Bill Sarubbi (aka Bill Meridian) is one of the few financial astrologers who began with a thorough training in the stock market and then applied astrological insight to it, rather than the other way around. He is among a select few forecasters admired by both the astrological community and the financial world for his lifelong research and insight into planetary cycles and their economic corollaries.

Bill became interested in the stock market in 1966. After obtaining his BS and MBA degrees in 1972, he began to study cycles. The work of Ed Dewey and the Foundation for the Study of Cycles caught his attention. The bioenergetic school of psychotherapy has also been a big influence; Bill spent seven years in training in New York City.

Bill began on Wall Street as a fundamental analyst at the Value Line Investment Survey. Here he began to develop his work on cash flow. In 1978, he began to design computer programs in order to perform the heavy number-crunching that is required to relate stock market movements to cycles.

By 1981, he had written a simple spreadsheet program in Lotus to calculate stock market cycles. This was followed by more sophisticated software. He was a Vice President in the technical analysis area at Paine Webber in the 1980s. He has worked both the buy and sell side of Wall Street, most recently spending 14 years in the Middle East as a fund manager and strategist.

He currently operates his own business from his home in Europe and is currently upgrading and rewriting Planetary Economic Forecasting and consulting to financial institutions globally. Publications and consultations are available at his website. He spends most of his time in Vienna, London, Tokyo, and Abu Dhabi.