by John Devera

Created on: April 18, 2008

2012 is a significant year to many in the "new age" community. It has some very momentous prophetic and astrological (versus astronomical) convergences. Be prepared for one of two outcomes. Either you will get caught up in the hype and be terribly disappointed and/or relieved when it turns out to be a pretty ordinary year all told, or get ready for the BIG CHANGE. Now, most of you who might know me are probably expecting a very skeptical article. That's my shtick. But in this case, aside from one little disclaimer, I'd actually like to present the possibilities for 2012 instead of the reasons for skepticism.

Here's the disclaimer. The world ended in 535, 1000, 1099, 1666, 1911, 1917, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006 and now 2012. Now since you are here to read this, and I am here to write this, let us assume that all the many predictions about the world's end have been just so much hysteria and hogwash. Countless fortunes and lives have been ruined over these baseless fears. The nominal default is to assume that no one has access to this kind of knowledge, and certainly no one with any conscience would seek to gain monetarily through such knowledge. But there are still charlatans and hucksters aplenty who will take a sucker's money. The vast preponderance of evidence shows that 2012 will be a year of momentous news, just like every year, that startling and unexpected things will happen, like every year, and the world will not end.

Now, here's the cool conspiracy "new age" stuff.

2012 is the Great Year of Spiritual Transformation. A Great Year is also known as a Platonic year, the time it takes for a complete procession of the zodiac. You see, the stars, from our perspective take a long 26,000 year journey across the sky. This infinitesimally slow parade is called precession of the equinoxes. According to Giorgio de Santillana there are hundreds of myths spanning many cultures about this precession. Now, modern astronomers don't give a fig about this precession, since it is really meaningless in terms of astronomy, but an astrologist sees it as momentous, since it deals with the completion of an age.

The thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar corresponds to this precession of equinoxes and ends somewhere at the end of December in 2012. Now, most of what we know of Mayan beliefs are badly corrupted. Much of their esoteric and occult knowledge was destroyed by the Aztecs and the Spanish conquistadors. What many people have assumed from the fragments

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