Tier 1 — Bonferroni Significant
7-day forward BTC returns during Venus retrograde vs. direct periods
During Venus Rx
-1.77%
Normal Periods
+1.63%
Difference
3.40pp
P-Value
< 0.0000003
The planet traditionally associated with value, beauty, and financial matters appears to correlate with meaningful BTC price suppression during its retrograde phases. Across 10+ years of daily data, Venus retrograde periods show consistently negative 7-day forward returns for Bitcoin, while direct periods show consistently positive returns. The 3.4 percentage point gap survives the strictest multiple-testing correction available.
Bonferroni-adjusted threshold: p < 0.00132. Observed: p < 0.0000003. Passes by three orders of magnitude.
BTC 7-day realized volatility during high (9+) vs. normal planetary aspect density
9+ Aspects (within 3°)
2.47%
Baseline Volatility
2.96%
Reduction
-16.7%
P-Value
< 0.0000005
The counterintuitive finding. When many planetary aspects are simultaneously active (9 or more within 3° orb), BTC volatility drops rather than increases. The leading interpretation: when cosmic "signals" pile up, they cancel each other out — noise becomes white noise. This is the second of two findings that survived Bonferroni correction across all 38 tests.
Bonferroni-adjusted threshold: p < 0.00132. Observed: p < 0.0000005. Passes by three orders of magnitude.
Tier 2 — Preliminary (Nominally Significant)
14-day returns when outer planets enter cardinal signs (0° Aries/Cancer/Libra/Capricorn)
ETH at 0° Cardinal
+11.7%
SPY at 0° Cardinal
+1.5%
BTC at 0° Cardinal
+4.3%
Status
Preliminary
Cryptocurrency appears to respond to cardinal ingress events while traditional equity markets do not. ETH shows the strongest effect. This finding is nominally significant but does not survive Bonferroni correction — it requires more data and out-of-sample validation before we can claim it's real. The differential response between crypto and equities is itself an interesting signal.