By Mary
Frances Hill
Jan
05 2006
In 2005,
New
Orleans
sank, Jean Chretien hung his head in shame, and Saddam Hussein hunkered down in
a spider hole. A paraplegic became mayor, Bertuzzi wore his jersey again, the
Air India bombing went unresolved, and Brad Pitt took up with a tattooed
bisexual UN Ambassador. Who’d a thunk it?
Looking at the year ahead, a panel of psychics see natural disasters in China,
Martin’s renewed power, and a struggle for Sam. Our seers include Cassandra
MacLeane, who performed psychic and tarot card readings at the old Robson Tea
Room for nine years; Gayle (who doesn’t use a last name) read cards for 19 years
at South Granville’s Normandy Restaurant, and now takes up residence a few
blocks south at Ouisi Bistro; Tamara Hawk who’s been working as a clairvoyant
for 25 years from her New Westminster home (TamaraHawk.com); and Madame Dolores,
who has been a working psychic since the age of 10, is the resident clairvoyant
at the PNE and at Mystic Eye.
We’re all going to be happy.
“We’re coming into a ‘seven-cycle year,’ where people think about reconciling a
bit more,” says MacLeane. “There should be a greater movement toward peace and
reconciliation.”
...And we will be rich?
Gayle’s pretty happy to spread the word. “On a local level, it would be a more
prosperous year on a financial and emotional level. On a global level, too,
people are rebuilding.”
Paul Martin will win the election.
“Stephen Harper isn’t really the kind of person who enjoys being up front. He
may bow out and become a backroom person,” says MacLeane. Gayle says Martin will
indeed stay put at 24 Sussex. “And he will carry on exactly as he has been. But
Harper just isn’t strong enough.” Harper is so weak, says Hawk, that he’ll up
and resign altogether. Madame Dolores sees Martin in
Ottawa,
with the Liberals winning by a slim margin.
Sam Sullivan has an awful year ahead of him.
“It’s the end of a cycle for him, so he’s coming into a terrible year with a lot
of opposition,” says MacLeane. “I see that he’s the kind of person who does the
very best thing he can for himself, even if it might not be good for other
people.”
Says Madame Dolores: “It’s going to be a difficult time. But he’s warm-hearted
and he’s a fighter.”
The Vancouver Canucks will win the Stanley Cup.
According to Gayle, that is. Remember, you heard it here first.
A natural disaster will occur somewhere in Asia. Elsewhere, the weather will
continue to suck.
An earthquake will hit China, but the impact won’t be quite so severe as those
that hit New Orleans and Pakistan in 2005, according to Gayle and Madame
Dolores. Tamara Hawk agrees. “A region in northern China will be particularly
hard hit with one of these shifts.”
Madame Dolores, too, warns against booking that trip to the Great Wall.
“Something bad will happen in China. I can’t pinpoint it, but there’ll be lots
of problems.”
Look out
Hollywood:
Southern California will be hit by a large earthquake (at least a 7 on the
Richter scale), says Hawk.
Poop will hit the fan at city hall.
“There will be some sort of audit done or something that will show there were a
few ‘sweetheart deals,’” says Hawk.
In the wider political arena, Dolores sees a financial scandal within the
Liberal ranks. It’ll smell, but it won’t be as rancid as the sponsorship
scandal, she says.
Look out for snow on the gridiron.
“In the summer, cocaine will be big news around the Canadian Football League,”
says Hawk. In other sports news, Casey Printers will be named starting
quarterback for the BC Lions, according to Madame Dolores and MacLeane. Look for
Lions star Dave Dickinson to get traded, Hawk adds.
Death and destruction are nigh.
Hawk sees a shooting at a landmark building in downtown Vancouver, and an
explosion at a construction site which will kill two men and seriously injure
another. Whistler residents will see a landslide in their area in May, she adds.
Dolores sees “a lot of issues around gun control, a lot of problems with
violence and youth.”
Celebrities will continue to inspire us with their life milestones.
According to Hawk, Jennifer Aniston will get married, Katie Holmes will “kind of
[lose her mind] and will probably go back to her parents,” and Brad and Angelina
will split. Dolores sees “something really good happening to George Clooney,”
but says Brad and Angie will not split. Rather, they’ll get closer than ever.