The Your Weekend insert in the Christchurch Press today contained an article listing the predictions for 2012 by several “mystics”. However, it appears that gone are the days of grand and outrageous claims (I guess these are too obvious when they prove to be wrong).
Don Murray, astrologer, tells us that there is a “difficult clash of Pluto and Uranus” (call me juvenile but that just made me snigger) and this will result in much “unemployment, negative energy in the world and many natural disasters.” Wow, unemployment in a worldwide recession, who would have thought? Also there will be more chaos …
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