Doomsday

The Mayan Calendar comes to a screeching halt in the year 2012. Or does it? Many archaeologists, scientists and philosophers have been studying the Mayan Calendar over the last several years, driven in part by the supposed apocalyptic ending of the calendar, and the fears that it may signal the end of humanity.

The Mayan Calendar is a calendar of creation. There is no doubt that the Mayan Calendar comes to an end in the very near future. However, the end of the calendar is October 28, 2011. How do we know this? Archaeologists discovered a stone at the ancient site of Coba in the Yucatan. When they raised the stone, they discovered that carvings on the stone showed the creation date of the Mayan Calendar. When the carvings were translated they found the start date of the most recent period and could then extrapolate the ending date more accurately.

Even though the Mayan Calendar has an ending date, nothing about the Calendar or the Mayan prophecies points to humanity's demise. On the contrary, it may actually point to our return to the recognition of our purpose here on earth and the destiny to which we are evolving. As such then, the Mayan calendar is much more about our evolution than our destruction.

The Mayans actually used many calendars in their daily lives. The most important one they used is called the Tzolkin and is a 260 day calendar. Each day of the Tzolkin is assigned a number 1-13 called an intention and each day has a sun sign of which there are 20. 13 x 20 gives you 260 discrete days. The Mayan's would start their days by acknowledging the creative impulse of the day and would structure their day by that energy. Each person was then infused with the Intention and Creative Impulse of the day in which they were born. The calendar was so important to the Mayan's, that their first name was always the name of the sun sign of their day of birth!