Thread: Galactic Alignment 2012, Nostradamus, Mayan Calendar, Armageddon

Originally Posted by Show-me

Galactic Alignment 2012, Nostradamus, Mayan Calendar, Armageddon.

Sounds like a fun topic and I have been watching the History Channel's Armageddon Week.

The word Armageddon originates from what region of the world?

What is "the middle East, Alec? From the Hebrew Har Meggido (sp), meaning Hill of Meggido, if I remember right.

My spouse is a 2012 nut.

Lady

Har-Megiddo, 'the hill of Megiddo', Megiddo (Hebrew: מגידו‎) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo,

Intersting stuff, Show-Me. I've been watching pretty intently also. Pretty simple and mechanical concepts. The galaxy is a big clock.

Is there an Alignment between the Galactic Equator and the Sun at Winter Solstice 2012?:
No.
In fact there is an alignment between the Sun and the Galactic Equator at the time of Winter Solstice, but it has already happened. It happened back in 1997 [21st December 1997 AD 14h 43m GMT]. So, if the Maya did go through the sequence of the argument given above, their astrological predictions were out by some 15 years. [Which actually would be pretty good, seeing as they didn't have computers or astrological software to help them.]


So the good news is if you were in any way worried about what might astrologically happen in 2012, don't worry: it already happened back in 1997.

That is a dang good error rate considering they used sticks and rocks. LOL There is a window and the Sun in still in the plane of the Galactic Equator.

They had Aliens helping them..

Originally Posted by Buster

They had Aliens helping them..

I completly forgot about the Aliens!

Looks like people have different views on when the galactic alignment occurred/will occur, because the amount of arc the sun is in relation to the center of the galaxy is just a small measurement.

http://www.gaiamind.org/whynot2012.htm

Why Now, I thought the solstice point didn't align with the galaxy until 2012?

Different astronomical computer programs apparently give slightly different results. The main reason I point to the solstice alignment with the galaxy this year (1999) is that the extraordinary Full Moon aligns with the galactic equator this year. The precessional movement of the 26,000 year cycle, or Great Year, is so slow that it is impossible to make any meaningful claim as to when it is exact without knowing exactly where the center of the galaxy is -- perhaps to greater precision than we can measure. The difference of twelve years between 2012 and now amounts to 10 minutes of arc. To put this in perspective, the difference between the axis of the exact Full Moon this year, and the axis of the exact solstice at zero degrees Capricorn and Cancer, is 24 minutes of arc. The Sun travels slightly less than one degree per day. There are 60 minutes of arc in a single degree and by convention any astrological alignment within less than a degree is called exact.

Jim Fournier

In Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 (Bear and Co., 1998) John Major Jenkins does admit in a number of places that the end of 1999 is the real moment of the solstice/galaxy alignment, not 2012. (see p. 114 and appendix 1). Most interesting, I think, is that because the sun is 1/2 degree wide, it has been and will be occulting the solstice/galaxy intersection point at the moment of the solstice for 36 years! (1999 is the mid-point of this period of occultation, when the exact center of the solar disc lies on the galactic equator at the moment of the solstice.) So this solar passage over the galactic equator (what you could call a "galactic eclipse") actually began in 1982 and will continue until 2018, with "totality" occurring now (Dec 1999)!

David Ulansey

Originally Posted by Show-me

I completly forgot about the Aliens!

How dare you forget about our friendly neighbors?

Originally Posted by fabijo

How dare you forget about our friendly neighbors?

They just never come to visit like they use to.

Originally Posted by Show-me

Galactic Alignment 2012, Nostradamus, Mayan Calendar, Armageddon.

Sounds like a fun topic and I have been watching the History Channel's Armageddon Week.

The word Armageddon originates from what region of the world?

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Originally Posted by Show-me

They just never come to visit like they use to.

We're here, you just don't often see us...