Philip wrote an election blog for Huffington Post last year, and his commentary on that experience made me very glad I was picked up by Beliefnet and not, say, the New York Times which frankly was my fantasy. It just shows that the Universe knows what's best. At any rate, Philip's experience was not very enjoyable:
In honor of Mercury's impending retrograde, allow me to back up first. Last fall I had the pleasure of writing a blog regarding election polling and the upcoming U. S. Presidential Election for the Huffington Post. My posts appeared under a subcategory entitled Huffpollstrology. But when I started writing for HuffPo, the first post was placed in the column with the standard array of mainstream bloggers. Oh my! I discovered that despite the stats about the general public loving to read sun sign columns, approximately 80% of the comments received about my first post were hostile, hateful and ignorant of the topic they condemned, which in the realm of blogging has nothing to do with anything. The ridicule came in from the obvious religious quarters, those who despise superstition and well educated and/or intelligent folks who condemned the idiocy of those who put credence into astrology. The spiteful comments continued through the tenure of my columns leading up to the election, despite the impeccable accuracy of the content. "Jeez Louise," thought I, "Us astrologer folks better not say anythin' silly lest we fuel the fires of speculation about our sensibilities."
Interesting that mainstream readers are positive about sun sign astrology, which is more entertainment than astrology, and negative on real astrology, which they call "bunk."
Phliip goes on to talk about the upcoming 2012 panic. Will the world really end? Where does astrology fit in? I'm getting a lot of emails about this myself, and I've noticed that many people are allowing the negativity and fear that is patterned into their own belief systems to erupt at this time with this new "legitimate" impending disaster.
Evidently the Hopi prophecy of the Blue Star Kachina being the harbinger of the emergence of the Fifth World (it is the Fourth World in the Mayan calendar that ends at 2012) is being tied to Comet Holmes which supposedly will top off a 7-year healing cycle. Philip argues that a comet is not a star, and that Comet Holmes is actually yellow but just appeared blue due to viewing filters, and it comes around every 6.9 years anyway so is hardly the harbinger of anything.
Philip agrees with other writers that the Mayan calendar doesn't actually end, but that it rolls over and begins anew with a new Great Cycle of 5125 years. It's an interesting synchronicity that five Great Cycles adds up to 26,000 years, the Grand Year of the Precession of the Equinoxes marking all of the great astrological ages.
Perhaps this synchronicity is a clue that December 21, 2012 is the gateway to the Age of Aquarius, since each Great Cycle would be equal to two astrological ages. The Age of Aquarius will certainly bring in tremendous changes to our culture - but then the development of human culture has been accelerating rapidly ever since Uranus was discovered in 1783. Nothing is the same from one day to the next!
At any rate, the previous Mayan Cycle ended 5125 years before 2012, or 3113 bce. This is an interesting millenium because it marks the first Egyptian dynasty and the beginning of the Hebrew calendar.
Pluto teaches us to look at death not as an ending but as a new beginning. Each day is a new beginning, and our own lives are filled with Great Years - cycles that take us from one life experience to another. These are the Great Years that are the most important, and every day we have an opportunity to begin anew. 2012 will take care of itself - for now, as the Zen teachers say, the laundry.
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OMG, you are right and I had completely forgotten how that comet blew up in size so quickly which is rather unforgiveable since I posted on it regularly while it was occurring. THAT was quite a thing to notice and I think I'll update the post to reflect this. Thanks Joseph and Bruce for your comments.
And you to Beth of course!!!
a) LIVE SCIENCE (07 January 2009) about 2012, SOLAR STORM and NASA:
A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm... the next peak in solar activity is expected to come around 2012...Damage
to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation... "A catastrophic failure of commercial and government infrastructure in space and on the ground can be mitigated through raising public awareness, improving vulnerable infrastructure and developing advanced forecasting capabilities," the report states. "Without preventive actions or plans, the trend of increased dependency on modern space-weather sensitive assets could make society more vulnerable in the future." The report was commissioned and funded by NASA. Experts from around the world in industry, government and academia participated:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/01/live-science-about-2012-solar-storm-and.html
b) 2012, Hollywood, The Pentagon and NASA: 'When Worlds Collide':
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/01/hollywood-pentagon-and-nasa-when-worlds.html
The Blue Star Kachina coming our way is a planet, not a comet. Because it is a "Dark Star", NASA only discovered it in 1984 and only then via the use of infra-red.
This is the mysterious planet, often refered to now as 'Planet X', written of in ancient Summerian tablets, Asian texts, and revered by several African tribes who speak of its eminent return in 2012.
This planet belongs to our solar system but has a very long orbit around the sun. It is approaching and while it isn't expected to actually 'hit' earth, it will pass very close. How close is anyone's guess at this point.
When added to the fact that the earth and sun's alignment with the center of the galaxy will coincide with Planet X's fly-by in 2012, this giant can be expected to do everything from relatively minor damage to magnetic field fluctuations that lead to great storms to serious damage in the form of a pole shift or pole reversal with devastating earthquakes, volcanos, and flooding as a consequence.
What we do know from ancient texts is that this planet has always brought fire as well as floods to the earth when it passed.
Mankind has survived the passage of this planet in the past and will again, though in what numbers, no one can say. I, for one, do not fear it's return. The earth will be cleansed and those who remain will build a better world.
I keep seeing folks multiply 5,125 years by a factor of 5 great cycles and get 26,000 as a result... why is this?
25,625 is not 25,700 -- the accepted period in years of precession and it is not 26,000 -- rounding up works for tip calculations, but not so hot for celestial mechanics.
The Hebrew calendar did not start when the Mayan calendar started.
It started some 600 years before that.
Now, the first Egyptian dinasty started at that time, and also the Kali Yuga from Vedic writtings. Stonehedge was also built at around that time.
That's a significant coincidence to me.
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