An asparagus-chucking fortune teller who foresaw the Queen’s death says 2023 will see Princess Anne suffer a health scare and savvy Brits copy The Good Life's Tom and Barbara to combat the cost-of-living crisis.
Jemima Packington, 66, is the world's only asparamancer and claims she can peer into the future by tossing spears in the air and interpreting how they land. She has previously correctly predicted Brexit, the Queen’s death, Covid continuing to be a threat, and the Harry and Meghan storm engulfing the royals.
Jemima has now revealed her top tips for 2023, including more ups and downs for the royals and hard-up Brits digging deep to grow their own food. She says the tips say there will be more heartache for the royals with Princess Anne suffering a health scare.
However, Jemima says another royal birth and King Charles' Coronation will provide joyous moments and help unite the country during another turbulent year. Meanwhile, hard-up Brits are expected to become savvier as the cost-of-living crisis bites, with the Government even considering food rationing.
Many of us will turn our gardens and flower beds into vegetable plots to keep our food bills down. Ongoing strikes will also cause unrest between people who are struggling and those who are better off. Covid will continue to rumble on with a super-strain causing turmoil in the Far East, sparking tensions between countries.
In the world of politics, high-profile public figures will be exposed as corrupt. In showbiz, more Hollywood stars will come out as gay including several very unexpected revelations. Next year will also see unexpected celebrity deaths, including some who die young.
There will be happier outcomes in the world of sport, with Jemima predicting England manager Gareth Southgate receiving a New Year’s Honour. The Lionesses’ are also tipped to follow up their Euro 2022 triumph by bringing the World Cup home.
Meanwhile, Premiership rugby clubs will continue to struggle with more following in the footsteps of Wasps and Worcester Warriors and talk of some players returning to ‘semi pro’ status.
Jemima says she reads the shapes of the asparagus spears as they land and boasts and impressive 70-95 per cent accuracy rate. Despite her eerily accurate predictions, some of her 2022 tips were proved wrong.
She predicted Boris Johnson would continue as PM, when in fact he was forced to quit in the summer after a string of scandals followed by a slew of Tory resignations. However, she has also predicted his return to Downing Street in the future.
She also said Sir Keir Starmer would not continue as Labour leader, when in reality he now enjoys a 26-point lead over the Tories. In the world of sport, Jemima said Man City would not win the Premier League when in reality they beat Liverpool to the crown by one point.
She also said her asparagus spears said Croatia would win the World Cup when they actually finished third behind runners-up France and champions Argentina. Jemima also failed to predict England winning the Cricket World Cup and said the women’s ruby team would enjoy World Cup success.
Jemima, of Bath, Somerset, began making predictions aged eight-year-old and said she inherited the gift from her elderly aunt who used to read tea leaves. She said: "My technique has not changed and I still cast the asparagus spears and interpret the patterns in them.
“Seeing the patterns for me is instantaneous, possibly that is because I’ve had years of practice. I am usually about 75-90 per cent accurate with my predictions. I go through my predictions each year and think: 'Yep, that's happened, yep, that's happened.'
"Occasionally I get one slightly off, where I haven't quite read it correctly, but I'm never far off. I predicted Boris Johnson would become Prime Minister before he did and everyone laughed their socks off."
She picks a handful of tips, tosses them into the air and "reads" the shapes they form when they land. Jemima said she saw the spears of the veg form the shape of a broken crown just months before the Queen died in September 8.
She said: “The spears formed a broken crown which indicated to me that there would be a great royal sadness. When I saw pictures of the Queen welcoming Liz Truss as PM I noticed how frail she looked and I said to my friend ‘it won’t be long now’. I thought back to my readings of the spears and just thought to myself 'oh no'. I am a huge fan of the Queen and I was very sad when she died.”
Jemima uses fresh Worcestershire asparagus grown in the Vale of Evesham - the UK's main supplier of the vegetable.
