The Maya 2012 cycle.

We tend to think of our Home as “this house”, maybe our town.  Enlightened, we think of it as where the Love is.  For others it is “my state” or “my country”.   Industrialized, Newtonian ideas.

Obama signed a number of documents into law yesterday, last week.  Our civil liberties are toast now.  The corporations that drive the societies of our Earth Mother towards slave wage-ry, seeking only profit and sustaining only the war machines, would seem to have fulfilled much of the human collective need to experience species extinction since Industrialization.  Technology might allow us to face the challenge to evolve past our right brain so we might sustain our communities with the healthy choices.  But currently, we are killing our Home.

Our Ancestors knew that the land they lived on was Sacred, a faithful companion, a Mother to care for as she cares for us.  Sacred means the demonstration of what a community can cherish.   Our Ancestors saw Home reflected in the skies at night and in the intercourse of the stars.  It provided  the ‘stories’ of who we were and where we came from.  The Maya did not calculate the end of the planet in the night skies, they calculated the end of an age and the beginning of a new one.

“Our solar system is moving out of the Orion Arm into a dark region of the Milky Way galaxy; Earth is precessing out of the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius as Earth’s North Celestial Pole moves to the star Polaris; and the intersection of the plane of our solar system and the plane of our galaxy is in conjunction with the winter solstice sun. During the 26,000-year-long precessional cycle, called the Great Year by the Greeks, this intersection line—the galactic axis—is closely aspected by the winter solstice sun for twenty-five years, from 1987 to 2012. This galactic alignment—the Galactic Winter Solstice—occurs when we enter the Age of Aquarius and the prophetic Mayan Calendar ends. This heralds the transfiguration of our species.

   “This Galactic Winter Solstice can be thought of as a stellar mystery play: The curtain rose on Harmonic Convergence on August 16/17, 1987, an Earth celebration when millions of people meditated at sacred sites all over the world. The final act is during 2011/2012, the mysterious end date of the Mayan Calendar. Approaching 2012, it’s as if there is a strange time-attractor in the sky. We feel this pull instinctively, as if we are caterpillars undergoing metamorphosis and becoming butterflies; we are time-coded by evolution to change into new forms…” – Barbara Hand Clow (GrandMother Sky)

Anthropologically, the stars have always guided us and ultimately given us  our indicators or the answers we sought and still seek past our flesh. We are thought, feeling and dreams… we’ve become who and what we are through our dreams.  The stars inspire(d) our greatest dreams.  And whether you think empirically that we journey no longer than the body ticks, you have to acknowledge a tangible connection between us and stars.   (more for the science than shamanic effort)  The Stars were a part of Home to our Ancestors.    They created cosmological myths for us to remember this essential truth and to preserve tools of wisdom for staying balanced, harmonious and healthy with our Home.   Every culture has seeded Traditions into our future to prepare, guide and save us from extinction, anchored into the Spirit of a Place commemorated in megalith, architecture and monument connecting us with the skies.  They found and marked the sacred sites of the Earth so we would remember if we ever grew too far from balance.  Present day Indigenous Peoples  have saved this wisdom the best they could. None have fought so life long as today’s Indigenous People to save what may be the Earth Mother’s only survival using total immersion to teach how to heal the planet.  The techniques of perma-culture are our best chance for healing the planet.   At any moment we can collectively choose to change.  Our Ancestors once knew that Home was a living, thriving part of the sky and the stars, that our life giver was our star, the sun.  The planets surrounding us were a neighborhood to them.  Cosmic shaman, they understood that  our true ‘country’ was a perpetually spiraling galaxy in our world: an expanding universe.   That vision can save us, now.  Returning to the land and the sky, a kind of decolonizing. We are witness and participants in the birth of a brand new new culture…  a planetary culture.  This global consciousness, *you are using it right now!*, is seeding it. Occupy is manifesting it.

Our Ancestors knew the dynamics of the stars mirrored how our human bodies’ work__ think of the ancient Egyptian’s and the Temple of Man’s extraordinary diagram of the dynamic human anatomy!  The ancient Rishi’s teaching the chakra wheel system, the auric field generators.  They provide the basics of today’s Energy Medicine… non nuclear, holistic and successful.   Macrocosm / microcosm, the oldest wisdom.  Have you heard of the 100th Monkey effect?  Rupert Sheldrake discovered the observations of Japanese scientists in the 1950′s who documented a phenomenon known as the 100th Monkey effect concerning species awareness and critical mass.  Many have claimed that the little book published by Ken Keyes on the story about the 100th Monkey is a ‘fake’.  That the ‘critical mass’ effect is unsubstantiated.  Yet, if you check our collective mythology / cosmology, this phenomenon is consistently used to offer substance to our evolution as a species through the growth of our awareness.  I’d offer the 144,000 myth in example.   I expected the OWS Movement, though only my instincts prior to the last presidential election convinced me that rolling my sleeves up and working in the complete community with intention of healing the Earth Mother, my Home, in political activism was a part of my path.  OCCUPY is a surprise conformation of that instinct.  I’ve never witnessed any thing like it, I don’t think any age has.   It’s epic.  

This system cannot stand. It will not stand. I’m not saying that it falls in 2012. That is way too optimistic. But the battle is joined in 2012. There are now many constitutional amendments trying to address this problem. Those movements will only grow. And probably at surprising speed. Everything moves so much quicker now (just look at how many times and how quickly the Republican primaries have turned already). This movement is going to take the country by storm and Washington is going to be completely surprised by it. As usual, they will say “no one could have seen it coming.”

I’m telling you now, it’s coming! People are starting to become furious that we have in effect lost our representative democracy. It’s time for a revolution. Not a physical one, but a political one. A revolution that turns over the establishment’s apple cart, challenges this corrupt system and brings back our democracy. Get ready for 2012.  [Cenk Uygur: The Revolution Begins in 2012]

The poet’s rough beast is in our governments and leadership.  It’s name is GREED.  It serves the 1%.  It’s time has come round.  I’ve worked since ’91 towards this specific year.   I’m going to OCCUPY every moment of it.