What predictions have come true in your life?

When I was five, my father told me that "There will never, ever be a woman fireman."  He meant, by extension, that I would never be a fireman, which at the time was my chosen occupation.  He was wrong about the "woman fireman" thing, but he was right that I would never become a firefighter.  So we'll give that one 50% for correctness.

In fourth grade, Patty's mother said that I was really smart--maybe the smartest kid in the neighborhood, and that someday I'd "take over the whole block."  This was quite a concept.  I had no idea what she meant, and really still don't, but it was great having somebody say something positive about me. 

When I was twelve and I first saw Jimmy, the crush was instant.  That was, of course, because the entire episode was karmic.  And being that it was to end so awfully, it was best to get through that business before attaining so many years that the sadness would be unsurvivable.  In that beginning moment, a little voice inside my head warned me, "If you choose him, he won't be there when you need him the most."  Crazily, I ignored the oddly sourced warning.  But it was true.  Although we later became quite an item, six years into the future he wasn't there at all when I needed him the most.

When I was 18, I had my first tarot reading.  I was the Fool, stepping carelessly into things that I knew not.  There would be adversity, then Death--a transition in which the life I knew would be lost to me, replaced by something... what?  and also the Tower, struck by lightening, falling down, tragedy both destructive and transformational.  This misfortune was projected to tear so deeply into my life as to take years to surmount.  But surmount it I eventually would.  The final outcome would be the Chariot, a card showing a triumphant outcome due to the ability to control both the white and black sphinx, the light and dark energies and wisdoms---in other words, a type of victory through self knowledge and learning balance and wisdom.  The final card was the Wheel of Fortune---the wheel of karma, wholeness, all of life spinning around, the surprises and events of life, the enterprise of a life fully lived---the last two cards being a pretty good description of my life now.  The Death and Tower cards heralded the tragedy that Jimmy wasn't going to be around for.  But of course, that's all over with now.