2012 Secrets Unlocked

The Maya and 2012

The date December 21st, 2012 was very significant to the Maya. They believed that it will be the Earth's final day. The Maya claimed that this future end-time could include a catastrophic magnetic pole reversal of the planet Earth, a solar shift, a Venus transit and mounting earthquakes, among other catastrophes. However, the Maya did not actually claim that the year 2012 would mean the end of the world - perhaps just the end of an age, with a new one beginning afterwards.

The Mayan calendar is widely recognized as the world's most accurate calendar. Its precision is said to be so exact that it needed to be adjusted by only one day every 380,000 years! But, with a specific end-date included, along with so many other accurate predictions of events made hundreds of years before they occurred, many people of many different faiths are starting to wonder what lies in store for them on that day.

Incredibly, the Maya understood that our world turned, but they also knew that it was only a part of a larger solar system that moved independently through our galaxy. This end-date of the Long Count Calendar in 2012 marks the coming of a truly rare cosmic event that will occur when this precession of the equinoxes positions our solar system in the very center of our galaxy when Earth will cross the ecliptic path of the sun.

Everyone is talking about what will happen on this date, however, not everyone is looking forward to it with the same set of expectations. For some, 2012 hints at a coming apocalypse or a time when the world will be cast into the flames of war and disease. More optimistic views believe that, as the Maya claimed, we would begin to experience some form of spiritual awakening, perhaps initiated by some cosmic event or compelling miracle. But, we have no way of knowing for sure what effects these cosmic events will have on Earth, as the last time an alignment like this took place was over 150,000 years ago!