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W.D. Gann Unveiled
W.D. Gann spent all his life studying cycles and numbers. Gann was a financial astrologer, a Freemason and studied the bible to decipher cycles. Gann made large amounts of money trading, horse racing and playing the Cuban lottery. Gann was a Shriner which is a name applied to the “Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine” He also was a member of the “Order of the Magi” in Chicago. As well as being a member of the “Mark Twain Society” (the pen name of “Samuel Langbourne Clemens”) who also was a Freemason.
Gann said to “Buenos Aires Herald” (21/3/1935) that he has records of grain dating back 1000 years and cotton records nearly 400 years. The former, he was able to gather the most accurate information from old British records whilst in his search for cotton cycles he visited Egypt and India. His third wife died around 1996. Gann died in 1955. She was 35 and Gann was around 65 when they were married. A close friend of mine visited her and she stated “one day Gann went to the races and she received a phone call late one night saying could you come and pick up your husband as we fear for his life, he has made so much money it is bursting out of his pockets”.
Some people say he died broke. I don’t believe this to be true, as taxes were well over 80% in the 40’s and 50’s and he most likely left his money in Cuba. You can’t have an office on Wall Street for 40 years employing 9 staff, own two planes and be earning no money. Anyone who is a Freemason understands that it is a secret society and knowledge is passed on through rituals and symbolism. It is only the initiated few of the highest order that would understand anything of ancient geometry and astronomy, being two of the several liberal arts. The seven liberal arts stand for each of the seven ancient planets being Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Sun, Mercury and Moon.
Saturn is the master of the lodge and the other planets are allocated to the other positions in the lodge. You cannot have a lodge meeting unless you have a least seven people attending. Lodge meetings in the past were conducted on every new moon, although today it is not practical, therefore they are run on a nominated day of the week once a month.
The USA independence was set up astrologically by 57 men, 56 of whom were Freemasons and it was set up on the 4th July 1776 for a specific reason. 56 is also twice 28 which is mentioned in the following pages. A large number of the US Presidents have been Freemasons. The 4th of July is 120 degrees from the 4th March and the 4th of November. In the past the President was elected on the 4th of November but never took office until the 4th of March making up the triangle. If you have studied history you would also know that the Federal Government never became effective until the 4th March 1789 exactly 13 years after American Independence was declared.
The US 1 dollar bill is also coded i.e., there is an eagle holding 13 arrows in 1 claw and there is a branch of 13 leaves in the other claw. There are 13 stars above the eagles head and 13 stripes on the eagle’s breast totalling 52, which represents the weeks in a year. There was originally 13 States of America. The eagle is represented by the astrological sign of Scorpion.
Gann never got on with his son and his son didn’t believe in astrology. His son used to sit in Gann’s office making paper planes and tossing them out the window. Therefore, Gann didn’t believe his son warranted receiving the knowledge he had gained over 50 years of researching, therefore all the knowledge went to his grave except for the small amount he passed on through coded works. .
A lot of Gann’s astrology was coded or masked by the use of numbers and this is evident in the cycles in the commodity and stock courses as well as the two books titled “The Tunnel Thru The Air” and the “Magic Word”.
How Gann coded astrological cycles with numbers:
- 90 year cycle = 3 Saturn Cycles of 29.56 years, which equal 88.68 years 2 synodic cycles of Saturn/Uranus which are 45.36 years. This equals 90.72 years.
- The 82 to 84 year cycle is the Uranus cycle of 84.02 years.
- The 60 years cycle is 2 Saturn cycles or 3 Jupiter/Saturn synodic cycles. The 58.92 years and 59.58 years respectively.
- 49 to 50 year cycle is Uranus changing 7 zodiac signs of 7 years each.
- 45 year cycle is the Saturn/Uranus cycle of 45.36 years.
- 30 year cycle is the Saturn cycle of 29.56 years.
- 20 year cycle is the Jupiter/Saturn synodic cycle of 19.86 years
- 15 year cycle is half the Saturn cycle.
- 10 year cycle is half the Jupiter/Saturn synodic cycle.
- 9 year cycle is half the node cycle of 18.6 years.
- 7 year cycle is Uranus changing one sign of the zodiac or a movement of 30 degrees.
- 5 year cycle is 1/6 of the 30 year cycle or 1/4 of the 20 year cycle.
- The 1 year cycle is the movement of the earth around the sun.
If you are looking for large cycles to coincide with major lows or highs exactly 60 or 90 years ago, then you are deluding yourself. The key is to know when the smaller cycles are lining up with the larger cycles. The larger cycles create the condition and the smaller cycles like Mars create the trigger. The large cycles can force the smaller cycles to “flip flop” or reverse. This is why you might see the smaller cycle go low, low, high or high, high, low etc. When you have data of less than 30 years you then need to know which charts to draw and from where to run the geometric angles. Data of less than 30 years means you need to look at economic and weather conditions to give you an overall trend for the future.
Usually in a recession, depression or boom most commodities top or bottom within two years of each other. Most commodities go back more than 30 years and the major stocks also go back over 200 years. These types of markets, with the longer term data are the ones to forecast and trade, i.e. wheat, corn and coffee.
The geometric angles are a moving average of price and time and therefore, are much more useful than any other indicators utilized in today’s modern trading. The reason being that geometric angles can be projected into the future whereas all other systems are lagging indicators and are based on price only. The geometric angle works best on weekly and monthly charts as they keep you with the trend when drawn correctly. On daily chart the geometric angles are crossed frequently and therefore changes in the trend often occur. They are useful only as entry into the market when trading with the main trend.
Gann was born in the very strong bible belt of Texas. This is the reason he coded astrology with numbers, because the bible is coded astrologically and conforms with numerical principles. The “The Tunnel Thru The Air” or looking back from 1940 is completely coded in numbers and astrology. Some examples of astrology in “The Tunnel Thru The Air” are:
On page 50 Ezekiel 1: 4-16: “As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.”
This is represented in the Bible by the 12 tribes of 144,000 men to each tribe:
| Judah | Leo | Sun = Lion |
| Reuben | Virgo | Mercury |
| Gad | Libra | Venus |
| Asher | Scorpio | Mars = Eagle |
| Naphtal | Sagittarius | Jupiter |
| Manasseh | Capricorn | Saturn |
| Simeon | Aquarius | Saturn = Man |
| Levi | Pisces | Jupiter |
| Issachar | Aries | Mars |
| Zebulum | Taurus | Venus = Ox |
| Joseph | Gemini | Mercury |
| Benjamin | Cancer | Moon |
The lion, eagle, man and the ox are the fixed cross of the zodiac or represent the 45, 135, 225 and 315 degrees of a circle.
On page 66 Robert Gordon states:
“I believe in the stars, I believe in astrology and I have figured out my destiny.”
On page 77 Robert Gordon states:
“ It is just as easy to figure out 100 years or 1000 years into the future as one or two years ahead, if you have the correct starting point and know the cycle which is going to be repeated.”
On page 78 Robert Gordon states:
“It is not my aim to explain the causes of cycles. The general public is not yet ready for it and probably would not understand it or believe it if I explained it.”
“In every law of nature there is a major and a minor; a positive, a negative, and a neutral. Therefore, in cycles there must be a lesser, a greater and intermediate cycle, or cycles within cycles. Like Ezekiel says: “Wheel within a wheel.”
There are numerous biblical quotes in “The Tunnel Thru The Air” , anyone who has studied the bible knows that this book is also a mask for astrology. For example page 69 in
“The Tunnel Thru the Air” “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales’ belly; so shall the Son (Sun) of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
The three days and three nights represents for the apparent standing still of the Sun as viewed from the Earth which occurs between the 22nd and 25th of December each year. Jesus was not born on the 25th of December, this is the first day that the Sun’s apparent moves north in the northern hemisphere (middle of winter). There is a symbolic ritual in Freemasonry when a Mason is raised to the 3rd degree where symbolically you are lifted from the body of the earth in darkness. The 3 degrees represents the 3 days when the sun stands still.
“No sign shall be given, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.”
“I believe there is a secret meaning in what he said; the son (sun) of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Jesus died on the cross, the cross representing the four main cardinal points of the zodiac, Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn or the four seasons of the year. Aries being the start of the spring season in the northern hemisphere is the commencement of growth and this begins on the 21st of March each year. At the death of every cycle a new one commences and this is what is represented by Jesus dying on the cross.
Seven is a number used throughout “The Tunnel Thru The Air”.
WD Gann was born on the 6th June 1878 and Robert Gordon was born on the 9th June 1906. This is 28 years apart or 4 x 7 years. The time between 1878 and the year he published the book in 1927, is 49 years, 7 x 7 years. The difference between 1906 and 1927 is 21 years, 3 x 7 years. The book title has 36 letters leaving out 1940. If you convert 1940 to letters you have 49 letters, again 7 x 7.
There are 36 chapters as well. The original dust cover has 16 planes, not scales, hourglass and compass etc. This is a cover Billy Jones created. The square, circle and triangle is not a Gann emblem, but is a Masonic symbol. You need also to study the original dust cover.
Without decoding the whole book, Chapter 7 is called “future cycles” and it starts on page 75. There are 418 pages to the book. 418 minus 75 equals 343, 7 x 7 x 7. Anyone who knows astrology knows that 343 is half a Mars cycle.
There are a lot of clues that Gann used astrology, but I will reveal the two charts in one, Gann’s birth date (6/6/1878) and two, the date that The Tunnel Thru The Air” was written (9/5/ 1927). Two of the major planets Jupiter and Uranus on the 9th May 1927 conjunct (zero degrees) Gann’s Saturn. Also Saturn trines Gann’s Saturn (120 degrees). Neptune conjuncts Gann’s Uranus and Moon conjuncts Gann’s Moon.
“The Tunnel Thru The Air” is a love story for the masses however, but Neptune being the planet of illusion and conjuncting Gann’s Uranus reveals that there is more to this book than being a novel.
“The Magic Word” Jehovah is Hebrew and is a great and sacred name. It is written JHVH. The correct pronunciation is JOD-HAV-VAU-HAV and has a numeric value of 10-6-5-6 or 1656. 1656 is the total number of years of the patriarchs. The Hebrews used gematria for the conversion of letters to numbers.
Age of Adam at the birth of Seth 130 years
“ Seth “ “ Enos 105 years
“ Enos “ Cainan 90 years
“ Cainan “ Mahalaleel 70 years
“ Mahalaleel “ Jared 65 years
“ Jared “ Enoch 162 years
“ Enoch “ Methuselah 65 years
“ Methuselah “ Lamech 187 years
“ Lamech “ Noah 182 years
“ Noah at the time of Flood, 600 yearsTotal of years from Epoch 1656 years
Beginning of the record, B.C. 4004 years
Date of the Flood, B.C. 2348 years
Without going into further detail, to obtain a full and comprehensive understanding of the mysteries of WD Gann’s work requires a lifetime commitment to study and research. If you are not studying astrology when studying the Gann method, then you are only completing part of the research. Modern astrology doesn’t work, you will need to study ancient astrology.
It is not my aim to disclose twenty four years of research, but to give you an introduction to the authentic methods of WD Gann. The methods I utilize are more for position trading rather than day trading which allows for further research and study on WD Gann’s methods. The wise man rules his star’s and the fool obeys them! I use the Janus astrology program for research work.
