April 2025 events

[Jim Eshelman]

Starting the thread.

[Jim Eshelman]

April 2, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT, Washington, DC

Yesterday, during Pres. Trump's Rose Garden speech announcing his new tariff plan, stock market futures plummeted. (I think if somebody waits until after the market closes for the day to make a speech on an economic plan, we can anticipate a "gotcha" buried in it somewhere.) This morning, the Dow opened down 1,116 points (2.64%), the S&P down 3.24%, and the Nasdaq down 4.33 as international markets continued their fall.

On the way home yesterday I projected a 1,500 point drop in the Dow today. As I type this, it is down 1,545. We'll see how it closes at the end of the day.

Because tomorrow CanQ Moon enters partile orb of opposition to Cansolar Jupiter, we'd expect an unusually prosperous two months worldwide unless tis Moon-Jupiter expresses primarily through the intensely nationalistic and "my people first" motives. Perhaps it means a fantastic season of gains beginning today after tomorrow's drops (good time to buy), or perhaps something else, though. Today is a bad market day, though - perhaps analyzing the event will come some sense of whether it is a pivotal event or just a passing trend. - It did occur, though, the exact day )yesterday) that transiting Saturn squared U.S. Mars and just days before significant sign changes of Mars into cancer (4/5), Saturn into Pisces (4/5), and Uranus into Taurus (4/7).

The Capsolar is so neutral we usually would consider the Cansolar; but the Cansolar is dormant.

Conclusion: It was definitely singled out as a negative day filled with malefic energies (see the quotidians), with middle-term factors being chaotic and destabilising. I'm not sure these charts, alone, show a longer tumble - more of a hard smack on a single day, with the Moon-Jupiter moving in orb tomorrow. I'm not sure where this is going, but this is the week everything was set to change course.

Year: Capsolar {0}
Moon EP-a 0°27'
Urasnus widely angular

NOTE: Haumea i 1°27' from IC

Bridge (None)

Month: Caplunar {+1}
[The angularities seem wrong, but not terribly - since Mars and Venus are competing in strength. The aspects are actually quite good, being commerce oriented, showing the world thrown into "what happens next?" confusion, a "party is over" sense, betrayals , chaos. I'll give this a point based on aspects, it might turn out a better chart than I think. - See current forecast for this Caplunar]
Venus N 0°19'
Moon ep 0°26'
Mars WP-a 0°38'
Sun N 1°40'
Mercury and Neptune widely angular
-- Sun-Mercury 1°02'
-- Mercury-Neptune co 1°18' M
-- Venus-Saturn co 1°19' M
-- Sun-Venus 1°59'
-- Venus-Neptune co 2°07' M
-- Sun-Neptune co 2°55' M
-- Mercury-Venus co 3°01'
-- Moon-Mars op 3°50' M

NB: A lot of Eris including the ongoing partile Moon-Eris.

Week: Arilunar {+2}
[This chart probably needs Eris - 0°59' from IC and 0°13' from square Moon - to understand it. See my current forecast based on this chart centered on Moon-Mars-Uranus-Eris aspects. But at the very least, this chart is aggressive, overturning, and war-like.]
Moon EP 1°15'
Mars and Uranus more widely angular
-- Moon-Mars sq 1°58'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+2}
[It was both severe and an act of war.]
p MC co s Mars 0°20', s Sun 1°14'
p Asc sq t Mars 1°24'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
t Sun co s Asc 1°44'
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p MC sq t Saturn +0°36', op t Venus -1°25', MC = Ve/Sa 0°25'

[Jim Eshelman]

We're down another 1,000 points on the Dow in the first minutes the market is open this morning. This is not going to be a short dip. It's snowballing: China responded with retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., the world took badly to that, world markets slid severely overnight, and the U.S. markets are catching the effect this morning.

Today, as I suspect Steve will elaborate, is a Gann day - which I've come to interpret as crisis tipping points. (Most of them do nothing, but if there is a crisis ready to tip, it does seem to tip within 24 hours of one of these.)