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Astrocryptography<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>

Bethany Tabor on the lunar cycles of crypto value<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"middle\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 14,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 2,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 5\r\n }\r\n ],\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 0,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 14,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 4,\r\n \"frameOverflow\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"stack\",\r\n \"cont\": [\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"img\",\r\n \"cont\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1.png\",\r\n \"align\": \"middle\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 8,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 1265,\r\n \"attid\": 492,\r\n \"sizes\": {\r\n \"full\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1.png\",\r\n \"_768\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1-768x442.png\",\r\n \"_512\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1-512x294.png\",\r\n \"_265\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1-265x152.png\"\r\n },\r\n \"w\": 786,\r\n \"h\": 452,\r\n \"ar\": 0.5750636132315522,\r\n \"alt\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Screenshot from www.tradingview.com<\/span><\/a> by user marenaltman, posted May 1, 2021<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 8,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0.8,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 17\r\n }\r\n ],\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 8,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 710,\r\n \"frameOverflow\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Politicians, investors, and day-traders are not new to astrology. Trading with the stars might as well be as old as astrology itself. And the practice didn\u2019t fade away with the dawn of modernity or science either, though its prominence largely faded from public acceptance during the age of Enlightenment as esoteric practices became excluded from \u201crational thought.\u201d The modern astrologer who had arguably the most influence on global life (due to her proximity to power) was Joan Quigley, Nancy and Ronald Reagan\u2019s personal astrologer who advised on various decisions he made as president.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/span><\/a> <\/span>We may have seen this policy practice die down in recent decades, but astrology in general is clearly on a continual rise in pop culture\u2014evidenced by the facility and familiarity many people have with knowing the details of their personal natal chart. Astrology is also seeing an uptick in its application to economics\u2014particularly, in the realm of predicting the rise and fall of cryptocurrency value.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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The popularity of cryptocurrency itself has experienced ups and downs since the invention of Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009, but 2021 saw an explosion in public awareness. Early in the year, BTC was climbing exponentially, hitting all-time highs on a monthly basis; the art world was rocked by blockchain technology in the form of NFTs; companies and politicians began accepting BTC as a form of payment;2<\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span> and, perhaps most remarkably, El Salvador announced that, as of September 7, 2021, it would accept BTC as legal tender. Amid all of this, new altcoins emerged on the crypto trading market, which saw many early investors make life-changing money seemingly overnight. What began as a new form of saving and investing money is now becoming established as a viable escape route from the frightening horrors of global inflation and imminent economic collapse. Particularly for astrologers, this notion tends to go hand in hand with the speculations around the upcoming Pluto Return of the United States.3<\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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As the stakes grow higher, so too does public curiosity, speculation, and strategic thinking. Behavioral economics and Game Theory suddenly enter the crypto-holding space for the purpose of predicting the value of these volatile assets. At the same time, the social media sphere is seeing its own comparable boom, particularly on TikTok, where the chances of going viral are about as high as the niche-content demands of a creator\u2019s followers.4<\/sup><\/span><\/a> Astrology TikTok (one of innumerable subsets of TikTok content) is an enormously popular algorithmic channel because it hooks people in just the right way by indulging behavioral analysis\u2014much the same as that usually applied to Game Theory and economics.5<\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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Maren Altman is perhaps the most infamous\u2014or at least an \u201coriginal\u201d\u2014TikTok Astrologer who regularly creates and reads correlative crypto-lunar charts. She rose to the top of many For You Pages during the 2020 election news cycle, when she cross-referenced the candidates\u2019 natal charts with current skies. When the election buzz died down, she began to do the same with BTC. Her readings are surprisingly accurate, and her newest venture into drawing crypto-lunar price charts is providing a remarkable correlation. Following Maren\u2019s lead, several other crypto traders began illustrating their own crypto-lunar charts to track similar cycles. These price charts all tend to say the same thing: BTC hits highs during New Moons and bottoms out on Full Moons. <\/span><\/p>

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In October 2021, BTC reached several all-time highs after a relatively devastating summer. After the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced a BTC ETF option on October 18\u2014which essentially allows it to trade like a stock, and on the first day after a Mercury retrograde, no less\u2014the Moon began waning and the price of BTC soared. <\/span><\/p>

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The thing about crypto is\u2026 it isn\u2019t stocks. Stocks and the trading strategies applied to them typically take into consideration things like how well a company\u2019s services will perform in the \u201creal world\u201d and\/or how many people will \u201cbuy into\u201d those services. In other words, a stock share\u2019s value is largely contingent on the market success of the company. In contrast, the value of a cryptocurrency coin is contingent on how many people are buying and selling\u2014in other words, human behavior. It makes sense, then, that astrology, which is applied to human behavior, has practical applications to crypto as well. This idea that New Moons correspond to high BTC value and Full Moons to low value is interesting to consider alongside the idea that Full Moons are times when animals (humans included) are particularly hyperactive. At the time of this article\u2019s publishing\u2014three days after the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse\u2014BTC\u2019s value has dropped significantly. This is largely because the SEC rejected an investment firm\u2019s BTC ETF option proposal on November 12.6<\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span> Mix that in with a frenzied scarcity panic during a supercharged Full Moon, and people are selling en masse. The tides will turn\u2014as they always do with the Moon\u2014and as BTC\u2019s price drops, those who believe in \u201cbuying the dip\u201d will help the market correct back up. The next date to watch will be December 3\u2019s New Moon Solar Eclipse. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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The planets do not control outcomes. They do not make things happen or cause certain situations to play out over others. Their movements can, however, be traced, and their correlations on Earth are applied to make accurate predictions. For example, the Moon\u2019s relationship to us is used to predict high and low tides as well as optimal times for hunting (see: the Solunar Calendar<\/span><\/a><\/span>). A clock on the wall doesn\u2019t determine<\/i> the time so much as it describes how many hours are left in a day. Simply put, astrology is a science of correlation, not causation. It describes the conditions of a given moment. Through our observation of celestial patterns and future movements, we can predict the future only insofar as we can describe the conditions <\/i>of that future. <\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 2,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 8,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 8,\r\n \"dosync\": false\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"stack\",\r\n \"cont\": [\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"img\",\r\n \"cont\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1.png\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 1,\r\n \"colspan\": 4,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 1,\r\n \"relid\": 561,\r\n \"attid\": 493,\r\n \"sizes\": {\r\n \"full\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1.png\",\r\n \"_768\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1-768x909.png\",\r\n \"_512\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1-512x606.png\",\r\n \"_265\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1-265x314.png\"\r\n },\r\n \"w\": 914,\r\n \"h\": 1082,\r\n \"ar\": 1.1838074398249452,\r\n \"alt\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

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Screenshot from www.tradingview.com<\/span><\/a> by user marenaltman, posted May 1, 2021<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"middle\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 1,\r\n \"colspan\": 4,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0.8,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 10,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 1,\r\n \"relid\": 6\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"img\",\r\n \"cont\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3.png\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 1,\r\n \"colspan\": 4,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 1,\r\n \"relid\": 379,\r\n \"attid\": 495,\r\n \"sizes\": {\r\n \"full\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3.png\",\r\n \"_768\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3-768x817.png\",\r\n \"_512\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3-512x545.png\",\r\n \"_265\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3-265x282.png\"\r\n },\r\n \"w\": 968,\r\n \"h\": 1030,\r\n \"ar\": 1.0640495867768596,\r\n \"alt\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Screenshot of www.tradingview.com<\/span><\/a> by user dieruno, posted September 20, 2021<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 1,\r\n \"colspan\": 4,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0.8,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 1,\r\n \"relid\": 11\r\n }\r\n ],\r\n \"align\": \"middle\",\r\n \"row\": 2,\r\n \"col\": 9,\r\n \"colspan\": 5,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 1,\r\n \"relid\": 2522,\r\n \"frameOverflow\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

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Bethany Tabor<\/strong> is a writer and curator currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her interests include end-of-life literacy, cultural attitudes toward death and dying, and esoteric religious knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 4,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 8,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 23\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

1<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>According to former Secretary of the Treasury (1981-85) and Chief of Staff (1985-87) Donald T Regan\u2019s memoir, For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington<\/i>, 1988.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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2<\/span>\u00a0 In March 2021 Tesla announced it would accept BTC as a form of payment for car purchases. Following his election as Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams announced his first three paychecks would be paid in BTC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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3<\/span>\u00a0 A Pluto Return is a planetary transit occurring once every 250 years, when Pluto returns to the same place it was at a moment of \u201cbirth.\u201d Seeing as this transit is centuries-long, this applies only to nations or other multi-century institutions. A Pluto Return signifies upheaval and transformation. The United States will experience its Pluto Return in February 2022 in its Second House, which is tied to finances, material possessions, and the concept of value itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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4<\/span>\u00a0 TikTok\u2019s byline: \u201ctrends start here.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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5<\/span>\u00a0 Game Theory is the study of strategic decision-making that is applied to predict investment behavior, as well as to economics, finance, and business more broadly, among other fields.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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6<\/span>\u00a0 See: Namcios, \u201cUS SEC Rejects VanEck\u2019s Spot Bitcoin ETF,\u201d Bitcoin Magazine<\/i>, November 12, 2021. https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/sec-rejects-vaneck-spot-bitcoin-etf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 5,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 8,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 15\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

November 22, 2021<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": 6,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 8,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 9,\r\n \"frameOverflow\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

BACK TO TOP<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": 6,\r\n \"col\": 11,\r\n \"colspan\": 3,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 3,\r\n \"relid\": 21,\r\n \"isscrolltotop\": true,\r\n \"frameOverflow\": \"\",\r\n \"dosync\": false\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n}","phonegrid":"{\r\n \"colCount\": 12,\r\n \"colGutter\": 1,\r\n \"rowGutters\": [\r\n 20,\r\n \"10\",\r\n 10,\r\n \"10\",\r\n \"10\",\r\n \"10\",\r\n 5,\r\n \"11\",\r\n \"10\",\r\n \"10\",\r\n \"20\"\r\n ],\r\n \"frameMargin\": 5,\r\n \"topFrameMargin\": 5,\r\n \"bottomFrameMargin\": 5,\r\n \"rowAttrs\": [\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {},\r\n {}\r\n ],\r\n \"bgColor\": \"#000000\",\r\n \"cont\": [\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Colophon<\/a><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 0,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 22\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Astrocryptography<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>

Bethany Tabor on the lunar cycles of crypto value<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": 1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 5\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"stack\",\r\n \"cont\": [\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"img\",\r\n \"cont\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1.png\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 1265,\r\n \"attid\": 492,\r\n \"sizes\": {\r\n \"full\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1.png\",\r\n \"_768\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1-768x442.png\",\r\n \"_512\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1-512x294.png\",\r\n \"_265\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cover-1-265x152.png\"\r\n },\r\n \"w\": 786,\r\n \"h\": 452,\r\n \"ar\": 0.5750636132315522,\r\n \"alt\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

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Politicians, investors, and day-traders are not new to astrology. Trading with the stars might as well be as old as astrology itself. And the practice didn\u2019t fade away with the dawn of modernity or science either, though its prominence largely faded from public acceptance during the age of Enlightenment as esoteric practices became excluded from \u201crational thought.\u201d The modern astrologer who had arguably the most influence on global life (due to her proximity to power) was Joan Quigley, Nancy and Ronald Reagan\u2019s personal astrologer who advised on various decisions he made as president.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/span><\/a> <\/span>We may have seen this policy practice die down in recent decades, but astrology in general is clearly on a continual rise in pop culture\u2014evidenced by the facility and familiarity many people have with knowing the details of their personal natal chart. Astrology is also seeing an uptick in its application to economics\u2014particularly, in the realm of predicting the rise and fall of cryptocurrency value.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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The popularity of cryptocurrency itself has experienced ups and downs since the invention of Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009, but 2021 saw an explosion in public awareness. Early in the year, BTC was climbing exponentially, hitting all-time highs on a monthly basis; the art world was rocked by blockchain technology in the form of NFTs; companies and politicians began accepting BTC as a form of payment;2<\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span> and, perhaps most remarkably, El Salvador announced that, as of September 7, 2021, it would accept BTC as legal tender. Amid all of this, new altcoins emerged on the crypto trading market, which saw many early investors make life-changing money seemingly overnight. What began as a new form of saving and investing money is now becoming established as a viable escape route from the frightening horrors of global inflation and imminent economic collapse. Particularly for astrologers, this notion tends to go hand in hand with the speculations around the upcoming Pluto Return of the United States.3<\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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As the stakes grow higher, so too does public curiosity, speculation, and strategic thinking. Behavioral economics and Game Theory suddenly enter the crypto-holding space for the purpose of predicting the value of these volatile assets. At the same time, the social media sphere is seeing its own comparable boom, particularly on TikTok, where the chances of going viral are about as high as the niche-content demands of a creator\u2019s followers.4<\/sup><\/span><\/a> Astrology TikTok (one of innumerable subsets of TikTok content) is an enormously popular algorithmic channel because it hooks people in just the right way by indulging behavioral analysis\u2014much the same as that usually applied to Game Theory and economics.5<\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": 3,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 8,\r\n \"frameOverflow\": \"\",\r\n \"dosync\": false\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"stack\",\r\n \"cont\": [\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"img\",\r\n \"cont\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1.png\",\r\n \"align\": \"middle\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 561,\r\n \"attid\": 493,\r\n \"sizes\": {\r\n \"full\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1.png\",\r\n \"_768\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1-768x909.png\",\r\n \"_512\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1-512x606.png\",\r\n \"_265\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-1-265x314.png\"\r\n },\r\n \"w\": 914,\r\n \"h\": 1082,\r\n \"ar\": 1.1838074398249452,\r\n \"alt\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Screenshot from www.tradingview.com<\/span><\/a> by user ChingasX, posted February 18, 2020<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 1,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 10\r\n }\r\n ],\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 4,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 12\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"stack\",\r\n \"cont\": [\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"img\",\r\n \"cont\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-2.png\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 595,\r\n \"attid\": 494,\r\n \"sizes\": {\r\n \"full\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-2.png\",\r\n \"_768\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-2-768x962.png\",\r\n \"_512\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-2-512x641.png\",\r\n \"_265\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-2-265x332.png\"\r\n },\r\n \"w\": 871,\r\n \"h\": 1091,\r\n \"ar\": 1.2525832376578645,\r\n \"alt\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Screenshot from www.tradingview.com<\/span><\/a> by user marenaltman, posted May 1, 2021<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 1,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 6\r\n }\r\n ],\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 5,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 14\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Maren Altman is perhaps the most infamous\u2014or at least an \u201coriginal\u201d\u2014TikTok Astrologer who regularly creates and reads correlative crypto-lunar charts. She rose to the top of many For You Pages during the 2020 election news cycle, when she cross-referenced the candidates\u2019 natal charts with current skies. When the election buzz died down, she began to do the same with BTC. Her readings are surprisingly accurate, and her newest venture into drawing crypto-lunar price charts is providing a remarkable correlation. Following Maren\u2019s lead, several other crypto traders began illustrating their own crypto-lunar charts to track similar cycles. These price charts all tend to say the same thing: BTC hits highs during New Moons and bottoms out on Full Moons. <\/span><\/p>

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In October 2021, BTC reached several all-time highs after a relatively devastating summer. After the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced a BTC ETF option on October 18\u2014which essentially allows it to trade like a stock, and on the first day after a Mercury retrograde, no less\u2014the Moon began waning and the price of BTC soared. <\/span><\/p>

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The thing about crypto is\u2026 it isn\u2019t stocks. Stocks and the trading strategies applied to them typically take into consideration things like how well a company\u2019s services will perform in the \u201creal world\u201d and\/or how many people will \u201cbuy into\u201d those services. In other words, a stock share\u2019s value is largely contingent on the market success of the company. In contrast, the value of a cryptocurrency coin is contingent on how many people are buying and selling\u2014in other words, human behavior. It makes sense, then, that astrology, which is applied to human behavior, has practical applications to crypto as well. This idea that New Moons correspond to high BTC value and Full Moons to low value is interesting to consider alongside the idea that Full Moons are times when animals (humans included) are particularly hyperactive. At the time of this article\u2019s publishing\u2014three days after the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse\u2014BTC\u2019s value has dropped significantly. This is largely because the SEC rejected an investment firm\u2019s BTC ETF option proposal on November 12.6<\/sup><\/span><\/a><\/span> Mix that in with a frenzied scarcity panic during a supercharged Full Moon, and people are selling en masse. The tides will turn\u2014as they always do with the Moon\u2014and as BTC\u2019s price drops, those who believe in \u201cbuying the dip\u201d will help the market correct back up. The next date to watch will be December 3\u2019s New Moon Solar Eclipse. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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The planets do not control outcomes. They do not make things happen or cause certain situations to play out over others. Their movements can, however, be traced, and their correlations on Earth are applied to make accurate predictions. For example, the Moon\u2019s relationship to us is used to predict high and low tides as well as optimal times for hunting (see: the Solunar Calendar<\/span><\/a><\/span>). A clock on the wall doesn\u2019t determine<\/i> the time so much as it describes how many hours are left in a day. Simply put, astrology is a science of correlation, not causation. It describes the conditions of a given moment. Through our observation of celestial patterns and future movements, we can predict the future only insofar as we can describe the conditions <\/i>of that future. <\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 6,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 7\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"stack\",\r\n \"cont\": [\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"img\",\r\n \"cont\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3.png\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 379,\r\n \"attid\": 495,\r\n \"sizes\": {\r\n \"full\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3.png\",\r\n \"_768\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3-768x817.png\",\r\n \"_512\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3-512x545.png\",\r\n \"_265\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astrocryptography-Fig.-3-265x282.png\"\r\n },\r\n \"w\": 968,\r\n \"h\": 1030,\r\n \"ar\": 1.0640495867768596,\r\n \"alt\": \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Screenshot of www.tradingview.com<\/span><\/a> by user dieruno, posted September 20, 2021<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"bottom\",\r\n \"row\": -1,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 1,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 11\r\n }\r\n ],\r\n \"align\": \"middle\",\r\n \"row\": 7,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 13\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

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Bethany Tabor<\/strong> is a writer and curator currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her interests include end-of-life literacy, cultural attitudes toward death and dying, and esoteric religious knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"middle\",\r\n \"row\": 9,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 23\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

1<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>According to former Secretary of the Treasury (1981-85) and Chief of Staff (1985-87) Donald T Regan\u2019s memoir, For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington<\/i>, 1988.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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2<\/span>\u00a0 In March 2021 Tesla announced it would accept BTC as a form of payment for car purchases. Following his election as Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams announced his first three paychecks would be paid in BTC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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3<\/span>\u00a0 A Pluto Return is a planetary transit occurring once every 250 years, when Pluto returns to the same place it was at a moment of \u201cbirth.\u201d Seeing as this transit is centuries-long, this applies only to nations or other multi-century institutions. A Pluto Return signifies upheaval and transformation. The United States will experience its Pluto Return in February 2022 in its Second House, which is tied to finances, material possessions, and the concept of value itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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4<\/span>\u00a0 TikTok\u2019s byline: \u201ctrends start here.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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5<\/span>\u00a0 Game Theory is the study of strategic decision-making that is applied to predict investment behavior, as well as to economics, finance, and business more broadly, among other fields.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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6<\/span>\u00a0 See: Namcios, \u201cUS SEC Rejects VanEck\u2019s Spot Bitcoin ETF,\u201d Bitcoin Magazine<\/i>, November 12, 2021. https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/sec-rejects-vaneck-spot-bitcoin-etf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 10,\r\n \"col\": 0,\r\n \"colspan\": 12,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 0,\r\n \"relid\": 15\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

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