THE ASTROLOGY OF

BITCOIN by Robert Weinstein

Note: The author is not a financial advisor, and no any banks or governments seemed preposterous to me. One
part of this article should be taken as financial advice. of my friends called it “nerd money,” and I completely forgot
Cryptocurrencies are high-risk investments, and the author about Bitcoin.
does not recommend or encourage investing or trading in In the meantime, with my background of 20 years of
Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. The author assumes astrological study and practice, I became interested in financial
no responsibility or liability for investment decisions based astrology. I began following the work of well-known financial
on the astrological techniques discussed in this article. astrologer Ray Merriman of Merriman Market Analyst (MMA)
and MMA Cycles Reports, whose yearly and monthly financial
Introduction market reports are based on astrological principles and market
Can astrological analysis provide reliable insight into cycle theory — in fact, I first read about him here in the pages
Bitcoin price movements and market highs and lows? The of The Mountain Astrologer. I found his ideas very interesting
answer appears to be yes! and started noticing correlations between astrology and price
I first heard about Bitcoin, the notorious cryptocurrency, movements in the U.S. stock markets. I wondered if it was
in the fall of 2014 when its price inexplicably shot to $1,000 conceivable to use astrology for market timing. According to
per Bitcoin and grabbed headlines around the world. At the Merriman, it is possible to use astrological techniques to make
time, the idea of a “virtual currency” that wasn’t backed by money in the stock markets!

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Astrology of Bitcoin wire transfers. Others see it more as a digital
version of gold, a completely new asset class,
an investment and store of value, and/or
A couple of years later, in the summer of a hedge against a loss of value of the U.S.
2017, I heard people talking about Bitcoin dollar. However, Bitcoin has its detractors:
again. I had made some profitable investments The transaction speed is far slower than tra-
in the stock market over the past few years ditional systems like Visa, making it difficult
since the “great recession” of 2008, particularly to use as a payment method, and the energy
in tech stocks, and I was interested in investing usage is a matter for concern. Overall, there is a
in cutting-edge technologies. Still, I had also missed lot of uncertainty about the future of this new tech-
a few great investments, like Apple. I was on the look- nology and whether it will see mass adoption.
out for “the next big thing” and would often ask friends and More than a thousand different cryptocurrencies are now
clients what they thought would be the next Amazon, the trying to improve on Bitcoin, and so far, none has succeeded.
next Apple, or the next big trend. So, this time, when I started There is an alternative financial universe of cryptocurrency
hearing about Bitcoin again, I decided to do some research. markets where billions of dollars are traded on hundreds
I read several books1 about Bitcoin and hundreds of articles. I of cryptocurrency exchanges around the world each day.
watched YouTube videos by cryptocurrency gurus like Andreas According to cryptomarketcap.com, the total crypto asset
Antonopoulos, Ari Paul, and Tom Lee. market capitalization at the time of this writing (mid July
What I learned was that Bitcoin is a form of global, dig- 2019) was approximately $300 billion.3 My research con-
ital, Internet money that is not controlled or owned by any vinced me that Bitcoin does, indeed, hold great promise
bank, government, or corporation. The anonymous creator as a fundamentally new financial technology, and Uranus’s
of Bitcoin, who is known as Satoshi Nakamoto (his true iden- movement into Taurus seemed to line up auspiciously with
tity is still undetermined), solved the age-old “trusted third this observation.
party” problem by creating what is called a digital “block- As I was researching Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies,
chain,” a distributed account ledger that runs on a global I realized that people who had bought Bitcoin a few years ago,
Internet computer system. Computers that run the system when it was worth a few hundred dollars per Bitcoin, now
and verify transactions are rewarded with Bitcoins, a process had over a 1000% return on their investment. I was intrigued
known as “mining.” and watched the price go up from $2,000 per Bitcoin at the
No one entity controls this system, so it is referred to as start of August 2017 to $5,000 by the end of August — a
a “decentralized” system. This helps to make it secure, since 150% gain in just one month! The price then went back down
there is no single controlling entity for hackers to attack; it to $3,000 in September. Bitcoin’s wild price fluctuations have
made it one of the most unpredictable and volatile assets
on Earth. Still, in a five-year timeframe, Bitcoin has outper-
formed almost every other existing asset class by a large
Many savvy people in finance percentage. For example, while the Dow Jones is up roughly
believe that Bitcoin may be the 60% (from 17,000 to 27,000) in the last five years — a very
good run — Bitcoin has seen an unmatched 2000% increase
future of money: a revolutionary from $600 in 2014 to today’s price of roughly $12,000.
new technology that could disrupt Using Financial Astrology to
the global financial system. Analyze Bitcoin Price Direction
Inspired by Ray Merriman, I wondered whether astrology
could give us any insight into the wild and unpredictable move-
also eliminates the need for trusted third parties like banks, ment of the Bitcoin price. From my many years of astrological
as it allows for direct peer-to-peer transactions. Bitcoin can study, I knew that anything that has a verifiable birthday and
be traded on a wide variety of Internet cryptocurrency ex- time can often be accurately forecasted. In August 2017, I
changes; it is bought and sold in units as large as thousands examined the Bitcoin inception chart to see if I could glean
of Bitcoins or as small as a hundred-millionth of one Bitcoin anything useful.
— a unit known as a “Satoshi,” named after the pseudonym I found out that the first Bitcoin was created in a process
of Bitcoin’s creator.2 known as “the genesis block,” and the Bitcoin network soft-
Many savvy people in finance believe that Bitcoin (and ware protocol was initiated on January 3, 2009, time-stamped
cryptocurrencies in general) may be the future of money: a 6:15 p.m. GMT, with no known location.4 This is the most
revolutionary new technology that could challenge big banks widely accepted Bitcoin birthday, and it was enough to give
and disrupt the global financial system. Astrologically, this me a chart to work with, having accurate planetary positions.
would correlate well with the transit of Uranus in Taurus. Unfortunately, without a location, I couldn’t see the Ascen-
Some see Bitcoin as a useful global Internet currency that dant or the house positions. I had to choose a location, and
transcends national borders, since it can be sent anywhere based on Greenwich Mean Time, I decided on Greenwich,
in the world much more quickly and cheaply than traditional England. (See Chart 1, following page.)

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 The most notable feature of this chart seems to be flat through the entire date range of Saturn’s transit, and this
a stellium of Pluto, Mars, and the Sun in early Capricorn. period is known as the bear market of 2014–15.
With a Pluto–Mars–Sun conjunction, Bitcoin looks tenacious Next, I looked at the infamous hacking and subsequent
and impressive, something that cannot easily be stopped. collapse of the Internet digital currency exchange called Mt
One thing I know about Capricorn, from my study of medi- Gox in March and April 2014. At that time, Mt Gox was
cal astrology, is that it generally tends to start out sickly and the main exchange for buying and selling Bitcoin, but due
weak but ages very well, getting stronger as it matures and to lax security, hackers successfully attacked the exchange
often outlasting its peers.5 Four planets (including Jupiter) in 2014, and hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin were
being placed in Capricorn suggests to me that Bitcoin could stolen. This was the most dramatic event in the lifespan of
mature very well and might be a good long-term investment. Bitcoin at the time, and as people lost faith in the exchange,
As a unit of currency and store of value, Bitcoin’s Venus Bitcoin’s very survival and purpose were called into question.
position would be very important, because Venus indicates The owner of the exchange tried to keep the hacking and
value and money in financial astrology. With Venus exalted loss of funds a secret, but when the news of the successful
in Pisces and favorably sextile powerful Pluto, this placement attack came out in April 2014, transiting Pluto was making a
suggests that the Bitcoin chart (BTC) has a strong combina- partile conjunction with the BTC Sun at 13° Capricorn.
tion of power (Pluto) and value (Venus), and great potential to In general, a transiting Pluto conjunction with the natal
change and evolve (Pluto) how we think about money and its Sun is a profound astrological event that would traditionally
value. This chart has strengthened my conviction that Bitcoin be associated with breakdown, destruction, secrets, and fi-
does indeed hold promise as a digital currency. nally rebirth, regeneration, and evolution to a new phase.
Impressed with the BTC, I was interested in construct- This is exactly what happened to Bitcoin: After the Mt Gox
ing a predictive model, so I did a little historical research. debacle, Bitcoin almost died, but a new generation of ex-
I wanted to see if I could confirm two things: (1) If I looked changes arose, using much safer offline storage systems.
back at a challenging transit alignment where, according to While hacking attacks still occasionally happen, there has
astrological theory, the price should drop, did the price actu- never been another Mt Gox–type event. This backtesting6
ally fall? And (2) if I looked at a dramatic price swing, either seemed to confirm that the planetary positions in the Bitcoin
up or down, was there an astrological correlation? Interest- chart are accurate and that transits to BTC correlate well
ingly, the answer to both turned out to be yes. both with events and with price movement.
As we know, Saturn often represents contraction, This historical astrological research, although not ex-
challenges, scarcity, and fear. In the first case, when Saturn haustive, was compelling enough for me to start examining
squared BTC Venus from December 2014 to September
Bitcoin
Natal Chart
price movement in real time. First, I looked at the
2015,
Jan financial astrology would have predicted a con-
3 2009, Sat
6:15 pm GMT +0:00
dramatic rise of Bitcoin in 2017, especially
traction
Greenwich, (transiting Saturn) of value (Venus) and
England
51°N29' 000°W00'
in August, when it went from $2,000
that Bitcoin’s
Geocentric
Tropical price would fall and/or stay flat. to $5,000 in 30 days and made
Porphyry
Sure
True Node enough, the price dropped and stayed international headlines again. I no-
ticed that, during the entire month
of August 2017, BTC was under-
18° Ü 41'
going the second of four partile
26' 25°
25°
Ý ¶ ‹ 26' Neptune sextiles to its Sun (July
04° 18 to August 30). I also noticed
‚ ¿
Ü that August was an exceptional
33' 19°
11' ‹ 02° month astrologically, with Mercury
ƒ 10 9
19' ‹ in retrograde and a North Node to-
02°
11 8 00°
» 11' tal solar eclipse7 at 28° Leo making
‹
22° À
15'
a partile trine to transiting Uranus in
31' Š
Š 18° Â Aries and a loose grand trine involving
12 7 31'
08° 08°
Chart 1: S 31' Š 09° É Š Saturn at 21° Sagittarius.
„
56'
Ê 09° „ 31' S Bitcoin 47' Š 02°
33' ‰ 29°
º 56'
1 6
½

2 5 21'
30' ‰
36'
‰
13°
05°
¸ With a Pluto–Mars–Sun
02°
… Œ 3 4
‰
01° ¼ 11'
Á ‰ conjunction, Bitcoin looks
45'
11'
21°
… 02°
tenacious and impressive,
ˆ
25°
¾
26'
something that cannot
… 26' ‡
18° † 41'
25° easily be stopped.
Charts use Porphyry houses and the True Node.

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Astrology of Bitcoin could yield important information about Bitcoin’s price move-
ment and direction. The next important transits to the Bitcoin
chart included the first of three Saturn conjunctions with BTC
Interestingly, the dates of the price rally corresponded Mars (February 2–12, 2018), followed closely by Neptune’s
precisely to the dates of the Neptune sextile. Then the price third sextile to the BTC Sun (February 7 to March 6).
started to reverse sharply on September 2, two days after the In a natal chart, Mars represents confidence and our
end of the partile sextile and just three days before Mercury ability to assert ourselves and meet our goals. Transiting Sat-
would station direct. Bitcoin’s price was clearly correlating urn is traditionally a heavy obstructing influence, blocking or
with transits to its chart, as well as mundane events such as thwarting our goals. If we think of Mars as a speeding train
Mercury retrograding and stationing direct. This was more and Saturn as an immovable object, a train wreck seemed
than enough evidence to continue serious study. I looked back likely for Bitcoin. With an approaching partile conjunction of
at that first Neptune sextile to the BTC Sun (April 6 to May transiting Saturn with BTC Mars looming (February 2–12),
15, 2017) and found that, once again, the price had risen possibly bringing more fear of government regulation, and a
from roughly $1,150 to $1,800 — a gain of about 60%. South Node lunar eclipse on January 31 as a potential trig-
ger (see Note 7), I was able once again to accurately predict
Real-Time Price Forecasting the market in advance. I gave the date range for the low as
Now I wanted to see if astrology could actually predict
the future price, helping to identify tops and bottoms of the
market. In early November 2017, I started distributing an I was convinced, both by
informal Bitcoin astrology newsletter to a few friends. And
seeing a succession of exact sextiles to BTC Pluto, Mars, historical analysis and by real-time
and Sun in Capricorn from transiting Venus (November
8–18), Mars (December 10–31), and mostInner importantly
Wheel Jupi-
forecasting, that astrology could Outer Wheel
BitcoinI was able to
ter (October 15 to December 15), all in Scorpio,
Natal Chart yield important information All-Time-High Price
Natal Chart
predict the famous December 2017 rally well Jan ahead of time.
3 2009, Sat Dec 16 2017, Sat

6:15 pm GMT +0:00
Jupiter represents confidence, expansion, good England
Greenwich, luck, and about Bitcoin’s price movement 12:00 pm EST +5:00
New York, New York
51°N29' 000°W00'
prosperity; accordingly, the price moved upward
Geocentric
in almost and direction. 40°N42'51'' 074°W00'23''
Geocentric
exact clockwork timing with the Jupiter transits,
Tropical just as one Tropical
Porphyry Porphyry
would have expected. The all-time-high price of $19,500
True Node on True Node
December 16 correlated closely with the overlapping transits
18° Ü 41'
of Jupiter’s sextile to the BTC Sun, indicating expansion
and wealth, and Mars’s sextile to BTC Mars, indi- 26' 25°
Ý ¿ ‹ 26'
cating confidence. (See Chart 2, at right.) 25° 24°
Foreseeing a possible shift in energy and
‚
Ü
41'
Â
market trend enabled me to call the peak Œ 24°
‹
of the rally in advance, right around the 11' 22' À 02°
time that Saturn entered Capricorn on ¶ 11°
ƒ ‹ ‹
December 19, 2017, and Mercury sta- 04°
¿ 37'
02° Ü 11'
tioned direct on the 22nd. The end of 33'
19°
‹
the rally in January 2018 was largely 19'

based on fears of government over- 10 9

00°
»
‹
22° À
11 8
regulation of the market, as 15'
16° Ê
31' Š
18°  Œ12' Š
symbolized by Saturn in 08° 12 7 31' Š 08°
Capricorn, classically S 31' Š09° É
„ Ê 09°„ 31'S 1 47' Š02°
º Š
bringing the fun to an 6 33'
‰29°
56' 12'Œ ½ 56'
end and prices back É 16°„ 2 5
30'
36' ‰13°
down to earth. 21' ‰
‰ 05°
¸ 16' ‰18°
At this point, I Œ
3 4 01° ¼ Á
was convinced, both …
45'
Á
35'
21° ˆ
by historical analysis 02° 55' 29° 11'
and by real-time fore- … ¾ Œ
16' ˆ
24° ¾ ‰
ˆ
ˆ 19° ¸ 02°
33'
casting, that astrology 11' 55'

10' »
ˆ 16°
36'
‡
07°
º ˆ
‡
04°
14° ¶
Chart 2: Bi-wheel.
¼ ½
25° 26'
… 26' 25°
‡
Inner wheel and house cusps: Bitcoin
Outer wheel: All-Time High (2017) 18° † 41'

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February 1–7, with the lunar eclipse on January 31 as a sell-
off trigger, followed by a continued sell-off through the first
week of February. The low came in at $5,900 on February 6,
a drop of 70% from the high at $19,500 in December 2017
— or, in other words, a train wreck! I had nailed the market
low point within a date range of seven days.
That the low of $5,900 had corresponded precisely to
Saturn’s conjunction with BTC Mars is fascinating. The next
question was, would Neptune’s third sextile to the BTC Sun
represent a relief rally? Neptune by soft transit often signi-
fies faith and optimism (but also illusions), so based on this
third Neptune sextile to the BTC Sun (February 7 to March
6), I again accurately predicted a rebound rally (faith and opti-
mism restored), which reached a peak of $11,500 in the first nus transits. (Interestingly, as I cover below, my prediction did
week of March, a rebound gain of almost 90% from the low come to pass one year later, with Uranus’s second entry into
of $5,900. Astonishingly, the price fell off sharply the day be- Taurus on March 6, 2019.)
fore the end of the favorable Neptune sextile period on March This was a humbling lesson, and as I waited for a rally in
5, 2018. (Author’s Note: For the above transits and others, May that never happened, I missed an actual rally to $9,500
I am using “partile” as the main time band within which the earlier in April, when transiting Uranus at 29° Aries squared
transits clearly affect the price.) BTC Jupiter at 29° Capricorn. I believe that failure is often our
I was amazed. These predictions were made in time- greatest teacher, and, chastened, I went back to the drawing
stamped e-mails to my small newsletter group that I started board. I doubled my efforts to eliminate bullish bias and over-
in November 2017, as well as some public market calls on confidence from my work. Financial astrology is a fascinating
Twitter starting in January 2018.8 People were astounded way to learn about the planets. Markets are unforgiving, there
by the accuracy of these predictions, and both my newsletter is little margin for error, and the accuracy or inaccuracy of our
and my Twitter following began to grow. I started to wonder techniques can be quantitatively measured in dollars.
if I could make money from accurately predicting Bitcoin’s fu- The next important series of transits included Saturn’s
ture price. The reality turned out to be a lot more complex; retrograde conjunction with BTC Mars from June 25 to July
the actual trading based on the astrological transits was much 10, 2018 and Jupiter’s sextile to the BTC Sun from June
harder than it looked and would take a lot of time to config- 19 to July 31 (Jupiter stationed direct on July 9). This time,
ure a tradable system. I had two previous data sets on those transits, and Saturn and
The next big astrological factor was Uranus’s entry into Jupiter seemed to be more predictable than chaotic Uranus.
Taurus in mid May 2018. Many astrologers around the world, Saturn’s first transit to BTC Mars had correlated with a col-
including myself, were predicting that Uranus moving into lapse in confidence as well as price. The first Jupiter sextile to
Taurus could indicate major changes and tech breakthroughs the BTC Sun in December 2017 had correlated with the mar-
for banking and finance, and might well be favorable for ket’s unprecedented confidence in Bitcoin and an all-time high
cryptocurrencies. in the price. Looking at the ephemeris for late June 2018,
The interesting symbolism of Uranus, as a revolution- I noticed that the Full Moon on June 27 would be conjunct
ary, disruptive, technological force, moving into Taurus, the transiting Saturn within one degree, greatly strengthening Sat-
sign of banking, money, and finance, appeared favorable to urn’s energy. Based on this information, I forecasted a high
crypto asset markets. Taurus also represents the status quo. probability of fear in the market and a new yearly low in the
Thus, Uranus’s ingress into Taurus seemed likely to bring a Bitcoin price from June 25 to July 10, with a rebound rally
sudden and dramatic disruption to the status quo, especially potentially forming July 10–31, as Jupiter stationed direct in
in banking and how we think about and use money. I also partile sextile to the BTC Sun.
noticed that when Uranus entered Taurus, it would make a Saturn’s second conjunction with BTC Mars did bring
sextile to BTC Venus exalted in Pisces and a trine to BTC a new yearly low of $5,700 on June 29, two days after the
Pluto. Full of confidence from a string of successful predic- Full Moon, within my corresponding date range again. Then,
tions, I became overconfident. This seemed like a slam-dunk as I predicted, the price started to rally as Saturn moved off
setup for a sudden, dramatic rally and another successful BTC Mars, and Jupiter turned direct and made an exact sex-
forecast. Only it wasn’t. tile to the BTC Sun. The price peaked at $8,500 on July
Sensing additional opportunities to show off my astro- 24, just as Mercury turned retrograde, and I publicly called
logical forecasting skills, I made public predictions, on Twitter the top on Twitter. The price then fell off sharply right after
and in my growing newsletter, of an impending rally starting the last day of Jupiter’s final sextile to the BTC Sun, and by
around May 15, 2018. Uranus moved into Taurus, and May mid August, Bitcoin was back down to $6,500. Once again,
15 came and went — nothing happened. In fact, the price using astrological techniques, I had accurately predicted al-
continued to decline, and I looked like an idiot instead of a ge- most every movement in the Bitcoin price for an eight-week
nius. I had fallen into the trap of overconfidence and thought period from June 1 through August 1. This was one of my
I could predict the outcome of famously unpredictable Ura- biggest achievements of 2018.
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Astrology of Bitcoin partile sextiles to the
BTC Sun on December 21.
Additionally, the Full Moon at
0° Cancer on December 22 made
Three Unfavorable Transits Line Up a trine to BTC Venus at 0° Pisces.
The next major series of transits for Bitcoin came in This correlated with a Christmas rally
November 2018, with a complex sequence of back-to-back peak of $4,200 on December 23, a
Venus and Mercury retrogrades, a Jupiter combustion, and gain of 35% from the recent low of $3,100
three difficult transiting aspect patterns: a few weeks earlier. But Saturn’s heavy energy was apparent
as Bitcoin could not hold $4,000 for very long, and this mar-
1. The third and final conjunction of Saturn with BTC ket top was actually lower than the two previous 2018 lows.
Mars November 1–12, for which we already had good data
from the first two passes. Saturn’s Conjunction with the BTC Sun
2. Retrograding Uranus moving back into Aries on No- The year 2019 started off with one of the biggest tran-
vember 6, making a month-long retrograde square to BTC sits of Bitcoin’s ten-year lifecycle: Saturn formed a partile
Jupiter from November 6 to December 6, which had been fa- conjunction with the BTC Sun January 14–23, and a second
vorable as a direct transit but looked unfavorable in retrograde. pass, though close (to within 23 minutes) but not exact, would
3. The South Node’s conjunction with BTC Jupiter Novem- occur September 8–28. A transiting Saturn conjunction with
ber 6–18, which also looked unfavorable. (In medical astrology the natal Sun is typically a challenging transit, a testing time
the transiting South Node is often seen as highly malefic.) often corresponding to a weakening of confidence and the life
energy represented by the Sun. Since Saturn’s three transits
Additionally, on November 24, Neptune turned direct and to BTC Mars also corresponded to a loss of confidence and
made a partile sextile to the BTC Sun for one month, indicat- a long downward trend in price, there is a good chance that
ing that prices might recover after the 24th, as had happened Saturn’s transits to the BTC Sun will continue to indicate mar-
with the three previous transiting Neptune sextiles. ket low points.
This series of three unfavorable aspects in November And though many technical analysts were predicting
did correspond to a sudden and disastrous decline in the Bit- a January rally, Saturn’s partile conjunction with the BTC
coin price. I had called the date range for a new low to occur Sun did produce a new 2019 low of $3,420 on January 22,
November 1–16, when all three aspect patterns converged, bringing the price down from the Christmas high of $4,200.
and Venus would go direct after the 16th. A sharp decline The price dipped to a new low of $3,340 on January 29,
started on November 15, within my date range, but surpris- with Saturn still within a 1° separating orb of the BTC Sun.
ingly, the decline kept going, well after Venus turned direct, In this case, the astrological analysis outperformed traditional
all the way until December 15, hitting a new low of $3,100. technical analysis.
It was a brutal 50% decline, marking Bitcoin’s lowest price in However, we know that Saturn can also symbolize matu-
18 months and an 85% drop from its all-time high. rity, institutional structure, and mainstream acceptance. So,
Why did the sell-off last so long? After poring over the Bit- while this Saturn period could be a difficult testing time for
coin chart, the main astrological factor seemed to be transiting Bitcoin, with low points in price, it might also indicate that a
Saturn reaching 9°30' Capricorn, the exact midpoint of the maturing process is unfolding, and the seeds for Bitcoin’s fu-
BTC Mars–Sun conjunction, on December 15. This correlated ture success may be planted during this period.
precisely with the new 2018 market bottom. My forecast
model hadn’t taken into account the Mars/Sun midpoint. And Uranus Re-enters Taurus:
in fact, the entire transit of Saturn between the BTC Mars–Sun A Bitcoin Revival?
conjunction (5°–13° Capricorn) proved to be a very unfavor- After offering a free Bitcoin astrology report for all of
able time for Bitcoin. 2018, I started a subscription service in 2019, just in time to
We did finally see a weak holiday recovery rally as Venus accurately call the January low point. Then, February 2019
in Scorpio trined Neptune in Pisces, and both planets made saw a thaw of “crypto winter,” and Bitcoin made a slow,
steady recovery, like clockwork, as Saturn separated from
the BTC Sun.
Bitcoin began a rally with the favorable transits of Uranus
February 2019 saw a thaw of at 29° Aries squaring BTC Jupiter,9 as well as Venus in Capri-
“crypto winter,” and Bitcoin made corn conjoining the BTC Capricorn stellium and Mars in Tau-
rus trining that stellium. Would Uranus’s re-entry into Taurus
a slow, steady recovery, like on March 6 and its sextile to BTC Venus herald a disruption
in conventional banking and a revival for Bitcoin, as several
clockwork, as Saturn separated astrologers, including myself, had predicted?
from the BTC Sun. Initially, prices were generally flat during the Mercury
retrograde period in March 2019. However, when Mercury
stationed direct (March 27), and Uranus at 1° Taurus made a

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trine to BTC Pluto at 1° Capricorn (March 26 to April 12), Uranus. As far back as my January 13, 2019 newsletter,
the price made a huge $1,000 jump in 24 hours — a fittingly based on the Uranus trine to BTC Mars in June–July, I
sudden and dramatic (Uranus) show of power (Pluto) that alerted subscribers that late June would be the most favor-
would change the market and signal a resurgence of Bitcoin able aspects of 2019 and would mark the best time this year
market confidence. Uranus in Taurus would continue to signal to take profits on a trade or investment. On May 24, based
an “unexpected” rally throughout April and May. My forecast on a variety of factors, I gave my subscribers a possible date
called for a possible market high point during Uranus’s trine range for the 2019 top between June 20 and July 1.
to BTC Mars in the period of June 6 to July 4. It now be- Uranus did not disappoint — Bitcoin broke through the
came crystal clear that Saturn’s transits to both BTC Mars $10,000 mark on June 19, as the aspect went to perfection.
and the Sun had correlated almost exactly with the four Bitcoin then hit a yearly high of $13,750 on June 26 as Mer-
low points of 2018–19. This period was dubbed “the Crypto cury at 29° Cancer made an opposition to BTC Jupiter. The
Bear Market” by Bitcoin traders and the media. price fell back down into the $11,000–12,000 range soon
From June 6 to July 4, transiting Uranus trined BTC afterward. (See Graph, below.) At the time of this writing
Mars. Uranus is a powerful planet that symbolizes the sud- in late June, we cannot say with certainty that $13,750 will
den, the dramatic, and the unexpected. It is often likened hold as the yearly high, but it seems likely. If so, this would
to lightning strikes, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions — be the biggest success for our Bitcoin astrology forecast proj-
events that can quickly and dramatically change the market ect to date. Based on our astrological technique, traders who
landscape. Uranus also symbolizes excitement and, when ac- bought the low in the January date range during the Saturn
tivated by transit, can come on strong and fast. BTC Mars transit, and sold the high in our June date range with Ura-
is a point that represents a dynamic life energy and market nus, saw a staggering 200–250% return on their investment
confidence, and the trine aspect is a favorable one of har- within a five-to-six-month period. The Bitcoin astrology fore-
mony and balance. We knew that the three conjunctions cast won’t get every call right, but it did get this one right,
of Saturn with BTC Mars in 2018 corresponded closely to with a large payoff!
the three major low points in market price and market con-
fidence, so it was logical to assume that the favorable trine Bitcoin’s Future:
from Uranus to BTC Mars could indicate a sudden and dra- Late 2019 and Beyond
matic strengthening of Bitcoin’s market confidence. While the astrological analysis of Bitcoin doesn’t give us
Excitement continued to build in Bitcoin markets around specific price targets (we need technical analysis for that), it
the world as Uranus moved through the early degrees of has accurately correlated with general market direction and
Taurus, and the price continued to move up in tandem with trend. It has been possible to use astrological techniques to

continued on p. 33

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 Astrology of Bitcoin extended rally in Bitcoin price. Additionally, Jupiter’s trine
to transiting Uranus in December 2019 could be quite fa-
vorable for Bitcoin!
continued from p. 27
We know that Jupiter’s sextile to BTC Mars and the Sun
accurately predict some relative market tops and bottoms in corresponded closely to an all-time high in December 2017,
2018 and 2019. In my opinion, the following are a few of and Jupiter in Capricorn could bring breakthroughs and big
the important transits to watch in the Bitcoin chart for mar- changes to business, commerce, and financial markets that
ket tops and bottoms in late 2019 and in 2020. could benefit Bitcoin. Whether Jupiter’s conjunction with the
BTC Sun will produce a similar or better rally than the one
Two Unfavorable Aspects Converge in 2019 in December 2017 to the all-time high of $19,500 remains
• September 7–28: Saturn’s second conjunction unknown; we’ll just have to wait and see. Jupiter transiting
with the BTC Sun. the BTC Capricorn stellium looks generally promising, but
At the time of this writing in late June 2019, I was fore- a highly complex alignment on Christmas Day 2019 could
casting a Bitcoin market rally high roughly in the date range create volatility and unpredictable market events, temporar-
of June 20 to July 1, plus or minus 5–7 days, which turned ily dampening a rally. This alignment includes a solar eclipse
out to be accurate. However, it looked like Mercury station- at 4° Capricorn conjoining a combust and weakened Jupi-
ing retrograde on July 7, followed by a lunar eclipse on the ter close to the South Node and also conjoining the BTC
South Node conjunct Saturn and Pluto (both retrograde),
along with Saturn slowly but surely backing up closer to the
BTC Sun, could indicate a 90- to 100-day market correc- Like a cat with nine lives,
tion with a bottom point when transiting Saturn and then the
South Node conjoin the BTC Sun. This second Saturn con-
Bitcoin has come back
junction will be partile, though not technically exact. It should from the dead on so many
be close enough to indicate another possible 2019 relative
market low point, but probably not a new low for the year. occasions over the past
• September 29 – October 10: The South Node’s
ten years that it’s almost
conjunction with the BTC Sun. become a cliché.
The South Node conjunct BTC Jupiter in November and
December 2018, along with other transits, seemed to cor-
relate with a sell-off. In general, the South Node can indicate
material loss and have a draining-away effect on vitality. Fol-
lowing closely from Saturn’s last conjunction with the BTC
Sun in September, this could indicate further declines last-
ing through early October. The astrological analysis suggests
that this period in September and October will be the end of
the sell-off and a possible entry point to accumulate Bitcoin
before a bigger rally begins in November. However, it’s im-
portant to note that the South Node’s transit to BTC Mars
(February 28 to March 11, 2020) and to BTC Pluto (April
8–20) could also prove unfavorable and indicate points of
market weakness.

Jupiter Enters Capricorn

Like a cat with nine lives, Bitcoin has come back from
the dead on so many occasions over the past ten years that
it’s almost become a cliché. Bitcoin’s price has routinely fallen
sharply, only to rally back to a new all-time high a year or two
later. The million-dollar question is, Can it happen again? The
end of Saturn’s transits to the BTC Sun in September, as well
as Jupiter’s entry into Capricorn on December 2, 2019, are
the main bullish signals I am watching, in anticipation of an-
other Bitcoin rally.
Since Saturn’s transits to the BTC stellium of Pluto,
Mars, and the Sun correlated with a long bear market pe-
riod for Bitcoin, it seems possible that expansive, confident
Jupiter’s transits to these same planets (December 2, 2019 –
February 2, 2020) may mark the most likely time for a new,

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Astrology of Bitcoin cides with Saturn’s transit as well, making for a complex and
mixed bag. The future will always remain uncertain, and as-
trology allows us to see only so much, but this intricate mix of
Pluto, Mars, and Sun. (See Chart 3, below right.) And as aspect patterns suggests that Bitcoin may continue its unique
mentioned earlier, the South Node’s continued unfavorable pattern of high volatility and big price swings in 2020.
transits to the BTC Capricorn stellium through April 2020 Lastly, a series of trines from Uranus in Taurus to the
may somewhat offset Jupiter’s otherwise very favorable BTC Sun, starting in June 2021 and culminating in April
transits, and create volatility with complex market condi- 2022, may indicate a long-term peak in BTC prices, as well
tions and events. as more unexpected Uranian twists and turns in the fascinat-
Interestingly, Saturn and Pluto will make a historic ing story of Bitcoin.
40-year conjunction in early January 2020, just a few weeks Will Bitcoin succeed as a new, global Internet currency
before Jupiter will conjoin the BTC Sun in late January. Ac- and change the way we think about money? It could — and
cording to the work of astrologers Richard Tarnas and Ray Jupiter’s key conjunctions with the BTC stellium in Capricorn,
Merriman, Saturn–Pluto conjunctions have historically indi- along with favorable aspects from Uranus in Taurus, will be
cated a financial or political crisis, a war, and/or falling stock the main factors to watch as we move into 2020 and beyond.
markets.10 Many economists, including hedge fund billionaire
Ray Dalio and Bloomberg’s Macro strategist Mark Cudmore,
are currently predicting a recession around this time period.11
It’s hard to say whether there is a connection between
A series of trines from Uranus
the Saturn–Pluto conjunction and the transiting Jupiter con- in Taurus to the BTC Sun
junction with the BTC Sun. However, if there is a political or
financial crisis at that time, suggested by Saturn and Pluto, [June 2021– April 2022],
or if a “black swan” event causes stock markets
met,12 Bitcoin may benefit as an uncorrelated,
Inner Wheel
Bitcoin
to plum-
safe-haven
may indicate a long-term peak Solar Annular Eclipse (NM)
Outer Wheel

Natal Chart Natal Chart

asset or as a hedge against stocks or the U.S. Jan 3dollar, similar
2009, Sat
6:15 pm GMT +0:00
in BTC prices, as well as more Dec 26 2019, Thu
0:13 am EST +5:00
to gold. One of the benefits of Bitcoin is that its price move-
ment is generally considered “uncorrelated”
Greenwich, England
51°N29' 000°W00'
with the stock
unexpected Uranian twists and turns. New York, New York
40°N42'51'' 074°W00'23''
Geocentric Geocentric
market or any other financial asset. Its price does not cor-
Tropical Tropical
Porphyry Porphyry
relate with stock prices, bonds, or real estate. Uncorrelated
True Node True Node
assets work to diversify a portfolio and lower overall port-
18° Ü 41'
folio risk, and they can provide a safe haven during an
economic downturn or a stock market crash. 26' 25°
Ý ¿ ‹ 26'
Bitcoin was born during the financial crisis 25° 02° Â
of 2008–09 and, in many ways, was created Ý 01°

specifically as a safe-haven asset against an-

‚ Ü
À
45'
Π30'
other banking crisis. While many Bitcoin 11'
16°
02°
‹
advocates have been predicting a simi- ¶
ƒ 09'
‹
lar economic disaster scenario, Bitcoin 02° Ü
04°
¿ 11'
has never actually been tested in É08°ƒ 33'
‹
19°

a recession. 22'S 19'

Other transits of interest in early 10 9

00°
»
‹
22° À
11 8
2020 include Saturn’s three “bear- 15'
31' Š
18° Â 18' Š07° »
ish” conjunctions with BTC Jupiter, 08° 31' Š 08°
12 7 11' ‰22° Á
S 31' Š09° É
once again possibly indicating „
market low points. But Ura- Ê 09°„ 31'S 1 6
47' Š02°
33'
‰29°
º 43' ‰20° ¾ Š
56' ½ S 22'
‰08°
56'
nus’s favorable and last
2 5
30'
36' ‰13° Ê
¸ 06' ‰05° ½
20'
bullish trine to BTC Mars 21' ‰
‰ 05°
3 4 01° ¼ ‰04°
in late March to early Œ
45'
Á 06'
‰ ¶
April 2020 is suggesting … 04°
strength. Unfortunately, 02° 21° 21'
ˆ ¸ 11'
… ¾ 25°
BTC’s Jupiter return º ‰
in December 2020 coin- 11' 02°
30'
‡
24° ˆ
Chart 3: Bi-wheel. 25° ¼ 26'
… 26' 25°
‡
Inner wheel and house cusps: Bitcoin
18° † 41'
Outer wheel: Solar Eclipse, December 26, 2019

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Reference and Notes
(All URLs were accessed in June 2019.)
1. Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin
and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order, Picador,
2015; Nathaniel Popper, Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the
Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, Harper Collins, 2015;
Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar, The Innovative Investors Guide to Bitcoin
and Beyond, McGraw-Hill, 2018.
2. For more information on Bitcoin, see: http://nymag.com/intelli
gencer/2017/12/what-is-bitcoin-a-guide-for-the-confused.html
3. As a comparison, this is about twice the value of Netflix and roughly
one-third that of Apple, but far less than the $5 trillion market capitalization
of the Nasdaq Exchange. See: http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-
worlds-stock-exchanges-by-size/
4. Following is the Bitcoin Genesis block confirmation link: https://www.
blockchain.com/btc/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934f
f763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
5. Judith Hill, Medical Astrology, Stellium Press, 2004, p. 20 (Sun in Capricorn).
6. “Backtesting” is commonly used in price analysis when testing a trading system
to see if it could have successfully predicted past price movement of a given asset.
7. My preliminary research indicates that North Node eclipses are more asso-
ciated with financial rallies, while South Node eclipses are more associated
with sell-offs. My personal observation is that eclipses seem to exaggerate
emotions and market sentiment and, so far, appear to be more bullish when
on the North Node and more bearish when on the South Node.
8. Twitter handle: @AstroCryptoGuru
9. The first direct Uranus square to BTC Jupiter in April 2018 did correlate with
a price rally, so past data indicated that this could be favorable. Also, the synchro-
nous beneficial transits of Venus and Mars suggested that it would swing favorable.
10. Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche, Penguin Group, 2007; Ray Mer-
riman’s 2018 and 2019 yearly and monthly forecast reports.
11. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-12/dollar-bears-
unite-as-dalio-gundlach-predict-greenback-downturn and https://www.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/why-a-longtime-bull-just-flipped-
very-bearish-on-the-stock-market
12. A “black swan” is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally
expected of a situation, and has potentially severe consequences. Black swan
events are characterized by their extreme rarity, their severe impact, and the
practice of explaining widespread failure to “predict” them as simple folly in
hindsight. Black swan events can cause catastrophic damage to an economy,
and because they cannot be predicted, they can only be prepared for by build-
ing robust systems. For additional information, see: https://www.investope
dia.com/terms/b/blackswan.asp

© 2019 Robert Weinstein – all rights reserved

Robert Weinstein, L.Ac., is a writer, astrologer, and practitioner

of Chinese medicine in Seattle, Washington. He has studied astrol-
ogy for more than 18 years and has a special interest in both medical
and financial astrology. He is available for astrological consultations at
[email protected]. His website is http://www.sourcepointastro
logy.com, and you may request his cryptocurrency astrology report by
e-mailing [email protected]

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