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Vedic Astrology Predictions for 2012

My first prediction for the year 2012 is that the world will not end this year! Much needless anxiety has been created by the negative banter regarding the end of the Mayan calendar. This reminds me of similar predictions made 12 years ago about the coming millennium in the year 2000. Fear of Armageddon, Y2K, the end of times, all turned out to be a big bust, although many savvy Doom-Sayers capitalized financially on those fears with the inevitable hoarding for the coming end times. Sadly, few realized that the year 2000 was actually the year 1999 in the contemporary calendar. You see, the monk who divided history into BC and AD (Dennis the Little) was not an accomplished mathematician. He inadvertently left out the zero-year, and so the millennium actually fell on the very next year. Year 2001 in the Civil calendar!

In a similar spirit I am reminding all of you that the Mayan calendar was in fact not that great a calendar for the Mayans themselves, as their civilization ended well before their calendar did! Likewise, the current Civil calendar is no great marker of time either. Sadly, the Fall months of September, October, November, and December refer to the Latin prefixes seven, eight, nine and ten, yet they are respectively the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth months. They no longer are in alignment with their given names. Further, July and August each have thirty one days. Why? Simply because their egotistical namesakes, Julius and Augustus Caesar, robbed February so their months could be the longest! To appease February we give it an extra day every four years on Leap Year. Now add the modern delusion of Daylight Savings time and you will easily see how corrupted this current calendar really is.

Mathematical precision you can bank on? Hardly. It does suspiciously seem the same people who hijacked the financial sector and turned your everyday transparent Daylight Savings Bank into a dreaded Shadow Debtor Bank, have also hijacked our contemporary Daylight Civil calendar and turned it into a Shadow Corporate calendar so we no longer know what year, month, day, or for that matter, what time it really is. So, please tell me why we should trust the Mayan calendar, or the aforesaid Civil calendar to measure anything of time related importance, such as the end of the world?

The modern illusion that time is linear has created a belief that all time is equal, divided into equal weeks, months and years, ever marching forward to some fateful end.

The Sanskrit word for Vedic astrologer is Jyotishi. It comes from the Sanskrit "Jyotir," which means light. The ancient Indian calendar measures periods of light and dark, in recurring cycles. In fact, there are only two days of the year when light and dark are equal, and those days are the Spring and Autumnal Equinoxes. Equinox means equal, and only those two days of the year have that measure. The rest of the days are not equal, so get over that illusion once and for all that time is equal!

We Vedic astrologers view time as cyclic, from the root of the word circle, not from the root of the word linear. Yes, a tree appears to grow in a linear fashion straight toward the light, but it does so it in a series of circles, or rings in tree parlance. Life is a series of circles, moving into and out of the light, not a straight forward linear march to oblivion.

We are all dancing under the same Sun, and sleeping under the same Stars in a dark sky. Don’t be fooled into believing those late night, big city lights are really the Sun, and don’t for a minute believe that the enveloping darkness they momentarily distort is evil, something to be feared. Like most of you, I kiss my wife and children good-night, every night before they go to sleep, for the night is good, and the darkness rests and restores us all.

Time is nothing more than the endless circles of light and dark every year our planet circles the Sun, and every great year our Sun circles the grand central Sun. Like all of you, we Vedic astrologers measure the bright and dark parts of the day, the month, and the year based on the dance of light. The bright part of the year has already begun. The light part of the year will continue to grow until it reaches the brightest part of the year at the Summer Solstice, then cycle to the inevitable dark part of the year at the Winter Solstice, eternally completing the circle of time.

We Vedic astrologers merely personalize this truth, for in each of our lives we experience this cycle of light and dark. As Jyotishis, we examine and evaluate these cycles of the light and dark periods in the form of a personal calendar for each of our clients. Every cycle is appropriate for certain activities that are in alignment with that period of light or dark, and the wisdom of Vedic astrology is nothing more than our attempt to live rightly in accordance with the time that we have been given.

It can only be your time if you can claim it from the many false calendars that would have you believe your time is running out, and your world about to end. Let my time be your measure, not Mayan time, or any other.

As the often quoted refrain from the Book of Ecclesiates pointedly reminds us, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven."

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