Coronavirus: good riddance 2020, but will 2021 be better for Hong Kong? Fortune-tellers point to sliver of hope
- Covid-19 will continue to affect economic recovery at least until autumn, but radical conflicts of 2019 not expected, clairvoyants say
- Most say 2021 will be an easier year for city leader Carrie Lam, who is expected to keep her position
The spectre of the coronavirus cast a pall over most of 2020, and while a new dawn awaits every dark night, Hong Kong’s geomancy and cartomancy practitioners interviewed by the Post have predicted another uneasy year for the city in 2021.
The pandemic that has wreaked havoc across the world will continue to plague the city, retarding economic recovery until autumn, despite the availability of vaccines, according to the clairvoyants.
It is not all doom and gloom, however – the soothsayers say the radical conflicts of 2019 are not expected, although some internal social disputes will linger.
On the Covid-19 pandemic
Celebrity Tarot card reader Fanny Wu Ming-fong, who has been practising for 20 years, did not expect a quick end to the pandemic. “Although vaccines are available, possibly the virus might mutate to weaken their effectiveness, if not making them obsolete,” Wu warned.
Combining astrology, Wu uses her intuition and judgement to interpret information stored in the tarot cards she has drawn and laid out in what she calls a Celtic Cross that formulates her visions of possible future events.
And the card that represents the overall outlook of the pandemic is “The Tower”, which is often interpreted as meaning danger and chaos.