Precession Of The Equinoxes and 2012
from Polaris. Discovered by Hipparchus around 130 BC as a slow shift of the vernal equinox around the ecliptic (i.e. around the zodiac).
The effect of the sun and moon, called lunisolar prescession, is to produce a westward motion of the equinoxes along the ecliptic. The effect of other planets, called planetary precession, tends to produce a much smaller motion eastward along the ecliptic. The resultant motion, called general precession, is westward along the ecliptic at the rate of about 50.3 seconds of arc per year. The component of general precession along the celestial equator, called precession in right ascension, is about 46.1 seconds of arc per year; and the component along a celestial meridian, called precession in declination, is about 20.0 seconds of arc per year.
It was the Mayan calendar that started the 2012 conversation. The traditional Mayans, whose civilization lived in what’s now Mexico from around three hundred to nine hundred CE, had a technique of time tracking that concerned counting the days. They worked with cycles of days and could use these cycles to maintain a record of lengthy periods of time far longer than typical astrology can. Their “great cycle” or baktun was 144,000 days, or about 396 years. There are a number of other shorter cycles which make up the “long count” or calendar. For instance, a katun is 7,200 days, and a tun is 360 days.
On December twenty-one, 2012 we reach the end of the 13th baktun. That is, we come to the conclusion of thirteen cycles of 144,000 days, or 5,125 yearsa great cycle of great cycles. This actually is in the year of a Venus transit of the Sun, and the Mayans were obsessive about Venus. It happens to come at the crescendo of much other astrology. Yet what’s really engaging about all this is that the 5,125 year cycle starts long before Mayan civilization had come into the world. So they backdated their cycle and timed the end of their 13th baktun to happen at the same time as the Capricorn solstice of 2012. Why is the 13th baktun so important? Why don’t we just go on to the 14th baktun? The answer’s that the Mayan system at its simplest is reliant on the number thirteen. So that the entire meta-cycle of thirteen “great cycles” turns over at about that point, and it happens to be in 2012. But why 2012? You may ask. They might have used any time as a start point and any time as an end point, since they were beginning in the middle.
The implication is they were mindful of a long cycle that we aren’t mindful of today ; they saw where they were in that cycle ; and they timed the entire thing to happen at the same time as it. One thing you are able to say about the Mayans is they weren’t willy-nilly mathematicians. They knew what they were doing. There are two hypotheses running around as to just what that happened, and the one I have picked up on is explained by a man named John M. Jenkens.
Each century or so, the 1st day of spring, the vernal equinox arrives a day earlier. This is as the world is wobbling as it spins ; the wobble is so slow you cannot see it unless you watch for 2 thousand years. The full cycle takes about 26,000 years, in which time the seasons go totally round the calendar once. This is named the precession of the equinoxes . The Mayans could see it, and allegedly they were tracking the alignment of 2 points : the center of the Milky Way universe ( where earth is ) and the winter solstice.
The Sun’s position on the darkest day of the year, the Sun itself, and the galactic core, which has a big black hole, form a conjunction on December twenty-one, 2012. This alignment is now so close we will feel it approaching.
Note the events surrounding the latest winter solstice, an indication of what a power point this is. We will be able to also see why folk are experiencing some catastrophobia related to 2012, especially given the approaching issue of Earth changes. There’s a concept the Mayans, whose own civilization dropped amid war and internal struggle, were aware of a parallel, disastrous time that would come much later in historyor they were alert us not to take the trail they took.
