2012 and the End of Time! 

If you watch enough TV, you can't help but see the images and scenarios offered up by the collective consciousness as to what the Mayan Prophecies "predict" for our futures come December 21st of the year 2012: wars, disease, starvation, a complete collapse of the global eco-system, melting poles, flooded coastlines, Earth colliding with meteors, volcanic eruptions, nuclear detonations, more violent terrorism, and earthquakes that rock the continents like roller-coasters.  Wow!  Can you imagine such calamity? 

Ask yourself, "Where does this fear and despair come from?"  Most of it is just pure ignorance based on a limited perception of a much broader perception of the nature of reality.  To me, it is glaringly obvious that the people portraying these dooms day scenarios have no real understanding of what the Mayans truly understood, or what they were trying to convey to us - across the aeons - so that we might understand the threshold upon which we stand.

So...let's take a different journey into Mayan Dreamtime.

Not only the Mayans, but the ancient cultures of the Celts, the Egyptians, Hindu, Tibetan, Chinese, and the American Indians, all contained prophecies of this time that we are now in. All of these prophecies basically portray our current era as a time of tumultuous upheaval.  But there is an essential reason for this portrayal.  They all wanted us to realize that the way we were could not survive beyond this point of the cycle.  The day after Dec 21, 2012, we will all awaken (in more ways than one,hopefully), and another cycle of human and planetary evolution will begin, but to be part of the continuation, we need to transform ourselves.  We need to rediscover our true inner, spiritual natures, and we need to know how to consciously make manifest our spiritual selves so that we are part of the evolution, and not just victims of it.  

The Ancients all had a sense of the cosmos that we failed to appreciate and understand for centuries until our computers verified the data they were attempting to convey to us.  For instance, all of the Ancient cultures had a great knowledge of the basic workings of the heavens - they all understood Zodiacal Precession.  For the past ~2000 years we have been in the Age of Pisces.  The essential equation that you need to understand about Pisces, whether we are referring to a cyclical age, or to a person whose Sun sign is Pisces, is that Pisces represents both THE BEGINNING AND ENDING OF A CYCLE.

For me, such a beginning and ending began during 2009 with the Solar Eclipse that started off the year (2009), on 26 Jan.   That Eclipse, for me, acted as a welding rod that unified my Mind and Heart.  No longer was I just thinking and ruminating over thoughts - the emphasis now was how do I feel about this?  The immediate focus was placed squarely upon my marital relationship.  To make matters even more interesting, this complication was coinciding with Saturn's transit of Virgo which for me was the 3rd time in my life this was occurring.  Granted, the first transit was when I was 2 1/2, and the second transit was right after turning 31, but just like this Eclipse of Jan 2009, all 3 coincided with memorable moments in my life.  (Yes, I do remember what happened when I was only 2 1/2 years old!)  Coinciding with all 3 of these cosmic events, extremely significant changes happened with my personal awareness of myself, my surroundings - physical, mental, and spiritual - and my (our) relationship to/with the Cosmos.  I say "our" because even though each of us has our own uniquely individualized perception of reality, there are Universal Truths awaiting each of us to grasp their awareness.

Fast forward to January 2010...and you know what?  It feels like this all just happened yesterday.  But let's get back to Progressions...

After studying - nay, being obsessed with - astrology for 32 years, I have come to a deeply spiritual understanding of how blessed the study and implementation of astrology is in life. Knowledge of the heavens is like a fantastically well orchestrated song.  Things don't happen individually.  The whole process, the movement of the planets within our Solar System, and the lives of each and every person upon our fair and beautiful Earth are masterfully woven together into one delightful rhythm.  And when we can grasp and realize the fine interwoven nature of this reality, then we can realize that it is no accident when we interact with people, places, and things, and we leave a tone, vibration, and frequency that is unique - yet absolutely essential for the whole process to work as One. 

Adopting such an attitude about our collective reality may be difficult for a lot of people, but it does expand your awareness, and give you a totally different perspective on Time. The Mayans, for instance, did not mean that after 2012 would literally be "The End of Time", rather, just as I've alluded to above, it is merely the end of one cycle and the beginning of another.  Now think about this readers:  If I can experience a cyclical episode in Time that changed my awareness, then does it not make sense that the Ancient cultures were merely attempting to get us to realize that converging on 2012 was the end of an old, worn-out cycle that was destined to be replaced by a new, exciting, and mind - and heart - altering concept of Time?  Yes!  Just like a snake shedding it's outer, older, and restricting layer of skin, we - as a human lifeform - have reached a similar point in time, where we must shed our past restrictions in order to grow and evolve into a newer version of ourselves.  

If, as I believe, that all the Ancient cultures were attempting to communicate the urgency of what was going to happen at this point in our lives, then it clearly shows the compassion and interest that they genuinely had for our successfully raising our consciousness, and Spiritual awareness.  Because these messages are so ancient, they have become lost amidst our "modern perception" of the ancients as illiterate pagans who merely expressed unbelieveably picturesque dieties as ruling the Cosmos. In other words, because their descriptions of reality don't fit in with our understanding of reality, we've missed the importance of their messages!

For the next several minutes, pretend that you are an archeologist.  On an expedition, you unearth a stone carved with glyphs portending a cosmic catastrophe.  At least, we interpret it as a catastrophe because the excited writer of the glyphs was attempting to get us to realize the importance of what was to happen.  And to make it even more "mystical", all kinds of references are made to actual celestial events which happen thousands of years in the future - which is where we are today.  How are we to interpret such an event?  "Maybe they got it from aliens."  Well, there is some truth to that logic.

Now...let's do a little bit of time traveling here.  Let us further suppose, that as that archeologist, we were tomb raiding back during the 1890s.  Hmmm.  That was way before space travel, NASA, the Hubbel telescope, and our current computer technology.  Let us further pretend that it is now the 1960s, and you are excitedly entering the celestial data from the stone glyphs into your top-of-the-line Commodore 64 bit computer.  Amazingly, you discover that the ancient writings are extraordinarily accurate!  Utilizing precession of the Zodiac, we realize that these stone age people had an amazingly accurate perception of the Cosmos!  "Maybe they had actual contact with Alien star-people...and were provided with this information!"  Hmm, yeah...there is some truth to that concept, also.

Unfortunately, in spite of these amazing findings from the past, one major problem exists.  The Powers that Be aren't buying it!  No where in the institutionalized educational systems of the Western Mind dominated world is there room to introduce any new concepts about the origins of the human race, or to embrace ideas that run counter to and threaten the established order.  Period.  They don't want to hear these fantastical ideas, and They won't even consider that there may be some Truth to these premises.  "We already have the origins of life detailed; Darwin made that clear in 1859.  There never was an Atlantis because we already have ancient history scientifically organized and delineated, and there simply aren't enough physical records of the Mayan culture for Us (the educated elite snobs who sit in their ivory towers) to credibly evaluate their claims."  Is that right?