Georgia O’Keefe
Synchronicity – meaningful coincidence – is your GPS for 2012 and beyond. It’s the way the universe speaks to you, the language your unconscious uses to seize your attention, to guide you, warn you, and to offer confirmation and support for decisions that you make. In a world that is becoming more and more chaotic and seemingly disconnected, synchronicity allows you to see your way through 2012 and beyond so that you can flow with the changing times.
The hype about 2012 probably began in 1987, with The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, written by Jose Arguelles. In the book, he states that the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012. Since the Mayans were consummate astrologers and astronomers, his statement has rippled through space and time until it reached a tipping point. Google that date, December 21, 2012, and more than seven million links show up.
So let’s look at what’s actually happening astrologically, on that date. First, December 21, 2012 is the date of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. At either 11:11 GMT or 11:12 GMT (there seems to be some discrepancy about the exact moment) the sun is at 00 degrees Capricorn and touches the Dark Rift. In certain cosmologies – the Mayan, Aztec, Toltec and Olmec – the Dark Rift represents the cosmic womb. It’s a place of profound transformation, a place of both birth and death, regeneration, rebirth, it’s where we, humanity, came into being. This moment is when the Mayan calendar ends.
As the sun rises here , it will touch part of the Dark Rift that moves along the Galactic Equator. In ancient mythologies and cosmologies, this part of the night sky is associated with spiritual rebirth. Depending on who or what you read, this is either a unique event or business as usual. One thing is for sure. We are a planet and a people in flux.
We’re alive at a time when the structures that comprised the foundations of what we took for granted are no longer a sure thing. Nothing is guaranteed. Your pension, Social Security, pubic education, college grants, the safety of your food and water, job security, home ownership, the banking and insurance industries, the source of your electricity ….well, you get the idea here. Anything you relied upon in the past no longer works. Structures are collapsing, reinventing themselves, and struggling to rise from the ashes. Just look at politics in any country right now. Chaos.
Some institutions will survive in vastly different forms; other structures will be relegated to history. The war machine may survive for awhile, as will dictatorships that oppress most of the people so that a few people may flourish and profit. But in the end, even these institutions will collapse. The planet can’t sustain what it has become.
Science and religion can’t keep up with what individuals are experiencing. They don’t have the lexicon, the tools, they are locked in the past. They don’t know how to investigate, much less define, contactee and abduction experiences. They don’t know about planetary empaths. They can’t even figure out what psychic ability is and whether it exists. Most scientists (Rupert Sheldrake as the big exception here) consider animals to be dumb beasts who are on the planet to serve humans – and to be eaten by them
As a species, we’re developing new abilities to help us cope with change. Planetary empaths are one such tool. Synchronicity is another kind of tool to get us through what certainly looks like a paradigm shift.
While there are plenty of pundits who expound eloquently about why we should all become urban survivalists and grow our own food and install solar panels on our homes and stockpile silver and gold, there are an equal number of pundits who assure us this is just another cycle. Grit your teeth and get through it.
There’s wisdom in both viewpoints. I would love to install solar panels on our home and go off the grid. But because of the way the power companies in the U.S. are structured, solar panels – even in Florida – are prohibitively expensive. The bottom line would be far less expensive, but just getting those solar panels up there on the roof would mean we would have to stay in this house for another 10 or 15 years, and we’re not sure we want to do that. Our garden and fruit trees produce some wonderful heads of lettuce and broccoli, mangos, papayas, grapefruits, but it’s not enough to sustain us for any length of time. Our neighbors whisper about the End Times, our governor is a jerk, our senators are corrupt. So we become cogs in a wheel, struggling… and then synchronicity comes along and empowers us.
How? Well, let’s make it local. Tonight in Rob’s meditation class, we were doing a Zen meditation, eyes half open. My eyes shut – and I suddenly saw a corpulent man lumber into the room, nosily announcing that he had “issues.” Huh? I thought. What’s going on? Then I realized I was inside of a meditation and he might be a guide. In the next moment, he held a book in front of my face and stabbed his fat finger at a word or phrase I couldn’t read. It was like trying to read something in a dream, blurred, letters indistinct. He’s important, this weird guy, a purveyor of information. I just haven’t figured it out yet.
But I think this is how synchros work in these times of flux. They aren’t necessarily obvious or easy to understand. They require work on our part to interpret them – not always, but often enough so that we’re engaged, so that our attention is seized and we have to think outside the box to figure out what they mean.
So I’m looking for that corpulent guy in my dreams tonight. Tell me, Plump Man, Mr. Humpty Dumpty, what 2012 is really about. And how we can all get through the paradigm shift.
