Yen intervention
Will it hold this time?
Over a decade ago, Italian astronomer Nicola Scafetta concluded that the planets in our cosmos can impart waves of gravitational torsional energy towards the Sun. As this torque upsets the surface layers of the Sun’s burning plasma, the net result can be an emission of solar wind energy. This photon energy making its way to Earth can disturb human emotion. In my research to find out how this is so, I came upon the 1950s work of Danish scientist Jens Skou who was awarded a Nobel Prize for identifying the Sodium-Potassium Model. Photon energy hitting the nerve endings in the human brain can set in motion a cavalcade of biological reactions in the body including pH changes and cellular glucose changes. In other words, Sun energy bursts/emissions can cause human emotion to change.
As I describe in the 2026 Almanac, Scafetta’s Torque Index simply is the absolute value of the sum total of the cosine of the angle between various pairs of planets. Recall from high school math class that the cosine of 180 degrees -1. The absolute value of this is 1. The cosine of 120 degrees is -0.5. The absolute value is 0.5.
As we have just witnessed, the equity markets have literally exploded upwards in the past several days in a fit of emotion. Scafetta’s Torque Index can explain this.
The evening of July 28, 2026 set in motion a major change in human emotion. Jupiter was 120 degrees to Venus, Venus was 120 degrees to Saturn, Saturn was 120 degrees to Jupiter (astrology adherents call this a Grand Trine), and Earth was 180 degrees to Jupiter. The Torque Index summed to 2.5 which is an elevated value for this Index.
Small wonder then that Ken Griffin at Citadel Capital would make the emotional decision to step in front of a moving freight train and buy out the failing hedge fund – Situational Awareness.
No surprise then that all hell broke loose in the Gulf Region. In an emotional outburst, the IRGC fired missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan. Then they fired a barrage of drones at Port Said in Egypt.
No surprise that Saudi Arabia in turn made the emotional decision to shift from sitting by idly to becoming engaged when they blasted an Iranian-aligned militia position in Iraq.
Meanwhile in Washington, President Trump and his team at the Pentagon had just put the finishing touches on what was going to be a massive (emotional) assault on Iranian targets.Then, in a sudden emotional flip, Washington announced that it was holding off on the massive planned attack.
Meanwhile on Wall Street, emotion turned exuberant and the S&P downtrend came to an end as share prices surged higher led by panicked short sellers looking to cover their asses.
The other emotional thing that happened at the same time was a joint Japanese-U.S. intervention to the tune of $80 billion to prop up the flagging Yen which was at 40 year lows.
This follows a similar $73 billion intervention back in May.
This earlier intervention in May failed to keep the Yen out of the crapper. The question is – will this most recent intervention succeed?
On the following chart, I have projected Bayer’s Rule #10-A from the recent intervention lows. Notice how this intervention came at the midpoint of the 88-day cycle that underpins the Yen. The Bayer’s projection takes me to early September and curiously enough – the end of this 88-day cycle.
Moreover, in early September the heliocentric zodiac will look like the following:
Mercury, Mars, and Venus will form a grand trine pattern. Jupiter and Saturn will be 120 degrees apart. Mercury and Saturn will be 180-degrees opposite.
The Scafetta Torque Index computes to 3.0 – an elevated level. Emotions could spill over – and likely will.
So, in terms of possible outcomes, early September will either see:
1. The Yen peaking and starting to weaken again towards the 160 level
2. The Yen having already weakened and threatening to get over the 160+ level again
3. The Takaichi government introducing a significant policy shift of some sort to seriously prop up the Yen once and for all
This Torque Index at an elevated level also will have implications for the broader markets. Will we see an emotional outburst that sends the major indices higher? Will we see an ugly turn of events with the Iranian situation? Will we see the major indices making nasty lows?
Watch the trend. Watch the direction of travel. And remember, the financial markets are a proxy for human emotion. Our emotion is driven by planetary events that disturb the Sun’s outer plasma layers and generate outbursts of cosmic radiation. The human creature is very much attuned to the cosmos. We just don’t take the time to appreciate it…. and Wall Street certainly does not want you to know about it.