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• Cosmic Convergence: May 20th's Ring of Fire and Its Connection to December 21st 2012

  Excerpts from my latest article on the cosmic significance of May 20th, and its annular eclipse. 

  I also relate a very fascinating story about the pyramid of Quetzalcoatl (Kukulkan) and the rare astronomy that took place above the pyramid on May 20th as well.

  And as the title suggests May 20th has a strong connection to December 21st 2012.

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  May 20th has been talked about a great deal because there is a rare and spectacular annular eclipse on that day. However, few know that May 20th is astronomically significant for another reason, but we will not be able to witness that event because it happens during the day time. Though the story behind the unseen astronomical event of May 20 is no less fascinating. May 20th is also closely related to December 21st, 2012.

  Convergence is a prevalent 2012-Mayan Calendar theme. In fact 2012-MC was introduced to the world via Jose Arguelles’ 1987 Harmonic Convergence event in which thousands of people around the world gathered at places of high reverence. The event was a response to Jose’s clarion call to come together on behalf of a greater vision for the future of earth and her inhabitants. The dating of the event was not astronomically reckoned. Arguelles chose the dates based on closure of an obscure “prophecy cycle” known as the prophecy of the 13 Heavens and the 9 Hells. Twenty-two 52 year cycles supposedly came to a close on August 16th, 1987.

  Calendrics is largely an astronomically based science, but very little is known about the origins and basis of the 1144 year prophecy cycle. Whatever its origins we do at least know that the end of the prophecy cycle was indeed accompanied by a rare astronomical event known as a Grand Trine. A Grand Trine is at least 3 planets arranged in a triangular pattern. Depending on the source anywhere from 6 to 8 planets were involved in an uncommon triangular configuration on those two days.

  Was it yet another coincidence that the world’s first globally scaled ritual gathering was accompanied by a gathering of planets? Probably not, and it’s also probably not just a coincidence that the year 2012 is host to a convergence of several rare astronomical events. This article is going to focus on the May 20th event. I will do a follow up article on 2012’s other significant astro events. []

  The Significance of May 20th I will not be presenting his argument in this article. But I do offer another rational as to why May 20th is the best candidate for a zenith based zero date.”] Traditional mainstream Maya scholars will acknowledge the end of the 5125 year Long Count Cycle of 12/21/12.

  But John Major Jenkins, a highly regarded independent researcher has brought to our attention that Mesoamerica’s two dominant cultures, the Maya and the Toltecs, were tracking a much larger cycle known as precession. The earth has three well known cyclical movements. Its spin which gives us the day cycle. Its orbit around the sun and the tilt of its axis which gives us the seasons.

  A fourth and little known motion is called precession, and it results from a slight wobble that may be liked to the wobble of a spinning top. The wobble is so slight that it wasn’t discovered until around the end of the 1st millenium BCE (before current era). The earth’s precessional movement affects the relative position of the night’s stars such that it takes 70.56 years for a star to shift its position in the sky forward in time by one day. A stars position in the sky also changes such that over time any star will be in a different part of the night sky. The Greek astronomer Hipparchus noted precession around 148BCE.

  Jenkins is confident that the Long Count (LC) cycle was developed to track precession. The first recorded LC date was made in 36BCE. So it would appear that precession was discovered in both hemispheres at about the same time. Jenkins also claims that the Teotihuacan based Toltec culture was also tracking precession via another method involving the zenith, the sun and the Pleiadian star cluster.

  Jenkins refers to the Toltecan method as the Zenith Cosmology and the Mayan as the Galactic Cosmology. [The upper portion of this article treats ideas that are expressed in greater detail in the lower portion where I interject an excerpt from the book I am working on] According to Jenkins the Toltecan method gives us May 20th, 2012 as a zero date for the precise end and start date of a new world age cycle. I would say that Jenkins plus the Toltecan method gives us May 20th since the Toltecan method does not offer a precise date.

  But rather an alignment period spanning some 200 years according to Jenkins. By using a different alignment criteria I arrived at May 19th and I narrowed the zone of alignment down to 195 years using astronomy software (Starry Night). I am not saying that my alignment criteria is better than Jenkins. It only reveals another very interesting and affirming synchronicity. I believe that my contributions affirm Jenkins’ May 20th hypotheses. [ read entire article]

  05/24/12