Credit Suisse October 2022
Astrology of Credit Suisse Bank October 2022
I originally planned that my next analysis would be of some broader markets, probably the US ones.
However one company has stood out in the last few days and given its symbolic importance within the financial system I thought it would be wise to turn to it first. Credit Suisse.
Finding an incorporation date was easy. Though I’ve had to assume noon as a start time in the absence of other information. Finding a stock market listing date was a whole other matter. After a few hours I had eliminated all possible sources and so we’ll have to stick with just the incorporation for now. This is a pity as they have been quoted as saying that the weak stock market activity does not reflect the underlying state of the company. It would have been interesting to see if they were telling the truth!
Anyway, here is the chart and here goes:
I set the chart for 9.30am in the Swiss market today when it was at a major low.
And the chart seems to be telling us it is sufficiently valid, with the Sun close to the natal Ascendant. But that is not where I want to start. I don’t even want to start with Uranus, despite its obvious relevance at the moment.
No. My choice for the starring role here goes to Neptune.
You will perhaps recall that when we considered the Neptune Jupiter conjunction earlier in the year, we noted how Neptune had a cycle of 165 years and that it conjoins Jupiter every 13 years.
We can see that Credit Suisse was born just after the last time Neptune and Jupiter were together in Pisces in 1856. Neptune is at 20 Pisces, but its Jupiter is in early Aries at 8 degrees. Why, you ask, are we interested in a Neptune at 20 Pisces? After all it finished transiting that point in late 2021. Correct, but note where Jupiter is now. After moving forward to exactly that 8 degrees Aries in August it is now retrograde and heading back into Pisces. It won’t catch Neptune again but it will continue to activate these 2 planets in the Credit Suisse chart for a few months more. Indeed, it is rapidly heading for the CS progressed Jupiter at 0 degrees as we speak and activating the progressed Mercury by square as it does so.
But that isn’t all. Looking at the chart we can see that the progressed Ascendant is at 23 Pisces too. The exact degree of transiting Neptune.
And in case we thought we were overstating the case, the Progressed Moon has snuck up to 20 Virgo opposite the natal Neptune. Incidentally, the natal Moon is also at 20 degrees (of Leo).
In layman’s terms this pretty much covers the situation. We have a bank, it even has “credit” in the name, which is completely aligned with the cycle of credit and asset bubbles and is acting as the living breathing personification of all that is wrong with the wider cycles we have discussed many times. Nice for astrologers, less pleasant for shareholders or indeed the wider financial system.
We could take some consolation in that the Sun and Venus have already passed the opposition and Mercury was activating it in the last few days as it stationed at 24 Virgo. Mercury will now move forward and it will be interesting to see what comes to light when it reaches the ascendant in 2 weeks.
But I am more concerned about Mars, which is at 20 degrees now square the natal Neptune and progressed Moon but will move forward to 23 degrees over the next 10 days. And then it will station at 25 Gemini before coming back and doing it all again. This is by no means over I am afraid.
What about Uranus? After all this has been quite a disruptive shock. We’d expect it to be playing a part.
In fact although Uranus at 18 Taurus was exactly square the transiting MC at 18 Leo at the point of the low this morning, with, of course Saturn opposing the MC at 18 Aquarius, it isn’t by itself dealing the killer blow. What does is the combination of Uranus at 18 sextile progressed Neptune, plus progressed Uranus at 21 sextile Natal Neptune, plus Neptune at 23 sextile the natal Uranus. That all three should line up like that means that in this chart Neptune and Uranus are pretty much acting in tandem. It is all hard wired into this chart.
There are other things we could look at. Pluto is quincunx the natal Mercury, bringing things to the surface that have been hidden. And we could note that progressed Venus is square the natal Pluto, an absolutely terrible sign for fundamental value, but the crux of the matter is what we have already discussed.
That only leaves a short look at what comes next. We have already mentioned the rest of October and the Mars and Jupiter retrogrades. Neptune and Uranus retrograde too. We don’t really escape from the configuration until March 2023 and even then Uranus has not returned to its current position. Indeed Uranus and Neptune continue to dance around the pertinent degrees until April 2024 when Jupiter and Uranus conjoin.
And by then we have a Pluto square and Pluto quincunx Saturn.
This is not as immediately bad as the Evergrande chart I looked at last year, but there is much more delusion and I don’t see any quick resolution of the confusion, rumours and overexposures. And I am afraid that time will also see more and more chickens coming home to roost.
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