Howard Hughes Is Alive and Well in the Valley : Psychics: Five local seers give the future a shot. They see people flocking here and moving away, a return to family values, and of course, the Big One in ’93.

Our duty is clear. We can’t depend any more on those academic and political pundits who couldn’t even predict the Los Angeles riot. If we really want to know the future of the San Fernando Valley, we have to listen to all voices, including psychic ones.

So forget what happened yesterday. That’s old hat, soggy granola and weak tea for the also-rans. Here’s the news of the Valley before it even happens, as channeled, intuited, envisioned and otherwise foreseen by five local psychics:

The future of the San Fernando Valley is a bit mixed for the next five years. But first, the good news, as foreseen by Judy Hevenly, a Van Nuys psychic who does predictions for the Copley News Service and the National Enquirer: “The Valley will become the new hot spot.”

Instead of moving to the Westside to escape crime and violence, people will now move to the Valley, she says. “Major celebrities will move here. Real estate will pick up.”

It’s not, unfortunately, an opinion that is universally shared. According to Dayna Dorsey, a former marketing analyst turned psychic in Calabasas, the “Valley is not a retreat any more.” Senior citizens will move as far west as possible. Other people will leave the Los Angeles area for Orange County, Arizona and Nevada. The economy of the city will remain stagnant for the next five years. People in other states (especially Arizona) will learn more from Los Angeles’ problems than those of us who live here.

“People will move to colder, rainier climates, like Oregon or Washington,” says Kenny Kingston, a psychic who holds biweekly other-world services in Canoga Park and who advertises having done readings for Marilyn Monroe and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and who, by his own admission, also channels Chief Sitting Bull. “Housing prices will drop as people leave Los Angeles.” Even so, within the next five years, “the Valley will become an entertainment capital. There will be TV shows and more films shot here, more legitimate theaters, and tourism will boom all the way out to Oxnard and Santa Barbara.”

The city will be “very eager to settle Rodney King’s civil suit out of court,” Dorsey says. On the other hand, the government will drag out, for as many years as possible, the federal case against the four police officers who beat King. Lawrence Powell will temporarily leave the area for his own safety. When he comes back, “he will be convicted of a misdemeanor.” Because of the riot, it will be increasingly difficult to find people to serve on juries. The jurors in the King beating trial will suffer “post-traumatic-stress syndrome.”

The new police chief, Willie Williams, will be very strong and diplomatic, Dorsey says. “His first priority will be to re-establish the integrity of the Police Department.” He will initiate a major public relations campaign, as well as little events like fund-raising marathons and Toys for Tots. Officers will be encouraged to use their off-hours time to contribute to the inner city, company picnics and blood drives. “People will begin to see cops a little differently.”

Regarding the apocalypse juggernaut, the psychics agree: It’s on its way, and it’s going to get worse.

“First we had the floods, then the earthquake and now the fires,” Hevenly says. “People are beginning to wonder if this is not the end of the world. There will be an 8.9 earthquake in May of 1993.” There will be more fires. Electricity will fail.

“Every supermarket might have security. People will buy more dogs for protection. Smog will get so bad in the Valley the city will institute mandatory non-drive days. There will be a tighter rein on the educational system, a curfew for schoolchildren,” she continues. Bus service will be curtailed in certain especially dangerous areas.

The problems will be bad, Dorsey agrees. “It’s going to be an incredibly hot summer, which will create an imbalance in people’s emotions. The National Guard will always be in the wings long term. There will be a problem with agricultural infestations. The Valley schools will suffer terribly as a result of state cutbacks.”

“The human tension above is creating tension underneath us,” says Andy Reiss, an Atwater-based psychic who has been doing annual World Predictions for the past 15 years for the Globe, Weekly World and San Bernardino Sun. “There will be a major quake in the spring of 1993. Earth upheavals. The place will be gutted. There will still be looting and other conflict.”

But out of this, he says, will come a deeper understanding resulting in a complete social transformation. “Humanity will have a new appreciation for living on this Earth. A spiritual awakening will start here, move eastward and around the world.”

It’s pretty clear that there will be an earthquake before next spring, Dorsey says, but it won’t so much be the doomsday quake predicted by Nostradamus but more like a “Sylmar-type quake.” Even so, people will shun the state on account of the floods, the fires, the riots. “People will look at all the earthquake activity and say, ‘What is so good about California? You can get your oranges from Florida,’ ” she says.

In response to the trauma of the riots, traditional morality will reassert itself. “People are sick of violence,” Hevenly says. “They will quit watching so much TV. There will be a return to the old values. They will read more. They will start playing old music again. Women won’t be roaming around. They will stick with one guy. There will be more parties. We will go back to the things we enjoyed in the ‘50s.”

One of which will be sex.

“The birth rate will increase as people feel a desire to be close, to heal, to be one with something and a desire to touch someone,” Dorsey says. At the same time, and as part of the same process, people will turn away from materialism. “They won’t have any choice. The economy will be so bad they will feel lucky if they can just hang on to a job.”

“People will re-evaluate their lives,” says Mary Kara, a psychic and co-owner of the Psychic Eye Bookshop in Sherman Oaks. “The attitude will be more positive. The community will come together. It will be kind of like the olden days. People will be friendly with police officers. There will be more of a focus on family, a changing of consciousness, more inner reflection, greater feelings of community, a more positive attitude. There will actually be foot patrolmen.”

Politically, the future looks grim. If the three policemen who were acquitted are convicted on federal charges, “it will cause huge political problems for the President-elect,” Hevenly says. There will be a scandal after Bill Clinton is nominated. Bush might withdraw his nomination for President. Arnold Schwarzenegger will run for the U.S. Senate and win. Mike Tyson will get a shorter sentence.”

Due to the recent riots, Kingston says: “Gen. Colin Powell will have a change of heart and run for political office. Police Chief Daryl Gates will go to a very high position in government. A scandal is going to hit Bush which will make Nixon look like Little Lord Fauntleroy.”

Also, Kingston says, there is one tip he’s picked up from other-world sources. You thought Howard Hughes was dead? That’s not what the shades say. According to well-placed other-world sources with whom Kingston is in close communication, Hughes is alive and well and divides his time between Las Vegas, the Bahamas and a secret house in Encino. He buys ice cream in 250-gallon batches, and has recently switched from banana nut to chocolate mint.