Arch Crawford on Eclipses

Below is an excerpt of an interview of Arch Crawford conducted by TradingMarkets Research

There are 3-5 eclipses per year. Around the time of the 1987 crash, The Wall Street Journal ran an article about Jose Arguelles who had come up with a Mayan calendar date that was very important, and that was supposed to be August 17th and all the new age people were going to sacred sites and dancing and drumming and praying and meditating and doing what they do. It was called the “Harmonic Convergence.” It was supposed to be this Mayan date. Well, I looked at this date and I didn’t see anything.

I looked forward and here nine days later [on August 24th] was the tightest 5-body conjunction in at least 800 years and they were all visible bodies. And I said, “that is what the Mayans were talking about.” I said, “this market will peak on August 24, give or take three days, after which we will have a horrendous crash.”  

The market peaked at Noon on August 25 and it dropped and dropped and it stopped and turned violently on the day of the solar eclipse on the Fall Equinox – September 23rd. During the Solar Eclipse, the market broke down in the morning, scared the heck out of traders, then turned around and had the biggest up-day in history, in points. 

Then it rallied for two weeks; at the top of that rally, we had the biggest earthquake in Southern California in at least seven years. Two days later we had a Lunar Eclipse, which began the biggest down day in stock market history to date. From the Lunar Eclipse on October 7th to October 19th the  Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 508 points (22.6%). So the lunar eclipse touched off the earthquake.