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well it is easy to see why Gann was pessimistic.
During 1949 Jupiter in Capricorn made 3 sesquiquadrate angles to Saturn in Virgo on 2Jul49, 23Aug49 & 23Dec49
But what made this potentially worse were the 3 following oppositions 6Apr51 Jupiter in Pisces o-o Saturn in Virgo, 14Oct51 & 21Feb52 Jupiter in Aries o-o Saturn in Libra.
But the riddle is that something interferred with his suppositions ...any ideas?
Yes bondguy absolutely, that is a very good interjection.
He definitely would have taken that into consideration on a forecast like this.
He had the McWhirter cycle worked out long before McWhirter, but despite the table and the Astro, the forecast still went wrong - which is the conundrum
.. anyone have any idea as to why?
# CONUNDRUM
# A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.
# A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma:
If this is a pun,
then let us have some fun,
Of course when you ask "why",
all you get is the booby prize.
Ok, so the poetry stinks (or does it?), have you considered what happens when one asks "why"?
(Actually this will introduce what Gann was doing, but you抣l have to endure the old hermetic style Gann was so familiar with and used in his teaching style. Gann also made his students read many of the books he read, so they could relate to his come from?you抣l have to get to know Gann before you can know what he was talking about.)
Look up the definition of WHY in the dictionary.
Most look up the definition of Why as an adverb but let抯 move to what most don抰 do, (a good thing to do in trading too). Let抯 see "why" as a noun: We find that it has two synonyms Cause and Enigma.
Cause = ?something that brings about an effect or a result" so here we have a noun (thing) that is cause and effect, something in the real world, substantial, hard and knowable.
Enigma = another synonym is Mystery = "a ?truth that one can know only by revelation and cannot fully understand."
Most of us want the first definition (cause)?hard facts, cause and effect, real world stuff. So if we were to follow our adage of not doing what everyone else is doing, we may want to look at an enigma, the mystery that is not necessarily of this cause and effect world.
Gann used the Law of Vibration to know and do a lot the things he later tried to share with the world, so if we are to know Gann we need to know something about the Law of Vibration. What most people don抰 recognize, is that the LV has more than one definition (like WHY did) but when we only look at the most common viewpoint, we may miss the mystery and deeper possibility.
The reason Gann would be right on some of his forecasts and trading and not on others is like Infolode said: "But....Gann was also a self promoter and with egos come mistakes."
If we define ourselves we may find the same dilemma we had in defining WHY. Who are we anyway? One of the things (noun) that we are is an ego, and an ego is very interested in cause and effect, in controlling its space with knowledge and facts, and so is biased toward the Cause side of why.
Gann was human too, and he would be in his ego mode and make decisions from there, and he also was aware, as in the Enigma, mystery side and could use the Law of Vibration from there. When he was doing his work from the Law of Vibration, he knew what was going on and was very accurate, when he slipped into ego mode and used his knowledge based on cause and effect he got something less. Cause and effect works, but the ego has much less available to it, and so it often misses the mark. |