Tag: Mercury-Venus alignment

(2 August 2026)  Stocks finished higher last week despite some volatility brought on by renewed hostilities between the US and Iran and another spike in oil prices.  Despite the inflationary threat posed by higher oil prices, the Fed opted to leave interest rates unchanged. The positive weekly outcome was somewhat unexpected as I thought we might have seen a bit more downside from the double station near-square of Mercury and Saturn (July 23 and July 26) as well as the semisquare of Saturn and the North Lunar Node on July...