Have you considered your relationship with time?
There has been much speculation about the arrival of 2012, along with the conclusion of the Mayan Calendar. Everything from the end of the world, the Rapture and the second coming of Jesus, California dropping into the ocean, and the arrival of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and more, has been predicted. Judgment Day, supposedly an event in which all “chosen ones” move on into the Light, or heaven, and those less righteous ones are left behind to continue their bad behavior and suffer its consequences, is swiftly arriving, we are told. In some way or another, humanity has always sought ways in which to measure our lives. Down through the Ages, we have sought understanding of our relationship to the Earth, to God, to life itself, and this curiosity has driven both religion and science since the beginning of time. Although we have discovered much, and now stand on the brink of extraordinary breakthroughs in understanding our world, the cosmos, genetics, and physics of creation itself, we have yet to learn how to live peacefully and share the resources of one small planet circling one relatively tiny star in this universe.
Rather than “Judgment Day”, perhaps we shall have a “Graduation Day” that marks the time when children of the Earth realize our essential Oneness and learn to co-create constructively. Perhaps this is the reason for the device we call, “time”, in which we perceive events moving along a continuum in which we experience “cause and effect”. Will 2012 prove to be the year in which we awaken from our own illusions?
When the original Shift to Gregorian CalendarRoman Calendar (literally”Accounting Book”) was devised, the end of each month was the time when debts were paid, and each month was roughly synchronized to start with the arrival of a New Moon nearly every 29 days. September was considered the seventh month, October the eighth, November the ninth and December the tenth. February was considered the last month of the year. Since the Moon cycles every 29.53 days, the month of February alternated between 27 days and 23 days to approximate to a solar year. Julius Caesar, a Roman emperor, decided to make a “better” calendar, not
aligned with the Moon’s cycles, but with months of consistent length, and with the month of February having 28 days consistently, and 29-days for “Leap-years” every 4 years. He named what was considered to be the fifth month at that time (July) after himself in the process. With his new calendar, debts were paid on the first day of each month. During the Roman Empire, years were numbered in sequence from the founding of Rome, or sometimes according to the reign of Roman emperors. One day, Dionysius, (Dennis the Small), who was a monk living in what has become the 6th century, established the “0 AD, Anno Domini” aligned with what he calculated to be the time of Christ’s birth. We are presently living in 2012 AD. In the time of the early Roman dominance, there were many gods and goddesses, and five of the months were named after the deities or feasts honoring them. January, named after Janus, a god with two faces, one looking forward and one looking backward, gradually came to be considered the first month of each New Year.
In 1592, Pope Gregory’s mathematicians were able to establish that the Julian Calendar was about 11 days out of alignment with solar observations of the Spring Equinox, normally set to be on March 21st when the sun aligns exactly over the earth’s equator. So Pope Gregory set up a new “Gregorian Calendar,” which “skipped” those eleven days altogether. It took some time for his new calendar to be widely accepted outside the Roman Catholic Church, but most of the world uses it today. To this day, the date for the festival of Easter is calculated each year from a Lunar Calendar, but Christmas has settled in the solar calendar on December 25th, which had a rather bizarre pre-Christian origin as the festival of Saturnalia (December 17-25) that concluded with a human sacrifice. Within all of this, it is important to remember that the Universe keeps chugging along regardless of how we identify and record its movements, and we have our lives to live, regardless of how time is recorded. Time as we relate to it nowadays is mostly an invention that very loosely accords with natural cycles. What we are calling the year of 2012 is significant for each of us because the orbit of our little solar system is coming into alignment with what is called the “Dark Rift” in the equator of our rotating Milky Way Galaxy. The timing on this alignment event has been identified to be December 21st, 2012, a date that has also been recorded in the Mayan “Calendar.” The physical alignment of our solar system is not in itself anything that can trigger the “end of the physical world,” but it could trigger the “end of the world as we are accustomed to knowing it!” In Mayan cosmology, the Dark Rift is associated with spiritual awakening.
If you look back over the past few years, you will most likely appreciate a rapid acceleration in your life….that many of us are living right on the edge of a thin line between pressure and stress. Anything that lives in stress for too long is going to fail, and as long as we associate our lives with time, we are going to be subject to pressure and ultimately stress. Certainly, some of us are better at handling stress than others, but there are limits. When we align with our spirit nature, we are accepting of, and at peace with everything that happens in our life, because we are “at one” with it. When you learn about, and align your life with the Three Keys of your Human Design, you become aware of life approaching you in an entirely new way. You learn to respond to life according to your own inherent nature, which makes your life work masterfully and artfully well. When you make decisions according to your own Authority, you have the means to find understanding, have full clarification and make sense to your life’s journey. This frees your energy to be used constructively, allowing you to create your life in full alignment with your heart-and-soul truth. In this remarkable time in history, when the world is changing so rapidly, so many of the bits and pieces of life that we have relied on to steady us in our journey are undergoing shifts into other forms and realities. It has never been more vitally important for you to be “in charge” of, and at peace with the creation of your own life. Your Human Design gives you the means to recognize what has been going on in your life, as well as the means to know how to interact with life and relationships on your own terms, and from your own truth. This knowledge changes everything, and translates into deep personal fulfillment. We would love to show you, and coach you re-create your life. Will 2012 be your year to awaken to your inner truth? We are offering Training in Human Design in our Online Worldwide Human Design Training series commencing January 21st, 2012. If you want to see real change in your life, and learn how to help others effectively change their lives, you are invited to join us!
