(8 March 2026) Stocks fell across the board last week as investors reacted to the US-Israel attack on Iran. Oil prices spiked as Iran closed the Straits of Hormuz, a strategic bottleneck for the world’s supply of oil and natural gas.
The selling was not unexpected given the ongoing bearish influence of several key alignments: the 105-degree Jupiter-Saturn alignment, the Mercury Rx-Venus and Mercury Rx-Sun conjunctions and the approaching triple conjunction of the Mercury Rx, Mars and the North Lunar Node.
But how much lower could stocks go? This is hard to say based on our analysis. Our backtesting only looks at average and median outcomes and thus produces probable scenarios based on the rules of standard deviation and statistical significance. Each individual market event need not conform to those statistical tendencies. But I would argue they are nonetheless useful to be aware of.
The updated cumulative trend charts of these alignments highlight the current bearish turn the market has taken. The Sun-Mercury Rx conjunction chart (below) is now trending (red line) much lower than the average and median blue lines. It could eventually mean revert higher but there is nothing to stop it from falling further as it is one data point among many…
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