Predictions 2016
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Predictions for 2016 WHOLE YEAR
- Map of U.S. trembling with anxiety and stress, symbol of crab (sign of Cancer) means a lot of emotion and attachment to emotional points of view. (Jeanne Mayell)
- Military industrial complex driving the system into the ground. (Jeanne Mayell) (See this article send by Aislyn that seems related to this vision).
- Cloud seeding or atmospheric seeding to release chemicals to make it rain or to block the sun or to cause atmospheric carbon to solidify and fall out of our atmosphere, but they do not succeed.(Jeanne Mayell) (Harvard University study of cloud seeding to reduce atmospheric carbon is released).
- Melted poles, jagged landscape after melted poles. (Jeanne Mayell)
- Huge cyclone Texas panhandle. (Jeanne Mayell)(August 31 to Sept 4 hurricane/tropical storm Hermine, traveled from panhandle to Florida up east coast.)
- Sideways landscape with trees (means trees are in trouble)(Jeanne Mayell)
- Sunshine, optimism, the star, belief in new ideals In the wake of U.S. civil conflict, many are turning to positive action and thinking to shift the situation. Charitable giving is up, privately funded improvement projects are up).(Jeanne Mayell)
- Light – sunrise as more people embrace peace and change. (In the wake of U.S. civil conflict, many are turning to positive action and thinking to shift the situation. Charitable giving is up, privately funded improvement projects are up.(Jeanne Mayell)
JANUARY 2016
- Market volatile but does not crash. (Jeanne Mayell)(dip in market had people worried, but it recovered a month later)
- International Monetary Fund at impasse
- New planet discovered! (a planet the size of Neptune is discovered in January)
- American politicians, debates fill the news.(Jeanne Mayell)
- Refugee riots in Europe. (Jeanne Mayell)(violence breaks out at Greek/Macedonian border as Syrian/Iraqi/Afghanistan refugees try to get to Germany).
- New England: not a lot of snow. (Jeanne Mayell)(1/22-1/23 Huge snow storm in mid Atlantic states but New England just gets a dusting)
- A very BIG storm (Jeanne Mayell)(Biggest snow storm on record in Mid Atlantic states).
- A crisis in the U.S. West and Heartland. Farms unworked.
- A lot of elephants — Republican party – Too many presidential candidates.(Jeanne Mayell) (media complaints of too many candidates)
- Some strong seismic activity, stormy clouds, people staring at the clouds. (Jeanne Mayell)(One scientist, watching cloud-like emissions rising above California fault, concerned about San Andreas fault due to high levels of CO2 in the air along the fault line.)
- Problem with turtles and ocean warming.(Jeanne Mayell)(As El Nino sparks surge in temperatures and storms, sea turtles are among those disrupted.)
FEBRUARY 2016
- Big crocodile. (Jeanne Mayell) (might refer to tragic and rare crocodile death of child at Disney World. The reptile was not a giant, but it was strong enough to pull the child away from its father’s arms.)
- Touring the bottom of the ocean NASA provides live video feed of world’s deepest ocean trench.)
- Submarine deep sea ride (WWII Nazi submarine discovered at the bottom of one of the Great Lakes but later was discovered to be a hoax (New World Daily News, a fictional news outlet, issued a fake story that went viral claiming that a Nazi submarine was discovered in Lake Ontario near Niagra Falls).
- War breaking out. (War didn’t break out but in February Russian PM threatens that there will be a world war if Saudi Arabia and UAE follow through with plans to invade Syria).
- Lil’ Abners mountain home (This is an odd vision for us to have: lol – A production of Lil’ Abner announced this month in local newspaper called Mountain Home News)
- A lot of rain (U.S. east coast) (Jeanne Mayell)
- Denver Broncos win the Super Bowl. (final score 24-12)
- Heightened racism and phobias, backlash. (Trump rallies filled with racism, misogyny, and xenophobia.)
- Big snowstorms, happy winter, fluffy snow, ice storms (first Northeast storm 2/5/16; second northeast storm 2/8/16)
- Weather starts out calm then land is pounded once again with snow blizzards, people snowed in. (Two storms in the Northeast during the first week of Feb)
- Cuba in the news. (Obama makes historic visit to Cuba in March).
- AIDS news
- New roots found for human being in Africa. (Early hominins bone fossils over 2 million years old found in South Africa caves ).
- Greece in the international news. (Chinese buy Greek port, gateway to Asia, Eastern Europe and North Africa).
- Victory from a war, this is likely about military actions against ISIS. (U.S. military touts win against ISIS).
- Peaceful, calm around politics, but deception under the surface
- Great Lakes region emerging as important center. (Jeanne Mayell)(Great Lakes seen as having a bright economic future due to fresh water supply.)
- Stock market dip then recovers (looks like a square root sign)(Jeanne Mayell)
- Great movie makes the scene (best picture announced this month – Spotlight)
- Holland windmill on its side – sign of rising seas
MARCH 2016
POSITIVE VISIONS (March)
- Angels showing themselves to people.(Jeanne Mayell) (This is not likely to show up in the media as often as it could be actually happening, if it is indeed happening, but a story swept through the media March 9th about a young boy who says angels helped him lift a car off his father. The incident happened last summer but the story did not emerge until March)
- Stars coming down from the Heavens. (Naghmeh)(Comet this month)
- People in singing and finding solidarity. Becoming closer due to common cause.(Leaders of Women’s March form chain around Trump Tower, arm and arm, then arrested.) Dems in solidarity and triumph over Delaware election.
- People in solidarity arm and arm, then dropped arms and were arrested.(Leaders of Women’s March form chain around Trump Tower, arm and arm, then arrested.) Dems in solidarity and triumph over Delaware election.
- Exuberant heartfelt presence and opening. There is so much love being expressed, feels like more than ever.(Jeanne Mayell)
- Native Americans respected and held in a higher regard than ever before. Seen as guides, we will want to take a page from their playbook to handle the road ahead. (Jeanne Mayell)
- Joining hands for common cause, a feeling of awe. Like civil rights movement, we shall overcome.(Jeanne Mayell)Political salons gather across the country in push against Trump. Also Americans relearning democracy and working together across differing viewpoints.
- A rising spirit of courage. (Jeanne Mayell)
CLIMATE/EARTH
- Drought in the heartland, farmers worried. (Jeanne Mayell)
- Ocean water an issue. (Jeanne Mayell) (Scientists find oceans lost 2% of oxygen, also oceans storing more heat than thought).
- Epidemic/health/farm animals – Africa.(Jeanne Mayell)
- More drought. (Jeanne Mayell)World drought increased in March.
- Flooding rivers. (Jeanne Mayell)(Peru worst flooding in decades).
- Image of Volcano eruption. (heard the word Vesuvius) (Mt Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano erupts).
- Earthquake in Californa. (This may be about the new size of the fault discovered that makes larger earthquakes possible).
- Black river filled with mud or sewage. (Ilysa)This is likely the recent contamination of the Puget sound estuary with millions of tons of sewage due to an electrical failure of the state’s largest treatment plan.
- Largo Florida hotter than ever.
- Heavy purple rain. (Anais) (This happened in Houston in February)
- Snowshoes, it’s hard work moving forward in the snow. ((Jeanne Mayell)Huge March winter storm blankets New England)
- Image of a volcano blowing up and the word Vesuvias. (Jeanne Mayell)
U.S. POLITICS (March)
- It’s a pivotal point in American politics where many things going on politically this month will affect the long-term future .(Jeanne Mayell) This month there were two huge shifts that affect the long-term: Congress failed to repeal Obamacare, a political catastrophe for Trump and Republicans that caused markets to stumble and Trump’s ratings to drop and (2) FBI Trump-Russia scandal that is deepening and expanding to touch many in Trump’s team.
- Bad news for animal rights.(Jeanne Mayell) (Three new abuses now allowed by U.S.: 1. February 3rd the USDA stopped public reporting of animal abuses its inspectors find – a move that will prevent animal rights groups from stopping animal cruelty of horses, dogs, and farm animals around the country. 2. Also this article, sent by a reader, may show why futher animal abuses may come true under Trump. 3. U.S. passed bill allowing any cruelty to wildlife in Alaska animal refuges.
- Exposed records. (Julia) (Wikileaks huge leak of CIA records and Russia scandal expands.)
- A realization of a new, harsh reality. (Bar W.)
- Congress coming apart. (Jeanne) Congress could not repeal Obamacare.
- Quiet, but government is gearing up. Soldiers (men in riot gear- helmuts, black suits, swat teams.) (Jeanne) Looks like Standing Rock protest is back.
- A giant caterpillar overlaid upon the Statue of Liberty, a parasite on liberty that is in an early phase of its growth. (Jeanne) The caterpillar is an early stage of new government that is consuming the fruits of democracy.
- Coming together of the President and Congress. (image: The Capitol Building with an elephant and a lion standing there). (Jeanne) The lion is Trump and his team, (Trump has been depicted by his followers as a lion for his fondness for the Mussolini quote: “It’s better to be a lion for a day than an lamp for eternity.” and the elephant is the Republican party. This is about the president’s first Congressional address.that occurred in March.
- Anxiety map of eastern half of U.S. with explosion around Texas and a drought symbol. Then a map of the whole U.S. changing into the shape of an elephant (Republican) who’s walking away from Congress. Shows the Capitol building. So much stress and headache. (Jeanne Mayell)
- Baby lion – Trump, taking orders sometimes, independent other times. He’s growing, becoming the future king of the jungle. (Jeanne) (State of the Union speech shows a growing power in the man.)
- An emphasis on cookies and Dennis the Menace (the comic strip character. (Jeanne) (Dennis the Menace is Trump and several news stories that make the comparison. One that surfaced Feb.4, is comical.)
- Supreme Court nominee not good. White man, white hair. (Jeanne) (Trump picks white male nominee with white hair and not good.)
- Trump enriching himself in private deals with other countries and using his presidency to increase the wealth of his private businesses. (Jeanne)(See FBI director responding to congressional questions about Trump and Putin.)
- Trump refuses to stop conflict of interest in spite of calls from legal groups and press. Republican leadership tacitly allows this. (Jeanne)
- A donkey–Democratic party–walking away lonely and defeated (Yaeko)
- Trump shaking Putin’s hand. (This may refer to FBI reports of potential collusion on the part of Trump & his team and Putin).
- Chinese premier in the news. (Both countries announced the Chinese premier will visit Trump at Mar-a-lago).
- Canons shooting/secrecy, lies revealed with government.
- Euripides was right.(Andrea) [Euripides was ridiculed by his peers for being too liberal. He also wrote: “Expect the unexpected. What mortals dream, the gods frustrate; for the impossible, they find a way.” He was anti-war, against slavery, pro women, and critical of traditional religion.] (After the Muslim Ban on Jan. 30, 2017, many regretted voting for the current president).
- Texas and the Statue of Liberty aligned for some reason. (Jeanne)
- Warfare in Egypt. (Naghmeh)
- Reason to believe it won’t pass. (Andrea) (This refers to the Obamacare repeal that did not pass Congress in spite of a Republican majority and Republican president.)
ECONOMY (March)
- Stocks go up. (Market hits New highs March 1)
- NYC Financial centers showing their strength. (Vision was red, blood, bull, strength, NYC bull – so earlier market volatility ends in bull direction.) – (Note: War makes markets go up and thus the red and blood could be the impact of war on the market).
- Markets going crazy – not good, but no crash yet. (Republican Obamacare failure sends markets reeling down last week of March)
- Bear fighting bull (the markets struggling which way to go); job losses.
U.S. (March)
- Weary nation, tired people, renewal, chaos, and misunderstandings – a time for change.
- Indians with spears fighting.
- All Hell breaks lose, an era of serious conflict begins in the U.S.
- So much stress everywhere and emotions running high. (Survey finds Americans stressed out due to political developments).
- Man with bow and arrow pointed at the sky. A symbolic but ineffective act of protest and defiance. (Brian) (Standing Rock camp cleared by authorities with defiant protestors arrested.)
- Standing Rock vision: Big Native American headdress, soldiers in riot gear, guns, weapons, locking people up. The rest of the nation stands back and gasps. Men on horses standing before men in tanks. (Jeanne)
- Black Lives Matter (Julia) (Man drives to NYC and randomly kill a black man).
- People trying to have hope.
- Groups gathering and organizing to effect change. (New grassroots efforts to effect change. See here and here.)
- Energy in the collective feels weak and anxious. A crocodile, a dark beast, waiting to pounce from the corner; a lot of stress but it’s mainly just fear and worry. (Jeanne)
- The rise of guns. (Why U.S. liberals are buying guns too.)
- Explosion and a big fire. (Jeanne)
- A black out, an electrical problem, in Sacramento area. (Not Sacramento, but in March the Statue of Liberty had a blackout due to electrical problem.)
- Baseball legend upset.
- Oil well breaks, there is an evacuation.
- WW II soldiers, marching band. (The marching band vision has already made news because Trump was having difficulty finding a championship high school marching band that is willing to play for his Inauguration.)
- Football scandal. (Bill) (Baylor University in multiple lawsuits for sexual violence, drugging and other offenses involving the football teams).
- Bottle rockets going up like 4th of July.
- Library, gunman, lady wearing pearl necklace.
- Trump’s golf courses in the news. Sounds like a party there. (Anais) (Media reports Trump is taking more time to play golf than any other president).
- An important fire in the news. (Lisa)
SCIENCE
- Medical breakthrough with ALS. (In August 2016, Harvard scientists identified key instigator of nerve damage that may lead to treatment of this incurable disease, rendering this prediction more likely to happen by March 2017. Also there was a medical breakthrough with MS announced this month.
APRIL 2016
- Economy, finances look good, stock market up
- Talk of war in Europe. (After Brussels, more talk of allies invading Syria, which Russians have said would start WWIII, but it did not happen.)
- Climate fluctuating, more snow/spring flowers not sure what to do (In New England, warm weather followed by freezing and snow have killed off early flowers).
- President signs gun legislation. Vision of Capitol Building and a big gun. [On January 4 President announced gun regulations that force gun sellers to do background check).
- Farm animals sheep and pigs in shrink wrap (Not sheep or pigs, but China merchants do sell small live animals encased in plastic for key chains)
- Secrecy/Israel knows of secret plans.
- The Beatles in the news. ( Sony buys rights to their music, McCartney on new tour)
- Factory power (France offers Tesla Motors its nuclear power plant site)
- Market correction – like square root sign (brief dip then recovery in April()
- Bad, bad, bad (American political scene and how it affects the collective) (Trumps’s attitude and rhetoric arouses violence, racism, white supremacy at rallies)
- Earthquake (Ecuador has devastating earthquake, many lives lost, Japan experiences two sizable quakes)
- Coffee beans in the news (two breaking stories this month on coffee beans: counterfeit beans and lung-disease-causing chemicals in coffee plants).
- Contaminate water, more cases (Flint Michigan lead water poisoning)
MAY 2016
- Full moon with chains across it in form of Greek cross. (This may refer to the impact of the Turkish coups in July on the Greek Cypriots who have 43,000 Turkish groups on their island.)
- Submarine, Greece, Syria
- Much political bargaining going on in Texas – Republican party. (Party trying to unify under the presumptive nominee who so many party members dislike).
- President signs something big into law (see above vision of new gun law) We made this prediction last year when it seemed highly unlikely that gun control would ever pass the U.S. Congress. However since the mass shooting in Orlando on June, there have been stand-offs in Congress, although nothing has passed, except in California and via federal regulations).
- Massive fish deaths (widespread reports of millions of fish washing up in Vietnam, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile with explanations still unknown but possibly Fukushima, ocean warming from climate change, other pollutants)
- Mountain range in collapse due to earthquake in Turkey
- Easter Island in the news. (New study refutes old findings that humans caused the deforestation and demise of inhabitants)
- Drought, corn fields dry (drought worsening in the U.S. Heartland)
- Rockets launching into the air, two of them side by side. (This probably refers to increasingly popular proposals to launch chemicals into the atmosphere to solidify carbon so it can lower carbon levels and reduce greenhouse gases.)
- People cheering, tickertape, B is for Bernie (Sanders draws big crowds at rallies)
- USA knows of plans in Middle East that it is keeping quiet (along with Israel)
- Europe and U.S.A. talks/strategizing (European Union in jeopardy).
- Cliffs, dangerous ocean currents (Latest climate study shows warming ocean currents causing irreversible collapse of West Antarctic ice sheet)
- Stock market crisis, wheel of down turning (EU exit causes markets to drop in late June)
- Sorrow (usually this vision is due to loss of well known figure or highly publicized deaths that upset many people). Sudden death of musician Prince in May; could also refer to the massacre on 6/12 at Orlando nightclub).
JUNE 2016
- Key hole and symbol of pisces. Keyholes are symbols of getting a glimpse at a new world we may be about to enter. Pisces is a sign of love and caring and spirituality.
- Quill pen signing, founding fathers, a good month. (California passes gun control legislation)
- Melting ice caps in the news. (June: Respected scientist predicts Arctic will be melted by end of summer 2016; Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking makes statement about melting ice caps and runaway global warming to eventual Venus like temperatures.)
- Catastrophic hurricane, years have passed since this has happened. Typhoon bears down on Taiwan July 7th) (Note other visions of Florida Panhandle storm late this summer).
- Hot summer (NOAA released data that June marks 14th month of record-breaking temperatures).
- Statue of Liberty with head cut off, decay of democracy.
- Asteroid makes the news in Arizona area. (Thanks to a reader for spotting this item in the news – on June 2nd, a fireball in Arizona , which was a likely 10 foot asteroid.
- Warheads poised pointed, airplane, spying with field glasses (Research institute claims it has found North Korea nuclear missile site)
- Women reproductive rights and women elevated (Hillary Clinton becomes the presumptive democratic nominee. Talk of women’s rights raised to new level.)
- China Boycott-Kandahar is in the news
- Sandwich boardwalk damaged (May 28 a 7.2 earthquake at Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic. Tsunami expected)
- NASA, outerspace, new discovery, space travel
- Short bald man at a podium, guilty, explaining.
- Congress finally gets something passed. (In a rare bilateral accord, Congress passes sweeping chemical industry reform).
- Immigration law breakthrough
- Dictator power (There has been much in the press about Donald Trump’s admiration of strong dictators, specifically naming Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Saddam Hussein, and China dictatorship for vanquishing their enemies. There has also been much written about Trump’s authoritarian proclivities.)
- Republican party has leadership vacuum (vision of crowds of people with hole in the middle). (This started in early October 2015 when House Speaker resigned followed by his replacement dropping out of the running. This leadership vacuum continued throughout the summer as the Republican House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader, as well as many prominent Republicans found it difficult to embrace the Republican nominee as their standard bearer).
- Giant Alligator (June 15 Alligator grabs and drowns toddler at Disney resort.
- Big hurricane (see similar vision above from different reader) (Taiwan typhoon July 7th, Florida Panhandle predicted for August/Sept)
- Everyone (world) is in the dark about something going on secretly beneath the international stage – thoughts of Putin. (This prediction was about Putin secretly trying to influence the American election. Evidence came out in July when the Russian government hacked the DNC emails and published data harmful to the democrats.)
- Planned Parenthood in the news again. (PP Ohio extends restraining order).
- Bad drought
- Feeling of waiting, everyone at a standstill. (US airport lines at a standstill due to greater TSA security measures and peak summer travel.)
- News about a bad storm at sea.
- Oil wells and problems with fish in the Arctic.
- Caucasian fist/black convertible: (Trump ties to White Supremacists (symbolized by caucasian fist) in the news)
July 2016
- A bear coming right in our door (feeling that Putin is up to something invasive to the U.S. DNC emails hacked by hackers associated with Russia; hackers were named “cozy bear” and “fancy bear”.
- Fire trucks, fire. (In July Southern California fires lit up the skies of L.A.)
- Chaos in England (Upset and chaos following the Brexit vote – thanks to Kendal for pointing this out).
- Words, words, words — politicians. (Trump’s wife’s plagiarism speech caused explosion of media analysis of the words she chose.)
- New NASA flight discussions star-trek (NASA gave new Hubble Telescope image a Star Trek theme.)
- Market in square root sign (down turn then rebound). June 24th after UK decision to abandon the EU, markets fell sharply.
- Celebrities doing an event (Brad pitt/George Clooney/Angelina Jolie)(This turned out to be a news story in which press surprised Clooney with question about Pitt/Jolie divorce. They were friends of his and he hadn’t known about the divorce).
- Waterfalls/Niagra Falls in the news. (New World Daily News, a fictional news outlet, issued a fake story that went viral claiming that a Nazi submarine was discovered in Lake Ontario near Niagra Falls). Thanks to John B. for clarifying for us)
- Children, babies in hopsitals, grief, lots of people in chaos. (Nice, France killings across from Children’s Hospital).
- Black car with hood up. Men in suits and wearing fedora hats. (See images of Boris Johnson booed as he enters his car protected by police in fedora hats after Brexit vote.)
- Healthy water (Flynt news?) (Flynt, MI to replace up to 250 water lines)
- Hillary on the podium (at the DNC which is July 25-28) (Clinton gets the nomination and makes the keynote speech. This vision occurred two years ago.)
- Risky politics (this term is increasingly used to describe Trump’s line of attack).
- Middle East, ISIS continues to strike. (Nice, France attacks)
- Suspension bridge with cars, unsteady (see April vision of collapsed suspension bridge) Nepal bridge collapses killing dozens.
- Big boats, ships, boats that carry cargo (Panama Canal in late June opened its $5 b expansion that enables it to hold mega-sized ships).
- Middle eastern priests, white robe gold sash, “you all must die” – priests, young man with beard and moustache close short beard, maybe beheaded. (see similar vision one of us had earlier). (In July a French priest was murdered by a jihadist who fit the description above.http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/26/europe/france-normandy-church-hostage/).
- More military talks between U.S.A.and Europe and even Asian countries to defeat ISIS.
- Abortion rights (On 6/27/16 the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down Texas regulations that severely limited abortion clinics for supposedly medically necessary reasons. Supreme Court found that the Texas regulations are illegal because prevent women from getting abortions.)
- A coliseum, drones overhead (Unauthorized drones flew over Olympic stadium).
- Hillary is the candidate with Bernie dictating to his supporters who they should support. (On 7/12, Sanders endorsed Clinton and asked his supporters to work and vote for her- this prediction originally made for September).
- Parades/calm/cluelessness. People don’t know of what’s coming to them. (This is likely the Bastille Day celebration in Nice on July 14 that was disrupted by mass killing).
- Fires, drought, widespread.
- Supreme Court major ruling (in June Supreme Court knocked down Texas law that had limited abortion clinics)
- College education finance reform (Clinton calls for college debt-free plan).
- The planet Mars in the news. (NASA released 1,000 images of Mars).
- Robot strength (Mars photos taken by NASA robot)
- Refugees suffering, nowhere to go, crawling, turbans on heads, carrying their boat along sand.
- People start to worry more. (after Orlando and Nice attacks, people getting frightened).
- Battles – -the big fish goes down
- Soviet Putin up to something secretive (in July Russian government hacked and published DNC emailsand used their findings to embarrass the Democratic Party. Some speculate they will try to throw the US election by hacking voting machines.)
- Seismic readings off the charts in the heartland (Oklahoma authorities report a dozen seismic quakes in one week in July, 888 quakes last year, a 50% increase over the prior year due to fracking).
- Everyone still at standstill (Airport security lines still at standstill).
- Beaches deserted (After terrorist attacks on the French Riviera last year and now in Nice this year, formerly busy beaches are now deserted due to tourists’ fears, beaches also deserted near Florida Panhandle due to bacterial contamination).
- New NASA flight discussions “Startreck”
August 2016
- Drought will worsen in New England (Drought worsens in New England).
- Massive tree deaths in New England due to drought. (N.E. trees dying due to drought).
- Plumed hats as in the musketeers, horse processions (Rio Olympics opening ceremonies).
- Secret service – Security breach – all hell breaks loose (This could refer to the large-scale Kremlin email hack of the Democratic National Convention data that occurred the last week of July).
- Focus on an island – remote, shores (Failed military coups in Turkey continues to affect Cyprus)
- Belt tightening- fat man must cinch his belt
- Bombing in Syria (Hospital bombed in Aleppo).
- Court room with military presence (Trump’s recommendation that U.S. citizen terrorists should be prosecuted in military tribunals.)
- Boat people, Trump with downward arrow (Trump took strong stand against refugees being allowed into the U.S. The downward arrow may also refer to the downturn in Trump’s poll numbers that occurred in mid August after a series of gaffes, two involved his position against immigrants. )
- Abundance of grapes (In some areas, it’s been a banner year for grapes).
- Attention to the Southeastern U.S. ( the Louisiana floods.)
- African people – little is known (Video about the lost girls of Chibok released by Boko Haram captors. Still little is known.)
- Camp fossils (3.7 billion year old fossils found in Greenland, may be oldest signs of life on earth, Washington Post 8/31/16)
- Cyprus in the news – war (Turkey conflict puts war-torn Cyprus on edge).
- Neon star, lion
- Women in politics, becoming stronger, rising female power
- Something landing in the ocean (SpaceX Falcon 9 launches satellite, sticks ocean landing)
- Drought, fire in so many places (California fires from drought reach epic proportions; also Idaho is experiencing a major wildfire requiring firefighter assistance from multiple states:
- Big waves (In August, scientists discovered and tracked deep waves in the North Atlantic that traveled through the earth to Japan, increasing seismic knowledge.)
- Bone discovery (Oldest human bone found in Saudi Arabia).
- World grief, some expression of grief (Image of dazed Aleppo child pulled from bombed building goes viral sparking public grief reaction for the fate of children of war.)
- People crying, “Help us!” (Syrian nuns, aid workers, doctors cry for help.)
- Hard, harsh time, people unhappy, too many problems (Syria)
- Nantucket in the news (Manatee out of place off Cape Cod and Nantucket makes news).
- Not much rain in New England (severe drought announced for parts of Massachusetts in July and August).
September 2016
- The U.S. collective is trembling with anxiety, anger, and conflict. It’s a roiling cauldron stirred up by election rhetoric.
- World splitting in two. (U.S. in greatest divide since Civil War).
- More widespread tree deaths. (Unprecedented massive tree deaths across the U.S.driven by climate change that could devastate our ecosystem)
- Bernie Sanders still a factor. (With polls neck and neck, Clinton is calling on Sanders to convince his followers not to vote for a third party).
- Wheat in the news, yellow fields, heat, tractors in the Midwest (Largest ever wheat crop in Colorado)
- Europe uprising
- Tornado warning. (There was a rare tornado in Concord, Massachusetts on August 21st).
- Cape Cod, small boat (Manatee in the Cape Cod waters causes a stir)
- Seismic stress along the Pacific coast of South America (along the Peru-Chili Trench of the Ring of Fire).
- Male artist adrift at sea, storm broken boat window (September 19, 2016: It was a woman, not a man, who was stuck on a cargo boat for weeks when the cargo company’s boats could not dock due to bankruptcy.)
- Mountains near Mexico, so long Ohio (Thanks to Carissa for noticing that this is about an Ohio zoo’s efforts to save the Monarch Butterfly by breeding and releasing them in hope that they will successfully migrate to the mountains of Mexico. Barbara Kingsolver wrote about this issue in her novel Flight Behavior)
- Keyhole symbol again – sign of new world that we are entering.
- Market roller coaster
- Tree deaths in New England from drought (Drought stressing trees)
- Child upside down tears in the collection (Video footage of child found upside down but alive 17 hours after Italy earthquake).
- Importance of the Great Lakes region. (Importance of Great Lakes for the future)
- Marathon tragedy in upstate NY
- The polls: “The numbers go up and the numbers go down; what’s in a number?”
- Hillary and Bernie campaigning, still Trump (Bernie campaigning for Hillary)
- Major hurricane in Florida panhandle (September 1, first hurricane in 11 years hits Panhandle, then Labor Day weekend travels up east coast of Atlantic.)
- Caesar’s troops on the march
- Foot of Eiffel tower (Terrorist activity nearby)
- Drought bad then market drops, then up
- Green Party, failure of a plan (Green party candidate Jill Stein had hoped but failed to get the 15% vote to be in the presidential debate.
- Pre WWII vintage plane dug up (Norwich England WWII plane dug up in August)
- Increased consciousness, spiritual awakening permeating the mainstream
- Airplane wings (In August, Australian officials announced that a wing found near Tanzania is likely that of missing Malaysian fight MH370. Next a team of scientists has floated six wing flap replicas near the the found wing to track their float paths.)
- Madagascar gets torrential rain and floods, heavy tornadoes in Indian Ocean.
- Paul McCartney truth revealed. (Huff Post revealed that Paul and then wife Linda had made a Simpson character become a vegetarian as a condition for appearing on the show.)
- Bull’s head – a sign of bull market.
October 2016
- The wings of Mercury the messenger god (communicating to all). (Astrologers make big deal that the planet Mercury has gone direct, meaning expedited communications)
- Nuclear bomb goes off somewhere (not on this planet) (North Korea detonates nuclear bomb underground)
- Money sign with a downward arrow (DYX (dollar index) down, which boosts stock market)
- Protest parade; Revolutionaries with megaphones and black hats, Easter Island statues. (People protested an Aurora Indiana parade float showing Obama depicted in black face as an Easter Island statue and Trump executing Hillary Clinton who sat in an electric chair.)
- Belgium, rain, trams, subways, power of two people leading
- Bernie and Hillary campaigning hard (Bernie and Hillary campaigning hard together).
- Focus on a whale (29 whales wash up dead on German beaches due to plastic in their stomachs – brings focus to ocean pollution.)
- Airplane wings (finding from a lost plane) (In August, Australian officials announced that a wing found near Tanzania is likely that of missing Malaysian fight MH370.)
- Crazy market, market drops steeply then bounces back part-way.
- Hillary ahead
- High tension power lines in the news (Millions without power due to Hurricane Matthew downing high tension power lines).
- Tuscon heavy rains (This happened in August)
- U.S. Navy submarines protecting our waters, on a mission
- Big-horned antelope over the capitol (symbol of bull market?) (Political directions will send waves of market confidence)
- Jellyfish. (Series of articles about protecting power stations from jellyfish swarms)
- Big drought
- Hillary, cheering, feeling victory (Polls show HC far ahead)
- Bernie Sanders/grassroots strong, attempting to steer his base to Democratic vote. (Bernie editorial for Hillary)
- Food poisoning, mushrooms (L.A. school children consumed wild poison mushrooms).
- New York skyscraper buildings in the news (Tallest modular building in Brooklyn in the news).
- The issue of a river flowing into U.S. from Canada (The North Dakota Access Pipeline proposal sparked Native American protesters who want to save the river).
NOVEMBER 2016
- Twitter explosion, How to Stop Trump Electoral College.
- Sutter’s Mill on the American River in CA running close to dry.
- Seas, ocean life in trouble, sea mammals washing up, death figure with sythe
- Terrible fire in the news , all red from above (San Francisco artists cooperative building goes up in flames, many deaths).
- Collective is boiling with rage, like a volcano ready to blow.
- Hillary wins. [note: She won the popular vote by 3 million but lost the antiquated Electoral College.]
- Racist incidents rising in the U.S.
- Chaos, Hitler rising.
- Hawaii water big waves
- Standing Rock Pipeline – break through for protestors) (December 4 is day of victory (Anais)
- Many peaceful protests in the U.S.
- Carousel – everything becoming looney.
- Suffragettes dancing in the streets (Women at the polls are dressing like the original suffragettes)
- Extra large donkey on its front hoofs, with rear end kicking high in the air. It’s a mighty Hee-Haw. (Jeanne Mayell) (This happened in late October with so much Trump bad press and Republicans defecting, but it reversed election night).
- Seething and celebration
- From joy to rage; jubilation: reserve/calm/despair (Andrea) At first everyone (democrats) are celebrating and then it turns to disappointment.
- Hillary Clinton gets out of a limo in a black pant suit – feeling of victory. (This happened a week before the election when polls predicted she was winning)
- Map of U.S. Hillary Smiling, Trump grimacing. (this happened before the election when polls all but guaranteed a Clinton victory)
- Hillary waving flags, fists in the air, saying change is going to happen. (campaign speech)
- White donkey(Hillary and many women wore white in weeks before election to honor the Suffragettes) .
- Women rising (Before the election, women celebrated their rise in politics)
- Blue jay (A likely symbol of democratic victory)
- Family values emphasized in election decision (campaign rhetoric)
- Religious leaders, angry mix of politics and religion.
- People holding hands, people are happy (momentarily) (pre-election glee)
- Beauty Pageant – women rising (This is reference to the national press about Alicia Machado, 1996 Miss Universe winner who came out against Trump for publicly calling her names for weight gain. It’s thought that it will cost Trump women and Latin votes).
- A woman gets massive vote. (Jeanne Mayell)(Woman won popular vote by 2.8 million)
- Candidate who is blue on the outside, red inside wins.(Trump ran on campaign that catered to the little guy, but has appointed an extreme red cabinet).
- Fight to the last vote, polling numbers extreme
- Republican Party looking to Congress for their power. (House Speaker Ryan pulls away from Republican nominee and focuses on congressional races.)
- Cactus – symbol of drought – election shrouds real issue which is deteriorating climate.(Jeanne Mayell)
- White dove flies across full moon. Combat. U.S. soldiers in camouflage inside large sphinx like statue
- Horse, looks like a chess piece, falls over
- Military, ammunition, war afoot.
- Concrete steps in Washington, rallies, Jimmy Carter
- American civil war – images of the 1860’s– the mood among Americans is getting like the Civil War..
- Cobra on the attack, not believing scriptures is against God (the Standing Rock protest where the Native American prophecy viewed the oil pipeline as a black snake that, if allowed, foretold the end of the world).
- Elderly people legislative bill so that they are warm and cared for. (House Speaker Paul Ryan says he plans to immediately dismantle Medicare entitlement program by replacing it with premium subsidies).
- Hail, sleet, skies turn very dark (Severe El Paso weather brings hail, sleet, strong winds)
- Tumult, anger, angry crowd shouting (Post election protests all over the U.S.)
- A candidate is chosen who makes an impact on international affairs. (Many U.S. allies are critical of U.S. president elect, while former enemies (Putin and Assad) are encouraged).
- Green fight (Green Party Candidate Jill Stein launches recount).
- Rockport harbor bus in the news. (This vision likely about a school bus crash in Chattanooga. Chattanooga is a Native American word for “rock rising to a point” and since we are located near Rockport, Massachusetts, we may have mistaken word Chattanooga for rock – Does this mean our Indian guide was translating the name of the city for us? )
- Turkey plague
- Scary terrorist attack close to the election (Ohio State University attack).
- Map of U.S. with Texas as the funnel of a tornado. (Jeanne Mayell)
- One-eyed teddybear (According to reader Kevin S., the one eyed teddy bear is a UK national symbol to help children in need. Also another reader (Lutesia) informed us that a national telethon to support children in need raised a record amount, and its long-time presenter, Terry Wogan, just died sparking a national outpouring of grief over the loss. Amazing that this vision came from an American who had no knowledge of the symbol or the UK events surrounding it.)
- Sonic waves and fish, especially dolphins, shales and sharks, as well as birds affected.
- Bomb goes off – big one – high into the sky; nuclear bomb buildings blow away as from a big wind (North Korea explodes underground nuclear bomb in September)
DECEMBER 2016
- Standing Rock: the power of love and peace.
- Saints rising.
- Western half of U.S. & Mexico, near Baja peninsula – concerns about earth there,. probably sea level rise. (Jeanne). Not so much sea level as seismic activity.
- Peace in Syria. (Andrew) Brief cease fire in December.
- Russia a phenomenal lot of snow from a blizzard.
- Rain in Africa brings happiness.
- Massive fire and destruction (Arts building fire in San Francisco) Fires in the western U.S. at all time high.
- Italy in trouble
- Earthquake: Phillipines
- Electoral College results do not change the election. (about 7 defectors)
- Electoral College: Image of Trump as a young lion nervously anticipating the results (The lion was a symbol that Trump’s vigilante supporters adopted for him, calling themselves the Lion Guard. The symbol comes from a favorite quote by the fascist dictator Mussolini that Trump repeated as one of his favorite quotes: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” The fact that spirit shows him as very young probably means he hasn’t grown in the fascist role yet. Let’s hope he never does.)
- Silent, electoral college shock, awe, temporary calm.
- People know they have a long hard road ahead.
- Profound sadness in the collective of those who did not want Trump.
- Chaos, unhappy masses, people pissed, worried, believing he’s a madman, ignorant, scared president.
- Black curtain drops
- Stock market going crazy (new highs)
- Gay rights in the news.
- Sunshine, optimism, the star, belief in new ideals In the wake of U.S. civil conflict, many are turning to positive action and thinking to shift the situation. Charitable giving is up, privately funded improvement projects are up).
- Light – sunrise as more people embrace peace and change. (In the wake of U.S. civil conflict, many are turning to positive action and thinking to shift the situation. Charitable giving is up, privately funded improvement projects are up).)
- Environmentalists rising up to take positive action(Trillion dollar project headed up by Leonardo DiCaprio to fund sustainability projects).
- Standing Rock Issue:
- Dec. 4: Cobra rears its head (pipeline authorities face off with protesters).
- Pipeline – break through (December 4 is day of victory for protestors)
- After the victory: The protestors and the world know that the victory is temporary. A confrontation was avoided. But the oil companies are making their plans to go ahead in January when Trump takes over.
- In the U.S., protests blocking the highways, blocking holiday shoping, protests everywhere.
- Dec 19th: Trump elected by Electoral College.
- Christmas holiday: people shopping but stores still have plenty in stock (poor holiday performance).
- A train disaster that involves children (vision was of Thomas the Train running out of control) (India train crash 11/20 kills 140).
- Research findings on the oceans and dolphins.
- People in boats rowing, so much stress, people unhappy
- Ku Klux Klan rising again. (Klan celebrates Trump election as a victory for them ).
DECEMBER 2016
- Melt off in poles. (Surge in arctic temperatures reported even while north pole is in winter darkness.)
- Some positive visions the prediction group saw for 2016: Sunshine, rainbow, the color pink (stands for peaceful activism and feminism), green leaves, drops of water, rainforest, circular, recycle symbol, love, strong nation, family, resilient, people holding hands and hugging each other, Children and a good month; spirit saying “a new dawn” is coming. Bright cheerful holiday season, economy okay
- Monk burning self in front of a large cathedral (a Burmese man, an asylum seeker who had been in Melbourne for three years in which he was not allowed to work and received minimal public assistance, set himself on fire in a large bank our of desperation. Interesting that a bank was seen in a vision as a place of worship.)
- Positive attention on the Great Lakes region. (Jeanne Mayell) (Economic development experts put spotlight on Great Lakes region).
- Slow Christmas season, not as many people shopping
- Black limo, cool coats, church leaders – an image from the media.
- Image of cactus – U.S. drought
- Multiple oil rig fires.
- Elton John in the news (Donald Trump claimed that Elton John was playing at his Inauguration and Trump’s team confirmed it, but Elton John said “No way.”)
- Cowboy in a ten gallon hat – death of a celebrity. (Gene Wilder who played cowboy roles but was especially famous for his extra large top hat in his role as Willy Wonka) .
- Stories about families kept apart
- Tree roots in the news. (Research now shows that trees have a vast neural network below ground that sends nutrients and communicates with each other for forest survival; all endangered by clear cutting and climate change.
- Harvard University in the news not good (Shouting match between Trump and Clinton aides at Harvard forum on December 1).
- J. Edgar Hoover (Senator compares FBI director to Hoover, calling for his resignation. )
- Calm after storm, shock (Election results leave many in shock)
- Some happy, but not truly happy. (Liberals upset and sorry they settled on Hillary.) Wish they’d picked Bernie Siegal for candidate instead of Hillary Clinton.)
- Whales in danger.
- European Union makes unexpected announcement
- Good days for stock market, some people will be really happy, buying opportunities. (Jeanne Mayell)
- Market down then back up, no crash this month. (Jeanne Mayell)
- Batman ends up winning.
- Christmas sales down further.
- The drug cartels in the news.