Post by Sowelu on Sept 14, 2005 0:33:54 GMT -5
Another excellent article by Eric Francis from PlanetWaves.
This is a composite view of our galaxy, the Milky Way, created in 2001 (credit and scientific caption). The band running through the center of our galaxy is at the heart of the creation mythology of the ancient Mayans, who saw it as a gateway through which humanity emerged. Called the Road to Xibalba, it is this band that the position of the Sun aligns with on Dec. 21, 2012, which occurs every 26,000 years. The two are very closely aligned now.
2012 is Up for Grabs
by Eric Francis
I DID NOT UNDERSTAND 2012, you know, the jury was out for lunch, and the astrology seemed incomprehensible, and none of the people I'd asked or encountered for the past 18 years could spell it out for me in a way that went aha, until my friend Bessie, who lives near New Paltz, said casually one day, "2012 is up for grabs."
I'm not sure why that flipped the switch. She said it kind of fast, but I heard her. I think when I understood 2012 as something that is now happening rather than something that would happen, and something we are creating rather than doomed to experience in linear fate-time, it made a lot more sense, particularly the way I like to do the rest of my astrology. It's good to work with variables.
In other articles in this publication, you'll read some of the astrological details of 2012 and the years between now and then, both referencing the familiar Western system of planetary movement, and the Mayan system of counting the days. In short, on Dec. 21, 2012, we arrive at the last day of a Mayan Great Cycle, day 13.0.0.0.0. A Great Cycle is 13 cycles of 144,000 days.
That is a 5,125-year process in total, or a total count of 1,872,000 days that, apparently, was backdated long before the ancient Maya had even appeared on the planet, in what is now called Mexico.
Part of the mystery of Dec. 21, 2012 involves why these people chose that particular (and now very-nearby) date as their cyclical end-date; apparently, they started at the end point and worked backwards, so it was not an accident. They did so long before the calendar we use was implemented; long before our own astronomers understood the precession of the equinoxes, on which their cycle is based; way before telescopes, computers, calculators, NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kopernikus, Galileo, DaVinci or Madonna.
But they were watching. And they were counting. They were counting first backwards from, then forward toward, Dec. 21, 2012.
That's just seven short years off. And it works out that these are not your average seven years, even by the outrageous standards of the 20th century.
These are the seven years wherein the truth about climate change is going to come out, in rather obvious ways, not just theories and scientific papers. The years we expect to see vast changes in geopolitics: that is, the rule of the planet's geography, even as rising oceans change that geography. The years of the petroleum endgame -- the desperate end of, or perceived end of, the oil supply -- which we are now seeing acted out shamelessly in Iraq. They are the years of the water crisis, wherein we are running out of the clean, fresh water upon which life depends. They are the years that follow the Western powers' choice to wage a fundamentalist religious war on a much stronger fundamentalist culture, one that our own propaganda claims has 'less value for life' than we do -- so that sounds pretty volatile.
Let's see. Climate change means rising oceans and it may mean more earthquakes, because the shape of the Earth's crust is changing as the ice caps melt. According to Ocean.com, 53% of the US population lives on just 17% of the coastal landmass. The world average is that about half of all people live within 200km of the coast. In Japan it's a little more extreme: according to the Earthtrends web page, 96% of the population lives within 100km of the coast. People gather at the oceans. They build cities and empires. And we've just seen what the oceans can do.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the 'leader of the free world', we are seeing nothing less than a totalitarian government take over, a police-security state, one that feels it can secretly put enemies of the state in jail for life without a trial, and so on and so on. We conquer a country in the name of freedom, and then create torture factories that leave the former dictator in the dust. For anyone inclined to think I'm making up scary poo-poo like we claim the other guys did to make Saddam seem bad, perhaps just pick up a newspaper and read it; this is now being reported daily. My old friend Steve Bergstein, a civil rights lawyer, said to me this week that the United States was becoming "unrecognizable" from just a few years ago.
Yet at the same time, there are many people aware of what is going on, and committed, if not to cultural and political change, to personal development and awareness. There is a well-grounded movement of people who live every day to ground the light on the planet, in the service of love. And there is an even bigger not-so-well organized movement; many people who are devoted to living in service and compassion, out of common sense; and to making the inner changes that make this possible. Anyway, oppression always creates its opposite, even though it may not emerge right away. But sooner or later, it does.
To put it plain and dumb and too much like a Stephen King novel, there seems to be a kind of race going on. Will those who are working in the service of love and understanding be able to ground enough loving energy on the planet, and focus that into real forms of worldly power, before those working in service of chaos, death and greed destroy everything?
We do not know. We had better not guess.
Which way will all the people who don't care go? You know, the undecided spiritual voters? And hey, who's really on what side? And doesn't all this 'us and them' sound a lot like 'you're with us or against us'? I know, it's weird. But I'm just reading my inbox and summarizing what I've been watching for like 25 years. If I were explaining this to a little kid and I had to be clear, basic and honest, this is how I would state the basic condition of the world. A bit polarized, we know: but the issue is the issue.
So what, then, is 2012? As you will read in other articles, the Western astrology on the way to this ominous date could grind rock to powder. We go through many changes, personally and together and preferably both at once. There are a few major culmination points. Meanwhile, we have to do jobs and feed people and raise kids and write horoscopes and feed chickens.
What comes of this process is obviously what we make of it, or what we're able to make of it. Okay, now I sound like the class president advertising the student government on the first day of school. It's YOUR student activity fee! So get involved! Yeah, man! That's it! It's YOUR life on YOUR freaking planet! It's your soul's mission to be here now! It's your karma to be here, dude, so get involved! C'mon it'll be fun!
Twenty-twelve is what we make it, one day at a time, one outer-planet sign change at a time, one breath at a time. Twenty-twelve is what we envision it to be. We, that is, you and me. Not those cool groovy people somewhere else. Not the really enlightened ones who know how to have a good time and manifest new cars with their minds. Not the ones who really know what they're talking about, or who have been meditating 15 years longer than you. You and me. You and your friends. You and your kids. You and your mom and dad. You and your boss. You, me, and your mom and dad. You and your co-workers. You and your best friend. You and your lover. You and your clients. You and your therapist. You and the people you go dancing with. You and the people you get drunk with or do X with or go hunting with. Whatever. What do all these have in common? You.
This is different than thinking you have to personally take the whole thing on your shoulders. To the contrary: it's only necessary to do your little part, to be aware, to cooperate, and to maintain some sense of awareness of an integrated process going on, within you and without you. This is not merely intellectual abstraction. It is a way of looking at the world, of perceiving evolutionary change, and of adjusting your beliefs to adapt to reality. Too often, we attempt to adapt reality to our beliefs, and it works, sort of, for a while, at a great cost -- mostly pain and boredom.
For a variety of juicy reasons, we're about to enter a phase where our belief systems are tested against the actual state of the world; tested against how we feel; and seen in the context of what we know. Then we get to adjust, often on a daily basis. We get to make a lot of decisions. We get to look at the world and see it. We get to look at ourselves and see ourselves and adjust, and grow, and begin again. We get to look at time and see it as a creative process.
Time as creative process! What a concept! Ah, and this is what astrology is for. It's a big paintbox of potential.
Twenty-twelve is up for grabs.
CONSIDER THIS.
Between today, the fairly warm, quiet and seemingly random afternoon of Jan. 13, 2005, when I am sitting in Paris writing this at 1:46 p.m., and Dec. 21, 2012, there are 2,899 days.
Your kid could count that high in an hour. Also, when you figure that we're really on day 1,869,101 of a total of 1,872,000 in the Great Cycle, we're basically already pulling up grandma's driveway on Thanksgiving Day.
During the great majority of these remaining days, we're accompanied by a factor called Chiron in Aquarius. Whether this had anything to do with Mayan planning, I don't know; I doubt it, as our astronomical symbols had little to do with their thinking (though they may have known about Chiron). But that's how it works out -- Chiron in Aquarius is the bridge to the core. It's really the most perfect astrology to see us through this journey, given that the most important issues we face today fall so squarely into Aquarian territory, by astrology dictionary definition, that even the Skeptical Enquirer would have to agree.
Let's see. There is the issue of group dynamics. There is the issue of individuality. There is the issue of the psychology of conformism, and the related issue of the mass psychology of fascism. There is the idea and the reality of freedom. Aquarius, Aquarius, Aquarius.
There is media and its influence, which is how many of us connect to the larger world. How about technology -- Aquarius. How about how media and technology, combined with industry and government, which all join forces to create our ideas of who we think we are. The notion of 'self concept' is Aquarian: a theory of self.
Chiron in Aquarius will focus those issues and pop them inside out into the manifest world. Let me explain with the help of some astrological theory. Aquarius is the sign of freedom, and it's also the sign of mass-control. That it works in a polarity is typical of our plane of reality. It is the sign where the group meets the individual, and vice versa. One cannot be part of a group unless one is an individual. Leo, the opposite sign to Aquairus, provides a lot of that energy of individuality, by the way.
Aquarius is ruled by two planets: Saturn in the old school, and Uranus in the new one. Nice images of control versus freedom; discipline and creativity; containment and passion.
Chiron is now heading into Aquarius. Chiron focuses awareness, wherever it goes. It mediates between opposites and brings things out to a conscious level. Chiron, the actual planet, is in an orbit between Saturn and Uranus, so it's particularly attuned to those two planetary energies and can work as and act as either or both at any time. This phase of time is one in which we can see the relationship between freedom and control -- or at least have a huge crisis that is based on not seeing the relationship. Then, when we get curious enough about the crisis, we'll see soon enough what it's about.
A lot of people are going to find that their belief systems are too small to contain the reality they are experiencing. Then one day they change. This used to be called getting your mind blown. Chiron in Aquarius will surely blow some minds.
I have a lot more to say about this, and my thoughts are developing. Yet I can sum it up easily. Notice that the people who are striving for control always do two things: they spread fear (particularly through death) and they block, ban or deny the existence of sex. This combination is designed to do one thing, which is to alienate you from yourself and from everyone else. It is designed to divide you from your own biology. You from your life; you from the fact that you are alive. That, in turn, divides you from the people around you. Then, we're easy meat, and we buy a lot of bullshit at the mall. Such a plan is called divide and conquer and make a profit while you're at it.
In the next five weeks, three centaur planets change signs. Two go into Aquarius and light up that whole energy field like Burning Man; and another goes into Sagittarius. Later in the year, Saturn goes into Leo. A lot is going to change very fast. People who are into control for its own sake are in for a shocking revelation: it doesn't vork so very vell, particularly when people are aware of it, and especially when we want something better, more real, more fun and more free -- and have an idea that such exists.
That is a choice. Remember: 2005 is up for grabs. ++
planetwavesweekly.com/twdco99~/open/2012upforgrabs.html
This is a composite view of our galaxy, the Milky Way, created in 2001 (credit and scientific caption). The band running through the center of our galaxy is at the heart of the creation mythology of the ancient Mayans, who saw it as a gateway through which humanity emerged. Called the Road to Xibalba, it is this band that the position of the Sun aligns with on Dec. 21, 2012, which occurs every 26,000 years. The two are very closely aligned now.
2012 is Up for Grabs
by Eric Francis
I DID NOT UNDERSTAND 2012, you know, the jury was out for lunch, and the astrology seemed incomprehensible, and none of the people I'd asked or encountered for the past 18 years could spell it out for me in a way that went aha, until my friend Bessie, who lives near New Paltz, said casually one day, "2012 is up for grabs."
I'm not sure why that flipped the switch. She said it kind of fast, but I heard her. I think when I understood 2012 as something that is now happening rather than something that would happen, and something we are creating rather than doomed to experience in linear fate-time, it made a lot more sense, particularly the way I like to do the rest of my astrology. It's good to work with variables.
In other articles in this publication, you'll read some of the astrological details of 2012 and the years between now and then, both referencing the familiar Western system of planetary movement, and the Mayan system of counting the days. In short, on Dec. 21, 2012, we arrive at the last day of a Mayan Great Cycle, day 13.0.0.0.0. A Great Cycle is 13 cycles of 144,000 days.
That is a 5,125-year process in total, or a total count of 1,872,000 days that, apparently, was backdated long before the ancient Maya had even appeared on the planet, in what is now called Mexico.
Part of the mystery of Dec. 21, 2012 involves why these people chose that particular (and now very-nearby) date as their cyclical end-date; apparently, they started at the end point and worked backwards, so it was not an accident. They did so long before the calendar we use was implemented; long before our own astronomers understood the precession of the equinoxes, on which their cycle is based; way before telescopes, computers, calculators, NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kopernikus, Galileo, DaVinci or Madonna.
But they were watching. And they were counting. They were counting first backwards from, then forward toward, Dec. 21, 2012.
That's just seven short years off. And it works out that these are not your average seven years, even by the outrageous standards of the 20th century.
These are the seven years wherein the truth about climate change is going to come out, in rather obvious ways, not just theories and scientific papers. The years we expect to see vast changes in geopolitics: that is, the rule of the planet's geography, even as rising oceans change that geography. The years of the petroleum endgame -- the desperate end of, or perceived end of, the oil supply -- which we are now seeing acted out shamelessly in Iraq. They are the years of the water crisis, wherein we are running out of the clean, fresh water upon which life depends. They are the years that follow the Western powers' choice to wage a fundamentalist religious war on a much stronger fundamentalist culture, one that our own propaganda claims has 'less value for life' than we do -- so that sounds pretty volatile.
Let's see. Climate change means rising oceans and it may mean more earthquakes, because the shape of the Earth's crust is changing as the ice caps melt. According to Ocean.com, 53% of the US population lives on just 17% of the coastal landmass. The world average is that about half of all people live within 200km of the coast. In Japan it's a little more extreme: according to the Earthtrends web page, 96% of the population lives within 100km of the coast. People gather at the oceans. They build cities and empires. And we've just seen what the oceans can do.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the 'leader of the free world', we are seeing nothing less than a totalitarian government take over, a police-security state, one that feels it can secretly put enemies of the state in jail for life without a trial, and so on and so on. We conquer a country in the name of freedom, and then create torture factories that leave the former dictator in the dust. For anyone inclined to think I'm making up scary poo-poo like we claim the other guys did to make Saddam seem bad, perhaps just pick up a newspaper and read it; this is now being reported daily. My old friend Steve Bergstein, a civil rights lawyer, said to me this week that the United States was becoming "unrecognizable" from just a few years ago.
Yet at the same time, there are many people aware of what is going on, and committed, if not to cultural and political change, to personal development and awareness. There is a well-grounded movement of people who live every day to ground the light on the planet, in the service of love. And there is an even bigger not-so-well organized movement; many people who are devoted to living in service and compassion, out of common sense; and to making the inner changes that make this possible. Anyway, oppression always creates its opposite, even though it may not emerge right away. But sooner or later, it does.
To put it plain and dumb and too much like a Stephen King novel, there seems to be a kind of race going on. Will those who are working in the service of love and understanding be able to ground enough loving energy on the planet, and focus that into real forms of worldly power, before those working in service of chaos, death and greed destroy everything?
We do not know. We had better not guess.
Which way will all the people who don't care go? You know, the undecided spiritual voters? And hey, who's really on what side? And doesn't all this 'us and them' sound a lot like 'you're with us or against us'? I know, it's weird. But I'm just reading my inbox and summarizing what I've been watching for like 25 years. If I were explaining this to a little kid and I had to be clear, basic and honest, this is how I would state the basic condition of the world. A bit polarized, we know: but the issue is the issue.
So what, then, is 2012? As you will read in other articles, the Western astrology on the way to this ominous date could grind rock to powder. We go through many changes, personally and together and preferably both at once. There are a few major culmination points. Meanwhile, we have to do jobs and feed people and raise kids and write horoscopes and feed chickens.
What comes of this process is obviously what we make of it, or what we're able to make of it. Okay, now I sound like the class president advertising the student government on the first day of school. It's YOUR student activity fee! So get involved! Yeah, man! That's it! It's YOUR life on YOUR freaking planet! It's your soul's mission to be here now! It's your karma to be here, dude, so get involved! C'mon it'll be fun!
Twenty-twelve is what we make it, one day at a time, one outer-planet sign change at a time, one breath at a time. Twenty-twelve is what we envision it to be. We, that is, you and me. Not those cool groovy people somewhere else. Not the really enlightened ones who know how to have a good time and manifest new cars with their minds. Not the ones who really know what they're talking about, or who have been meditating 15 years longer than you. You and me. You and your friends. You and your kids. You and your mom and dad. You and your boss. You, me, and your mom and dad. You and your co-workers. You and your best friend. You and your lover. You and your clients. You and your therapist. You and the people you go dancing with. You and the people you get drunk with or do X with or go hunting with. Whatever. What do all these have in common? You.
This is different than thinking you have to personally take the whole thing on your shoulders. To the contrary: it's only necessary to do your little part, to be aware, to cooperate, and to maintain some sense of awareness of an integrated process going on, within you and without you. This is not merely intellectual abstraction. It is a way of looking at the world, of perceiving evolutionary change, and of adjusting your beliefs to adapt to reality. Too often, we attempt to adapt reality to our beliefs, and it works, sort of, for a while, at a great cost -- mostly pain and boredom.
For a variety of juicy reasons, we're about to enter a phase where our belief systems are tested against the actual state of the world; tested against how we feel; and seen in the context of what we know. Then we get to adjust, often on a daily basis. We get to make a lot of decisions. We get to look at the world and see it. We get to look at ourselves and see ourselves and adjust, and grow, and begin again. We get to look at time and see it as a creative process.
Time as creative process! What a concept! Ah, and this is what astrology is for. It's a big paintbox of potential.
Twenty-twelve is up for grabs.
CONSIDER THIS.
Between today, the fairly warm, quiet and seemingly random afternoon of Jan. 13, 2005, when I am sitting in Paris writing this at 1:46 p.m., and Dec. 21, 2012, there are 2,899 days.
Your kid could count that high in an hour. Also, when you figure that we're really on day 1,869,101 of a total of 1,872,000 in the Great Cycle, we're basically already pulling up grandma's driveway on Thanksgiving Day.
During the great majority of these remaining days, we're accompanied by a factor called Chiron in Aquarius. Whether this had anything to do with Mayan planning, I don't know; I doubt it, as our astronomical symbols had little to do with their thinking (though they may have known about Chiron). But that's how it works out -- Chiron in Aquarius is the bridge to the core. It's really the most perfect astrology to see us through this journey, given that the most important issues we face today fall so squarely into Aquarian territory, by astrology dictionary definition, that even the Skeptical Enquirer would have to agree.
Let's see. There is the issue of group dynamics. There is the issue of individuality. There is the issue of the psychology of conformism, and the related issue of the mass psychology of fascism. There is the idea and the reality of freedom. Aquarius, Aquarius, Aquarius.
There is media and its influence, which is how many of us connect to the larger world. How about technology -- Aquarius. How about how media and technology, combined with industry and government, which all join forces to create our ideas of who we think we are. The notion of 'self concept' is Aquarian: a theory of self.
Chiron in Aquarius will focus those issues and pop them inside out into the manifest world. Let me explain with the help of some astrological theory. Aquarius is the sign of freedom, and it's also the sign of mass-control. That it works in a polarity is typical of our plane of reality. It is the sign where the group meets the individual, and vice versa. One cannot be part of a group unless one is an individual. Leo, the opposite sign to Aquairus, provides a lot of that energy of individuality, by the way.
Aquarius is ruled by two planets: Saturn in the old school, and Uranus in the new one. Nice images of control versus freedom; discipline and creativity; containment and passion.
Chiron is now heading into Aquarius. Chiron focuses awareness, wherever it goes. It mediates between opposites and brings things out to a conscious level. Chiron, the actual planet, is in an orbit between Saturn and Uranus, so it's particularly attuned to those two planetary energies and can work as and act as either or both at any time. This phase of time is one in which we can see the relationship between freedom and control -- or at least have a huge crisis that is based on not seeing the relationship. Then, when we get curious enough about the crisis, we'll see soon enough what it's about.
A lot of people are going to find that their belief systems are too small to contain the reality they are experiencing. Then one day they change. This used to be called getting your mind blown. Chiron in Aquarius will surely blow some minds.
I have a lot more to say about this, and my thoughts are developing. Yet I can sum it up easily. Notice that the people who are striving for control always do two things: they spread fear (particularly through death) and they block, ban or deny the existence of sex. This combination is designed to do one thing, which is to alienate you from yourself and from everyone else. It is designed to divide you from your own biology. You from your life; you from the fact that you are alive. That, in turn, divides you from the people around you. Then, we're easy meat, and we buy a lot of bullshit at the mall. Such a plan is called divide and conquer and make a profit while you're at it.
In the next five weeks, three centaur planets change signs. Two go into Aquarius and light up that whole energy field like Burning Man; and another goes into Sagittarius. Later in the year, Saturn goes into Leo. A lot is going to change very fast. People who are into control for its own sake are in for a shocking revelation: it doesn't vork so very vell, particularly when people are aware of it, and especially when we want something better, more real, more fun and more free -- and have an idea that such exists.
That is a choice. Remember: 2005 is up for grabs. ++
planetwavesweekly.com/twdco99~/open/2012upforgrabs.html
