The mayans, their calendar, the galactic center and its relevance to 2012 and the End of the Mayan calendar is discussed. The Mayans, Our Galaxy & The Astronomy of 2012
Our Solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy. The position of our solar system in our galaxy has a lot to do with the astronomy of 2012. The correlation between the end of the Mayan calendar and the unprecedented astronomical phenomena is not a coincidence.
As represented in the diagram below, the orientation of our solar system relative to the galactic plane is that it sets at a tilt of about 60 degrees perpendicular.
If you were to visualize a flat pancake, and then stick a quarter in the pancake at a 60 degree angle, the quarter represents our solar system and the pancake the plane of the Milky Way galaxy.
At two times each year, the earth orbit around the sun, crosses the galactic plane. Currently, Based on the procession of the equinoxes the Sun is changing directions in our sky (the solstice points mentioned above), At the exact same time that we are crossing the galactic plane.
This only happens once every 26,000 years, the length of procession.
Why is this so important?
The power of our solar system emanates fro the center of our galaxy in most mystical traditions. The Vedic people call this the “Vishnu Nabi” (Navel of Vishnu). Obviously the Mayans also found this to be important, with their entire calendar ending when these two points intersect.
Multi Zodiac Implications
As You can see on the diagram above, the Earth crosses the galactic plane two times each year. If we were riding on the edge of the quarter stuck inside the pancake, two times each year we would actually cross over the plane of the pancake (Galactic plane). As was said, those “crossover points” now correspond to first days of summer and winter. Not only those days, but at the exact moment. These are exact moments - one second the Sun in moving one direction in the sky (from Earth) the next second it is moving in another.
One of the most fascinating things I discovered is that these points are now corresponding to crucial sections on each zodiac. For those who are not astrologers or who do not understand astrology, I will explain the zodiac difference.
Vedic Astrology uses the zodiac that is accurate with the stars, the constellations in the sky. Western Astrology uses the zodiac that is accurate with the seasons, the solstice points and equinox points. Now, due to procession of the equinoxes, these two zodiacs are off by close to 24 degrees.
On December 21, 2012 (and on the first day of winter each year) we hit the degrees of Capricorn in “Western astrology”. This is because the most direct rays of the sun fall on the Tropic of Capricorn that day. The opposite this is the first day of summer, the most direct rays of the sun falls on the Tropic of Cancer. That is why Western astrologers call this the first day of summer, and the first day of the zodiac sign “Cancer”.
Yet, Those points have nothing to do with the zodiac signs, the actual stars in the sky that are behind the Sun, and whose energies are being referred to. The zodiac that is accurate with the stars in the sky is called a sidereal zodiac, it is the one used by Vedic astrologers. Vedic astrologers actually use the stars in the horoscope itself.
However, currently, as we pass through The solstice points, two very important points in each zodiac get activated. The winter solstice, as mentioned above, is the first degrees of “Capricorn” In Western astrology. Now the Summer solstice occurs, and we crossed the galactic plane, at the exact point where the Nakshatra of Ardra begins. The diagram to the left illustrates this. There was a time when the constellations and the seasons occurred simultaneously. Yet now, due to the procession, they no longer line up. Therefore, even though in Western astrology, the first day of winter happens on the first day of “Capricorn”, the actual stars of the constellation Sagittarius or what we see in the sky.
When We look at the constellation Sagittarius, we are looking back into the center of our galaxy.
Because of the way the Earth is turned, and the way our solar system is oriented toward the galactic plane, this constellation looks to us as it is represented below in the photograph.
Sam Geppi practices Indian astrology in San francisco. He reis write and lecturer and has recently began speaking to dispel the Myths of 2012 Doomsday
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May 16, 2010
2012: The Mayan Prediction of the End of the World
Twenty twelve is anticpated to be a momentous year, the very first winter youth Olympics will be held in January, the US will have a presidential election and the United Kingdom will celebrate the diamond jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. In case you’re awaiting 2013 don’t get your hopes up, because based on some forecasts, the entire world is due to end on December 21. If you delight in Christmas, take full advantage of this season and the following, since based on the Mayan calendar, they will be your last. Possibly.
Well before Europeans showed up in meso America the populace implemented an intricate mixture of calendars to record their dates. The Haab or solar calendar, both a timepiece and Mayan art form, was composed of 18 twenty day months plus a interval of 5 days referred to as Wayeb to bring the total to 365.
The Tzolkin on the other hand was a cycle of 260 days, thirteen multiplied by twenty. No-one has learned quite exactly why 260 days were chosen, though it appears the numbers 13 and twenty were both important to these earlier civilizations. There is a possibility that it is linked to the time in between a woman’s initial skipped period and the birth of her offspring, and made it easier to calculate when a baby would be born, however other ideas about crop planting and zodiac observations may be just as accurate. Most dates could be set by a mix of the Haab and Tzolin, the period would come along one time every fifty two years, which is about once in every lifetime.
To look at periods for a longer period than fifty-two years the Mayans applied a different structure that we now refer to as the Long Count calendar. This technique is demonstrated in both Olmec and Aztec art and wasn’t introduced by the Maya. Dates run forward from the mythologic day zero, the date of the introduction of the present world. Like all civilizations the base units were days, with 20 days in the uinal and eighteen uinals in a tun (roughly a year). A K’atun contains 20 tuns and twenty of these a b’ak’tun. Once more the number 13 is important and quite a few inscriptions in Mayan art show the date changing at the end of 13 b’ak’tuns and talked of incidents to occur on this particular date. This lead to hypotheses that the Mayans expected something significant might occur near the last day of the 13th B’ak’tun. That day is calculated to be 21st or 23 December 2012. So what might we expect?
Well according to several scholars nothing whatsoever. There are some references to something taking place about that time in inscriptions, but nothing very concrete, therefore it’s surprising the amount of fuss 2012 seems to be creating. A few say there’ll a spiritual evolution, while other people mention a momentous galactic alignment, even though this is founded on the location of the galactic equator, which can not be established, this does not appear extremely probable. Yet other people worry about planet Niburu.
Collision with planet X (or Niburu) has been predicted since 2003, but any planet close enough to be within collision with the Earth in 2012 would now be obviously visible to astronomers in the evening sky. Sadly this fictional collision is now confused in the media with the actual and predicted approach of a giant asteroid known as Eros that is expected to pass the earth in 2012. Eros is greater than the asteroid which we believe killed the dinosaurs 65 millions years ago but since it will never be closer than 70 times the distance of the moon, it is not likely to do any harm.
Looking at the Mayan calendar is a great reason to take into account how we calculate time and why, to understand the solar cycles that still dominate our existence and to admire the fine art of an civilization. As to planning for the end of the world, that still would seem slightly premature.
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