The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 - Dr. Synthia Andrews Nd [138]
The Ending Place of All Predictions
Don’t you find it a little bit fascinating that civilization erupted on this planet all at the same time? Some 6,000 years ago vast areas of land became more arid, giving rise to the first great civilizations. Suddenly, around 3500 B.C.E., all around the globe, civilizations took hold. And isn’t it interesting that the Mayan Long Count calendar starts at 3114 B.C.E.?
Celestial Connection
Mesopotamia gave rise to the Sumerian culture along the Tigris-Euphrates rivers in 3500 B.C.E.; the Egyptians rose along the Nile in 3200 B.C.E.; Stonehenge and other massive megalithic structures were erected in the British Isles around 3000 B.C.E.; civilizations in the Indus Valley and northern China are perhaps the oldest, dating back as far as 4000 B.C.E. And don’t forget the Mayans and other Mesoamerican tribes. Our records date to 1200 to 2000 B.C.E., but their own calendar starts civilization at 3114 B.C.E.
What’s even more interesting is that so many civilizations have an end date relatively near each other. The Mayan calendar ends in 2012, the Egyptian Phoenix Cycle ends around 2012, the Muslim calendar ends in 2076, and the Jewish calendar ends in 2240. It’s as if we are part of a cosmic experiment, started off and given a certain amount of time to run until the results will be calculated.
What’s so special about this time? Why is it the focus of so much activity? As so many arrows converge on the bull’s-eye, what are they saying about the aftermath?
Age of Aquarius
The zodiac has a lot of similarities to the Mayan ages. Both describe the trip through the precession of the equinox along the ecliptic, a journey that takes approximately 25,700 years. The zodiac divides the ecliptic into 12 stations making 12 zones. Each zone is governed by a constellation. The Mayans, as you remember, divided the ecliptic into five eras or creation ages. As you’ll recall from Chapter 6, the precession of the equinox is created by the wobble in the earth’s axis. The wobble scribes a circle in the sky, which we call the path of the ecliptic, and one turn around this path is the precession of the equinox.
The zodiac is the first known celestial coordinate system developed by the Babylonians. An astrological age is called a “house” and corresponds to the time taken for the vernal equinox to move from one sign of the zodiac (or station) into another, around 2,150 years. Modern astrology is based on the movement of the planets through the houses of the zodiac.
You may remember the song from the Broadway musical hit Hair called “The Age of Aquarius.” According to astrology, we’re leaving the old age of Pisces, which started around the birth of Christ, and entering the new Age of Aquarius. The New Age, like the Mayan Golden Age (more about this in the next chapter), is marked by the marriage of science and mysticism. It’s both scientific and intellectual as well as visionary. Aquarius is the sign of hope, brotherhood, friendship, and humanitarianism. In the Age of Aquarius, the potential exists to achieve world peace and universal harmony.
Like the Mayan researchers, modern astrologers can’t agree on when the Age of Aquarius is really supposed to start, or the Age of Pisces end. It’s generally agreed that the switchover doesn’t happen on a single day, but will be happening around the change of the millennia—which puts it right in the ballpark of 2012.
Phoenix Fire Stone
The first “old world” calendar was invented by the Sumerians and later adopted by the Egyptians. It was based on the meshing together of a 12-lunar-month and a 360-day “floating” solar year. The Egyptians also inherited from the Babylonians the awareness