Hello Everyone!

 

IN THIS UPDATE:

 

Keep Your Eye on the Ball!

Announcing the 2009 Pre-order Special

Radio Show for March 14^th: The Joy of Living

What’s Up in the Heavens? Now Available Each Week ONLINE

Astrology’s Economic Forecast for 2008: Now Available!

Teleconference for March Energies: Now Available Online

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KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL!

 

Have you noticed the news about Elliott Spitzer? It’s hard to miss when it’s plastered all over the front pages of our media. I mention this, because this is a classic case of distraction. While you’re watching the demise of Mr. Spitzer (and we all know there are good reasons why someone would want to ensure he’s out of the picture), you’re NOT watching the demise of the US dollar. And let’s face it, no matter what Spitzer did with a prostitute (certainly an unfortunate choice on his part), it’s not going to have an impact on your financial well being, health, or the economy. This is a typical case of keeping people distracted from what’s really important, and our media purposely does an excellent job of this.

 

What’s important to notice now is today’s news about the US dollar continuing to weaken and there are multiple stories each week now about the many cracks showing up in the financial system. Municipal bonds are going unbought at auctions. Those that do sell require astronomical interest rates to do so, very hard on our local governments. Banks that used to ensure an auction would never fail, and buy the bonds if needed, have had to let the auctions fail since they no longer have the funds to support the municipal governments. Student loans have encountered the same problems, so there are few or no buyers for them.

 

Today’s news about the weakening dollar from the Wall Street Journal is that countries all over the world are being forced to allow their currencies to rise against the US dollar due to the high inflation that’s occurring worldwide. The biggest source of rising inflation is the price of raw materials. Yesterday oil jumped to a new high of $107.90/ barrel on the NY Mercantile Exchange. Now why does oil keep jumping higher? Because the value of the US dollar keeps dropping LOWER. So it takes more dollars to buy the same amount of oil. If oil maintains at this level, you will see soon gold head to $1070 per ounce. Right now it’s about $973/ ounce.

 

While Jupiter, the planet of abundance and growth, is in the sign of Capricorn (the sign where it’s the weakest and doing things it shouldn’t be doing), we’ll continue to see prices of raw materials go up. Jupiter is in the sign of Capricorn through January 5, 2009 and it entered this sign in mid-December 2007.

 

Essentially the rest of the world is now experiencing pain due to the low value of our dollar. There are TRILLIONS and trillions of US dollars in other countries, and many countries maintain a central bank reserve of US dollars. The value of most other currencies is pegged to the value of the US dollar. In the past this has worked, but not now when the dollar’s value is decreasing so quickly. As the value of those dollars fall, the value of their currencies have fallen and that meant their prices went up quickly. So countries are now forced to stop pegging the value of their currency to the US dollar, which has been the primary “currency standard” for the last 30+ years.

 

Other situations that are heating up are the insurers for large debts that default are looking like they might default. This is another crack in the system and folks are working diligently to keep this from happening. If the insurers default, then there’s really no way to recover the billions of dollars of bad loans made in the housing industry.

 

The housing market last week revealed that the number of American homes entering foreclosure in 4^th quarter 2007 was the highest number on record. In addition, the conglomerate percentage of equity that homeowners own in their homes fell to the lowest percentage since World War II, when these numbers began being tracked. Equity, as a percentage of value in homes, has been falling from a high of 80% in 1945 to a new low of 47.9% at the end of 2007. Last year was the first year that homeowners owned less than 50% and this is primarily due to the decline in housing prices.

 

Hedge funds are also running into trouble, and that’s a portion of the financial world that has great potential for collapsing unexpectedly. Hedge funds which manage about $1.9 trillion of client money have amassed investments at many times over that amount by buying these investments on margin. The last number I saw for the amount of derivative investments that hedge funds have is $516 Trillion. Banks and brokerages help arrange these transactions by arranging loans for them. Now banks and brokerages are telling hedge funds that they need to put up a higher percentage of cash or assets in order to maintain these investments. This could mean we’ll see quite a bit of selling on the stock market in order to meet these requirements.

 

The stock market is also encountering challenges, as it finally dipped below 12,000 last week on Friday and ended at 11,740 yesterday (Monday, 10 March 08). Today it’s up again after the Federal Reserve made a commitment to add in a lot more cash (up to $200 billion with commitments from other central banks too)  to the economy to keep things rolling.

 

Now what do you think that is going to do to the value of the US dollar? Drop it even lower. The Fed is trading the value of the US dollar for higher liquidity. That may be an appropriate temporary choice, but it can’t solve the overarching problem of the value of the dollar crashing. This is an issue that we all need to watch (a lot more than Mr. Spitzer’s demise), and take steps to protect our assets. Keep your eye on the ball!

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ANNOUNCING THE 2009 PRE-ORDER SPECIAL:

FEBRUARY 23^RD – APRIL 28^TH

SAVE UP TO 20%

 

I know! You’ve just barely gotten into 2008 and already I’m offering you the 2009 Pre-Order Special! This is an annual event, which allows us to publish the printed Good Timing Guide and save you money on both the Guide and Newsletters. This is the best special we offer every year. You can save up to 20% on your Guide and Newsletters or even just the Newsletters.

 

What’s the advantage to ordering now, instead of in late April?

1) You don’t have to remember to do it later. You wouldn’t believe how many people tell us every year that they forgot to pre-order their Guide!

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Just a tip for those of you who really book out in advance. The ONLINE Guide is always available first, and this year it will be available no later than the end of May, and possibly sooner. So we offer the ONLINE Guide in a special combo price with the Newsletters AND we offer a special combo for all three for just $8 more than the printed Guide and Newsletters. If you need your 2009 Guide sooner, this is the way to go.

 

This pre-order special is available to everyone from now through midnight Pacific time on April 28^th, but after that please don’t ask us to make an exception and give you the pre-order price. We want to maintain pricing integrity with all our customers. Thank you for placing your order early and allowing us to continue providing a great product!

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RADIO SHOW NEXT FRIDAY MARCH 7TH

The Joy of Living

10 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern

Discover the Joy of Living and how this increases your prosperity. Find out how to refocus your life into JOY and create the prosperity that you’ve always wanted.

If you’ve ever wanted to shift out of old patterns of scarcity, fear, stress, or control, be sure you tune into this show.

The Feb 29th show, An Ascension Update, on is now online at www.polarisbusinessguides.com/radio.htm. Just scroll down to it and click on the purple buttons to listen. Friday’s Show (March 7th) on A New Game: Seeing the World Through New Eyes will be available in a few days. 

 

Other recent shows that are online include: the Feb 22^nd show of Using Astrology to Invest Your Money; the Feb 15^th show of Getting a Better Job With Astrology as well as the Feb 8^th show of Secrets to Relationship Compatibility. Just scroll down the page until you come to those shows.

 

This show is broadcast live in the Seattle area on KKNW, on the dial at 1150 AM. You can also listen via live streaming on the internet FROM ANY LOCATION at http://www.newschannel1150.com/. Just click the LISTEN LIVE button at the top right corner of the home page. Get there early in case you need to download some software.

 

More info at www.polarisbusinessguides.com/radio.htm

 

PAST RADIO SHOWS CAN BE HEARD BY GOING TO:

http://www.polarisbusinessguides.com//radio.htm

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WHAT’S UP IN THE HEAVEN’S FOR EACH WEEK:

Now Posted Online

 

You can now get the info I give out on my radio show each week for the What’s Up in the Heaven’s? segment online.  It will be posted each week on Friday. You can find the link to it on the home page under What’s New? It will also be on the radio page. This week’s is at https://www.polarisbusinessguides.com/whats-up.htm

 

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ASTROLOGY’S ECONOMIC FORECAST FOR 2008

NOW AVAILABLE!

 

Last month I gave a speech to the Women’s Business Exchange in Seattle on Astrology’s Economic Forecast for 2008. For $10 you can hear this speech and get the handout. To learn more, go to https://www.polarisbusinessguides.com/wbe08.htm

 

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TELECONFERENCE FOR MARCH ENERGIES:

AVAILABLE ONLINE

 

The free teleconference on the March energies was held on February 28^th. However, we had problems with the telephone recording again. I recorded it digitally and it’s now online at our site, so you can listen to it for free. You can listen to it at https://www.polarisbusinessguides.com/free_teleconference.htm. Just look for the purple buttons on the left side. They’ll let you listen to it without downloading any software. It’s easy and free.

 

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Many blessings and much joy to all!

Madeline C. Gerwick

Certified Business and Personal Astrologer