What are your predictions for 2012? What predictions came true this year for you? Blog with Cheryl below.THERE’LL be a political sex scandal in Canberra in 2012. There’ll be one in Washington, too. And probably in Sydney.
There, now I’ve established my reputation as a seer. I mean, that’s the absolute gilt-edged card in the prediction deck.
Sex scandals just go naturally with politics, though seldom as spectacularly as this year’s stars, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (ex-head of the International Monetary Fund) or Herman Cain (ex-US Presidential candidate).
But knowing that hasn’t stopped the net’s psychics from headlining it. It’s disappointing, though, to be tossed such crumbs when they’ve been building up our shock-horror expectations of 2012 since well before I started taking these annual trips into the great beyond.
For those who may have somehow missed the pay-TV channels’ exposés, the rash of ‘‘end of the world’’ movies and the various fundamentalist preachers and what-have-yous on the morning shows, 2012 is the big one.
More precisely, December 20, 2012 – that’s 20.12.2012, geddit?
Everything points to it: the Mayan calendar, the summer solstice, the Galactic Alignment, the arrival of the hidden planet Nibiru, and the coming of the space brothers (who were supposed to turn up physically in March this year, but missed their saucer and had to settle for being here psychically).
Not to mention the prophecies of Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Mother Shipton and the hidden writings which the Vatican won’t reveal, but which have somehow leaked into cyberspace anyway.
However, a couple of debacles earlier this year when the Apocalypse didn’t happen at 6pm on May 21, and when the follow-up fireball didn’t appear on October 21 either, seem to have pushed The Unseen to start insisting that the big change will be spiritual, not physical.
Consequently, the crystal balls have been returning more mundane messages and we’re back to Elizabeth Taylor dying (she did), royal marriages (they did) and celebrity births (‘‘a Hollywood starlet will give birth to a dwarf,’’ advises psychicnikki.com).
Some of the predictions are on solid ground. ‘‘Big changes in the leadership of Russia ... America ... China ... France’’ are sure things, since they’re officially scheduled in the real world.
Of course, where the changes are going to be brought on by elections, there’s a sub-set of ‘‘who wins’’ predictions. So far, the seers’ views are in line with those of the real-world pundits: it’s Putin, Obama and Sarkozy to return, though Obama may have troubles if a Romney/Gingrich ticket emerges, Sarkozy is going to have to rely on his legendary campaigning skills and there’s one tipping Putin’s death.
That one, seer LaMont Hamilton, also predicts that the euro will recover in 2012. At least that should cheer up the pollies, despite the almost universal assurance on websites that ‘‘riots and public unrest’’ will continue worldwide.
Astrologer Douglas Parker foresees an Australian prime minister falling in 2012, in which he’s backed by julianna.com.au, who hasn’t resiled from her 2010 prediction that Wayne Swann will be the one to do the dirty on Julia Gillard.
However, Australian astrologer Milton Black has Ms Gillard holding sway until 2013, at which stage she succumbs to an opposition leader who may not be Tony Abbott.
Melbourne-born Vine also warns Mr Abbott that a curve ball may come at him out of left field. She’s echoed by a couple of others, who seem to suggest that the curve ball may be Malcolm Turnbull.
(I have a soft spot for Vine because she actually knows Newcastle exists, linking one of her predictions made in July to Orica’s leak a month later.)
Back at the psychic pit-face, the usual tsunamis, bushfires, floods, cyclones and blizzards are waiting, the polar ice is still cracking and crop circles are still in vogue.
For variety, this year Hawaii, rather than California, features as the US state about to sink beneath the ocean.
We’re getting the requisite Deadly New Disease, too.
But it’s the oddities that make my annual quest worthwhile.
So in 2012 I feel we’re entitled to at least one of these coming true (they’re mostly psychicnikki’s): the theft of the British Crown Jewels, the Queen’s staff abandoning Buckingham Palace because of the ghosts, the bionic eye, the cure for Alzheimer’s, the world’s first brain transplant and the in-home instant urban pollution air cleaning machine.
Unless ... maybe all this has already happened. After all, there was that prediction for a Rift in the Fabric of Time Itself.
I blame those Large Hadron Collider scientists and their dastardly mucking about with the God particle.
They should have seen it coming.
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