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What's Ahead in 2012? A Psychic Gives Her Predictions

The proprietor of New Age Psychic Boutique in Havertown gives her take on the coming year.

Many journalists, in an attempt to intelligently forecast the year ahead, would talk to economists, medical experts, technologists, meteorologists, and financiers.

But for something completely different, and for the , the Haverford-Havertown Patch had a conversation with a local psychic on New Year's Eve and asked her to share some of her premonitions of what's to come in 2012.

"J" (out of sensitivity to her clients, she asked that her real name not be used), after meditating for a day, said she received visions that suggest a banner year in Haverford Township and Havertown.

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"I did see us being more financially productive. I see a lot of small businesses coming back to the area," she said. "A lot of the property values in our area have gone down, but I do see that going back up. I see finances growing within our Delaware Valley community."

She said local government will, she expects, be more proactive in balancing the budget. They will .

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"I see the economy coming up, and this is early on in the year. I see the government being able to form a new direction as far as finances go. And a lot of new tax cuts coming up. All within the beginning of this year. I want to say by April, everything will come into financial balance. I don't see us having a rough patch like last year."

"J" added that, locally, she anticipates a recovery that is spiritual as well as economic.

"I see our community being more of a stronger factor for us. I see people coming together, and see people helping other people. Opening up new directions and guidance for one another."

Despite the rosy outlook for the Delaware Valley, nationally, the picture is a little murkier.

"I see us having a couple of difficulties when it comes to jobs and careers. I see us having some difficulties with China—I want to say something to do with trading, in that nature. It wasn't so dramatic as a war or anything like that, it just seemed a little bit more of a funk when it came to exporting things, or things of that nature. This will happen by mid-Summer."

"J" also sees a return of many of the blue-collar jobs that have been outsourced in recent decades.

"I see a lot of jobs that we did send overseas coming back to us, but that's not until fall. I'm not a government official—I don't know the correct term behind it—but I see us passing a couple laws against our jobs being shipped across seas, and them coming back to us."

She doesn't believe this phenomenon will be related to our conflict with China.

"It's coming from all different countries, all different directions. If I was to sit here and say what did I feel, I feel 10,000 or 20,000 of our jobs coming from each direction—India, China, different directions—each chunk, each building block has to come back to America for us to be financially secure. And this will be more into action by fall."

The return will be temporary though, she explained, because it will ultimately raise prices on certain goods and exacerbate class tensions.

"J" also had a vision related to the November presidential election, and it's not one the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would be happy with.

"I've seen a much older gentleman (becoming president in November.) I'm not 100 percent, but I'm about 80 percent sure. I didn't focus on the vision though, because I didn't want to know."

She added that while she doesn't anticipate any large scale disasters, she expects global warming will worsen.

"I wanted to know if there were any natural disasters coming up, but I didn't see anything like that. I did see a couple natural disasters, I saw a fire in California, but that's normal. One thing I did see that was off-putting was an exceptionally warm winter—January, February, March. And it's not good for our health, it's not good for our earth, it's not good."

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