Bay Area I-ching Master Y.C. Sun says. “The Year of the Rat will be a nurturing year, but one developed through strong collaboration and perseverance.” In this intense presidential campaign year, this computer scientist and third-generation geomancer has enhanced his focus on global economics and geopolitics.
Economy
Sun again cautions that people should beware of a global recession after the Beijing Olympics, preparing with Rat-like frugality late-2008 and 2009. “The major stock markets will sell-off in China and Hong Kong, causing more panic and dumping of real estate and cash-outs of investments,” Sun predicts. “The U.S. is one year ahead of the looming global recession that will come in the second quarter of 2009,” Sun explains. China, our big investor, won’t be able to control inflation, and a power struggle will erupt there as President Hu Jintao experiences a bad luck year in 2009. Sun points out that in the past seven Rat years, the stock market has been bullish and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has always went up. The elements also indicate popular business and investment sectors. According to Sun, the earth energy is represented by the health care and agricultural sectors and should be part of an inflation-hedging portfolio. The large caps – pharmaceuticals, telecom, technology and service sectors — will do well and start an uptrend throughout 2008,As with the previous year, this year’s water energy points to successes in the industries of: import/ export, travel, shipping, moving, cleaning, musical entertainment, magic entertainment, Internet, seafood, chemicals, fruit juice, wine and spirits, and tea and coffee. The Earth Rat year will produce some strong mud though water influences and quell the flames, driving oil prices down from $100 per barrel to $70. This Rat year’s earth and water elements will also enhance natural disasters reflecting those elements: powerful rain and snow storms, hurricanes, flooding, erosion, landslides and avalanches. The earth energy will also produce large-scale earthquakes in Japan, Hawai‘i, Argentina, Iran and Turkmenistan/ USSR. Likely earth movement months are February, June, August, October and January 2009 (still within the Earth Rat year).Politics
Sun believes this influence will see Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee. Sun explains that both Clinton and Barack Obama have strong earth energy. However, Clinton has male earth energy and Obama has female energy, and the energy makeup for male earth will be greatly enhanced in March and April, giving Clinton the advantage. Come November, Sun predicts Clinton will call the Oval Office hers with 80 percent certainty.
For the remainder of the George W. Bush presidency, Sun predicts that he will have a good legislative year in 2008, starting with the massive tax stimulus package to boost the economy before March 5, 2008. The earth and water elements also indicate that Bush may leave a legacy with a number of public works projects to repair our transportation infrastructure, providing jobs and staving off a recession.
Sun says that good locations this year are east, southeast and northeast, while bad locations are south and northwest. The directions can apply to one’s home, a city, a state, a country or the world. Sun sees continued unrest in the Middle East, specifically with Israel and Palestine in May and June. He also sees hot spots for violence and political struggles in Venezuela, Cuba and among African countries, namely Chad and Kenya.
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