Dec 21, 2012- the end, the beginning, or just another year????
by Danielle Daoust
The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree.
Before get your knickers in a knot about 2012 being the end of the Mayan calendar , and maybe even the end of our world, remember all the fuss around Y2K? A lot of survivalists were embarrassed, and some were probably quite disappointed when the clocks turned to 12:01 AM on Jan. 1, 2000… in fact, on the surface of it, the year 2000 was quite unremarkable in terms of significant events. Still, look closer… while there was no obvious crisis to get so excited about, there was certainly a lot going on under the surface. For example, this was the year that gas and oil prices began to rise noticeably, along with the solar activity. As psychics we had already begun warning of terrorist attacks on home turf and the possibility of a signficant world conflict. As it turned out, Bin Laden and his henchmen were indeed busily preparing to force a new round of fear on the world.
My point is that while the Y2K scare was just a lot of hype, there were some remarkable energies at work, coalescing in some very real global tragedies in the years since. The year 2000 produced the first obvious signals that there might be some truth to the prophesies… for many, the inner senses were clear, this year marked the countdown to Dec 21, 2012, said to be the end of the Mayan calendar, prophesied by many as the ” End of Times “.
Hi Danielle! One thing about the whole Y2K phenomenon (a lot of hype, but nothing occured): There was a pile of work that went into fixing the problems that would have occured should those things (”Y2K Bugs”) not have been fixed… All of the hype was about aging databases using 2 digits to store the date (so 99 would be 1999, and 00 would be 1900), instead of 4. Millions of dollars were invested in combing through the old programs, changing the systems to use 4 digits for the dates. Most people miss that altogether, and assume that even though all that work was done, it didn’t make a difference because nothing happened. Sounds silly, doesn’t it? -Corey
Thanks for the comments! This is a wonderful analogy for what 2012 might end up looking like - if we all do our work, we could make 2012 a non-event! I intend to add these comments to the article, OK? Lotsa LLLove, Danielle
So what does this really mean, “the end of times’?
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