The Forum: Mayan Prophecy

The Mayan Calendar: Chart and Analysis for Sunrise on December 21, 2012, at Chichen-Itza, Mexico

by Mark Lerner

[Note: If you are a beginner in astrology or even consider yourself an intermediate-level student, it is advised that you read our Star Language feature before studying this chart and interpretation.]

If a collective vision for a mobilized, spiritually-infused humanity is to take place on December 21, 2012, the coordination between Neptune, the Sun and Juno on this date may be the primary reason why this occurs.

Introduction

Throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras are sacred sites connected to the Mayans. One of their foremost centers was at Chichen-Itza – in the Yucatan region of Mexico – where they built the Pyramid of Kukulcan, otherwise known as the Plumed Serpent or, from the Aztec language, Quetzalcoatl.

Tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world still travel to the Pyramid of Kukulcan at the Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere to witness an event of light and shadow – orchestrated by the Sun and the Pyramid – to reveal the undulating body and head of a feathered-serpent deity that the Mayans associated with the planet Venus.

Most authors and researchers on the subject of the 5125-year Mayan "Long Count" believe that our Western calendar date of December 21, 2012, signifies the end of that lengthy time-period.* What happens after the "end" is anyone's guess – although a large outpouring of books on the subject focus on the "End of the World" (possibly induced by increased solar flares and coronal mass ejections frying our delicate atmosphere on Earth and/or causing massive power grids malfunctions and/or cataclysmic weather events and/or a possible pole shift!) or the "Beginning of a New World" of spiritual enlightenment.

What is undeniable to any rational, thinking individual is that a giant collective "thought form" is being created within humanity focused on the date of December 21, 2012. Regardless of whether anything significant happens in the Latin American countries mentioned above on that date – or anywhere on our planet – the consciousness of our species is now looking forward to this date-experience-event as some kind of celestial-global, Future Shock, potentially of epic proportions.

While most astrological analysis pertains to looking at a birth chart from the past, there is no reason why we cannot gaze ahead to an upcoming month-day-year, time and place for answers as to whether the human race fizzles out, keeps chugging along at its current pace or receives a cosmic jolt to become a more compassionate species on Spaceship Earth.

With this in mind, a chart is shown here for sunrise (6:30am CST) on the morning of December 21, 2012 in Chichen-Itza, Mexico. Several of the key alignments happening – at that moment and in that place – are going to be discussed below. In addition, a Mayan Calendar of dates will be presented and updated in the months ahead – pointing out major cycles (transits) activating this potentially transformational end/beginning of our modern civilization. It is our hope that you return to Inner Sight frequently to "catch the wave" of alignments that will "turn on" this chart and help you understand the shape of things to come regarding the end/beginning of the Mayan Calendar.

The Sun and Juno Rise Together at the Winter Solstice

Imagine the December 21, 2012, phenomenon as a creator-child of humanity being born – a talismanic symbol of how we complete one long cycle of history and start another one. Remember that a chart is much more than a two-dimensional document or piece of paper; it represents a picture of the living cosmos wherein the Sun, Moon, planets, asteroids and other celestial objects interact within the aura-like electro-magnetic field of whatever is struggling to incarnate in our world.

When the Sun rises on December 21, 2012 (the day of the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere – a sacred turning point of any year), it is not alone. The smallest of the first four asteroids discovered between 1801 and 1807 – Juno – is in a union with our solar orb. This immediately brings up the qualities of the need for peace on earth, respect for all living things, and that fairness and equality should be the essence of the day itself. On a mundane level, Juno equates with diplomacy, justice and fair treatment under the law. When misused or ignored, Juno can signify atmospheric disturbances, angry outbursts, and rage by the disempowered and dispossessed.

Juno also signifies elegance and beauty, and she was worshipped by the ancient Romans as the Goddess of Childbirth. Thus, the Sun appearing with Juno at dawn on December 21, 2012 is a direct connection to the idea that something profound, beautiful – and feminine – is seeking birth into our way of life.

Neptune Joins Forces with the Sun and Juno

Adding its spiritual weight to the December 21, 2012, event is far-out, mystical Neptune – located at the first degree of Pisces and making a supportive and nearly-exact 60-degree rapport with both the Sun and Juno. Neptune – the second of the three outer planets and discovered in 1846 – is often associated with mass-consciousness events and sweeping trends that affect generations and large groups of people around the world.

Neptune in 2012 is making its first appearance in Pisces – a sign it is said to rule in astrology – in 165 years. The association of Neptune and Pisces with the rising energy of Sun-Juno in Capricorn is to align the elemental powers of water (psychic sensitivity; imagination; inspiration) with the elemental powers of earth (attunement to the land, nature, and mineral kingdom).

If a collective vision for a mobilized, spiritually-infused humanity is to take place on December 21, 2012, the coordination between Neptune, the Sun and Juno on this date may be the primary reason why this occurs.

Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto form a Finger-of-God, Yod Triangle

While the linkage of the three celestial bodies just mentioned is deeply ingrained on this future date, another crucial trinity is announcing its presence. There is what is called a Yod or Finger-of-God triangle formed by Jupiter retrograde in Gemini, Saturn in Scorpio, and Pluto in Capricorn. While the Sun, Juno and Neptune interaction is super-strong on December 21 itself, the Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto unusual triangle starts happening several hours before sunrise on December 21, continues into the following day, and concludes on December 26 – just after Christmas Day.

What is a Yod and what kind of energy-field and potential magic does it contain? A Yod is composed of two alignments measuring 150 degrees and one alignment measuring 60 degrees. In total, the 360 degrees of the complete zodiacal circle are covered. When the pattern is nearly exact – as this one is since the three key planets are all activating the ninth degree of their respective signs – it has extra power and significance to change consciousness within humanity.

Jupiter and Saturn are the most watched of the bigger planets going back almost 3000 years to the Chaldean and Babylonian civilizations hundreds of years before the start of the Christian era. They unite in the sky approximately every 20 years, and their conjunctions, squares and oppositions have been studied and researched by countless generations of professional astrologers. They are planets that have much to do with our religious, philosophical, social, educational, business and professional life, work and experiences.

Pluto has only been known and analyzed since its discovery on February 18, 1930, by Clyde Tombaugh in Flagstaff, Arizona. It has a meaning that is associated with the creator and destroyer principles, mysteries, secrets, the underworld, atomic-nuclear energy, spiritual willpower, repressed emotions, and the conception of children and new worlds.

It may very well be more important that the December 2012 Mayan Calendar event is drawing our attention to this cosmic triangle of Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto than to any intrinsic cultural essence connected back to the vanished race of the Mayans in the Mesoamerican region of the Earth.

With Jupiter retrograde in Gemini and located in the sixth house, one keynote of the cosmic triangle is the urge to communicate (Gemini) a higher and larger truth (Jupiter) within humanity. Saturn in Scorpio in the eleventh house – receiving one of the two 150-degree aspects from Jupiter – appears to signify a mysterious and in-depth transformation (Scorpio) that can restructure (Saturn) human potential. Pluto in Capricorn in the first house – receiving the other 150-degree aspect from Jupiter – portends an earthly conception of a new humanity, but one probably based on the extinguishing of old fears, hatreds and animosities simmering in the subliminal realms of the collective human psyche.

No one knows precisely how a Yod or Finger-of-God triangle works. You can utilize the planetary archetypes in a low, middle or high way. It is up to you to tap into the finest levels of awareness associated with Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto in order that a celestial trinity of Goodwill (Jupiter), Discipline (Saturn) and Spiritual Purpose (Pluto) find a residence in your heart chakra as you proceed toward the December 21, 2012, event and its aftermath.

The Moon, Vesta and Mercury Form Another Triangle

A less significant and yet still highly relevant triangle occurs if you see the connection happening from the Moon at 15 degrees of Aries in the fourth house to Vesta at 15 degrees of Gemini in the sixth house along with Mercury at 15 degrees of Sagittarius in the twelfth house. It is not often that – on the same day and at the same time – two cosmic triangles will be nearly precise in the heavens.

Mercury opposite Vesta – the main dynamic in the Moon-Vesta-Mercury triangle – signifies that the Eternal Flame archetypes imbedded within the Vesta realm are being matched with the Messenger of the Gods archetypes imbedded within the Mercury realm. These two celestial bodies stand for much more, but the concepts of the Eternal Flame of Ancient Temple magic and the Winged Messenger that communicates divine ideas to humanity are a profound part of our heritage as a species evolving on Earth.

The lunar placement in bold, fiery Aries seeks to anchor the Eternal Flame and Winged Messenger energy into our chakras on December 21, 2012. You will see that the Part of Fortune is united with the Moon and this always occurs every day at sunrise. The Part of Fortune can almost be considered the Ascendant of the Moon – a "Path of Happiness" in accordance with the astrological insights of the eminent 20^th century astrologer Dane Rudhyar. Remember, too, that the Moon feels very much at home in the fourth house of roots, traditions, heritage and history– a house placement that the Moon traditionally rules.

Venus and Pallas Energize Heart and Mind

While you are seeking to juggle around Sun-Juno-Neptune, Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto, and Moon-Vesta-Mercury triangles in your heart and mind, you should also embrace the following: Venus in Sagittarius in the twelfth house forms a flowing trine to Uranus in Aries in the third house; Pallas in Pisces in house number three forms a flowing trine to the Lunar North Node in Scorpio in the eleventh house; Pallas is also square to the largest asteroid Ceres – moving retrograde, like Jupiter and Vesta, in Gemini in the sixth house.

Venus – the key planet associated with the Mayan culture – has prominence because it is bringing through the higher dreams and visions always associated with the loftiest meaning of any twelfth house placement. Venus in a fire sign – and in a harmonious, 120-degree rapport with revolutionary change-agent Uranus in fiery Aries – reveals that a new understanding of the Mayan way of life, death and transfiguration wants to happen on December 21, 2012. Plus – there can be a new articulation of these Mayan themes (part of the meaning of Sagittarius and the grouping of planets in the third house) in new books, articles and media reports once the December 21, 2012, event has come and gone.

Pallas has much to do with problem-solving, strategy sessions, research, genius, and the strength or weakness of the human immune system. For this key asteroid to be in harmony with both the North and South Nodes of the Moon is to indicate that many fine minds on Planet Earth should be able to "solve the problem" highlighted by Mayan Prophecy once this date happens – that answers from the universe should be forthcoming and be able to be put in features and stories that human beings around the globe can assimilate in the months and years to follow the December 21, 2012.

However, Pallas and Ceres are in a close conflict – being square or 90-degrees apart within less than 1 degree. Does a square have to be negative? Not necessarily. Any square is based on dividing the zodiacal circle by the number four, and that means that work must be done to make the alignment useful and helpful. Pallas in Pisces square to Ceres in Gemini could signify that ingenious answers (Pallas) about the need to nurture the Earth and Mother Nature (Ceres) will arrive in abundance within the collective consciousness of humanity on this stellar day.

Mars in Capricorn Links to Ceres in Gemini Via 150-Degrees

Let us not forget the red planet Mars – exalted and extra potent in Capricorn at 27 degrees and in the first house. It forms a very close, 150-degree liaison with Ceres while also connecting to Pallas by a much more supportive and engaging 60-degree link. Mars always has a capacity to create volatility, emotional disturbances and even bloodshed. One hopes that forces working against higher human transformation don't try to use the December 21, 2012 date to create deliberate acts of carnage on Earth. The fact that Mars is said to be exalted in Capricorn may raise the Mars vibrations to a level at which they are more passionate for the good than destructive as a shadow force seeking to bring us down.

Chiron – The Wounded Healer – Makes its Presence Known

All the main celestial bodies have been mentioned in this brief overview except for one – the comet-like body known as Chiron, discovered in 1977 and acting as a bridge between the old solar system (Sun to Saturn) and the new solar system (extending outward to Pluto and beyond in the Kuiper Belt). Chiron orbits the Sun between Saturn and Uranus, and has an approximate 49 to 51 year cycle through the zodiac. Chiron is often associated with the twilight zone (the strange realm between chronological time and eternity), maverick and catalyst principles, and the dynamics of holistic healing and alternative medicine.

Chiron at 6 degrees of Pisces is rather active on December 21, 2012 as it trines Saturn, forms a supportive, 60-degree tie to distant Pluto, and is at the fulcrum of a T-Square pattern involving Venus opposite Jupiter. Notice that Chiron is in the third house and close to the cusp itself.

Perhaps the function of Chiron on this important day is to act in accordance with its name – as a wounded healer, sage and shaman, dispensing out loving, enlightened thoughts and prayers to humanity in deep need of soul-spiritual renewal. In this sense, each one of us becomes a living, breathing Chiron-agent provocateur – ready and eager to jump-start a new Mayan Long Count no matter what the doomsayers may be forecasting.

Alternate Dates, the Nuclear Axis, and Jupiter and Saturn in 2020

*It is important to note that some authors may provide other dates than December 21, 2012, as the be-all and most-important end/beginning of the Mayan Calendar Long Count. One such author – Carl Johan Calleman, in his fantastic book The Mayan Calendar – points to October 28, 2011, as the key date. If something out-of-this-world and earth-shattering happens on or very close to October 28, 2011, we will certainly report on that (assuming the world wide web is still in existence).

Another arena of life – more connected to science, weaponry and energy resources – may link up with the Mayan Calendar event in December, 2012. Back in 1982 – 1983, I discovered that the most important atomic-nuclear explosions and disasters, as well as treaties and negotiations, occurred when one or more celestial bodies were located in a rather narrow zone between approximately 7 and 11 degrees of Gemini and Sagittarius. This came from my in-depth study of the First Nuclear Chain Reaction birth chart from the afternoon of December 2, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois when Enrico Fermi and his team of researchers gave birth to our current Nuclear Era.

The close Venus-Jupiter polarity on December 21, 2012, will ignite the Saturn-Sun opposition that existed in the zodiac when the Nuclear Era began in December, 1942. We just experienced the U.S. Senate ratifying the Start Treaty with Russia on December 22, 2010, after considerable controversy and debate. This happened with the asteroid Vesta exactly on the Sun placement from the birth of the Nuclear Era, and Vesta has much to do with safety and security measures – personally, nationally and globally.

The Mercury-Vesta polarity on December 21, 2012, will also be almost precisely aligned with Venus in the Nuclear Era chart. Therefore, 4 celestial bodies at the Mayan Calendar event will be linking their potent vibrations with the energy-field that gave us both nuclear energy for peaceful purposes as well as nuclear energy for warfare and destruction on a devastating scale.

President Obama has staked out territory where he wants to be an eminent world leader in the eradication of all nuclear weapons in the future. This can only happen through highly-sensitive diplomacy – a function of the asteroid Juno. Recall that at the Mayan Calendar event at sunrise December 21, 2012, the Sun and Juno will rise together at the first degree of Capricorn. President Obama is born when the only stationary body in his chart is Juno – a signal from the cosmos that one of his main missions in life is to be a Treaty Master, a diplomacy expert, who creates harmony and balance between and among apparent enemies. Whether he is re-elected for a second term or not in November, 2012, he may still be trying to hammer out deals with rival nations concerning nuclear-atomic energy in December, 2012, when the Mayan Calendar event takes place.

Eight years or one octave exactly after the December 21, 2012, Mayan Calendar event, another very significant cosmic alignment takes place: Jupiter merging with Saturn at the first degree of Aquarius on December 21, 2020, on the Winter Solstice day of that year.

This is not just any Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, but the start of a long series of Jupiter-Saturn unions, approximately every 20 years, in air signs – continuing into the 22^nd century. This is part of a Great Mutation cycle regarding Jupiter and Saturn – where these two largest planets in our solar system energize each element of the zodiac (fire, earth, air and water) during a series of unions, lasting often for 140 to 160 years and sometimes longer. The December 21, 2020, event of Jupiter uniting with Saturn at 1 degree of Aquarius shifts humanity's consciousness from a cycle that began in 1842 in the earth element (materiality; money; physical resources) to the air element (thinking; ideas; mental resources).

Could it be that the Mayan Calendar event of December 21, 2012 – if it comes and goes without the destruction of our world – will actually point to the beginning of a global renaissance starting 8 years later to the day when Jupiter and Saturn activate the symbolic birthing point of Aquarius – launching a series of decades that could constitute the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius? Here is another mind-boggling consideration to have in your consciousness as you study the upcoming cycles activating the birth chart for sunrise in Chichen-Itza on December 21, 2012.

-- Mark Lerner (December 27, 2010)

Astrological Forum on 2012: Sacred Marriage and the Birth of a New Species

By Tara McKinney

First, my sincere thanks to Mark Lerner for offering this forum on the December 21, 2012, sunrise chart for Chichen Itza, Mexico. I gratefully follow Mark's insightful analysis with some of my own reflections on the chart's Ascendant/Sun/Juno conjunction with its sextile to Neptune, through the lens of Neo-Vedic astrology. (DISCLAIMER: I use the term Neo-Vedic loosely in that I borrow heavily from the Vedic tradition of astrology but with my own very idiosyncratic additions, subtractions and interpretations.)

I wholeheartedly agree with Mark that the most significant aspect of the December 21, 2012, chart is the near exact Sun/Juno conjunction on its Ascendant. What makes this conjunction all the more significant, it seems to me, is its alignment with the Center of our Milky Way Galaxy. From the Vedic perspective, which uses the sidereal system, the chart's Ascendant, Sun and Juno are within a couple of minutes of one another at 6 degrees of Sagittarius. This places them in the middle of the Lunar Mansion MULA, which encompasses the first 13 degrees of Sagittarius, demarcating the Galactic Center.

The Galactic Center:

The Sanskrit word MULA means "The Root," "The Center," "The Innermost Core." The deity associated with MULA is Nirriti (or "Calamity"), the Goddess of Destruction also depicted as Mother Kali. Like any super massive black hole worthy of the name, MULA points to the necessary dissolution that proceeds new life. She is the great birth/death canal, the womb/ tomb of the Galactic Mother Goddess. Her roots are those of the inverted Tree of Life whose massive trunk and branches extends outward toward the Earth and beyond.

MULA's nature is to quickly and unceremoniously cut out and destroy everything that has lost its value and no longer serves the greater evolutionary purpose, especially those things that, like roots, are typically hidden from view. It is associated with a sharp, relentless type of energy which is absolutely fierce and will stop at nothing in its quest for spiritual liberation and the radical transmutation from lower to higher Selfhood.

MULA is co-ruled by the South Node of the Moon and Jupiter. The South Node brings forward talents and wisdom acquired in past lives, as well as negative karma that has ripened and is ready to be addressed in the present. In Her role as a kind of Galactic exorcist and with the razor sharp precision of a highly-skilled surgeon, MULA goes after those distortions or karmic knots that lurk within both the individual and collective psyche, slicing through them without hesitation or false sentimentality.

MULA settles for nothing less than the absolute marriage of the Self with the Universal Soul. The very intense and challenging struggle between individuality and universality, therefore, reaches its culmination point in this Lunar Mansion. In this context, MULA is not above inflicting pain, but only to the extent necessary and with utmost compassion and skillful means. This benefic influence is due to Jupiter's involvement as a point of balance to the South Node.

As the 19th Lunar Mansion, MULA marks the end of materialism and the beginning of a truly spiritual life. In the Vedic system, the number 19 is considered a solar number, signifying birth and death, beginning and completion. This association hints at a deep, esoteric connection between Vedic astrology and the Tarot, where number 19 of the Major Arcana is the Sun Card.

Juno: The Divine Consort

John Major Jenkins, a long-time student of the Mayan Calendar and its mysteries, theorizes that the ancient Mayans knew, without benefit of modern, scientific instruments, that our solar system would align itself with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy during the relatively narrow window of time in which we currently live (an event which occurs only once every 26,000 years for a period of approximately thirty-six years). Further, according to Jenkins interpretation of Mayan hieroglyphs and sacred texts, these ancient visionaries understood that the Earth and its people would be reborn at the time of the Winter Solstice, 2012, when Father Sun would align with Mother Galaxy. Here we see the theme of the sacred marriage which is so prominently displayed in the Chichen Itza chart for December 21, 2012.

Juno, the asteroid symbolizing the sacred marriage of husband and wife or divine consorts, is conjunct both "Father Sun" and "Mother Galaxy" at the moment of birth or sunrise in the Chichen Itza chart. According to Demetre George, Juno symbolizes the yearning for full, emotionally, sexually and psychologically-fulfilling, deeply-committed, mystical union with a mate, as well as the range of suffering and neurotic complexes that arise to the extent She is thwarted in Her quest.

Likewise, Juno is constitutionally unwilling and unable to accept less than a truly just and balanced relationship, and because She never ceases to fight against injustice in the relational context, Juno also rules those who fight for the rights of the underdog in the political, economic, educational and judicial arenas.

The Sun:

The Sun Card of the Tarot, number 19 of the Major Arcana, represents Spirit, enlightenment, vitality, innocence, splendor, brilliance and luminosity. While Western astrology typically understands the Sun in similar terms, Vedic astrology, with its pre-patriarchal roots, is more inclined to associate the Sun with oppressive, patriarchal aspects of ego; in other words, with the out of balance masculine. Both ways of understanding the Sun seem relevant to the Chichen Itza chart at this time in our evolutionary history. Perhaps Juno is pointing to the possibility of a sacred marriage between masculine and feminine, male and female, and the subsequent birth of a new, illumined species, as a result of Father Sun's alignment with the Galactic Mother.

The Sun is also associated with "the Son" or "the Christ," who undergoes a ritual death every year at the time of the Winter Solstice and is then resurrected after three days in the tomb. Significantly, "the Christ" has been linked with the Mayan Kukulkan, the Plumed Serpent who slithers down the pyramid at Chichen Itza every year on the Spring Equinox, symbolically impregnating the Earth with his phallic life force and vitality.

Neptune Conjunct Chiron:

Similarly, In the Vedic astrological system of 5,000+ years ago, the Sky Goddess was understood to dance through the 27 Lunar Mansions which comprise the astrological chart. At the time of the Spring Equinox, she was young, unmarried and free: a powerful, erotic, red Goddess, the Queen of the Sky. She danced alone, raising the kundalini to bring forth new life. At the Summer Solstice, in the Lunar Mansion characterized as "The Sacred Marriage Bed," She was married to her consort, a balanced form of the masculine associated with the Moon. At the Autumn Equinox, the Sky Goddess became the wise crone, plunging into the abyss of darkness and, ultimately, to Her ritual death at the time of the Winter Solstice.

The Lunar Mansion that was aligned with the Winter Solstice 5,000 + years ago was known as SHATABISHA, meaning "The Hundred Healers." Significantly, in the Chichen Itza chart, this is where we find the mystical planet Neptune, which is typically associated with the healing potential of "the Christ" in esoteric astrology. Further, Neptune is conjunct Chiron, the Wounded Healer, and sextiling the Ascendant, Sun and Juno in MULA, the Lunar Mansion aligned with the Winter Solstice in modern times. SHATABISHA often brings a healing crisis leading to revitalization. The Lunar Mansion pours forth the divine nectar of immortality from its Aquarian pitcher, ensuring that the Sky Goddess will resurrect and once again dance free across the Heavens.

In Conclusion:

At the 2012 Prophet's Conference in Vancouver, BC, this past summer, a consistent theme emerged among the various presenters: that of the necessity of the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine. For example, journalist Daniel Pinchbeck noted that recent crop circles seem to be pointing, through the medium of sacred geometry, toward an imminent, dimensional shift characterized by the divine union of masculine and feminine. To illustrate his point, he described crop circle images of the six-pointed Star of David and the Yin/Yang symbol, both appearing in elaborate, holographic, fractal variations of their more conventional iconography.

John Kimmey, a spokesman for the Hopi Elders, shared the Hopi understanding that what is required at this pivotal time in our evolutionary history is nothing less than men and women finding the courage, resolve and inner resources to truly fall in love with one another. This, he said, is the most important work we can do.

According to futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard, women and men must passionately unite in couples, teams, partnerships and groups, not simply to procreate but to co-create. Our creative potential can only be actualized by this joining together, she said. Creativity cannot happen alone anymore, so we must follow our attractions in order to find the right chosen partners. This will not be easy, but we must be bold and have courage.

Jungian Richard Tarnas saw the current crisis in terms of a conflict between the "Solar Masculine," or Patriarchy, and the "Lunar Feminine," a disempowered form of the feminine. "The out of balance masculine has accomplished many great things," he said, "but what a shadow that light has caste." What is needed at this time is for the Solar Feminine to come forward in true union with the Lunar Masculine.

Biologist Carl Calleman, who was not at the conference but has written extensively about Mayan prophecy and the evolution of consciousness, believes the Mayan calendar is much more than an astronomical calendar in the usual sense of the word. He sees it as a reflection of fractal wave form patterns emanating from the Cosmic Tree of Life, the organizing and animating principle of life, itself, which resides at the center of our Universe, our Galaxy and the Earth, as well as at each point in our space/time continuum.

This Tree of Life is often depicted iconographically with two snakes coiling up its trunk, symbolizing the divine union of masculine and feminine polarities. In biological terms, it's the double helix pattern inside our DNA. Contemplating this profundity along with all of the above, I can only conclude, and it seems the Chichen Itza chart would concur, that such a sacred marriage is not only our birth right, but also, ultimately, our destiny.

I will leave you with this inspired vision from Mayan Elder FloradeMayo presented at the closing of the 2012 Prophet's Conference:

"A being in a red cape approached me. I looked into his face and saw only white light. The being said, 'I have a gift for you.' He gave me an egg, a large, clay egg, about forty pounds. I said to the egg, 'You are love. There is nothing but love. Love is all there is.' I started this chant. The sand, the earth around the egg started breaking away from it and I started crying. As I continued to embrace the egg with love, underneath the earth was this crystalline substance. It almost looked like fresh snow. Tears were coming out of my eyes and I continued to send love out into the Cosmos. After all of the crystalline white fell out, a baby emerged. I've never seen such a beautiful baby. Everything was perfect. The baby was doing this baby movement. It had little wings. I said, 'What a beautiful baby.' The more I looked, I said, 'You are a Golden Baby.' I cried to my Beloved and I said, 'Beloved, we have a Golden Child.' I said to the baby, 'You are so perfect and so beautiful.' The baby opened its beautiful, almond eyes. As it opened its eyes, I realized it was an androgynous baby. I cried some more and said, 'Beloved Creator, thank you.' When the baby opened its eyes fully I could see the entire Universe. I sat there and I cried. I was so mesmerized by the beauty of this baby's eyes. I dove into the eyes of the baby and I journeyed into the Universe. Afterwards, I came back into my body and I'm not the same. The vision of the Golden Child means the time is here. We have got to unite. The Golden Child is appearing everywhere. Other people are having similar visions. We must unite now. We must unite."