4. Galactic Alignment
The
Mayan calendar and the fractal patterns of the McKenna brothers are only human
constructs, descriptions of our journey through time. But out in our galaxy there
is a giant wheel revolving - we are actually on a slow wobble and the stars are
just appearing to revolve. This "precession of the equinoxes" takes 25,800 years
to complete one cycle, and within this cycle we can observe conjunctions in the
heavens between the stars and our solar system.
Ancient cultures recognised four
major dates within each year: the two solstices (when days are at their longest
or shortest) and the two equinoxes (when the lengths of day and night are equal).
They could tell when these dates were approaching by watching which stars were
on the horizon at sunrise and sunset, and where they were relative to the sun.
If you watched for long enough, for hundreds of years, then it became apparent
that the stars were moving slightly out of position each year. The star that was
due east at the winter solstice sunset 70 years ago is one degree out today. The
Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190-120 BC) is widely acknowledged as the discoverer
of the precession of the equinoxes, yet the ancient Egyptians and Maya were also
aware of it.
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is just a small portion of my online book, Survive 2012 - a look into possible
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Independent
researcher (that is, not an accredited scientist) John Major Jenkins has written
a long and involved book titled Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 which shows that
the Maya not only understood precession, but that their 2012 end-date predicted
a special happening in our universe.
Our galaxy
has a centre which all the stars take millions of years to revolve around, and
it is located in the starriest part of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth. On four
occasions within the 25,800-year cycle our galactic centre aligns with the sunrise
of a solstice or equinox. The last time it occurred was on a fall equinox 6,450
years ago, approximately the dawn of Old World civilisations. On Dec 21, 2012,
which is a winter solstice (Northern Hemisphere) this centre will align with our
sun once more. Jenkins presents a mass of astrological, monumental and mythological
evidence to show the importance of this event for the Maya, and how their calendar
runs out on this day for a reason. Unfortunately he is not sure what that reason
is.His book mentions:
a door into the heart of space
and time will open[1]
the
cosmos will be reborn or recreated[2]
we
will reach the Zero Point of the process - a moment of collective spiritual birth[3]
".our
basic orientations will be inverted. On the level of human civilization, our basic
assumptions and foundation values will be exposed, and we will have the opportunity
to embrace values long since driven under the surface of our collective consciousness"[4]
"On
a literal level of interpretation, one supported by many popular writers, the
field-effect reversal that mystics and futurists intuitively feel occurring on
this planet bodes an impending pole shift, a literal shift in the position of
the Earth's North Celestial Pole, an event that would have disastrous effects
around the globe. I suppose there is not much we can do about it... I prefer to
emphasize what might be termed a pole shift in our collective psyche. This places
the possibility of successful, positive transformation squarely in our own hands."[5]
So,
what will happen? Maybe the McKenna's flood of change, a global cataclysm or the
dawning of the Age of Aquarius? Could there be a new age love-fest in 2012?
Age
of Aquarius
No one knows when it starts!
The twelve zodiacal constellations are of different sizes, and the borders between
them are very indistinct. We will be moving into the New Aquarian Age of western
astrology sometime within the next 200 years. There is no singlular date on which
it will happen, just a gradual change. In the same vein we find hidden in the
fifth appendix of Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 an admission from Jenkins that.
"it
would be more accurate to say that the alignment occurs in the era of AD.
2012; because precession is such a slow phenomenon, fifty years on either side
might be appropriate." [Author's italics][6]
It
appears we must look elsewhere for the why and how of what may happen. It is unlikely
that the Mayan calendar end-date coincidentally occurs on a solstice, yet a solstice
is only an annual position within our orbit around the sun - a solstice on its
own cannot change or harm us. I suggest that 2012 is a year that the Maya always
knew of, a year in which a cosmic activity will affect our planet. Their choice
of Dec 21 to end the calendar on was chosen only because the winter solstice is
the gloomiest day of the year, and the most appropriate day to form myths around.
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Comments from Visitors
Yasmina:
wow.. well its good to know that so many people are trying toprepare us for this time.. Is there anything else we can do spiritually to prepare for this date?
(01.04.2004, 08:23)
Larry:
It would seem that we are all fools running around like little mice with no clue of our impending disaster. Why else would the Mayan calendar end? I guess only a select few with open minds (like us) can spiritually prepare for what may happen. Everyone else is living in ignorance, I just wish that we were all taught the truth in school instead of what the powers that be wanted us to belive about the history of mankind. Mention Atlantis to just about anyone and they will laugh at you !
(22.04.2004, 11:22)
i_am:
for the enlightened, or the aware, we have a special job. and that is to make other people aware. The people who are awake know if they are away. The sleepy ones don't want to know, refuse the evidence, and/or consider themselves aware. We live in exciting times, which will get only more exciting. Posting a date of global changes should be but a tool used to give meaning to our experiences here as we stop and look at the big picture.
(25.04.2004, 15:28)
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[1] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear &
Co, page xlvii
[2] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear &
Co, page 30
[3] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear &
Co, page xlvi
[4] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear &
Co, page 329
[5] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear &
Co, page 330
[6] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear &
Co, page 361
