MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 10, 2025

REVIEW

 The U.S. economy added 143,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate edged down to 4%….. The gain in jobs marked a drop from November and December and was less than the 169,000 jobs that economists had expected for January, according to a Wall Street Journal survey. But the job counts for November and December were revised upward by a combined 100,000. The unemployment rate was below the 4.1% that had been expected.

—Jeanne Whalen and Justin Lahart, “Employers Added 143,000 Jobs in January, and Unemployment Edged Down to 4%,” www.wsj.com, February 7, 2025.

It was another chaotic week with sudden, somewhat sharp reversals in many financial markets last week. This is typical during the Sun sign of Aquarius, and especially in the midst of powerful Uranus signatures. The prior week witnessed the New Moon in Aquarius on January 29, followed by Uranus turning direct on January 30. Friday, February 7, was a Gemini Moon day with the Sun in Aquarius, or an air/air combination, which can be volatile, especially on Friday with the monthly payroll report coming out. As if choreographed by the cosmic conductor, U.S. stock indices made the weekly highs on Thursday-Friday, then sold off rather sharply into Friday’s close. Gold and Silver did likewise.

On the global front, the German DAX and London FTSE made new all-time highs last week, unconfirmed by the Amsterdam AEX and Zurich SMI. In Asia and the Pacific Rim, the Australian ASX made a double top on Friday to its all-time high recorded the week before. The Hang Seng of Hong Kong and Shanghai SSE were also bullish, whereas prices were range-bound in the Nikkei and NIFTY indices.

In other markets, Crude Oil dropped to the 70.00 area on Friday, down three weeks after a crest on January 15 at 79.39. Bitcoin put in a trading cycle low at 91,439 on February 3, testing its major cycle low of 89,613 made on January 13. Ethereum, on the other hand, fell to 2415 last Monday, its lowest price in three months and a possible intermediate-term cycle trough.

SHORT-TERM GEOCOSMICS

 “The market is trying to predict and trade off a very unpredictable situation and person. You could look like a hero one minute, only for the market to turn on a sixpence, and you look like a zero the next.”

— Antony Foster (Nomura trader), “Trump Trades Are Misfiring,” Bloomberg’s Market Daily, February 7, 2025.“

 The market volatility, along with the geopolitical uncertainty and disruptions, may not let up next week. We are still under the spell of “retrograde chaos,” and Tuesday finds a Full Moon, making a fixed T-square with Uranus on Wednesday. Mercury makes that same square with Uranus on Monday, so the week is likely to start off with more bombshells (figuratively speaking). Financial markets may be caught by surprise, leading to sudden and sharp price fluctuations both ways. This is not a favorable market for those who are not nimble. Market analysts may be more wrong than right in their calls. Therefor, our strategy will be to continue to buy all sharp declines and take profits on sharp rallies that follow in 1-8 days. This is a favorable market climate for aggressive short-term traders but requires patience for the longer-term position types. There is still a trend, but no longer any straight lines with modest corrections.

LONGER-TERM THOUGHTS

The long-term consequences[of tariffs] remain. Foreign countries have less reason to trust that the US will honor trade treaties, reducing the incentive to make concessions.

—Dr Paul Donovan, “Retreat Repeat,” UBS morning audio comment, www.ubs.com/cio, February 4, 2025.

“Crisis is the new normal.”

—Dr. Christof Niederwieser, https://astrologie.de/en/

The onslaught of so many sudden changes is getting exhausting already. Yet this is precisely the nature of the “retrograde chaos” (November 25, 2024-April 12, 2025) discussed on our January 26 webinar “What The @#$%^&” Is Happening?” We will update and apply this back-to-back period of retrograde personal planets (Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Mercury again) to financial markets in our February 16 annual Forecast webinar. Through all of these “start-stop-restart-stop again” retrograde interruptions, we must keep our focus on the long-term cycles and trends, ready to enter when sudden and sharp declines erupt.

Tied into the collective psychology of this “New Aira” period of 2020-2032 is the common misunderstanding of what people really want. Every candidate for government campaigns on the promise of “change,” as if that is what people really want. But they don’t want change solely for the sake of change. I believe most people really want stability. They want the government to make a change that leads to stability so they can make plans without surprises from disruptive government interventions to those plans, despite the false claim that they (leaders) have a “mandate” to do just that. But more realistically, the populace does not want a system that too frequently changes laws, tax codes, voting districts, voting rules, culture, traditions, customs, foreign policies, treaties, and agreements with trading partners and allies. The change most people want is for a stable system they can rely on for the purpose of personal planning for years, not months. Just as Democrats misread this over the prior four years, Republicans may be doing the same now that they are in power. Change that does not provide stability is not the ticket for support.

Yet, stability is not likely to happen as we enter the “Aries Vortex” of 2025-2027, and it will probably not be very evident before we come out of the first stage of the “New Aira” of 2020-2032. Thus, one must find ways to anticipate and then embrace the concept of change in the hope that, eventually, it will lead to stability and allow for success and security based on well-thought-out planning.

Understanding the unfolding taking place in the macrocosm (geocosmics) can be very valuable. That is, all the outer planets in the solar system are changing signs from late 2024 through early 2026, something that hasn’t happened in 300 years and, before that, another 300 years. Our current world leaders – and those to come in the next 1-2 years – are agents of that change, whether due to their direct decision-making or reactions to those decisions that cause the pendulum to keep swinging back and forth until it finds its sweet spot of balance. Right now, that sweet spot seems far away as the pendulum swings back and forth at the extremes in 2025-2026 (“Aries Vortex”). In turn, equity markets are apt to fluctuate wildly, with more than one 10% or greater selloff, which is something that hasn’t happened since the last quarter of 2022. We will watch for one coming up shortly.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NOTE 1: THE FEBRUARY ISSUE OF THE MMA Monthly Cycles Report will be issued this week, February 10/11. It will cover our outlook for the U.S. stock market, Gold, Silver, Copper, Treasuries, the Euro currency, Crude Oil, and Soybeans. Big changes are coming as we head into Venus retrograde on March 1!!! The MMA Monthly Cycles Report also provides MMA’s original geocosmic critical reversal dates (CRDs) and solar/lunar reversal dates over the next several weeks, as well as trading strategies for both position and aggressive traders. This is also an interesting period due to the consecutive occurrence of the personal retrograde planets through April 12. If you want to try a one-month subscription to the MMA Monthly Cycles Report, you can sign up for the January Report for only $35! Or save by ordering the three-report or twelve-report subscription.

NOTE 2: MMA’s Annual Forecast 2025 Worldwide Webinar with Raymond Merriman. Sunday, February 16, 2025, Noon EST. From the comfort of your own home or office, you can tune in to Raymond Merriman’s annual worldwide Forecast 2025 Webinar. This broadcast will address the theme from this year’s Forecast 2025 book, with special updates on financial markets since the book was written in November 2024. The markets to be covered include the DJIA, NASDAQ, Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, and comments about NVIDIA and Stargate, along with their founding and founders’ charts. Wiebke Held of Cologne, Germany, a top MMTA graduate and editor of the new MMA Tech Cycles Report, will be a special guest and give her outlook on the NASDAQ using the MMA timing methodology. If you are unable to attend live, a video recording will be available the following day. The cost is $60 for this special three-hour webinar. Registration for the Forecast 2025 Webinar is now open. Save the date! Sign up now!

 NOTE 3: FIRST ISSUE FREE TO THOSE ON THE FREE WEEKLY COLUMN MAILING LIST!! GET READY! The NEW monthly MMA Technology Cycles Report will launch on February 18!!! This new monthly report will be written by top MMTA graduate Wiebke Held of Cologne, Germany, whose excellent two-year research papers were based on extensive studies of long-, intermediate-, and short-term cycles in the NASDAQ spot index (not futures). This report will differ in style and substance from the other MMA monthly reports (it is more condensed and less technical). It will provide an outlook not only for the NASDAQ but also for the QQQ (ETF) and specific technology stocks such as NVIDIA, TSLA, and Apple. It will also include unique CRDs (critical reversal dates) specific to the NASDAQ, based on Held’s meticulous research. Focusing on the NASDAQ is crucial because of the outsized role technology will play in financial markets — especially with Pluto already in Aquarius for the next 20 years and Uranus about to enter Gemini for seven years starting in July 2025. Additionally, much of this report will be generated by Wiebke’s own AI applications. Truly, this will be an exciting report, highlighting many new features of our technology renaissance. This is the future of market timing applications in this “New Aira.”

The first edition of the report will be issued complimentary to anyone on the mailing list for this free weekly column or to those who sign up for the February 16 MMA annual webinar on Forecast 2025. If you want to receive the FREE first issue of this new report, sign up for this weekly distribution list now at https://www.mmacycles.com/free-weekly-forecast/! Watch for it on February 18!

NOTE 4: MEET MMA ANALYSTS AT THE MARCH 7-9, 2025, COSMIC PATTERNS ASTROLOGY CONFERENCE IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA, FEATURING A SPECIAL FINANCIAL MARKET TIMING TRACK!!!

The Financial Track will include Raymond Merriman (USA), Christeen Skinner (UK), Gianni Di Poce (USA), Wiebke Held (Germany), Pouyan Zolfagharnia (UK), and Ulric Aspegrén (Switzerland). For more information on the event itself, as well as speakers’ topics and bios, click here. We look forward to seeing many of you there! To book a room at The Florida Hotel & Conference Center, where the event takes place, click here.

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NOTE 6: THE MMA Solar-Lunar App now offers reversal signals on the NASDAQ to all subscribers! The app now provides daily weighted values for four markets: the DJIA, NASDAQ, Gold, and Silver.

This app is an ideal tool to have in your back pocket if you are a short-term swing trader looking for high-probability dates that identify isolated lows and highs in the DJIA, NASDAQ, Gold, and Silver markets. It is available only on Apple products (iPhone and iPad) at this time, although we are getting close to developing it for Android phones as well, possibly by the end of this year.

To learn more about the MMA App, click here. To order it, go to the Apple App Store and type in Merriman Solar/Lunar Reversals.

 NOTE 7: The MMA Weekly YouTube show, “Geocosmic Week in Review and Look Ahead,” with Gianni Di Poce, is conducted on Wednesday evenings! Each 5- to 20-minute FREE episode reviews the previous week’s market activity and offers a preview of the geocosmic signatures in effect for the coming week and beyond.

NOTE 8: MMA’s Free Weekly Column Podcast Is Available on SPOTIFY, APPLE, and AMAZON! Now you can listen to a podcast of this weekly column by Thomas Miller on Saturdays! Thomas has an excellent voice and brings the weekly column to life in a personable and, at times, humorous fashion. Just follow Merriman Market Analyst on Spotify or Apple to listen to all our episodes. A new podcast episode will be released every weekend. This is a FREE service and is available to everyone. Check out our podcasts on Apple, Spotify, and Amazon Music. It makes for great listening!

NOTE 9: FORECAST 2025 IS NOW AVAILABLE in paperback, eBook, and audiobook!!!

 MMA’s annual Forecast book is the standard of astrological-themed almanacs that has served students of cycles and markets since 1976. It provides a cyclical outlook on collective world psychology, the national economy, geopolitical overview, socio-cultural trends, weather and natural calamity potential, as well as financial market projections for the U.S. stock market, U.S. Treasury market, interest rates, Gold and Silver, currencies (the Euro, U.S. Dollar, Swiss Franc, and Japanese Yen), Bitcoin, Crude Oil, and Grain markets. Additionally, it provides the three-star critical reversal dates for each market for 2025, which have historically achieved over 80% accuracy for trading cycles within an orb of three trading days.

The printed book is 200 pages, 8.5″ x 11″, and costs $66, but copies are limited. There are no second printings. When they are out, they are out. The eBook version is available for $55 and has no limit. The Forecast 2025 Audiobook is also now available for $29.99, has no limit, and can be ordered by clicking here. This audio version will not include the financial markets nor the ephemeris and geocosmic calendar for each month, which are included in the print and eBook versions. It covers only the first part of the book. The audio version is an excellent companion for workouts or driving, allowing you to listen at your convenience.

MMA also offers a special “bundle” discount rate for those who wish to order both the eBook and printed editions of Forecast 2025 for $86.

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EVENTS

 We have a big year lined up with several exciting events. Save the dates!

 CHECK OUR WEBSITE AT www.mmacycles.com FOR GREAT SUPER BOWL SPECIAL DEALS THIS WEEKEND THAT STARTS AT 12:00 AM SATURDAY EST!!!

 FEBRUARY 16, 2025: MMA’s Annual Forecast 2025 Worldwide Webinar with Raymond Merriman. It starts at noon EST. From the comfort of your own home or office, you can tune in to Raymond Merriman’s annual worldwide Forecast 2025 Webinar. This broadcast will address the theme from this year’s Forecast 2025 book, with updates on financial markets since the book was written in November 2024. This presentation will include trading plans for various financial markets based on the possibility of big moves related to the powerful geocosmic signature of mid-June 2025. A special guest will be Wiebke Held of Cologne, Germany, a top MMTA graduate and editor of the new MMA Tech Cycles Report. She will provide her outlook on the NASDAQ using the MMA timing methodology. If you are unable to attend live, a video recording will be available the following day. The cost is $60 for this special three-hour webinar. Registration for the Forecast 2025 Webinar is now open. Save the date — sign up now!

 MARCH 7-9, 2025: Cosmic Patterns Inc. presents its “Convergence 2025” conference in Orlando, Florida. This will be one of the top astrological conferences of 2025 and will include a track on Research and Financial Markets. MMA market analysts Ray Merriman, Gianni Di Poce, Pouyan Zolfagharnia, Ulric Aspegrén, and Wiebke Held will speak, along with well-known financial astrologer Christeen Skinner from the U.K. There will also be several other well-known professional astrologers speaking, including Lynn Bell, Charlotte Benson, Georgia Stathis, Öner Döşer, Pam Gallagher, Demetra George, Aleksandar Imsiragic, Dr. Lea Imsiragic, Rick Levine, Darri Low Murphy, Anne Ortelee, Joni Patry, Kathy Rose, Gisele Terry, and Fei Cochrane. For further information, please go to https://cosmicpatternsconference.com/. You can also hear and read about this exciting gathering on YouTube (click here).

SEPTEMBER 13, 2025: MMTA4 will begin! Plan ahead! Registration will open April 15. Stay tuned for details!

Disclaimer and statement of purpose: The purpose of this column is not to forecast the future movement of various financial markets. However, that is the purpose of the MMA (Merriman Market Analyst) subscription services. This column is not a subscription service. It is a free service, except in those cases where a fee may be assessed to cover the cost of translating this column from English into a non-English language. This weekly report is written with the intent of educating the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they occur. In this regard, this report will often cite what happened in various stock and financial markets throughout the world in the past week and discuss those movements in light of the geocosmic signatures that were in effect. It will then identify the geocosmic factors that will be in effect in the next week, month, or even years and the author’s understanding of how these signatures may affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from the perspective of a cycles analyst looking at the military, political, economic, and even financial markets of the world. It is possible that some forecasts will be made based on these factors. However, the primary goal is to both educate and alert the reader as to the psychological climate we are in from an astrological perspective. The hope is that it will help the reader understand the psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) the news events and their potential effect on financial markets.

No guarantee as to the accuracy of this report is being made here. Any decisions in financial markets are solely the responsibility of the reader, and neither the author nor the publishers of this column assume any responsibility whatsoever for anyone’s trading or investment decisions. Readers of this report should understand that commodity futures and options trading are considered high-risk.