Due to our mysteriously esoteric studies, we're often asked for oracular predictions about the new year.  For this New Year's Eve, we consulted our own Mimetic Oracle, and here's why: the changing of the year is a grand pageant, and it's been said that theatre reveals what is behind so-called reality.  Our Mimetic Oracle draws from 92 characters in six vintage plays, with 166 spoken lines and 31 stage directions in the mix.  With the system, one randomly draws five characters and generates a script to illuminate the current drama of life.  (There’s a detailed F.A.Q. which explains how the scripts are created, how to make sense of the dialogues, how to determine whether a reading is positive or negative, what to make of the various characters, and why these specific 6 plays were chosen for the system: http://www.mysteryarts.com/play/.)

Here's the scenario that the oracle generated when asked about the coming year:

The cast of characters, intriguingly, features two sets of twins: the "Dutch Twins" and the tin soldiers Jack & Mack.  The other two figures, Melissa and Mrs. Mulligan (both M names), each have doubled letters (two s's for Melissa, two l's for Mulligan), further accentuating the twinning.  So apparently 2021 will carry over some sort of doubling inherent in the mirrored numbers of 2020.  In both dates, it's the 2's that are doubled, and our cast of characters certainly has twins doubled.  The first line is itself doubled: "Begin and never cease, begin and never cease."  We shall interpret that as a renewed call to make 2021 a brand new beginning, with the added insight that true beginnings never cease but are in a constant state of renewal.  So our little play encourages a new sort of dynamism in which we never rest on our laurels.  Music and bells follow, growing louder and louder, and this is a harbinger of increasing harmony and boisterous celebration—a very good sign for the coming year.  Then Mrs. Mulligan says that "if you stand on your head like that, all your brains will rush down into your fate."  This is a vital detail: it acknowledges that our world has been turned topsy-turvy, but we mustn't get stuck like that.  We must turn ourselves rightside-up, lest we lose our heads and seal our fate.  The first tin solder, Private Jack, is perhaps taken aback by the instruction, as if having followed orders for so long that he forgot how to stand "at ease."  One of the Dutch twins, Klinker, then rises, suggesting that once one of the doublings in 2021 rights itself, a second set of doublings will emerge.  The second tin soldier, Private Mack, apparently sees the development and nods his head wisely.  So ends the scene.  The little play begins with renewal and ends with wisdom—a highly positive outlook!