It’s interesting that now that it’s 2012, we’re hearing none of the usual hype about 2012. Lately I feel like the last guy to get excited about it — but then I’m not predicting doom and gloom. You will have to look for that on other websites.
Ten pounds of bullshit in a five-pound sack -- 2012 is a year, not a movie.
As I go through the sign interpretations for the annual edition, getting an up-close look at the astrology, most days it seems like another year. Every year brings its challenges, its benefits, its advantages and its disadvantages. Yet for sure, there is something special in the air, when it comes to the aspects that are currently taking shape.
It appears, though, that we’re going to see what seems like a delay in the real aspects taking shape. That will in part be due to Mars retrograde in Virgo, which is like a systems check for when the energy fires up to full strength in May. And it comes on like a storm. If 2012 is about “everything, all at once,” as I described it two years ago, then May and June are when we see that in full blossom, like the flowers bursting into the atmosphere at the Botanical Gardens.
I am leaving the Mayan factor — date 13.0.0.0.0 mysteriously turning up on the Capricorn solstice of 2012 — as an X factor. I am not being specifically predictive about it, and I am holding open the space for what it might mean. It’s the big variable. We do have one fantastic article by the way in the resources area, an expose on the Mayan calender by a guy in Amherst, Mass., named Bruce Scofield.
More than any other article or book, this has influenced my thinking. Bruce observes, among other things, that while too much has been made of the Mayan Long Count calendar turnover, in fact it’s kind of amazing that they nailed one of the most dangerous, tenuous changes in human history so far that we know of.
