If you were expecting some kind of sun sign nonsense, forget about it. This is real astrology for the real world. If it's real astrology for yourself that you want, you can get it by phone or in print. And if you need help deciphering the astrological glyphs in the graphics accompanying this article, see Astroglyphs: Astrological Symbols Guide. Please note: this forecast is expressed in terms of Universal Time (UT).

If you have been following my online monthly forecasts since June, you know that I predicted an upturn in the equity markets beginning that month, as Jupiter came within a degree of its July 6 apparent stationary point in the sky. And if you've been following the markets since then, you have seen this come to pass by and large. Of course individual equities and markets vary, but take the Dow Jones Industrials, for example: down around 10,700 in June, the average climbed to just under 11,500 shortly after Labor Day. If you took my advice back in May, when my June forecast was published, you've had an appreciation in excess of 7% in the last couple of months. I hope you'll consider my advice now: "I figure the party's over sometime in September," is the way I put it in my online September forecast (published in August), adding "now's the time to take profits and move into commodities again - the metals in general and the precious metals in particular." If you've been watching the major equity markets since Labor Day, I think you've seen the first confirmation of what my forecast spelled out.