10 Economic Hot Spots: Predictions In Place For 2010
San Francisco Brasilia Gotland
Most popular astrology concerns itself with the what and when of things. "You will come into a great sum of money next Thursday" or "the world will end in 2012" is the general tone of astrological prediction. So it is that the issue of whether the economy will be strong, or at least improving, in 2010 is often considered as a one answer fits all sort of inquiry.
Of course, what is missing from the discussion is a consideration of place. To be sure, astrology has always been a construct of location; its horoscopic calculations are always made with regard to a specific place as well as time. But it is thanks to an increasingly engaged and exploratory astrological community, assisted by some brilliantly compiled software, that modern astrologers are increasingly conversant with the premise that what sets the clock into motion also animates the predictive map.
So if it is somewhat hard to call the general market trend in the year ahead (thanks, in part, to the influence of Neptune as described in the previous blog entry), there's still much to be gleaned from specific planetary influences touching down in very specific places. Here are ten rather far flung locales that should be significant headliners in the business news in 2010. Gotland?
LOCATION: Boston
SIMILAR VIBE: Miami; Fiji
KEY DATES: 2/24; 8/5; 8/23; 10/22
WATCH FOR: potentially violent confrontations in association with partnership and shareholder matters; all business and legal matters will be fraught with aggression; struggles/battles
LOCATION: Brasilia
SIMILAR VIBE: Vladivostok
KEY DATES: 2/1; 2/8; 2/20; 6/6; 8/25; 10/10; 12/10
WATCH FOR: no major power center on earth has a stronger or edgier set of planetary influences associated with it than the capitol of Brazil in 2010; the general symbolism is of a bill come due and important partners that will not be put off regarding shared commitments; there is an overarching sense of "great transformation"
LOCATION: Denver
SIMILAR VIBE: Cheyenne, Tucson, Winnipeg, Rio De Janeiro
KEY DATES: 3/18; 4/2; 5/22; 8/8; 11/25
WATCH FOR: the bright light of business vitality should shine on all of the aforementioned places in the year ahead, particularly spotlighting entrepreneurial investment (and not necessarily successful high stakes risk)...consider Rio and what the award of the 2016 summer Olympics may involve in the time period ahead
LOCATION: Fairbanks
SIMILAR VIBE: Cairo
KEY DATES: 4/27
WATCH FOR: good fortune from technological and/or energy-related breakthroughs...sudden, specific and surprisingly large payoffs
LOCATION: Gotland (largest island in Baltic Sea, part of Sweden, significant wind power producer)
SIMILAR VIBE: Phoenix, Stockholm
KEY DATES: 3/20; 4/10; 5/13; 6/29; 11/30
WATCH FOR: the keyword here is "information;" innovative ideas produced in meetings & conferences and widely disseminated through telecommunications are likely to have especially significant business impact in the year ahead (I had second thoughts about this inclusion and then did some Googling...just learned that the the first World Ecological Forum is taking place on Gotland in the summer of 2010...within two days of 6/29!)
LOCATION: Panama Canal
SIMILAR VIBE: Switzerland
KEY DATES: 3/1; 3/11; 8/27; 9/20; 12/20
WATCH FOR: there is an extremely fortunate vibe here this year as Panama continues its work on the canal expansion project that should have a truly enormous impact on global shipping by mid-decade; international involvement & visionary thinking are the keys
LOCATION: Paris
SIMILAR VIBE: Cleveland, Erie, Akron, Pittsburgh
KEY DATES: 9/9; 10/5
WATCH FOR: painful business situations arise that call for new thinking, i.e. solutions not derived from traditional models; time may seem to pass slowly but there is a sense that a healing is taking place...patience is paramount
LOCATION: San Francisco
SIMILAR VIBE: Calgary
KEY DATES: 2/1; 2/20; 8/25; 10/10
WATCH FOR: of all the icky things with which astrology finds itself fascinated, perhaps the ickiest is its preoccupation with natural disasters; personally acknowledging a sincere distaste for this sort of thing, it is nevertheless painfully apparent that a horoscope cast for the first 2010 trade of the NYSE places Pluto (transforming lord of the underworld) exactly on the San Andreas fault at Point Reyes, in Marin County just north of San Francisco; since I refuse to ever predict an earthquake (unless in doing so I would mitigate the likelihood of its occurrence) , let's just consider the symbolism as economic and pass along a caution regarding financial affairs in the area this year...keep your eye on the banks and the real estate
LOCATION: Scottsdale (AZ)
SIMILAR VIBE: Bismarck (ND), Rapid City (SD), Winnipeg
KEY DATES: 3/5, 3/11, 6/24, 9/13, 11/8, 12/27
WATCH FOR: there is a very strong Venus vibe in Scottsdale this year, a popular destination for business meetings and conventions; ordinarily Venus is a very positive influence, indicating successful collaborations and negotiations and general asset appreciation; likely there will be some news in a positive vein this year, but there are also indications of disappointment...getting what one thinks they want rather than what would actually be helpful
LOCATION: Southampton (NY)
SIMILAR VIBE: Cuba, Marseilles
KEY DATES: 8/14, 10/16
WATCH FOR: off-the-radar activities could lead to very big deals...watch for news of mergers, acquisitions and important arrangements regarding debt financing stemming from these locales
Interested in mapping your own business hot (and cold) spots for 2010?
Drop a line to Steve at smw@stevenmarkweiss.com.
Posted by Steve at 11/24/2009 3:01 PM 
Categories: Business Outlook
Tags: trends hot spots Steven Mark Weiss predictions business economic places 2010 Signs of Success
Categories: Business Outlook
Tags: trends hot spots Steven Mark Weiss predictions business economic places 2010 Signs of Success
You called the quake, Steve!
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Wish I could take some satisfaction from that...
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