2016: The Year Predictor

by nielskunze on January 1, 2016

A few years back I penned a lengthy article comparing humanity’s current evolutionary journey to a transformative sojourn through the major arcana of the traditional tarot as the step-by-step template of humanity’s own evolving collective psyche. I noticed a correspondence between the last two numbers of these calendar years and their respective counterparts among the 22 major arcana (beginning in 2000).

Having just completed 2015, for instance, the correspondence is with the 15th card which is The Devil, representing trickery. I had called for 2015 to be the Year of Unmasking The Devil. Although it was a year of huge reveals, they only seemed to manifest for those who were actively looking. For those with courage and conviction, The Devil was clearly seen… in our own neglected shadows, individually… and in the hidden machinations of disingenuous government, corporate and media actors, spewing their endless bullshit for collective consumption.

I fully admit that I had predicted that the revelations would be more public and widespread, plain for all to see. Clearly, I had underestimated humanity’s capacity for continued denial. Those who still do not wish to see all that becomes more apparent each and every day to the curious among us are still able to erect a thin bubble of protection around their outdated operating systems. Will the perceptual bubble pop for everyone in 2016? Maybe.

crisis, destruction, collapse and opportunity

crisis, destruction, collapse and opportunity

Before I move on to the Predictor for 2016, I’ll address the concern for this whole tarot thingy. “Don’t you know, Niels, that the traditional tarot is an astral template of manipulation and control?” I do… and so it’s not. Awareness has the ability to cut through everything false, rendering it harmless. Besides, these ‘readings’ are carried out purely on the collective level… and there’s not much point in denying that our collective psyche has been programmed and manipulated at every turn. The journey through humanity’s collective evolution is an archetypal one; there is a pattern and a progression that we must move through before we reach the blank slate, the empty canvas, calling for our final plunge into the abyss of the Unknown… and our re-emergence as true conscious Creators. Individually, we can break free at any time; but as a collective, we have to go through every step of the process (which is true individually too, but you get to set your own pace).

Now, on to 2016… I’m going to call this one the Year of Consequences. The 16th major arcana of the tarot is The Tower; it represents crisis, destruction, collapse and also opportunity. This year, the consequences of many many past causes will become painfully obvious. The causes for systemic collapse have been sown already long ago. And more recently, newer causes have been added to the old flaws in order to defer the imminent collapse as far into the future as possible. The pending collapse won’t however outlast the year; we will witness it in 2016. Every longstanding institution underpinning our civilization will be direly affected. The unfortunate aspect of this ‘levelling of the playing field’ will be that it will most likely take until the very end of the calendar year before humanity as a collective fully begins to realize the true causes of the witnessed destruction. Even after society lies in ruins, denial will still, for a time, prevail. The sleepers will still be dumbfounded, unable to acknowledge the unsustainable nature of the world we had built, even as it crumbles to dust; they will be genuinely surprised.

For others, like you fine folks who read my blog, this will be a year of rare opportunity. All those things you’ve known for decades about humanity’s folly which previously were swept under the ‘conspiracy theory’ rug, will be much harder to deny. New ears will listen– tentatively at first– but your conversation will gain traction as the writing on the wall becomes just another pile of dust. Chaos brings hard questions and demands answers. And the critical moments when humanity is forced to make landmark decisions will come precisely in the moments of greatest strife. Cooler, non-reactionary heads will need to be heard and prevail. In many ways, 2016 will be ‘showtime.’

The ugliness can only be hidden for so long… and now it’s time to say “So long.”

Don’t bet on any quiet surrenders– except in matters of personal faith. The old power-brokers are in the deepest denial of all.

Quietly withdraw your investments in traditional ways of doing and being; the consequences they yield will not be pretty. Those who are ready will be called upon to offer up creative solutions– however, the solutions won’t be so much about fixing all that which appears to be breaking, but more so about replacing it all with fairness, transparency and true sustainability. An opportunity for actual authentic creativity will present itself… and make welcomed demands of all those who have been patiently biding their time.

It’s time! Hello world… what shall we become in our new nakedness, standing among the ruins?

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