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With a presidential election looming, local and national movements for workers’ rights, and continuing threats of terrorism domestically and abroad, 2016 is poised to be a volatile year.
Not knowing what’s on the horizon can cause a lot of angst, so City Paper consulted with three “fortune tellers” to gain some insight into what the year has in store. Tamar George is a psychic coach with more than 30 years of experience. She’s also the organizer of Peaceburgh.com, “a growing, diverse community of Pittsburghers who are working to create a healthy, conscious and sustainable city.” We also spoke with Suzanne Bishop, a psychic medium and founder of Intuit Now, Pittsburgh’s Psychic Salon. And CP got prognostication for Pittsburgh from Ronda Snow, an author and wellness tutor who provides contemporary tarot-card readings.
But before you throw our newspaper in your suitcase and head to Las Vegas, we’re not suggesting anyone use our predictions to make a wager. As tarot-card reader Snow puts it, “These predictions have a 50 percent chance of being totally wrong, a 75 percent chance of mild sarcasm and a 90 percent chance of mild entertainment.”
Some of the predictions were specific. Snow predicts: “The Steelers are not going to have a good postseason, and the Pens won’t win the Stanley Cup.” Snow also says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won’t win the election. And two of the other psychics we talked to say Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders will be our next president.
Other predictions were broad, with all three of the intuitives we spoke to predicting that Pittsburgh and the nation will be undergoing a cultural shift. And with predictions like growing public concern for the environment and support for marijuana legalization, it looks like that shift will be to the left.
Tamar George writes:
Predictions are probabilities and based on what the consciousness of the majority is.
I predict in politics that the masses want less corporate influence in politics and will elect Bernie Sanders. As far as education, there will be more of a desire for better trade schools, especially those having to deal with anything that would help distribute goods and services to the masses.
The economy will see a downward spiral with banking and investments. No more bailing out the too-big-to-fail big banks and Wall Street. Silicon Valley and the younger generations will come up with innovative bartering, loaning and new cash-trading systems.
The environment will also be more important, as more and more humans are raising their consciousness and acting as stewards of the planet. Peaceburgh.com is an example of like-minded people clumping together to make positive changes. The world is changing as we know it, and that’s a really hopeful thing.
Suzanne Bishop writes:
The overall sense that I get intuitively is that there is a mass awakening of people. What that means is that people, for the first time, are letting go of the ties that bind them to base realities of life and are freeing themselves to the nuances of spirit. There is a big surge of collective energies that are opening up for people, as the walls of what they think is real (right) melt into the intuitive voice. Intuitive voice being that collective stream of consciousness that can sometimes permeate the dream state.
Things are going to get real with increased conflict in the Middle East and other places (boots on the ground), an increase of dangerous weather patterns and events, and populations of refugees at our doors. There is an air of underhandedness coming from governments and major powers like Russia.
Because everything is put on the table in front for all eyes to see — a Plutonian astrological event — corporations and [political] candidates are feeling the backlash of their wrongdoing. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump will continue to surge in popularity, as they do not represent [the] established status quo and are relatively authentic. Sanders will win the nomination and will become our next president.
Gun violence will continue to plague us, mostly with domestic terrorism. There will even be a few scuffles during political gatherings in the upcoming months as we get closer to elections. There will also be gun-reform happening under Obama. More and more whistleblowers come out of the closet, some to do with alien disclosure. [Bishop also later explained that alien disclosure could come from astronauts involved in the moon landings.] Medical marijuana becomes legal in more states and people begin to protest for its use in cancer treatments.
No major earthquakes in 2016, but the year 2017 has lots of activity. More deadly storms and tornadoes are predicted for 2016.
As more and more people are seeing the reality of life as it really is — again, the Plutonian influence — and people and events that were once in the “hiding of wrongdoing” come to light, people will either let fear or love take them over. People’s basic identity of who they thought they were is challenged by a softening of ego that is part of human evolution happening at this time. As we continue to travel into the Aquarian Age, we let go of the deep-seated belief that we are just not good enough, [for] an even deeper belief that we are not only good enough, but divine in nature.
In summary, things are going to get scary and violent, while at the same time, there will be a lot of love and brotherly support from people to people, mostly shown on social media. Many people are going to band together to protest harmful corporations damaging the earth, and the war in the Middle East. These protests are a reaction to once-hidden activities coming to light. Bottom line is: Don’t let the “reality” of what you see around you cause you to fall into fear. Adjust your natural spiritual antenna to the basic belief that you are deserving of love; serve others and the world, trust your intuition and you will thrive.
Ronda Snow writes:
Hello, Pittsburgh.
Before we start, let me tell you a little about what to expect from your reading. I do things a little differently than other readers. I call my website Modern Oracle because I believe “fate” and predicting the future are outdated, obsolete, useless ideas. Cause and effect is a real thing. What happens in the future is directly related to the things you choose, do, avoid or omit today. The point of tarot readings is to help you understand the situation, make better choices, be a better person and create the future you want — and not just make an old-fashioned prediction and leave you hanging with the consequences. Also, I take privacy very seriously. I don’t read anyone without their permission, so if this reading fits an individual, great. If not, it may just be a citywide-average energy kind of thing.
General Pattern: The year card is from the major arcana part of the deck that generally symbolizes energy, change, growth and learning. However, the rest of the cards are all from minor arcana, which symbolizes more balanced energy and low-key day-to-day kind of advice. When most cards are minor arcana, I read that as a hint that the year will be balanced and not too stressful in the long run.
Winter: Four of Swords. This is a card of adaptability and flexibility. Not only adapting to changing situations in what you do … but also when you do it. Timing is important. Watch and wait to time things just right. Adapt your expectations from “I want it now,” to “it will come when the time is right.” Pushing your agenda may not help. Waiting, watching and going with the flow will help things succeed more easily. Stay chill with traffic and little annoyances. Things will get better eventually.
Spring: King of Wands. The energy shifts from just watching to internal action, but still not external pushing. The King of Wands represents leadership, but in this case, it is about individual leadership more than civil governance or outer group leadership. This is a time of taking personal responsibility. There is a LOT in this world we can’t control, but the one thing we have total control over is ourselves. There is a feeling of impatience. The winter may have been mild, but it can still seem long. As spring arrives, the city may notice a restless energy, chomping at the bit to spring into action, tired of all the waiting and watching energy that has been around. This is a time for mental and emotional preparation. The spring is a good time for learning new things, taking a class, and putting our mental house in order for all the summer fun to come.
Summer: Now things spring into action. The energy around the Six of Coins reminds me of all the things I love about Pittsburgh. The richness here isn’t so much physical money, but a richness of culture, personality and generosity. This energy feels like block parties and street fairs, the Three Rivers Arts Festival and home-game days when the Clemente Bridge is open to pedestrians. There is a feeling of self-esteem and tolerance … pride in your neighborhood, but working together as a city. This has a feeling of extending to the nation. After a winter of partisanship and contentiousness, even bigoted, partisan political-rhetorical energies have a chance of becoming more tolerant, even egalitarian, in the summer.
Fall: The Six of Wands classically means “peace.” The good vibes and activity continue. Just like the harvest season, plans start to happen and come to fruit. All the things everyone was chomping at the bit to do in the spring can get rolling now. Teamwork, flexibility, adaptability, cooperation remain key. Things you want to accomplish get farther now if they are done with that sense of teamwork and with pooled resources, than they would have if you’d plowed through back in the winter.
Year as a Whole: The Moon. The Moon card represents intuition, life’s natural cycles, spiritual journeys. The mental image here is a pendulum shift, a swing in the opposite direction … it feels reactive. It feels like there is potential for a stampede of good that is a direct reaction and result of 2015’s challenges. It’s not all peace, love and flowers, but is more practical and proactive. It reminds me of The Carter Center’s motto of “Wage Peace.” If we choose it, Pittsburgh could have a year of cooperative action for practical benefit.
For individual clients, I usually give any purely intuitive impressions at this point, but for a city as a whole, there isn’t enough focus for this part to be helpful. The only mental image that remains is the one of the pendulum swinging. The word “momentum” comes to mind: success through well-timed, cooperative, widely beneficial effort. This year feels as if the energy will be on the side of cooperation, tolerance and improvement, more [so] than narrow world-views or individual selfish gain. For success, remember that “a rising tide lifts all boats.”
This article appears in Jan 6-12, 2016.
As a psychic medium, I try to stay away from predicting the outcome of elections. There’s too much of the subconscious desire of the reader which could come into play. Also, there’s going to be such volatility in this election year that things will turn on a dime!
Rebecca,
Thanks for including me in on the conversation. Everyone have an uplifting, meaningful new year!
Suzanne
Intuit Now
Yikes!
I get strong feelings that jeb bush is going to win and drop the first H-bomb that will start the destruction of this planet. You don’t hear much about him which means that it is already decided.
I hope my feelings change and that it never happens. Every Saturday at 10:00 am there is a global meeting of people who want to save the world. We meet on your global time and then combine the force. You can check it out at: bogwig . com/Global. Or google “global love healing.” It should come up first. No fees or money involved.
As an intuitive I have feelings and thoughts emerge from somewhere and as I gain info going about my daily life this information is often intertwined with what I am naturally picking up intuitively anyway. I want to give due credit to Rick DiClemente, his influence is deeply felt through my words about the Aquarian Age. “As we continue to travel into the Aquarian Age, we let go of the deep-seated belief that we are just not good enough, [for] an even deeper belief that we are not only good enough, but divine in nature.” Rick is an internationally known astrologer working in the Pittsburgh area.
Suzanne
Intuit Now
They feel the Bern.
Pseudo-profound nonsense. It depresses me that so many intelligent people I know buy into psychic woo.
Non nonsense! Prediction N1: Broncos will win over Steelers!
The Steelers were glowing. I don’t watch that much football, because the tam I root for usually loses. However, I felt the Steelers wee going to win so I watched bits and pieces of the game. They couldn’t lose.
These are the only people I’ve seen who predict Sanders winning and therefore I don’t trust or believe in their predictions.
Bernie Sanders will become our next President and will be outstanding. There will be major changes in China with their Government and economy nose dive. UK finds themselves to be more and more alone in Europe, causing some major fluctuations financially but on the upswing after the initial fluttering and the pound will strengthen more than ever before. UK has to sort out their Government but will..
Germany is going to have terroist activity. Look out Ramstein.
The weather clearly is all over the place but we have to stop cutting down trees to make room for housing. Should stop the overuse of plastics and act now on cleaning up the planet. Should be our number one priority as ultimately if we don’t bye bye humans.
Russia will want to build on the moon..
Space station has a very large edition added but not without its teething problem.
Cancer finally a major breakthrough with pancreatic cancer.
Discovery that autoimmune illnesses are related to pesticides and we have to end there use.. Indoor food growth will become the norm as pollution gets worse globally.
It’s so interesting that these women are able to make predictions not only for individually, but for an entire society. It takes a lot of skill as well as gifts to be able to figure out what the world has planned for you. I know my sister frequently visits a psychic to gain life advice, from what shes told me, she has never been disappointed with a reading. http://bostonpsychic.com
Bernie Sanders will NOT be President. Most of these psychics within the comments section are fakes. if you’re so accurate why don’t you predict the lottery numbers. or better yet, make an accurate prediction. yea right.
Bernie Sanders has the best of intentions and message. I am a 40 year old woman. Thinking of my child here. He is the best cadidate. I am not an intuitive, but have had great success one time with a psychic. My predictions all came true. Going through the last bit of prediction now. Believe me a lot of tragedy. Now is the time for peace and correctness. He is the brightest soul. I might not be able to read future’s, but people I can.
Donald Trump will not be present of us and will commit suicide at the very end
This is my prediction and I never go wrong
Oh my God, he said it!! This man does not lie!! He even predicted that Gaddaffi will be found hiding in a drainage pipe and it was totally true!! He also predicted Benedict XVI in 2011 he will give up Papacy and it was true and it became in Feburary 2013!!
It will be a Republican. Its always democrat then Republican. Always had worked that way
Hillary wins electoral college though popular vote is very close. It’s an ugly democrat convention Bernie supporters keep fighting both parties weakened. Country is ripe for a 3rd party…both dems and Reps will be reasonably successful at co opting revolutionary ideas but, of course, they will water down every change to basically neutralize them. This is how this country functions and I predict the pattern will continue. Now, who’s the real seer here?
I predict Bernie Sanders will win and within 4 years we will all be in a soup line begging for food. Taxes will be so high that businesses will shut their doors and move out of the US. The population will be comprised of everyone with their hand out. Hmm, can’t predict though whose going to pay for all of this.
In order for Bernie Sanders to be nominated and elected one of 2 things must happen to Hillary: She either gets charged with a crime or is otherwise disqualified from the nomination. Or a very large number of superdelegates thought to support Hillary defect to Bernie Sanders.
Bernie has a lot of appeal to the havenots based on his promise to solve everyone’s every problem no matter how high the cost. I think he would be a total disaster on national security policy.
Im not a fortune teller. But i have read the script various times and did read it about the election. Years ago while showing somebody my spiritual experience. Only would mean more if i read the part about whom won. Lol. But i did read about a business man. Felt the excitement and emotions around, and about making an effort to stop illegal immigration. Now the question i have. So was i reading whom was to win? Or was it just the election process? The 64,000 dollar question. I dont get the probability deal based on what i experience. But maybe thats why i dont read it often. Or often enough to experience that. Its like a gift that pops out when it wants to. So what do i know. Lol
As a person i hope like heck its not bernie or clinton. As somebody whom once had a small business, i have no idea how his ideas would not sufficate and colapse the private sector. The truth is imo is some people romanticize the idea of communism because of an inner anger towards competition and want like a bubble wrap society. Its my belief he carrys around something like that. Hillary, give me a break. Anybody who knows her history wouldnt give that a thought. Anyways history shows imo our current system is not all that bad. I personally hope we do have a common sense business person in the white house. And given that there is only one option at the time. Then that would be trump.
Hey there, Suzanne of Intuit Now here.
Wow, what a year this has been so far. Things that came true to date in my predictions: Obama issued executive action for gun control in January 2016; all kinds of once hidden things coming out in the open now (Hillary Clinton emails and corruption within Clinton Foundation as an example.); the elite and corrupt parts of our government are really acting underhanded, yes they are; San Bernadino terrorism in CA; major tornadoes and other dangerous weather patterns (droughts and flooding continue); gun violence is daily occurrence; our perpetual war in Middle East is increasing in severity; more and more people on social media band together for support and brotherly love.
Now Bernie Sanders didn’t win the democratic nomination according to the AP and mainstream press, as well as the “votes” tallied and delegate math according to some. Bernie is still in the game though. I still believe anything can happen.
I felt a connection to those who engaged in the moon landings. Interesting that Edgar Mitchell, sixth man to walk on the moon, died on February 4, 2016. There may be things still unpublished coming from him to do with ufo’s and disclosure. He helped found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and I found out after I predicted some alien disclosure as a possibility, that Edgar Mitchell wrote often about ufo’s and disclosure. Definitely a connection.
I only get what I get. We are living in very decisive times right now. As far as Bernie is concerned, it felt so right that he be our new leader. I was jiving with the energies of the movement that eventually occurred and what a huge movement it is.
Anything can happen. The status quo no more.
Trump will only win if the people lose their senses and buy into his lies. He is literally like a modern day Jim Jones,convincing people that even see evidence with their own two eyes is unreal. I don’t like Clinton much, but she is bitter juice and Trump is cyanide.
1999% trump will win
We are finally evolving and at a crucial point where we will choose either: Fear or Love
The Fearful will vote Trump…and evolved…
Hillary will become our First Woman President!
Native American Tribes always had elder Women sitting at the important Table. Women bring unique ingredient…something USA is lacking:
LOVE!
So now we are in the new year 2017. No, Sanders did not become president. I feel it was the will of the people to elect him though. I did not see ALL of the corruption of the press and election process.
I am posting a detailed line up of the many predictions that were spot on and the few that were not for this article on my website intuitz.com.
I hope everyone is seeing the light, the process continues.
Suzanne
Intuit Now
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