As on 1st January 2018 Sun & Venus & Saturn in Sagitarius, Ketu in Capricorn, Moon in Gemini, Rahu in Cancer, Jupiter & Mars in Libra and Mercury in Scorpio. Planetary transits in January: 15th Sun -> Capricorn, 6th Mercury -> Sagitarius, 13th Venus -> Capricorn, 16th Mars -> Scorpio, 27th Mercury -> Capricorn. The above planetary positions is having a distinctive feature. All planets are in between Rahu & Ketu leaving one side (180°) empty which will continue up to 30th January 2018 (except on dates when Moon moves to other side) and astrologers call it "KALA SARPA YOGA". "Yoga" means assembly. "Kala Sarpa" written in English is having two meanings in Malayalam since "la(ല)" and "la(ള)" are different. First meaning is "time serpent" and other "black or deadly serpent". In India, perpetual nature of time has been represented as a circle of two serpents having their tails in the mouth of the other(in China it is dragons instead of serpents). As Rahu and Ketu are considered head and tail, all Grahas(Sun, Moon & 5 planets) will be inside a serpent and hence the name. The second meaning is having ill effects and troubles including death. As there wil be imbalance in the solar system (all Grahas are in one side of Rahu-Ketu), high volatility and swift downward movement in the market is expected (it's said "as above, so below").
On 18th December 2017 when Gujarat Assembly election results started to pour in Congress party was heading for a majority and Nifty moved down to 10,075 (down 258 points) and this may be Mercury retrograde effect as mentioned in grahanila post on 1st December 2017. Later, BJP regained lead and retained Gujarat with 99 seats out of 182. Nifty steadily moved up to 10444 and closed at 10389 with a gain of 56 points.
The planetary positions given above are at the time of Sunrise in India(Kerala) and Moon's conjunction effect on markets may be seen in countries (Asia / Europe / US) where trading take places at the time of conjunction(10° - 0°). When the angular difference between the Moon and the planet at Sunrise is between 5 to 10 degrees and/or conjunction occurs in Rasis(constellations) other than the Sun's Rasi, there may be a delay up to 24 hours in the conjunction effect according to their positions {Note: expect only eighty percent accuracy in assumptions based on Moon's conjunction with Mars(-), Venus(-) and Jupiter(+) as some other astro factors may also influence the market}. Conjunction dates can be had from the table above. Figures given in brackets are Rasi number(0 through 11 starting from Aries), Degrees and Minutes.
