Some forecasts for the future to contemplate over New Year
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In one year and out another, celebrating New Year is the perfect time to refocus priorities, re-contemplate spiritual consciousness, reflect and resolve to do better.
Graham Greene wrote in the “End of the Affair” that when Saint Augustine was asked where time came from, he said, “It came out of the future which didn’t exist yet, into the present that had no duration and went into the past which had ceased to exist”.
Live life to the fullest passionately and well. New Year represents an ideal occasion for meditative reflection and musing projection, a chance to look back while fast-forwardly progressing, always staying one giant step ahead of quirky changing times. Pax vobiscum.
This astrological forecast favours ascent of as yet uncharted new-moon luminous possibilities:
A diverse portfolio of energy technology (solar, wind, wave reactors, photosynthesis, algae biofuels) will replace over-reliance on fossil fuels;
Lunar-based solar power will prove to be the most viable source of meeting global energy demands;
Urbanisation, accommodating the influx of rural populations into metropolises, will increase global warming, spread infectious diseases and raise greenhouse emissions;
Unemployment will yield to developing more pragmatic job skills, developing what needs to be done and just doing it;
Rich/poor, have/have-nots, greedy vs needy inequities and the out-of-control US debt crisis will negatively impact upon emerging nations;
Nano-technology and bio-mimicry will offer hope for restoring sight by transmitting light signals to the brain;
Commercial space technology and interplanetary solar system exploration and settlement building will expand significantly over the next decade;
Excessive surveillance, privacy concerns and erosion of civil liberties will impact cyber-spying and cyber-bullying increasing among “frienemies”;
Homo sapiens will no longer be the dominant species on the soiled Earth, with most day-to-day functions performed by ultra-fast, ultra-intelligent robotic entities;
Regarding potable water shortages, reclamation, purification and desalination, we must learn to use and mutually share our limited water resources – or else!
Charles Frederickson
Bangkok
