drop a little further. Not only that but the volume of movement looks like it's kind of stagnant. And if we consider the <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/market-timing.html">Williams %R indicator</a>, it's still overbought.</div>
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Finally, if we consider the two different wave systems, we notice first in the <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/elliott-wave.html">Elliott Wave system</a> that we are most likely heading into wave 4. October 10th marked the beginning of wave 1, and November 25th the end of wave 2. We should now be at the peak or end of wave 3 and heading into a corrective wave 4.
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This seems to jive with <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/stock-market-stages.html">Craig's 4 wave swing system</a>. The stock trades sideways in November making up wave 1, then we see a breakaway at the beginning of December into the 2nd wave. We should now be at wave 3 heading into wave 4.
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If the cards fall right, we'll swoop down through Craig's wave 4 and then back up into an Elliott Wave 5 - hopefully by the end of this week. We want to watch for the candlesticks to <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/market-timing.html">drop into the TAZ, as Craig calls it, Williams %R to drop to a -80</a> and hopefully also see <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/stock-chart-volume.html">a spike in volume with a doji or thin range hammer candlestick pattern</a>.
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One final reminder about my conservative approach - I've already met my 5% mark this month so if I don't trade any more stocks this month I'm ok with it. Even Craig says on his website that staying in cash<b> IS </b>a trading strategy. So if CHRS doesn't turn out the way I expected.... meh.Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-47306562613634625082011-12-24T16:44:00.000-08:002011-12-24T16:51:06.421-08:00Evening Primrose - The Blackfoot Miracle Herb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ok - so maybe it's not a miracle herb but it's pretty cool. According to the Smithsonian Handbook of Herbs by Lesley Bremness, it was a food of the Blackfoot tribe. She goes on to note that when it's boiled in honey it makes a great, soothing cough syrup. The oil contains gammalinoleic acid which helps relieve symptoms of PMS, lowers blood pressure, and "restores red blood cell mobility in multiple sclerosis". Dang!<br />
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Now, as I referenced my faithful companion herb book, Herbs for Health and Healing by Kathi Keville, I was sorely disappointed to find out that there were no recipes for any tinctures or concoctions using this wonderful health source. The good news is that since there's no recipes this stuff can potentially be used straight.<br />
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Ms. Keville also says that this same gamma linoleic acid helps relieve prostate inflamation, and "can reduce skin inflammation even better than cortisone".<br />
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But my all time favorite reason for this herb's oil is the claim that it can potentially help prevent hangovers. Man, I love nature!<br />
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I've noticed that even seasoned professional Hypnotherapists will frequently tell their clients "Just go with it. You're over analyzing the process." That's like nails on a chalk board for me.
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Everyone enters the state that is typically associated with hypnosis at least twice a day: once when they're falling asleep, and then again when they're waking up in the morning. It's called the hypnagogic state. Involuntary muscle jerking usually happens during this state. Ever feel like you're just on the edge of sleep, you're mind is wandering, you know you're awake and then all of a sudden you're leg twitches and you realize that you were in fact sleeping? If you had a hypnotist there, they would have been able to help you maintain that state and provide you with suggestions for change.
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The key for the hypnotherapist is to help the client into that state artificially, but as we all learn differently, getting the client to that state is different for all of us. If a hypnotherapist is telling you that you're overanalyzing something... find another hypnotherapist. I don't care if they've been in business for 50 years. Find another hypnotist.
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In a previous post, I addressed the types of relationship expressions known as Physical and Emotional. The other half of that expression is our suggestibility, or the way we learn. In that post, I addressed the Emotional type's need to analyze information before their subconscious is able to accept and assimilate it. The Physical type is able to accept direct information at face value. This isn't necessarily a better trait to have, it's just not the same as an Emotional type.
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There is a 3rd type of suggestibility. This is the Somnambulist. That's a fancy word for "sleep walker", prime candidates for stage hypnosis.
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If your hypnotherapist is telling you that you're overanalyzing, it's because he or she has made their living off of Physical types and Somnambulists - over 50% of the population of the world. That's quite a bit of clientele. But instead of accepting that you learn differently than their usual clientele, they put the impetus on you to conform to what they know. And because you analyze all information, it might be natural for your subconscious to then infer that the this hypnotist is telling you that there is something wrong with you. When someone tells you that there's something wrong with you, does that make you trust them more? Are you even comfortable around them? Chances are, probably not.
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Let's go a little deeper into this rabbit hole. There is a chemical that is found in abundance in the brain of a nursing mother and child - it's called oxytocin. It's been called the "trust" chemical. It's production helps regulate the circadian rhythm, that rhythm which helps you sleep at night and stay awake during the day. It's also produced by monks and nuns who meditate for long hours, and since meditation is self hypnosis it can also be found in hypnosis clients at the time of the hypnagogic state. If you are on high alert, i.e. mistrustful, then you can't sleep. So if you don't trust your hypnotist, or feel comfortable around him, how are you supposed to slip into the hypnogogic state, that moment just before sleep, if you're around him?
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If you're hypnotherapist is telling you that you're over analyzing - don't trust him/her. Find another hypnotist - case closed!
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The author submitted the book to several Esoteric websites and claimed anonymity for fear of violent censorship, claiming he had (or has) the secret of creating the Stone. SPOILER: He claims the stone is merely urine. That's right. Urine.<br />
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Thank goodness the book is free, 'cause I'm not buyin'.<br />
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If you're into Alchemy at all, then over the past few months I'm sure you've found a copy of this so I don't think I'm exposing any great secret by providing this information. Unfortunately, there is someone in several forums who claims to be the author even after the author told everyone not to try looking for him. I suppose that's not so unfortunate, but what really is unfortunate is the fact that this character is flaming all of the forum's he's going into. If his "research" held any validity, it was quickly proven as false by his violent verbal outbursts on public websites.<br />
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His "research" consists of copying and pasting many quotes from texts found primarily on the Alchemy Website and making reaching connections to conclude that the production of the stone is through urine. It should be noted that at the beginning of his book he even states that he hasn't yet made the Stone.<br />
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I suggest that everyone read the book, but beware - do your own research and don't trust this author. If the fool in all of the forums starting trouble really is the author, then he is nothing more than a modern day puffer.
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Step 3 Determine if chart is radical or fit to be judged <br />
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Step 4 Delineate the condition of each planet and luminary <br />
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Step 6 Observe relations of significators <br />
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Step 7 If an outcome is determined, then predict the time it is determined for <br />
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Step 3 is a prepatory matter for the Astrologer to ensure that the proclamation they make is in fact the best that can be given. Some Astrologers will tell you that you can still judge a chart even without going through this step, but these Astrologers tend to be much more versed and experienced in Astrology. For the beginner, it's best to proceed with this step.
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There are several items that need to be addressed. The first being that of the Lord of the Hour. Each of the 24 hours are ruled by a particular planet or luminary. If the Lord of the Ascending sign is the same as the Lord of the Hour, then the chart is radical and can be judged. Calculation of the Lord of the hour is quite simple and I will address it in a later post.
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If the Ascending sign describes the Querent, or person asking the question, then the chart is radical and can also be judged. I would recommend picking up a book which fully describes the personalities and physical composition of a person that each sign creates. Commit a portion of that to memory and you will be able to determine at a glance of the chart and your Querent whether the chart is indeed radical and fit to be judged.
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The next thing you want to know is the condition of both the Moon and the Lord of the 7th House, are they afflicted or well posited. In Horary Astrology, the Moon signifies the Question and the Lord of the 7th House signifies the Astrologer. If either one of these significators is afflicted then the Astrologer's judgement can be clouded and the Answer may not present itself.
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Finally, the last thing you'll want to note is the degree of the Ascending sign. In Natal Astrology, the Ascending sign signifies the time of birth of the Native, and being the cusp of the first house it really describes the personality traits moreso than any other part of the Chart, and which the ancient philosophers described as the native's wit. In Horary Astrology, the Ascending degree signifies the birth of the question, so it describes the fortitude of the native - in this case the question. If the sign is in the earlier degrees of a sign (like the first 3 degrees) or if it's in the last 3 degrees of a sign it can cause the answer to the question to be blurred.
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Again, there are several Astrologers who will tell you that you can still judge a chart even if any of these items apply to the chart you're looking at. The main thing to keep in mind is that if you're judging the chart with any of these problems for someone else, give them a heads up that you can judge it but the answer may not be correct due to the problems outlined above.Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-29289206834899714132011-12-20T16:16:00.000-08:002011-12-20T16:16:36.700-08:00Red Lion/Green LionIf you enjoy Alchemy discussion, one of the best forums is <a href="http://forum.alchemyforums.com/index.php">Alchemy Forums.com</a>. On this website I found a particular thread regarding a charcoal experiment, which I felt needed to be shared with my readers.
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The poster has pictures and videos of his work. If you want to see it, I'm afraid you'll have to sign up for an account at the forum. However, I will outline the work that he did as was promised in my previous <a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-toyson-dor.html">post</a>.
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First, using plain coal (not charcoal as is suggested in the book to which I will provide a Google link), he set it aflame and the residue that was left was described as a glassy red. So he took a larger piece of coal and set that one aflame for a larger sampling. He dissolved the red residue in water which became in his words "a dark bluey-green". He then filtered it and laid it out in a glass tray to evaporate leaving behind a "salt". A portion of this salt was then calcined and dissolved again, then compared to the other portion of uncalcined salt. The calcined portion became an even deeper shade of green.
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Another member of the forum then posted a link to a book which describes the process of making a <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=nntKEQVzHP0C&pg=PA110&dq=a+red+carbuncle+prepared&cd=2#v=onepage&q=a%20red%20carbuncle%20prepared&f=false">Red Carbuncle from Charcoal and Sal Mirabile</a>. If the link doesn't bring you directly to the page, look for page 110.
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The significance of this is quite intriguing. In several pictures, such as the one I last posted <a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-toyson-dor.html">here</a>, there are references made to green and red lions. I welcome anyone to explain the significance in the process of making the Stone to post comments under this post.
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One thing that stands out almost immediately is the Green Lion, which I still haven't worked out why there are two lions - Green and Red. However, I did recently come across a forum post regarding an experiment with coal. This particular forum poster burned the coal and was left with a red residue which he dissolved, strained and then let stand for the liquid to evaporate. The salt left behind was greenish. The exact procedure used and a medieval text explaining what it is will be posted tomorrow.</div>
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In the mean time, feel free to comment your own observations of the other images from the picture above.</div>Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-87939861254006111352011-12-18T17:15:00.000-08:002011-12-18T18:59:28.054-08:00Stock of the Week: December 18th, 2011Starting on Sundays, I'll post my stock picks of the week and see how successful I am based on the techniques taught at swing-trade-stocks.com and some tips I picked up at <a href="http://daytradingradio.com/">Rock Star Day Trader.com</a>.<br />
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I want to try to keep this realistic. Most traders suggest you start off with $2500 but since I don't and won't have that much disposable income any time in the near future, I'm going to attemp an initial investment of $500 (not real money). So that I don't lose too much money and maximize the revenue I will have to use stocks that are at a low price - i.e. anything under $5. This is really high risk trading. The income can get really high really quick, but you can also lose money real quick. So my exit strategy is to put a mental stop on a 7% loss of total capital. This equates to a total loss of $35. Typical online trading companies charge about $10 per trade. So, with purchase and sale trade commissions, we're already at a loss of $20. This means that I can only really let the price of the stock drop for a total loss of $15 and anything more than a $20 gain is a profit. But I want to follow <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/exit-strategy.html">Craig's trailing stop exit strategy</a>.<br />
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This chart isn't a dream chart but the price has dropped into the <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/traders-action-zone.html">TAZ</a> and if you look at the volume there's a huge spike with a hammer style - almost doji type candlestick. This can signify a turn around in price. It's on a clear up trend. I have two main concerns with this chart. The first is that it may be at the end of this trend. My assumption is that it is either right in the middle of the second wave or its finishing up the third wave heading into the fourth according to Craig's <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/stock-market-stages.html">four wave trend cycle</a>.</div>
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However, what makes me think it's in the middle of the 2nd is that if we now look at <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/elliott-wave.html">Elliott Wave theory</a>, the first up spike can be wave 1 of the 5 motive wave model. The first time it drops back into the TAZ in November, I would label as wave 2. Going back up into the middle of November is wave 3 and right now, we should be at the bottom of wave 4. It can't go any lower than what it is right now, otherwise it can't be considered the 4th wave in the Elliott pattern. The next move then should be wave 5 which will bring us up further before we start the down trend of corrective waves A, B and C.</div>
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Now, I'm going to buy in first thing Monday morning and hopefully get in at the quoted price $3.07. If I have to pay a $10 commission, I can only use $490 on the actual purchase. This puts my total shares at 159 shares. If I don't want to lose more than $15 then my exit price will be $2.97. That's a 10 cent loss per share. Not a lot of room for error. Hopefully it will pay off. I'll post the results next week.</div>Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-1622726038950410522011-12-17T16:21:00.000-08:002011-12-17T16:22:40.904-08:00Catnip: Not Just For KittensKathi Keville, Director of the American Herb Association wrote a book called "Herbs for Health and Healing: A Drug-Free Guide to Prevention and Cure". In it she offers great recipes which I won't copy here but I did come across some great information on Catnip which I never once considered.
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Catnip is a relaxant and great for "sleepy-time" teas. According to Keville, Catnip tea was used in Pre-Elizabethan times as the "beverage of choice" for a relaxing afternoon teatime. She also notes that it "lowers a fever and reduces the eruptions of measles and chicken pox". So because it is a relaxant, it's also great for upset stomaches, nausea, colic and diarrhea. Oddly enough, it can also be used to help constipation. So how does that work? Well she advises the use of a catnip enema as a last resort, but it's essentially because it is a muscle relaxant, helping the digestive systems parastalsis more comfortably and naturally. There are also benefits for PMS - obviously cramping is relieved (not necessarily cured, but relieved) because of the relaxing quality of the herb.
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I will never deny anyone their religious beliefs, but it is because of people like Israel Regardie, Alaister Crowley and A.E. Waite that the studies of Astrology and Alchemy have been relegated to "spiritual" practices, with practitioners who seem to be flighty and "ethereal" minded. What it boils down to is an improper understanding of the philosophies and practical applications of the Hermetic works.
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As a <a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/11/foundations-in-hypnosis.html">Hypnotist</a>, I can attest that dropping someone into a trance is no more "magical" than stirring cream into your coffee. Having provided mathematical evidence of an actual <a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-is-secret-of-universe.html">Quintessence</a>, I can also assure you that there must indeed be a means to create the Philosopher's Stone. And as a student of Astrology who provided you with a case study of a <a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/first-natal-reading.html">cold reading</a>, I am positive that Astrology is practical and applicable in every day life.
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There are three parts of the whole operation of the Sun. Astrology, the operation of the stars and planets; Alchemy, the operation of the bodies below the luminaries; and Hypnosis, wisdom of the depths of the consciousness and subconsciousness of all things. I have already shown that Astrology is representative of the atomic and therefore has predictive properties. Since Alchemy deals entirely with the alteration of the atomic, we can already see the need to understand Astrology as the representative of "that which is below". All we need now is an intermediary to connect the two. This is the consciousness we know as life, and the operation of the consciousness can best be understood through the study of subconscious. For that reason, we use Hypnosis.
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I see no need for ritual magic (Theurgy) unless one is willing to concede that ritual is no more than human habit. Consider behavioral modification. It is necessary for any living creature to perform an act multiple times with intention until it becomes habit and through that habit, its life is affected either beneficially or malevolently. This is the same principle as ritual magic but there is no need to relegate it to mysticism and silliness, or require a belief in or homage paid to any Pagan gods.
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I guess I'll step off my soap box for now.Bennu Lughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147491659255484549noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380140663930283336.post-42532437066075847862011-12-15T17:38:00.001-08:002011-12-23T15:47:32.368-08:007 Steps to Astrological Prediction: Part 2After you ask the question, the next vital step is actually casting a chart.
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<a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/7-steps-to-astrological-prediction-part.html">Step 1 Ask the question</a>
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Step 2 Cast the chart
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<a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/7-steps-to-astrological-prediction-step.html">Step 3 Determine if chart is radical or fit to be judged</a>
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Step 4 Delineate the condition of each planet and luminary
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Step 5 Determine primary significators
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Step 6 Observe relations of significators
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Step 7 If an outcome is determined, then predict the time it is determined for
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It would seem like such a simple step, so simple in fact that people tend to do this before they even ask the question. But that's just plain silliness, and since we're real students we're not going to do that.
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It is necessary to know the time, latitude and longitude of the question. When I say latitude and longitude, I mean what are the map coordinates of the astrologer at the time that the question is understood? My personal favorite is the <a href="http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html">ITouch Map</a>. Simply plug in the city that you're looking for and the sexigesimal number for both latitude and longitude are calculated, as well as the actual minutes and seconds if you so prefer.
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This is all fine and dandy, but how does this actually help with the chart? Now you need an ephemeris. I like <a href="http://ephemeris.com/ephemeris.php">Ephemeris.com</a>. Now that you have the date, time, latitude and longitude, you can enter the necessary information into the appropriate fields and...Voila! The configuration of the planets at the time the question was asked, together with an "R" to signify whether or not the planet is retrograde. As a Traditional Astrologer, I only use the seven original planets and luminaries; Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. All other objects and locations listed in the ephemeris are really of no consequence. The other planets may be useful, but their use in predictive astrology is relatively young compared to the history of the art so there isn't enough information on how to properly use them yet.
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So now we need to determine the houses. Most traditional Astrologers will use the Regiomontanus House System because that is what is described in Lilly's Christian Astrology. There are loads of systems that you can use. In Zoller's <a href="http://www.new-library.com/catalogue/courses/medieval-astrology-diploma-course-*-dma/rzdma.html">diploma course</a>, he offers directions on how to calculate the houses using Dalton's tables - which I like but it's very labor intensive. However, for a beginner, and so that you don't go spending mad money on software while you learn, I would suggest visiting the <a href="http://alabe.com/freechart/">Astrolabe</a> website. They offer a free chart software that most likely uses the Placidus house system and it has a built in latitude/longitude finder.
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All of these systems (and there are more) can vary slightly in house cusp degree making a huge difference in interpreting a chart, which is why it's nice to own software that can calculate the several house systems allowing you to compare the differences and come to a more thorough interpretation. For learning, it's worth it just to use the free software.
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Here goes. One of the best free sites that I've found is called <a href="http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com">Swing Trade Stocks.com</a>. The author of the site offers a great basics "course" if you will. The tricky thing is this: even though the overall tendency of the market is predictable according to the <a href="http://alchemist-apprentice-workshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-is-secret-of-universe.html">Elliott Wave Principle</a>, the daily activity is more volatile. It's kind of like astrology. You look to the stars for signs and seasons to determine the general happenings of things, but to predict something as minute as an atomic shift in space is extremely complicated and pert'near impossible.
But our goal as apprentices, is to learn the large circles (or waves) and then work our way inward. So the next step, after checking out the <a href="http://www.elliottwave.com>Elliott Wave International</a> website, is to look into swing trading. The concept is simple; buy low, sell high. But how do we do that? We need to know when the stock is low and when it's going to go up. We need to know the swing point. Craig, that's the author of Swing Trade Stocks.com, calls this point the Trader's Action Zone. I highly suggest you check out his page and go through the basics.
The next thing we need is the free tools to follow through with his suggested plan.
What we need is:
A stock screener with definable fields
A customizable chart creator with
An intraday stock monitor
I found <a href="http://www.finviz.com">finviz.com</a> to be the best free stock screener with definable fields, then I pull up the charts on <a href="http://www.stockcharts.com">stockcharts.com</a> to take a more detailed look at them, and if they look appealing I'll follow them on <a href="http://www.freestockcharts.com">freestockcharts.com</a>.
Finally, we'll need to experiment before we just go and blow our money on something we really don't know a whole hell of a lot about. I found a great stock trading game at <a href="http://www.howthemarketworks.com/trading/index.php">How The Market Works.com</a>.
I encourage you to try out all of the above and we'll explore each of them a little more in depth in other posts. Good luck and happy trading.
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