Financial Forecast 2025
NEWS BEFORE THE NEWS
2025 FINANCIAL FORECAST
Stock prices are a neat reflection of public sentiment. The rise of business brings exuberance, in the fall despair. Public confidence, spending, and investment go up with market rises. Pessimism, hoarding, and conservatism prevail as the market turns down.
Stocks based on the DJIA gained 13.2% in 2024 nearly matching those of last year. The trend line was all up.
LAST YEAR’S PREDICTION
The Capricorn Rally of 12/22/23 will take the market higher in January 2024 but a Mars/Pluto conjunction point to a rapid sell-off near 2/14. The 3/9 Mars square Uranus joins with a lunar eclipse on the 25th – a dire cosmic sign of violence, economic instability, and sudden, surprising shocks that should not stop the market from rising higher to another minor peak near 4/10. On top of this is the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction peaking 4/20 indicating a rising market amid worldwide instability. Fortunately, these threats may not stop the market from climbing to a significant high until a short erratic phase is experienced with prices falling near 7/5. The Mars/Jupiter conjunction 8/24 could interrupt the regular up cycle near 8/16; if so, the market moves to a lower point near 9/30. Two more regular short cycles follow: up near 10/24 and down near 11/3.
The stock market will reach historic highs this year. Sunspots are near maximum and precipitation is still below average but rose in 2023 from a low in 2022. After a record high in January or early February followed by a steep loss, the market should chug along nicely for the rest of the year with the exception of August as Mars conjunction Jupiter occurs 8/24 with the first of three Jupiter/Saturn squares. After the last square (6/15/25) the market usually drops to a significant low near the following trine August 2026 – July 2027.
COMMENTARY
The market basically plateaued through the Mars/Pluto conjunction and Mars/Uranus square. The Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in April retracted the market noticeably marking the low point for the year. The Mars/Jupiter conjunction is August correctly pegged the brief August and September downturns. The market did achieve historic highs in early December. Rainfall was plentiful and sunspots also peaked this year in unusually high numbers, both signs of a rising market.
THIS YEAR’S PREDICTION
The year starts out well with the Sun moving through Capricorn in opposition Mars 1/15/25. Long range cosmic indicators paint a sluggish economic future leading to low output in 2028. Funk’s 56-year cycle indicates a panic sell-off in 2025-26. Although generalized, this trend is reinforced by a unique planetary grouping forming in June, plus the Saturn/Uranus phasing. Saturn and Uranus form three sextile aspects of 60-degrees (4/4, 8/11, and 1/2026) usually marking the end point of a rapid loss in stock value. Since the market has done well in the last several years, storm clouds this year are particularly ominous. June is the likely month for a market break. Along with the Saturn/Uranus sextiles Saturn is moving toward a conjunction with Neptune in February 2026. They are less than a degree apart in June 2025 as Jupiter forms a square to both Saturn (6/15) and Neptune (6/18). Mars and Saturn also form a hard angle August 8 pointing to another plunge down. Whether or not these configurations time the great panic mentioned is hard to say but world events leading into summer should provide forewarning.
After the last square Jupiter/Saturn square (6/15/25) the market usually drops to a significant low near the following trine August 2026 – July 2027. Jupiter/Pluto phasing also indicates a low near July 2026. Next year may be the big blow off because by year’s end a series of uplifting signs form in the heavens.
A spectacular arrangement mentioned in my book The Spiraling Economy forms in January 2026 that will push the market superbly high in December 2025. The Sun, Venus, and Mars will be in a spectacular triple conjunction at 17-degrees Capricorn on January 7, 2026. In addition, Jupiter is less than 3-degrees from an exact opposition to the Capricorn cluster! The star Rukbat in the constellation Sagittarius shines within a degree of this cluster imparting the symbolism of ‘steadiness and strength’ at this time.