2010 Forecast

As a professional intuitive I am always wary of making predictions. I believe that part of the gift and the challenge of our lives is to exercise our free will to the utmost in the face of factors that are beyond our control. However, knowing what the collective energy has in store for us helps us to better navigate our individual lives and exercise our free will. I have seen how helpful it is to describe the collective energy to a client for them to orient their personal feelings within the collective experience. Knowing the collective energy acts like signposts along the road. It is not a prediction of where we choose to go. It just orients us on our journey. So here are what I intuitively sense are energetic signposts within the collective for 2010.

 We have undergone intense and transformative energy in 2009. It often felt like a rough ride but this energy’s gift has the ability to awaken us to our potential, individual power, autonomy, values and responsibility. If everybody wakes up in this way the earth would shake like everybody jumping up and down at the same time. So you can see how transformative this energy can be and why it is worth the trouble of embracing it.

I see there will roughly be three waves of transformation:

The Initiators

The first wave is comprised of the most sensitive people: healers, intuitives, and people who are just plain super-sensitive. That wave has already begun and will continue till about three-quarters into 2010. Then it will be smooth sailing for the first wave. This group represents the energetic leaders, the ones who create alternative visions of how the world can be and then spread the news and ideas. The biggest challenge for this group has already peaked and is now moving into decline. They will continue to experience the challenges of 2009 in the form of sickness, insomnia, allergies, letting go of old relationships and dynamics, but largely they will start to see re-growth and seeds of hope of in early 2010. They will begin to grow in strength by mid 2010, and finish the year strong in a good position to assertively lead the pack in 2011. The key thing for this group to remember that will help them when facing the challenges of 2010 is that this is all training to have an understanding of what everybody else they are serving will be going through, having gone through it themselves. They are the translators of psychic astronomical energies. So the gift of 2010 to you first wavers is that the deep perceptions your sensitivities bore that were so marginalized and dismissed before will be recognized as the forward thinking visions that are necessary to construct alternate workable systems in the future. By 2011 you will finally be thanked for being a visionary.

The Adopters

The second wave will be people who are less sensitive but open, curious, and wanting empowerment. This is the single largest group, the mainstream. The most sensitive of the second group have already begun to feel the rumblings: more colds, illnesses, accidents, challenges. This group will really feel the challenge of this transformative energy throughout 2010 and half of 2011. The savvy ones will follow their instincts to transform themselves on a deep level and seek psychological and spiritual growth. Due to their large numbers, this group represents the group with the most power so they are the ones who decide on whether to accept or adopt the new ideas and visions of the world and make them concrete. The biggest challenge for them in 2010 is to get used to this new position of conscious power. They were powerful before in numbers but now they are getting the call to be powerful through their conscious choices. With that power comes responsibility so it may at times moving forward into 2010 feel like they are getting blamed unfairly for the decisions made in the past or the lack of progress being made in the present but they need to see past the accusations to the fear that inspires this criticism and recognize that only the powerful get criticized and held accountable. So rejoice second wavers! Your thoughts, voice, and choice count! No longer are your choices going to be attributed to an unconscious process that can be easily manipulated by advertising or political campaigns; now you are choosing more consciously than ever and this shift in your process and the way you hold your power will force the powerbrokers to adopt more honesty. In turn the gift of 2010 to you will be that your creativity, initiative, and passion that have been buried for so long will now have a real chance of making an impact in the world.

The Keepers

The third and last wave is a small but vocally resistant group; the spiritual naysayers.  They will feel the changes that are blatantly obvious to the first wave, and that the second wave has already begun to learn about, but for them it will only register unconsciously. On the surface they will be even more resistant, more argumentative, more confrontational. Before we are quick to judge this group, there is something constructive even in this resistance to change. This group asks us “Are you sure you want to get rid of….?” The third wave’s attachment to the status quo will be the last call for all of us to see whether there is still anything of value in the old systems before we toss them out. If after we hear all the arguments from the third wave for keeping an old way of being or doing something, we still want to throw out the old ways out, then we really have evaluated and found the old systems wanting and we can be assured that we did not throw out anything on a whim. Also, by forcing us to evaluate old systems and ways of doing things, we start to develop a clearer vision of what we want to replace the old systems with. The challenge to the third wavers in 2010 will be to realize that their conservatism’s usefulness is not in rigidity but in discernment, that they can better uphold old values and maintain cultural continuity and stability not by being adamantly rigid but being the voice of discernment and scrutiny when it comes to values. In its most distorted form this energy becomes prejudice and fundamentalism. In its most enlightened form to becomes scholarly and keepers of the sacred. The third wavers’ largest challenge in 2010 is within themselves to choose the more enlightened energy described above so that their opinion is valued and considered a helpful contribution to evaluating old systems and rebuilding a new vision of the world. Only through this self-examination will the third wavers get their gift of 2010: recognition that sometimes, in this era of wanting everything new, fast and young, that old and slow also have value.

I see this all starting energetically in 2011 and the energy manifesting physically in 2012  in lots of people debating about belief systems more in the public forum than before. The third wave group will challenge everyone else in a highly charged way, likely inciting lots of aggressive energy from all groups. 2012 promises to be a volatile but transformative, progressive year.

For 2010, get on board and enjoy the perks of riding the wave. So take a class, go to therapy, read self-help books. If you have already been doing that, then deepen your studies with more serious training because you are probably part of the first wave and the world needs its pioneers to lead the way for the next few years to something more peaceful. And those pioneers who have been struggling a lot in the last year, and to a lesser extant, their whole lives, need community for support. So if you don’t already belong to a serious study group of some sort, this is the year for the first wave people and the more sensitive of the second wave.

As a result of all of this, 2010 is going to be a banner year for healers, professional intuitives, the esoteric arts, and spiritual training. And people will really start having fun with their spiritual studies. As a result of these conflicting energies, I see the economy continuing to be weird, sometimes very light and fluid, other times dramatic and dire and to switch moods more than a hormonal teenager. For those empowering themselves with spiritual, meditative, or intuition training, they will be able to ride these waves without getting sucked in to the drama like the last year.

To kick off the new year, I am implementing a whole bunch of new measures to offer support to any fans of intuition and mindfulness, and consequently are sensitive to the energy out there: at home exercises downloadable from iTunes for free; hot Tweet tips on interesting learning and social trends related to general spiritual, environmental, and social change; a coming blog with articles like these ones, and a Facebook forum where I lead online discussions focusing on intuition. I continue to welcome readers to send me questions or comments about what I wrote, or on intuition and psychic matters, which I will happily respond to. Of course, I also have comprehensive intuition training programs for those who seek more support and deeper learning. So whatever stage of interest you are at, I hope to be of service to you in the new year and wish you an enlivening, transformative 2010!

Katherine Opashinov is a psychotherapist, professional intuitive, and founder of Intuitive Centre, Canada’s most comprehensive program for intuition studies for personal and professional development. For more information or to contact her with questions or comments on this article, visit her website www.katherineopashinov.com or www.intuitivecentre.com.