“It is going to be the most intense year,” says Lilyana Bethanee of Toro Park, “that any of us alive have ever lived.”

This trance channel and Reiki master-teacher bases her prediction on a deep study of numerology and astrology. She maintains that because 2007 marks the end of a nine-year cycle that began in 1999—and because that cycle is the last of a millennium of such cycles—things will intense.

“It will be like having eight years of lessons in one year,” she says. “What happened in the last eight years will come up again in ‘the nine year’ to be resolved, transformed and taken to the next level.”

Then she shares the kicker—the bucket-kicker. “A year nine is the easiest year to pass over,” she adds. “The portal is wide open. We’re going to see an awful lot of deaths.”

Interestingly, amongst a diverse group of participants surveyed for this piece, Bethanee wasn’t alone in her dramatic predictions.

Palmist, tarot card reader and numerologist Solarzar Dellaporta of Marina says he doesn’t want to alarm people, but “we’re going to have rumblings on every continent of the world. People don’t need to sell their property or move out—but the earth is going to remind us to get rid of our ways.”

Monterey’s Tana Marie, a transformational intuitive counselor and ordained minister with her own “Love Psychic” radio show, anticipates drama with less damage.

“Big things are coming,” she says. “Nothing is going to be the same at the end of 2007 as it was today because we are in a cycle of ending a lot of the old paradigms. It’s a big change year, ending old patterns.”

Thankfully enough, Sharon Dunn of Capitola, a healer-teacher who does intuitive readings for people and their pets, has spied some guardian angels potentially positioning themselves to guide humans through ‘07.

“I’ve noticed that a number of animals have chosen to pass to the other side,” she says, “and I don’t know if that is because they’re going to be able to help us better from there.”