Louise McWhirter’s 1938 book on stock market forecasting outlines the methods she used to predict long and shorter-term trends on the stock market. She had obviously studied both natal and mundane astrology and used the North Node’s cycle, her own rectified chart for the New York Stock Exchange, the horoscopes of corporations, and lunations and transits to form her judgments.

The North Node’s cycle outlined the bigger swings of the market. From Scorpio to Libra, expected business volume moves from normal to above normal, creating prosperity. In Leo, business is at a high point. In Cancer and Gemini, business is above normal trending toward normal. With the Node in Taurus through Aries, we transition to below normal. When the North Node passes into Aquarius, we are at the low point. From Capricorn to Sagittarius we move from below normal to normal again.

McWhirter rectified the NY Stock Exchange chart, giving it a 14 Cancer Ascendant with 24-1/2 Pisces on the MC and felt that transits to the angles would change the trends in securities, bonds and the general condition of the market. These “secondary factors” could alter the expected nodal cycle movement by up to 20%. Lunations (New Moon charts) compared with the NYSE horoscope will show the trend of the coming month.

Other factors can also throw this business cycle out of its expected rhythm. Transiting Jupiter conjunct the Node or in favorable aspects to Saturn or Uranus may give the markets a boost. Saturn or Uranus in hard aspect to the Nodes should depress prices. The positive or negative aspects between transiting Saturn and Uranus can also be used to forecast major trends. Louise felt that both the signs of Gemini and Cancer related to the United States, so Jupiter in these signs was helpful, while Saturn, Uranus and Pluto here were not.

To forecast for individual stocks, McWhirter utilized incorporation dates and their solar charts. If their natal planets connect to the NYSE chart, we can expect them to follow the general market’s trend. Lunations and outer planet transits to these charts will indicate how the particular company will fare in the coming months and years.

In 1938, McWhirter reiterated Dr. Luke D. Broughton and Evangeline Adams’ cycle for U.S. war with Uranus in Gemini, and correctly forecast that when Saturn and Uranus were in this sign from 1942 to 1944, it suggested “war, depression, government change, social upheaval and a financial panic.”

Louise McWhirter’s methods might not be as effective today as they once were, but they’re based on sound, standard astrology. We can all begin to test them by following the charts for the market and individual companies and studying the transits and lunations to them. As Louise advised, “It takes time and practice to become adept in analyzing the charts of stocks, but it is interesting and very worthwhile because it helps you to obtain financial independence through investment of a sound and practical nature.”

My biographical sketch of Louise McWhirter is here.

McWhirter Theory of Stock Market Forecasting is on Amazon.