December 21, 2012: The Cosmos Converge

Winter Solstice, Sun in Capricorn and the end of the Mayan calendar

Tarotcom Staff on the topics of winter solstice, sun, capricorn, astrology, 2012

It’s finally here! The epic date of December 21, 2012, which we’ve been hearing so much about for so many years, is finally here. And no, the world is not going to end, but yes — it’s a mighty day for many other reasons!

First of all, we know this date stands out in many minds because of its association with the Mayan calendar — and also because of that really bad John Cusack movie from a couple of years ago. But in the minds of Astrologers and Numerologists, this date has more true significance.

When the Sun moves into Capricorn on December 21, 2012, it also marks the Winter Solstice and the beginning of our return to the light. On this darkest night of the year, a cycle of the Mayan calendar ends, but life on Earth grows stronger and brighter as we move forward into the longer days of winter and the most serious sign of the zodiac.

The Sun in Capricorn is a time of determination, when we set new goals for the New Year and begin working harder to reach them. From the moment the Sun moves into Capricorn until New Year’s Day of 2013, we’ll celebrate the hectic holidays and the arrival of winter by reflecting on the past year, learning from its lessons and looking to the future with renewed hope.

It all adds up to a great awakening

In Numerology, the date of 12/21/2012 is also considered extraordinary because the sum total of this number arrangement reduces to an 11, and then down to a 2. Together this adds ups to challenges, and the need for personal awareness that will lead to our individual transformation first, and eventually a great awakening on a global scale.

Whatever you may have heard about December 21, 2012, it’s not the end of the world. There is no wayward Planet Nibiru on a collision path with Earth. There will not be a total blackout of the Earth. There are no unusual planetary alignments. There is no polar shift and Earth will not reverse its rotation.

But it is the end of fall, the end of the year and the end of an era — as well as the beginning of a great new one. Remember, December 21, 2012 is just the beginning of a powerful time of profound change that starts right now — with YOU.

It’s That Time Of The Week, For My Opinion!

Good Afternoon dear friends! I hope everyone is having a wonderful Monday. Man, doesn’t time fly by these days? I know it does for me. Time I turn around tomorrow will be Friday and time for the weekend again, lol!

I got to thinking that I hadn’t chatted with you in about a week or two (I mean really chatted). I figure perhaps once a week you can hopefully stand to hear me discuss something serious, lol! When I say serious, I mean like politics, social issues, happenings in the news, predictions, forecasts, basically anything that motivates me to speak on it. For me to sit down and write an article from the heart I have to feel passionate about it. The topic has to stir me to do some long hard thinking on it. I just can’t sit down to write to be writing, I don’t believe the authors of the books can either. So I am in good company!

I have been giving it some serious thought about the Mayan Prediction of the world coming to an end. I know I brought this subject up once before. At that time, I said I believed that the Mayans has predicted their own morality. They believe they would live to the year 2012 and that would be it. No more Mayan civilization, that is why the calendar stopped at 2012. It was not our end by their own end.

The logical side of me still believes that but the other side, oh brother! That side is running wild with all these crazy thoughts. Perhaps they really aren’t as crazy as I think. You see every month, I do all the Planetary and Space occurrences for that month. I have started to mentally keep count of all the strange events I run across. The number of Full Moons we have, the Eclipses, the Meteor and Asteroid Showers, everything. Maybe it is just because I have started to keep up with these happenings. Maybe these events occur all the time and I just have never noticed them till now. But it does seem odd to me, all of the Solar activity that has been going on.

Next, I have a woman at the doctor’s office to thank for this line of thinking. She asked the nurse, “how am I suppose to get my medicine when the world ends?” The poor nurse didn’t know what to say. I surprised she didn’t send her back in to get her medicine changed. So off my little mind goes on that train of thought. First, how would the world end? We have been having quite a few natural disasters and the weather has been so strange. Could it be that we are going to be wiped out by Mother Earth? I live on the New Madrid Fault Line, so one shake and I am gone (of course, if the uranium enrichment plant doesn’t get me first :s).

What would life be like after a natural disaster had wiped us out? I can imagine it but I don’t want too. Your house destroyed or in rumble. No electricity, no water, no phone, no internet. And that’s just at your house. Imagine what the world would be like? The roadways would be destroyed. No interstates for our trucks to deliver food on, the railroad tracks would be destroyed and the same thing for them. I guess that woman at the doctor’s office did bring up food for thought? Medicine is important, I take enough of it. So that would definitely be a concern. Food, the food you have now in your pantries would run out. Then how are you going to eat. Go to the store. If you can get there, I would imagine by then they have all been vandalized.

Would we be in a matter of seconds put back in the Stone Age? No lights. Sitting at home at night in the dark. Nothing to do at light. I been through that with the Ice Storm that came through here. We were without power for 13 days. I felt like I was living in the 1800’s. We had no way to heat the home because it is all electric. We depended on kerosene heaters and a LP camping stove to keep warm by. We would get everything done during the day and when dusk hit, go to bed. I remember if you wanted to take a hot bath, heating the water up on the LP stove. Ah, what a pain! I don’t see how people lived back then. I would imagine they had a very rough life. If they could see us today, their jaws would drop clean off, lol!

There are lots of things I haven’t mentioned, like the hospitals, communicating with your loved ones, getting to a doctor, people on breathing machines or need oxygen, getting medicine, and the list goes on and on and on. I don’t mean to scare anyone nor do I mean to be all doom and gloom. That’s not my intention at all. I do live on the New Madrid fault line. And anyone else that lives near or on a Earthquake zone, knows to have an emergency kit ready at all times. It never hurts to be prepared at all. The kits are something we fixed up and stuck in a spare closet. We know we have it if we need it. The kit is just made up of simple common sense items: food for 3 to 4 days (canned), can opener, batteries, clothes for 3 to 4 days, coats, blankets, some tools to turn off gas lines, and a first aid kit. See nothing too uncommon at all.

I hope you get more out of this post, than I am just a nut. It took over dramatization just to get me to prepare a emergency kit. I hope I have over dramatized for you enough now, that you will take a moment to fix a kit. These days you never know. I know people around here that even threw in gas masks in their kits, yep, that’s the truth! But you don’t know anymore from one day to the next what is going to happen. Seriously take a moment and put a few things together.

I will admit I have one heck of a vivid imagination. But I am still betting that December 21, 2012 is not the end of our world. I honestly believe that the Mayans had stopped the calendar there because they predicted their own end. Nothing more, nothing less. They knew nothing lived forever and they would eventually come to an end like everything else.

It goes without saying, we are all just mortals. Put on this plane for a short time, then we move on to the next. While we are here and have the lives we have, we should cherish every moment. Take nothing for granted. Stop and kiss our loved ones, tell them how much we love them. None of us know how long we are here for (and I don’t believe we are meant too, either), so let’s make the best of it.

And anyway, I would seriously hate to think I had to communicate with all of you over tin cans and a string, lol!

2012- A Witches View of Life and the ‘End’

2012- A Witches View of Life and the ‘End’

Author: Fayte Ravencraft

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have undoubtedly heard of the phenomenon that is 2012. The calendar of the ancient Mayan civilization ends on December 21, 2012, and many believe that it spells out disaster for our planet. Others think that it will be a time of transformation and spiritual rebirth. Here is the opinion of one humble Witch:

I won’t lie and say that the whole ‘2012 hysteria isn’t a little scary. I mean we have several extremely rare celestial occurrences, which also coincide with this exact date, which seem to add to the possibility of strange or catastrophic events occurring. The Earth and the Sun will be perfectly aligned with the ‘Great Rift, in the center of our galaxy, and this alignment is said to occur only every 21, 000 years or so. The Sun will also reach its solar maximum, the peak in its level of sunspot activity. Scientists have noticed recently that the Sun has been alarmingly weak for this point in the cycle — the lowest in over one-hundred years according to one article—, which may mean, in my own opinion, that when the Sun activity does pick up, it may cause a little trouble here on Earth.

The Sun’s own magnetic poles are supposed to switch in 2012 as well, which may cause further issues here on earth. These are simply the facts. Not even the most brilliant among us can truly say what they mean because it has never happened before in recorded history, and all theories are just that: theories. I encourage you to do your own research before coming to any assumption, and do not panic about the ‘approaching disaster, â€ because there is not necessarily anything to be worried about. You do, I’m sure, remember the same mass hysteria about the supposed apocalypse in 2000, which never occurred.

I say all this simply so that you, the reader, may come to your own conclusions as to what the future may hold, and so that you know just what everyone is causing all the commotion about. I have listed as many Internet sources as possible so that you may further research them if you wish.

It is my personal feeling that December 21, 2012 will be a time of extraordinary power, a time when the veil between the worlds will be at its absolute thinnest. The Great Rift in the center of our galaxy has always been symbolic of the creative power of the Goddess, the ‘Great Womb, so to speak. The fact that the Sun, the symbol of the Lord, The Great Rift, a symbol of the Lady, and our Earth will be aligned will have a significant meaning magickally. There will never be a better time in our lives to perform magick of all types especially that of the divinatory type.

I do feel like it is a significant milestone in the history of human kind, and that, for those of us who are enlightened and willing, it is the perfect time to reach the maximum of our potential. Being a time of great power, it is also a time when we can make a powerful commitment to change things, both within and without, and to decided just where it is we want to go with our lives. Any energies set to work during this rare alignment are going to have extraordinary results, so why not use this as a time to heal the Earth, and with it, all of mankind. The Maya knew that this would be a time of immense power, and both feared and respected it.

We have a great thing here on our planet, and we too often take even the air we breathe for granted. The gifts we have received from the Universe have been greater than we could ever ask for, and it is time now to realize that. I am not convinced that 2012 marks the end of our world, but I certainly hope it marks a great change within the heart of mankind. We must learn to be grateful for all that we have; our lives and this astoundingly beautiful planet, or we might as well have never been here. I hate to say it, but if by some chance the world truly does end in 2012, I am just glad that I’ve had the blessing of spending this life on this beautiful planet. If it doesn’t end, I hope we all do our very best to be more appreciative; we have a good thing going on here, and we get too caught up in the daily grind of things to realize it sometimes.

While I do not feel that the world is truly about to end, I do think that we need to start living as though the end of the world were today, because it very well could be. We have never been guaranteed any amount of time here, and should view every second, the good and bad, as a gift. If we could truly follow ‘In perfect love and perfect trust, â€ and have that love and trust towards ourselves and our fellow man, we would truly be making the absolute best of our time here.

As the great Henry David Thoreau said:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Let us learn all that we can in this life so that when the end comes, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that we have done something that few ever have: Truly lived. If we can say in all honesty that we have lived a full life, then we cannot possibly grieve at its ending. We were lucky even to have one day here, let alone an entire life of loving, laughing and learning! The Great Cycle will continue eternally and we are all but small parts of the infinite cycle. When we embrace the entire cycle, life, death, and rebirth, then there is absolutely nothing to fear.

Nothing is ever truly destroyed, simply changed; and change, my friends, is a very good thing. Embracing change is embracing life.

Blessed Be,
Fayte Ravencraft

Footnotes:
Interview with NASA Solar Scientist

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/sthttp://www.witchvox.com/vu/fms/farticle.htmlory.php?storyId=128268488

http://www.interestingfacts.org/fact/2012-interesting-facts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4JuoBD56HQ