(15 February 2026) Stocks generally moved lower last week on growing fears that AI disruption could undermine profitability in several economic sectors. While technology shares once again led the decline, the broader market indexes like the NYSE Composite actually ended the week higher.
The pullback coincided closely with the ingress of Saturn into tropical Aries on Friday, Feb 13. Indeed, Thursday’s sell-off occurred just one day before Saturn changed signs — a fairly strong correlation as these things go. While I thought we would see some downside last week with the Saturn ingress, I was unsure to what extent it might be offset by the bullish influence of the conjunction of Mercury and the North Lunar Node on Feb 12.
The updated cumulative trend chart below shows how last week’s decline fits neatly with the negative bias of previous ingresses. If past performance is any indication, then stocks should soon follow the average and median lines and move higher. The average bottoms out at “2d” or 2 days after the ingress. This equates to Feb 15 in our current transit set up. Since this falls on a weekend, we should assume that the after effects of the Saturn ingress will offer a bullish bias this week, notwithstanding other alignments…
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