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Robert Weinstein's study of twenty Venus retrogrades, retested on 32 years of S&P 500 closes — two striking bottoms, a pattern near record highs, the rare sky of autumn 2026, and what chance alone would do.
15 October 2026 14 min read ▶ 20-min video 24 sources · 10 peer-reviewed
In brief
Every 19 months Venus turns retrograde for about six weeks, and the financial astrologer Robert Weinstein found that when the S&P 500 sat at a record high, 9 of 10 of those retrogrades brought a fall. We retested his twenty retrogrades on the index's daily closes. Taken together they look like any other six weeks — but the ones that began near a record did end lower far more often than chance, two great bear-market bottoms fell within three days of Venus turning, and autumn 2026 brings a sky not seen since 1904.
Venus rules money — so test it on money
The claim: twenty retrogrades
Every 584 days — about 19 months, not 18 — Venus slows, stops and runs backwards through the zodiac for six weeks as she passes between the Earth and the Sun. Astrologers give her love, beauty, value and money, so when she turns back, relationships and markets are said to wobble. Because the retrograde repeats so regularly, it can be tested, which is what the financial astrologer Robert Weinstein (“Crypto Damus”) did on World Astrology Report: he looked at the last twenty Venus retrogrades and what the S&P 500 did in each.
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7 sections, 8 diagrams, the video with its chapters, 18 claims checked against the research, 24 sources with the names of the people who did the work and links to it — and downloads in PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- 🔒 Against chance
- 🔒 Two great bottoms
- 🔒 Every eight years in Scorpio
- 🔒 The sky of autumn 2026
- 🔒 McWhirter's node and the business cycle
- 🔒 What the research says about markets and the sky
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