Editor’s Note: Most Planet Waves creative activities take place in a small city called Kingston, NY. The Kingston Times, our local weekly, did a year-end article on what its two supposed prognosticators think about the future of the city. Gerald Celente is one of the world’s best-respected trends researchers, who I’ve mentioned once in Planet Waves. However, my esteemed neighbor is the voice of doom, and I don’t want to give any more cloning power to his predictions — so I’m just going to post an excerpt of the Kingston Times article, with apologies to its author, Dan “D.X.” Barton.
When Dan asked me to look at the city’s charts, I searched around for some record of the city’s establishment as the revolutionary capital of New York State, but could find nothing specific about the actual date. (I am sure this can be recovered, but I didn’t have time to go full-bore.) However, soon after it was made capital, the Brits landed here and burned the place down. And, a time for the event is recorded in history. I was pretty amazed at what came out: among other things, an exact (to the degree) Moon-Chiron conjunction in Aries, which is currently right under transiting Eris. Big stuff for a little town of 23,000. If there is reader interest I can post the chart and host a conversation about why I chose that one and not another. –efc
by Dan Barton
It may ultimately be folly, as reality continually outstrips our imaginations, to try to predict the future. But it’s an undeniable aspect of human nature, the urge to cast one’s mind into the unknowable and forecast what will happen.
In that spirit, and because this is the time of year when we all naturally think about the shape of things to come, we sat down over the last few weeks with two of Kingston’s most noted prognosticators, Gerald Celente and Eric Francis Coppolino, to take their minds on what the city might expect. They take different approaches: Celente’s Trends Research Institute has for 30 years combed through, refined and analyzed vast tides of information to point the way through an increasingly uncertain global and domestic environment; Coppolino, who writes the astrology columns for Chronogram and House magazine, uses the time-honored practice of astrology to counsel his clients on how the motions of the heavens affect their lives down on Earth. (Big snip.)
Astrologers make their forecasts by drawing up “natal charts” based on the subject’s date of birth and location. (Astrology holds that the position of celestial bodies and the patterns they form at the time of birth determines if not everything that will happen to them, a great deal.) Coppolino chose as the birth-point of Kingston Oct. 16, 1777, at 9 a.m., when the British started attacking it in earnest. He sees that incident as the key to understanding why the city has its problems.