Ken Ring's weather predictions have been relied on by customers around the world for 15 years, and are regularly featured in magazines, newspapers, and radio and television broadcasts.***Whether or not we realise, weather dictates our whole lives. Just imagine having more information about what was coming, and being able to better plan for crops, sports or wedding events, trips, commercial projects, roading contracts, aviation and public safety.The best way to predict the future is by looking at the past. Our method looks at trends and cycles of moon orbits. Accurate future knowledge about weather in your business plan gives you the edge, both for your own purposes and in the competitive marketplace. Imagine how much could be saved by cancelling or postponing events before it rained and perhaps by putting on more staff if you knew beforehand that the weather was going to be fine. Much more could be made by a larger turnout to a festival, gala or market day and much could be saved by avoiding thunderstorms or snowfall times. People tend to shop in cycles. Shoppers favour reasonably fine days. They may not shop as frequently when it is really wet or really dry, because it might be better either staying home or taking kids to the beach. Some say shoppers make large purchases on the waxng moon (coming up to full moon) because they become more impulsive. It is said to be the time to sell a house but not to buy one. Because of frosts, full moon is the time when investment in coffee futures sharply increases. Some farmers have noticed milk production varies as to moon phase. There is more moisture in the soil before full moon. Grass and wool grow quicker when cut on a waxing moon. Fruit picked around new moon has a longer shelf-life. There are host of other examples. In NZ, winter cold is big business with our winter sports and tourism. It is also ominous for hospital boards because of flu increase. Summer heat is lucrative for resorts, retail chains (especially pre-Xmas), and beverage sales. The Xmas period of 2006/7 was disastrous for NZ retail chains who had stocked up with summer clothing, because a rainy and cold December brought to a near halt the buying of Xmas clothing gifts. There are cycles with peaks and troughs in every sphere of commercial activity, and it may be said that they equate to the lunar cycles. This may be because the economy of a small country rests heavily on agriculture, agriculture relies on weather and cycles of the weather follow a lunar pattern. It is no coincidence that house sales, total net migration, world commodity prices, domestic inflation, GDP growth, 90-day interest rates, and exchange rate deviations all peaked in 2006/7, the last year of maximum declination of the moon, and the previous peak was 1996, the year of mirror-opposite declination.Read more about this authorRead less about this author