After experiencing the crazy bull market in 2024, the cryptocurrency market has now shown the characteristics of the early stage of the bear market cycle. At the same time, accompanied by macro liquidity, including the influence of US political factors, tariff policies and interest rate hike information, the on-chain activity of the crypto market, futures volatility, BTC ETF capital outflow and other data, the crypto market weathervane Bitcoin has gradually transformed from safe-haven funds to risky funds.
In such an environment, traditional investment logic seems pale and powerless in such a chaotic situation. The short-termism driven by the VC round squeezes the residual value of the industry, and the Meme craze evolves into the ultimate carnival of PVP. When data analysis and fundamental research are unsustainable, investors begin to turn their attention to a seemingly irrational field - metaphysics. As an adrenal placebo for Web3 crypto people, metaphysics has become an emotional vending machine in the fog of market sway.
Cycles and metaphysics: the “mysterious laws” of the cryptocurrency market
The essence of metaphysics may be a secret translation of market sentiment and cyclical laws. As a highly emotional field, the price fluctuations of the cryptocurrency market are subject to the fear and greed deep in human nature like the tide. The mysterious laws woven by metaphysics gradually become clear in the ambiguity. They are neither traditional Arabian Nights nor scientifically prohibited. Instead, they give the market a transcendent narrative tension at the junction of chaos and order.
In 2017, an anonymous user on Twitter named Mastering Bitcoin predicted that Bitcoin would exceed $10,000 by the end of 2017. At that time, the market generally believed that this was a pipe dream. However, at the end of the year, Bitcoin soared to nearly $20,000, making this prophet famous.
In 2019, anonymous analyst PlanB proposed the Stock-Flow Model (S2F) of Bitcoin, predicting that the price of Bitcoin will grow exponentially with the halving event. The subsequent four-year cycle conclusion was regarded as the crypto bible;
Today, the current US President Trump has used the mysterious power of a Feng Shui master to make the Trump International Hotel and Tower a new landmark in Chicago;
This mysterious law is not groundless, but has a hidden vein like the movement of stars. It projects the celestial images of Jupiters expansion, Saturns killing, and Uranuss subversion into the ups and downs of the crypto market. For example, when Jupiter is moving forward, the market often ushered in a wave of confidence expansion and price carnival, as if the universe was whispering a prophecy of prosperity; and when Saturn returns, investors feel invisible pressure, and the market enters a quiet moment of contraction and reshuffle. Although these laws cannot be verified by mathematical formulas, they echo repeatedly in the tide of emotions, intertwined with human greed and fear.
Let’s look back in history to see where these cycles intersect with metaphysics:
The 2013-2014 Bear Market: Bitcoin’s First Test
Cycle background: Bitcoin fell from its peak of $1,200 in November 2013 to below $200 in January 2015, a drop of more than 80%.
Metaphysical connection: 2014 was the year when Jupiter went retrograde. In astrology, Jupiter symbolizes expansion and prosperity, and its retrograde often indicates the contraction of wealth and the spread of cautious sentiment. This coincides with the conservative atmosphere when the first Bitcoin bubble burst. At that time, the global economy was still recovering, and the wave of quantitative easing had not yet swept across the world. Jupiters retrograde seemed to have buried a hidden foreshadowing for this crash.
The 2017-2018 bear market: The bursting of the ICO bubble
Cycle background: Bitcoin fell from a high of nearly $20,000 in December 2017 to $3,200 in December 2018, a drop of more than 80%.
Metaphysical connection: 2018 is the year of Saturns return. Saturn symbolizes restriction and order, and its return is often accompanied by the collapse and reshaping of structures. The bubble of the ICO craze came to an end under the aura of Saturn. At the macro level, the start of the US interest rate hike cycle and the tightening of global liquidity further catalyzed this adjustment, and the metaphor of Saturn was fully revealed here.
The 2021-2022 bear market: liquidity crisis and Uranus’ tremors
Cycle background: Bitcoin fell from a high of $69,000 in November 2021 to $15,000 in November 2022, a drop of more than 75%.
Metaphysical connection: 2022 is the year of Uranus retrograde. Uranus governs mutations and subversion, and its retrograde often brings unpredictable shocks. The Feds aggressive interest rate hikes, the energy crisis caused by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and the chain reaction of the FTX collapse all broke out during this cycle. Uranus retrograde is like an invisible storm that pushes the market into the abyss.
Bull market at the end of 2024: Jupiters direct motion carnival and the reincarnation of fate
Cycle background: In 2024, driven by multiple favorable factors such as the halving event, the approval of the BTC ETF, and expectations of a US interest rate cut, Bitcoin broke through the $100,000 mark, setting off a global investment boom.
Metaphysical connection: 2024 coincides with the return of Jupiter Direct to the right track. Jupiters direct motion symbolizes prosperity and expansion, which forms a wonderful echo with the surge in Bitcoin prices. At the macro level, the optimistic policy expectations brought about by Trumps re-election, the recovery of global liquidity easing, and the surge in crypto market sentiment together constitute the astrological stage of this bull market.
The real interpretation of Invisible Hand
The four-year cycle of the crypto market seems to be a premeditated drama. The value inference of Bitcoin is both a verification of the past and an expectation of the future. The halving mechanism is as regular as a pendulum. The supply contraction every four years, combined with the ups and downs of the global macro-economy, constitutes the lifeline of ups and downs. The collective resonance of market participants has pushed this law to the height of faith, and metaphysics has covered it with a mysterious cloak.
Among them, Shenchao once found in a crypto market survey in September 24 that up to 40% of Chinese users had participated in metaphysical behaviors, such as fortune-telling, burning incense, etc., praying for profits in the bull market. More advanced users also use horoscopes, constellations, etc. to reverse their fortunes or avoid potential misfortunes in the bear market. This phenomenon is not simply superstition, but a cultural projection of metaphysics in the crypto market-in a highly uncertain speculative environment, when rational analysis tools fail, investors turn to fate for shelter. This behavior is both a helpless response to the impermanence of the market and a subtle expression of the inner desire for a sense of control.
What is even more striking is that these metaphysical practices are not without rules. Some users will adjust their investment strategies according to the lunar solar terms or the auspicious days of planetary movements, such as adding BTC positions when Jupiter enters Leo or reducing leverage when Mercury is retrograde. Although there is no scientific basis, these choices have formed a wonderful resonance with the collective fluctuations of market sentiment to some extent - as if personal metaphysical rituals have achieved a secret harmony with the macro cycle of the market.
As astrologers say, There is a deep resonance between the orbital cycles of the planets and the economic pulse of human society. Jupiters expansion and retrograde, Saturns restriction and return, Uranuss mutation and subversion - these celestial trajectories are like an invisible hand, plucking the strings of the market. Between the rise and fall, the shadow of the trader is looming, and investors are looking for their own fulcrum in the intersection of fate and freedom.
Symbiotic Economy, Crypto Metaphysics is the Right Time
In the symbiotic economic framework of crypto and metaphysics, metaphysics is not only a translator, but also an amplifier. It captures the collective unconsciousness of market participants. When the rational beacon of the crypto market gradually dims, metaphysics becomes another possibility for investors to find direction in the fog.
Recently, the LBank community launched a Space discussion with the theme of Web3 Astrology, the fate of the crypto market in 2025 has turned, bringing this unconventional perspective to the forefront. The space invited astrologers Hermione (@MysticHermione), Moon Sister Wendy (@CryptoWendy 112), Qimen Dunjia Master Jingfeng (@Jingfeng 8888) to join, and received support from media such as MetaEra, Odaily, and TechFlow. This dialogue, which has not yet begun, has already aroused expectations - it is not only expected to attract the attention of industry observers and investors, but also heralds a new exploration of the resonance between market cycles and emotions with its potential practical significance.
In the financial market, value creation does not appear out of thin air, and value consensus is not formed in one day. Especially in the environment of cryptos gradual centralization, politicization, and high speculation, metaphysics, as a carrier of value emotions, does not completely rely on psychological criteria and market trends, nor is it completely like the bubble noise formed by pure crypto marketing that relies on high resource integration. Instead, it is based on value criteria and cyclical laws, weaving a network of emotions that is both illusory and real. It is neither like traditional finance that relies on physical output in a conventional way, nor like speculative bubbles that are completely parasitic on the frenzy of liquidity, but wanders between rationality and irrationality, using mysterious narratives as a fulcrum to leverage the collective imagination of market participants.
Is metaphysics revealing the underlying laws of the market, or is it weaving an emotional dream? Its core charm may be hidden in the border of this chaos. In the paradoxical stage of Crypto, value and belief are never clearly defined, but coexist like stars and shadows, waiting for every participant to interpret and define.
