Are we aligned with the “Galactic Center” Yet?


Winter solstice

Hi folks.

I see and hear you out there, flooded with constant torrents of (mis)information and unable to find the needle of truth in the haystack of hype and hysterics. I feel for you, as they say. So I’ll take a little time out of my morning to try to explain a few things to you.

If it makes you pay more attention, consider this a message channeled from the Pleiades (Krttika) to you.

First, dig this:

The concept of a “galaxy” is relatively new. It’s not new compared to iPhone 5 and Nintendo wii.u, but compared to the history of astrology, human civilization, etc, its about as new as you get, as new as the iPhone 5, yes. The idea of a “galactic center” is brand new. Its not something in the Wikipedia of any ancient culture, Mayan or otherwise. So, its not something that would play a role in any ancient prediction.

So far so good? Let that sink in a little bit, then proceed…

The Sun moves through the stars every day. If we measure the complete circle as having 360 degrees, the Sun moves almost one degree every day. So that means in a year, about 360 days, the Sun has aligned with every single point in the heavens. In other words, wherever this “galactic center” might be, the Sun “aligns” with it at least once a year, every year, since the beginning of “time.” In other words, “galactic alignments” (a newly made up term, by the way) happen every year.

Still OK? Getting ready to throw away your tin-foil cap? :)

Alright, but this year – *****2012**** – is special, right? Because the winter solstice aligns with the galactic center. (BTW, the “winter solstice” in this context means the position of the Sun relative to the stars on December 21st, the Sun’s most southerly point in its yearly journey around the equator).

Right?

No.

There is a long span of years – decades – during which the winter solstice “aligns” with this new-fangled “galactic center.”

Well, isn’t that exciting – to be in the middle of those years!?

No, why should it be?

But it only happens every 26,000 years!

Lots of astrological things only happen every 26,000 years. In fact the astrological alignments of each and every minute of each and every hour of each and every day of each and every month of each and every year only happens once in the entire cycle of time.

English: Inti Raimi, the festival of winter so...

English: Inti Raimi, the festival of winter solstice and the beginning of the year (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

But folks get hyper about Mayan calendars  The span of time covered by the Mayan calender ends during the period of time that the winter solstice is “aligned” with the “galactic center.”

Yay, except (a) calenders end all the time, (b) the Mayans didn’t live in a universe with galaxies in it, much less a galactic center. So what’s the big deal, exactly? And (c) why are the Mayan’s suddenly the new Nostradamus?

I used to laugh at fanatical Christians expecting the return of Jesus Christ. Shortly after he died, people started saying he was coming back. When he didn’t show up, they postponed the date. And he missed that one too, so they postponed again. And this just kept on going for 2,000 years. Now its a little bit out-of-fashion to say “Jesus” (at least in metropolitan areas), so now it gets repackaged with “Mayans” and “Astrology” – but its the same bullshit. (With all respect to Christ himself, I am calling the zealots expecting his immanent return, and subsequent apocalypse, to be lunatics. Christ himself gets all my respect)

Why are people interested in all this crap?

No, seriously, this is the really interesting part… Why are people interested in all this crap about the world ending?

Because their lives suck.

They want, need, a big dramatic end, a big dramatic change, because their lives suck and their nations suck, and their world sucks.

So they are just foaming at the mouth for an apocalypse  Just bring us an apocalypse and we are yours forever. We just want a freakin’ apocalypse already damn it, we don’t even care anymore if it comes from Christ or an “Indian”. End this freaking world – we don’t even care if it comes from a green Martian in a Flying Saucer UFO. We just need a fix – a goddamned break from this numbingly cold, boring, repetitious, meaningless pile of shit that we soak in day in and day out.

Well guess what, everyone – the world sucks because we suck.

It doesn’t suck because of alien lizards from Planet Z.

It doesn’t suck because something is fucked up in the stars.

It doesn’t suck because of a secret society.

It doesn’t suck because of your government.

It doesn’t suck because of your parents.

It doesn’t suck because of God.

It sucks because we suck – because after all, the world is nothing except us.

If my world sucks, its because I suck, and that is good news because I can actually change myself.

Stop asking Jesus Christ to send UFOs to pick you up from the top of a Pyramid a little bit after Y2K to rescue you from your humdrum existence. Just sit down in your room, be quiet, be still, stop listening to the tsunami of bullshit broadcast over the Internet, TV, and magazines. Shut your eyes. Sit up straight. Breath deeply. Calm your mind. Focus on your heart, and FEEL THE DIVINE in your heart. Commune with that divine every day, and your life will transform from black and white to technicolor.

You completely have it in your power to cause your own personal “apocalypse” and restart your world in a transcendental way RIGHT NOW. Stop asking someone else to be your savior, and save yourself.

Thank you.

The transmission from the Pleiades ends here, “my dear ones.” ;)

- Vic DiCara

www.vicdicara.com

Tired of 2012

Tired of 2012

A modern pictogram of the Mayan god Ahau, afte...

Image via Wikipedia

There are no “planets aligning with the milky way”. You are falling prey to pop astrology! ;) The milky way is ALL OVER the sky. Now, as for the CENTER of the milky way – we don’t know where it is. We know it is roughly between Sagittarius and Scorpio in the zodiac. Winter solstices for MANY MANY years now have been and will be occuring when the SUN is in this region of the Zodiac. I guess you could call this an “alignment with the galactic center” if you want – but thats really stretching it. It is not “planets” aligning with the galactic center – it is one planet, the Sun. And the alignment doesn’t happen “on” 12/21/2012, it is going on for many years during the winter solstices previous to 2012, during 2012 and after 2012.

The hubub about 12/21/2012 is NOT really because of some glactic alignment shebang. It is because a very long cycle of the Mayan Calendar ends (as best as we can translate it) on that date. This makes for a great movie (well, not really…) and is nice for the imagination, but what it really boils down to is that ancient civilizations like Mayan and Vedic and others had time spans for counting very long durations of time. We count years. Great ancient civilizations counted Epochs as well as years. The Mayan Calendar has the end of a “long count” (translate: epoch) occuring on 12/21/2012. It’s not the end of the world, its the end of an epoch.

Is it going to be the beginning of a “New Age“? That would be swell for all the “New Age”‘ers, wouldn’t it? Well yes, lets be open minded and say that it IS the beginning of a new age. Does that mean some dramatic changes are happening on 12/21/2012? No! Its the beginning of a AGE, ages are huge, long periods of time. Even if they change very quickly relative to their length, the transition period between them must be at least a few hundred years, right?

So what is going to happen on 12/21/2012??? Frankly you have been watching it happen since about 1965 when stuff started getting totally upside down and going nuts. Similar stuff will keep happening for a few decades. After that will the world be a better place. I sure hope so. I sort of doubt it, though – being realistic. But, But, But there is one prophecy I put stock into. It is a Vedic prophecy, not really a Mayan one – but perhaps (perhaps) they are linked. A short time after the appearance of a Vishnu incarnation in India (which happened about 500 years ago) there should be a 10,000 year (roughly) “golden age” where human society enjoys a respite from materialism and gets unprecedented access to spiritual bliss and enlightenment.

Still, be that as it may, there is a hardcore punk band whose words are also “prophetic” to some extent. They wrote a song called “World Peace.” In it they explained that this material world will ALWAYS be the material world. Groovy deals here are going to be short lived and less than what you hope for, always, at best. Dig it.

- Vic DiCara

www.vicdicara.com