RANGOON — As New Year approaches, The Irrawaddy interviewed renowned Burmese astrologer
San Zarni Bo to get his predictions for 2013. He forecasts a significant
slowdown in the pace of political and economic change in Burma next year due to
cosmic factors. But don’t worry, 2014 will see major changes with Aung San Suu
Kyi becoming president.
The affable soothsayer and former
political prisoner, who was awarded the prestigious International Man of the
Year award in Astrology and Palmistry by the International Biographical Centre
in Cambridge, UK, in 1997, also discusses his new prison memoir and explained
why the world did not end on 21-12-2012.
Question: What is your prediction for events in 2013?
Answer: There will not be fast
changes like 2012. In 2012 all sorts of things happened. But in 2013 all the
reactions will slow down. All things can happen expectedly, but not
unexpectedly like in 2012.
Between Jan. 4 and Feb. 19, from
April 26 to May 2, and between July 24 and Aug. 26, these days will be able to
bring some [political] changes. But nobody can make amendments to our
Constitution. There will be some rules and acts that are a little bit positive,
but only in these three periods. [Aung San Suu Kyi and ethnic rebel groups are
seeking broad changes to the controversial 2008 Constitution.]
There will be no changes to the
head of the country, but … in January and March there will be some changes in
the head of the ministries. Aung San Suui Kyi can get more power, not only as
an MP, but she can reach higher in the year 2013, like the vice-presidential
level or minister post, but not yet the president.
Finance and business next year
will not be very nice. April, May, these moments are not good for the traders
and business persons. The weather has to be taken care of in May and August and
November. … Earthquakes and floods—the earth and water—can then give minor
trouble.
Q: What about the ethnic conflict situation, do you forecast peace next
year?
A: Nobody will waive the white
flag in 2013. Even if both sides say peace, they will use weapons again. All
the peace talks are on the table but in reality in the field they fight each
other. That will continue in the whole year of 2013.
Q: Why do you think 2012 was a year with so many changes?
A: Because of the status of Mars
and Jupiter, they were moving so nicely.
Q: What about your predictions for after 2013? Will Aung San Suu Kyi
become president of Burma?
A: Major political changes will
happen in 2014, before the election. … [But] there will be no military coup
before the election, I predict that. After July 7, 2014, everything will be
alright. 2014 and 2015 will be very nice. All the dreams of our country will
come true; all the dreams of 1988 will come true! [Laughs loudly]
Maybe after July 7, 2014, onwards
Aung San Suu Kyi will become president. Before the next election, she will be
the president. … There might be a coalition government or something like that
and then she can get the post of president. Then in the 2015 election she will
be elected as president again.
Q: Can you tell us about your new prison memoir?
A: It was launched on Dec. 22.
The book is called “One Jail and the Article 5J Stories.” [Emergency Provision
Act Article 5J was commonly used to jail political prisoners for supposed
subversive activities.] This book is not for me, it’s a fundraising book. The
money will go to the Former Political Prisoners League. All these stories were
published before in a humorous magazine in Burma called “Ye Sa Ya.”
I was sent to prison three times
[in the 1970s and late 1980s]. .… These are all short stories about the
prisoners, about how we live together. It’s also a book of humor. Even when we
are inside we did not lose our humor. I wrote about all these humorous plots.
There were also many traumas
because of the times we had. There were a lot of pains, a lot of suffering.
Some of our friends died. But some days are very nice, we are laughing with
each other. We make fun with each other. It needs to be like that, if not, we
can die and we can become insane. We love each other too, the brotherhood is
there.
Q: One last question, why did the world not end on 21-12-2012 as many
astrologists predicted?
A: The changes are happening now,
the new age is commencing. It doesn’t mean the whole world is over, [it means]
the new world is commencing. In Myanmar [calendar] predictions it will actually
commence by 24 of December. Today.
Q: Today? So I came here on an auspicious day?
A: Yes. We are now entering into
the new age. Within months [from now] all the bad things will start fading and
the good things will commence.
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