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Preface
Acknowledgements
1 The Changing Sky
2 Stars and Sacred Places
3 World Trade and Planet Cycles
4 Forecasting
5 Transformation
6 Collapse of the USA
7 The World Bank
8 The Credit Bubble and Currency Collapse
9 Water Wars, 2010
10 Illusions and Imagination
11 Cutting Edge
12 Wall Street and London Markets, 2004–2020
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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“The
Financial Universe is a guide
to identifying the role of the planets and stars in world affairs,
finance and investment. Skinner begins her book on finances by focusing
on our own Sun. Although looking at the sun’s sunspot cycle
and how its affects business and financial cycles is not new, as
Commander David Williams addressed it in 1982and, in fact, points
out that it was the discoverer of Uranus, William Herschel who in
1801, first called attention to the correlation to the sunspot activity
and the price of wheat, Skinner’s book brings the reader up
to date in the nascent science of predicting sunspot flares and
solar wind cycles with their effect on human activity and therefore
on our investment decisions.
… The sun is not nearly as constant as assumed to be, in fact,
it is rather inconstant, as Skinner points out. Scientists have
identified 11 year cycles between a maximum and minimum number of
flares. The 21st century started, like the 20th, with a double top
peak but very unusually in October 2003, two giant sunspots were
observed. Scientists had never seen this before and remarked that
something was disturbing the natural rythmn in the sunspot cycle.
After the minimum level was reached in 2007, scientists were expecting
a gradual rise into the next high 2013–14 but as of this writing
January 2009 (and still April 2010) this gradual rise has not appeared.
This aberration makes in not inconceivable that we are entering
one of those extended periods of no solar activity which has in
the past brought increased hostilities between nations and contributed
to colder weather patterns on earth. This extended cold trend would
change economic conditions, food production and human activity as
demonstrated in the previous studies done on the effects of solar
flare cycles and investing.
… Skinner also
makes an interesting point about the effects of solar flares personally
on each of us. By using examples from key leaders of the 20th century,
Blair, Brown, Thatcher, (Skinner is a Brit) Teddy Roosevelt, Mao
and Hitler she demonstrates how the birth day’s record of
sunspot activity will portend in the life the periods of time when
one is more likely to be effective and thus make better financial
decisions. If one is born during a period with a greater than average
number of solar flares then throughout the life those reoccurring
times of greater sunspot activity will be personally more favorable.
As we are now in a time of low solar activity, it will be those
persons born at similar times who will be operating at peak performance
(Obama).
… Skinner takes the reader on a journey from the outermost limits
of our universe to its visible inner planets. Other important stars
in our solar system are explored in a chapter called, “Stars
and Sacred Places”. Here we learn why and for how long Polaris
will be our pole star, which stars were rising at the Battle of
Hastings and the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and what the
stars portend concerning those events. Then she moves on to the
planets.
… The Financial Universe, aptly named, is an historical narrative,
written for the non-astrologer, correlating the cycles of the planets
with world affairs and economic cycles. She begins her chapters
on planetary cycles by looking at the two Neptune/Pluto conjunctions
of 1398 and 1892 (both in Gemini), focusing on what happened in
world trade and commerce in each of those periods. Since the 1st
quarter square in the current cycle will not be until 2061, she
uses the smaller “divisions of the circle” to illustrate
how these two planets making contacts to each other coincide “with
significant cultural shifts from west to east and back again across
the millennia”.
… Janus-like, Skinner not only looks backward but forward as well
with quite specific predictions in chapters like: “Forecasting”
concerning Jupiter/ Saturn, Saturn/Pluto cycles of the past and
present, the current transit of Venus and what happened when planets
move across the Galactic Center. In “World Trade and Planet
Cycles” she writes that “creative accounting”
was first employed by people born during the Great Depression or
were economic students of those persons. The chapter called “Transformation”
is on Pluto’s sign change. In “The Collapse of the USA”
she predicts the breaking up of the USA and what the 2012 election
will bring. In “The Credit Bubble and the Currency Collapse”
she looks at debt as a growth industry, the Federal Reserve both
with Greenspan and post him and the Mercury station and eclipses
patterns that indicate currency difficulties. “The World Bank”
is another chapter explaining its history, based on its inception
date, and its probable future. “Water Wars 2010” brings
us right into this summer’s lineup. Neptune and Uranus have
chapters entitled “Illusions and Imaginations” and “Cutting
Edge” respectively. The book ends with a chapter called Wall
Street and London Markets 2009–2020.
… This book was first published in 2004 and this edition reads like
a thriller, it was difficult to put down. Some of her predictions
are specific like Feb. 17 2010 for a currency crisis. Skinner was
prescient for this date as the story in the NYT that day was the
disclosing of Goldman Sachs 15 billion dollar bond sale that was
kept secret from European Union’s regulators, hiding how much
debt Greece had. The fear was that Greece’s debt level could
bring down the entire European Union. Skinner gives six additional
time periods from 30th December 2010 to September 2016 when the
world currency situation could be precarious. Skinner even looks
ahead to 2037 warning those becoming 65 then to be careful of another
period of commercial anxiety and depression (Neptune/Pluto cycles).
… Skinner’s scope is broad in both in time and space. It is
right that she dedicates her book to Saturn, the planet of physical
reality, time and financial security. The complexity of the subject
matter, the amassing of so many facts, historical events and projections
makes it hard to summarize. It is a book to be read and reread and
referred to often. It starts one thinking about how little time
we have here, how vast our universe is and how our financial lives
are, as is everything else, part of a continuum which was started
way before we were born and which will continue far after.”
Mountain Astrologer
“The book deals specifically
with using planetary bodies to predict cycles in the marketplace,
both positive and negative. Offering suggestions and warnings that
potentially reverberate up through the year 2020, The Financial
Universe even contemplates the astrological sign of America
as a nation, and considers the implications of this birth sign on
the future of American finances as a whole as surely as what this
means for one’s private investments.” The Midwest
Book Review
“The prophecies made by Christeen Skinner are weirdly
accurate. In 2004 she told the Sunday Express that between
2005 and 2011 ‘there will be an aspect between Saturn and
Uranus not seen since the Great Depression of 1930-1931’.
More specifically, she predicted that ‘the change in the cycle
of Pluto in 2008 will bring about a collapse in the property market’.”
From MoneyWeek, 28 November 2008
“The book focuses on business cycles over the next 15 years, relating the historical correlations of planetary position with the current cycles and providing a broad historical context for trends and developments in technology, politics & business. The work is divided into 12 chapters, each dealing with a specific range of issues, beginning with a broad outine of astrological bodies and their cycles… Dividing the period from 2004 up until 2020 Christine has set out specific correlations within several subperiods beginning with the influence of the 2004 Venus transit of the sun, which she explains opens the way for an explosion of creativity particularly in the 2008–2012 period. The historical context is given by a similar outpouring of significant artistic expression. Chapter titles such as “Collapse of the USA”, “Water Wars, 2010” convey the urgency of the need for business to be educated to the possibilities of using astrology in longer term forecasting and planning.” Dennis Barker, Quantum Connections
“The majority of the business community does not access this incredibly helpful [astrological] information, and are often taken unawares by events political and financial. This book is groundbreaking, as it bridges this gulf and makes this information readable and understandable by all. Using the information that The Financial Universe provides will support a smoother ride in the forthcoming decade and beyond. The book also deals with sun-spot activity, and gives very user-friendly interpretations.” Ms Pemos Theodore, Star Consulting, writing in ISAR International Astrologer |
