The Future: "like the present only longer"

Wikipedia tells that: January (in Latin, Ianuarius) is named after the Latin word for door (ianua), since January is the door to the year and an opening to new beginnings. The month is conventionally thought of as being named after Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions in Roman mythology, but according to ancient Roman farmers' almanacs Juno was the tutelary deity [guardian, protector, patron] of the month.


In the mythology of ancient Rome, Janus, god of new beginnings was associated with doors and gates, and first steps. Janus is usually depicted as having two faces, looking in opposite directions. In one legend, Saturn bestows upon him the ability to see both the past and the future.

"I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer."

~Kehlog Albran, The Profit

Predictions, predictions...how many come true? Not many, in my experience, at least not in the time scale of a year. Over a period of 5 or 10 years, some of the wider ranging ones come true, but in a mere 12 months, it's unlikely. Narrower predictions, relating to individuals, "celebrities", politicians are often just good guesses; most of us could take a stab at such predictions, if sufficiently interested.

For a fun read, prediction-wise, try the following: Man Claiming to Be Time Traveler Makes Fascinating Predictions About 2019,
by Sherene Buffa. Some of the predictions stretch much further into the future than 2019 - it's all very sci-fi.

Lots of it is quite silly, but I rather like one prediction for 2019: that there will be more UFO sightings which cannot be dismissed as fake, or as weather balloons, or whatever.

Be prepared for UFO sightings in January 2019
Noah specifically states that HUGE, massive UFO sightings will start to hit in the new year. And they do not look fake — which is why we will begin to believe what we see.

The "time traveller" also claims that the biggest snowstorm in history will hit the Midwest in February. He says multiple cities will be “wiped out” by this storm. Well, winter is winter, climate change threatens, so this prediction isn't too way out. Travelling to the future wasn't strictly necessary to predict something of this nature.

We can only hope that this claim of the time traveller does not come true:

On November 3, 2020 — President Trump will serve a second term in office.

For a more level-headed piece on future, far-flung, possibilities do go read the answer written by Robert Blevins, at Quora to this question:

What is something that is science fiction today that we could see in the next 20 years?

PREDICTION ~ "The future isn't what it used to be !"

As we saunter sheepishly up to the gates of 2013 predictions are in the air, not as thickly layered as I've seen in the past, but still around.

NOTE: In the mythology of ancient Rome, Janus was the god of new beginnings. He was associated with doors and gates, and first steps. Janus is usually depicted as having two faces, looking in opposite directions. In one legend, Saturn bestows upon him the ability to see both the past and the future. The month of January is named in his honor.

Samples of of prediction for 2013 below include non-astrological, non-psychic, psychic, tarot and astrological forecasts, with my own pick of the crop from each:

From THE FUTURIST
My pick

#10. A handheld "breathalyzer" will offer early detection of infections microbes and even chemical attacks.

The Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer under development at Stony Brook University would use sensor chips coated with nanowires to detect chemical compounds that may indicate the presence of diseases or infectious microbes. In the future, a handheld device could let you detect a range of risks, from lung cancer to anthrax exposure.

From the blog of John W. Smart

#10. The stream of young people leaving Facebook becomes a flood as the middle-aged Gen X takeover becomes overwhelming. Facebook stock tanks. Then the Gen xers exit Facebook too.

PS: Some commenters there also have concerns about Hillary Clinton - a health issue? That had crossed my mind too, so thought I'd mention it here.



From WORLD PREDICTIONS blog

Psychic predictions by Eric Leigh-Pink who began communicating with spirits as a child and predicted many events for his family and friends. I'm not keen on psychic predictions in general, but the author of this blog struck me as someone striving to be careful and helpful. He goes back to try to link his visions to events, and to understand the symbolism he's being given for future reference. See what you think.

One of his latest "visions" intrigued me:

A visual of the US flag, then one star begins to glow.

I haven't yet found many astrologers' general 2013 predictions, here are a couple to be going on with:

From Astro Cocktail:

John Townley at Astro Cocktail writes about Jupiter's place in 2013 - see the introduction from the link above, then follow Mr. Townley's link at "four whole years of generous Jupiter".

Astrologer Ed Tamplin has some information I found interesting:

Scroll down to section headed World on the Brink where he describes a Yod forming in 2013: two sextiled planets both linked by 150 degree quincunx aspects to a third planet. Planets involved are Saturn in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn sextiled, with Jupiter in Gemini at the apex. Mr Tamplin tells us that "to find this trio in a similar formation we have to star trek back to May 19 1989" when the only difference was that Saturn and Pluto were in reverse positions to now, sign-wise....."But as this has only happened once across the entire last century, it is worthwhile taking a look at." Civil unrest, revolution and also high drama in Chinese, Soviet and US politics accompanied that Yod.

Finally ~

Unwisely, perhaps, I dug out the tarot deck, concentrated, shuffled & cut the cards and and asked, "What do I need to know about world events in 2013?"
The 3 cards I drew, in order:
10 of Swords/5 of Coins/The Moon.
In a nutshell: bottoming out/hard times/anxiety, confusion, misapprehension.
For more detail on card meanings the best place is the Learn Tarot website - the "Cards" section.