I decided to keep a log of my own experiences during time between two fabled dates, 12.12.12 and 12.21.12, and then to add two more days as a gradual denouement of this time that so many had been looking forward to for the last 25 years — since Harmonic Convergence in August, 1987 — with dread or anticipation.
Either the world would end or it would begun, many thought. Or, of course, a more nuanced (and way more likely) view, the cycles would roll over and start up again.
But many people saw this time as an either/or, Doom or Ascension. And where you stood on the matter seemed to depend on where you stood in your life. Did you like your life, or not? Did you need to be “saved” from it, or would you rather just end it now, get it over with.
These were people who took these dates, especially the supposed the Jose Arguelles version of the Mayan Calendar End Date, 12.21.12, extremely literally as a magical 24-hour period when all would be changed in the blink of an eye.
Me? I stood aside from the fray and marveled, viewing this kind of thinking as yet one more brand of “fundamentalism” humans fall heir to in early stages of their evolution as truly conscious beings.
So here’s my process, chronologically, day by day, with an astrological preface:
On the Astrology of This Year’s Epochal 12 “Days of Christmas”: 12.12.12 – 12.23.12
“On the Morning of the First Day of Christmas”: 12.12.12
12.13.12: New Moon in Sagittarius, plus Uranus turns to go Direct!
Morning of Day 4 of 12 Days of Christmas, 2012: shootings, suffering, why oh why, and tonglen
December 21, 2012: first light swirling snow, cancelled plans, one earth, one voice
Afternoon of day after 12th day of “12 days of Christmas” 2012: Day trip to Angel Mounds with Steve
I like that you kept a log of your experiences from the two dates and have shared these. I followed Kristina Kaine commentary for the 12 days and she also had one for the 13th. see below.
The Baptism of Christ Aert de Gelder 1710
Now we come to the 13th Holy Night. On the first Holy Night we celebrated the birth of Jesus. This birth awakened the deep memory within us of who we really are. It meant that we could touch the purity of our being as we were before we ever incarnated into a physical body. We have carried this memory in our hearts through every incarnation on this earth. Twelve days ago we saw it lying there like a newborn.
Over these twelve days we have tended this tiny child, using our Imagination to nurture it, to give it life. Now we have arrived at the night when this child, that innocent memory within us, is ready to receive the Cosmic Christ. From the celestial sun on the wings of a dove comes this Christ we have yearned for through all the incarnations we have ever lived. Now Christ himself can be experienced in our being, this is our baptism, our Epiphany.
Do we really understand what it means to have the presence of the living Christ within us? On this night we have the opportunity to create a living Imagination of what this means to us. This journey over the last twelve days and nights, from Jesus to Christ, has changed us forever. We will carry it in our hearts through the twelve months of 2013.
Take Care
Jeff