The Big News on 2012. Forget the Apocalypse!
Who’s afraid of 2012? Certainly not the Mayans if the latest archaeological discovery is anything to go by. In the lead-up to this years Winter solstice – 21.12.2012 most of us cannot have missed the plethora of websites, books and magazine articles devoted to the end of the world – a meme that’s come about due to the Mayan calendar which supposedly ended on that day. I have always maintained that the 2012 ‘shift’ merely marked a new era in our global and spiritual evolution and that any ‘shift’ or ‘change’ would occur in our individual and collective vibration due to increased understanding of our universe and our place within it.
Now, the very appropriately named William Saturno (Saturn rules timing, fate and karma), an archaeologist from Boston University has revealed in an article published in the prestigious journal Science, that far from ending on 2012, the Mayan calendar extends far into the future – to quote him: “the calendar is going to keep going and keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future, a huge number that we can’t even wrap our heads around.”
Saturno’s excavations revealed the oldest Mayan calendar ever discovered as part of a mural. The Mayan calendar is 20 katun cycles containing 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years, and a whole cycle is 5,128 years. The current cycle we’ve been living in began on August 11 or 13, 3114 BC, and ends this year on December 21 or 23. The current 13th baktun will end, or be completed, on the Mayan date of 13.0.0.0.0 (which is equivalent to December 21, 2012).
This amazing discovery shows us that the end of this cycle ushers in a brand new one – not the end of the world but the start of an amazing new one! According to Mayan legend, the current world—the one in which we are all currently living—is an era of major change, the so-called Age of Movement. The newly discovered calendar is different to previous calendars as it has cycles of time of 17 baktuns, rather than the standard 13 showing that the Mayans themselves were evolving their own studies. But this proves that time does extend well beyond 2012! As Anthony Aveni of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., an expert on Mayan astronomy puts it: “Why would they go into those numbers if the world is going to come to an end this year?”
The Mayans were extremely interested in astronomy and would coordinate their sacred rituals with celestial events. These astronomers would have been honoured members of the Mayan court.
So, if 2012 has had you shaking in your shoes, time to step back and instead get ready to embrace an exciting new phase in our personal and spiritual development and a new conscious energy that has the ability to transform us globally. For me this is what 2012 has always been about and this wonderful new discovery merely shows us that the end of this cycle is merely one of many we will go through on our global soul journey.
