You see, back in the days when W.D.Gann, was making his money on the markets there were some very strict laws in effect in many of the eastern US states. These laws were a carry-over from the days of the Salem witch trials. More specifically, these laws I speak of expressly forbade people to make money using Astrology or occult methods. In fact, I am told that some of the States still had these laws in effect into the early 1970s.

It is my long held contention that W.D. Gann used Astrology in his trading activity. However, given the strict laws on the books forbidding people to make money using such techniques, W.D. Gann had to be ultra-cautious.

He could not walk down the streets in New York telling people that he was using Astrology as part of his trading strategy. To run afoul of one of these strict laws would surely have meant a jail vist back in Gann's time. He therefore had to carefully disguise his trading methodology. And he did so by introducing people to concepts such as the Square of Nine, the Square of 144 and the Wheel of 24. He also resorted to simply stating specific dates to watch for, knowing that it was highly unlikely any of his subscribers would challenge him.

The basic difference between the two systems is that the Vedic zodiac is Sidereal and the Western is Tropical. In Sidereal astrology, the zodiac is aligned with 27 constellations, or fixed star groups. Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, aligns with the first constellation, called Aswini. In the tropical zodiac, the point in space when the Sun crosses the earth’s equator is the beginning point of the zodiac, or Aries.

The earth’s equator shifts backward through the signs of the zodiac at the rate of about 51″ of longitude per year. This is called “precession of the equinoxes.” Because of this phenomenon, the theoretical Aries of the western zodiac drifts further and further from the Aries used by Vedic astrologers — at the rate of about 1 degree every 72 years.

The tropical (Western), and the Vedic Aries were on the same zodiacal plane around 285 AD. Because of the precession of the equinoxes, at present, there is approximately a 23 degree difference. Thus all of the planets in a Vedic horoscope, including the rising sign, will be about 23 zodiacal degrees earlier than they would be in a Western chart.

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The times of life events are shown through a detailed system of planetary time cycles, called “dashas.” There is no corresponding method in Western astrology. Western astrologers who make a study of it, often find themselves converting to Vedic astrology because of its greater scope, depth and accuracy for predicting the future.

These are the same principles that ancient civilizations before us (ie the Egyptians, the Sumerians, the Babylonians) also understood. The world around us moves in patterns and cycles. Problem is, we are all so busy in our crazy world running here and there and everywhere that we fail to notice. Likewise, the planets in the solar system are constantly in orbital motion around the Sun. This Heliocentricity lies at the very core of Masonry and Gann well understood the motions of the planets. Today, we are so busy in our half-crazed world that we have lost sight of the fact that the planets affect our emotions. The financial markets are nothing more than a gigantic exercise in emotion. Fear and hope are the two primary emotions that govern the buying and selling activity on all global markets.

.."It is not as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time."..

Jesse Livermore


.."The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not"...


Thomas Jefferson

.."The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing"..

Philip Fisher


.."I never found beauty in the longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach"...


Ayn Rand

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

Benjamin Graham