The solstice gateways and the polar-to-solar shift.

"The ancient Mayan tradition, which is really congruent with Traditional sciences, reconstructs the traditional Mesoamerican wisdom and, in seeking an explanation for the Mayan calendar 2012 end-date, led to the precession and the alignments to the Galactic Center.

The Galactic Center is apparently one of the gateways in Vedic cosmology. The Galactic Center may well be considered to be the Hypercosmic Sun, the Well of Remembrance, the Sundoor at World’s End, the eye of the heart, the cosmic center, the Holy Grail, etc.

It is an academic and scholarly challenge to demonstrate how ancient metaphysicians and cosmologists — not to mention astronomers — had attached their eschatological doctrines to the rare alignment of solstice sun and galactic heart.

The alignment of the solstice sun on December 21, 2012 at 11:11 AM GMT with the galactic equator of the Milky Way, with the Galactic Center nearby.

The precessional movement of “the sun” closer to “the grand center” causes the full expression of a Golden Age of Light, a time indicated in Vedic and Hindu traditions as occurring a dozen or so millennia ago. As such, it must be the precessional motion of the June solstice sun around the grand center that is indicated, because the June solstice sun was “closest to” the Galactic Center roughly 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. This “closeness” is in terms of alignment (as viewed from earth), not distance.

In the year 2012 the Galactic Center is at 27 Sagittarius (within 3 degrees of the winter solstice). On the winter solstice of 2012, the Galactic Center will be rising heliacally just before dawn, in a way reminiscent of how the Maya observed Venus's last morningstar appearance.

This basically follows the "1 degree every 72 years" rule of precession. In this way, back in 3114 B.C. the sun conjuncted the Sacred Tree on Oct 10th, which is 72 degrees, or 1/5th of the ecliptic from the winter solstice.

The Fall Equinox sun conjuncted the Sacred Tree about 6400 years ago (1/4th of a precessional cycle). Ancient cultures in Mesopotamia may have recognized this alignment, and called it a Golden Age. The fall from this state of alignment may be responsible for the original Fall from Paradise myth, which filtered out to the Judaic tradition.

Where the Galactic Equator (not to be confused with Galactic Center) crosses the ecliptic in Sagittarius just happens to be where the dark rift in the Milky Way begins. This is a dark bifurcation in the Milky Way caused by interstellar dust clouds. To observers on earth, it appears as a dark road which begins near the ecliptic and stretches along the Milky Way up towards Polaris.

December 21, 2012. On that day, our sun will cross the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy, an event that only happens once every 25,800 years. December 21st, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Long Count) represents an extremely close conjunction of the winter solstice sun with the crossing point of Galactic Equator and the ecliptic, what the ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree.

At 11:11 AM GMT on December 21, 2012 A.D., the band of the Milky Way, whose center is called the Galactic Equator, and the ecliptic which can be seen by tracing a roughly horizontal path through the center of the chart of the planets, line up so that the sun is exactly in the center, which is often referred to as the Sacred Tree.

It is critical to understand that the winter solstice sun rarely conjuncts the Sacred Tree. In fact, this is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years.

For early Mayan / Mesoamerican skywatchers, the slow approach of the winter solstice sun to the Sacred Tree was seen as a critical process, the culmination of which was surely worthy of being called 13.0.0.0.0, the end of a World Age. The channel would then be open through the winter solstice doorway, up the Sacred Tree to the center of the churning heavens, the Heart of Sky.

An age may come to an end and be replaced by a new age where different realities are present. This transition from one age to another is often the subject of eschatological discussion. So, instead of "the end of the world" we may speak of "the end of the age" and be referring to the end of "life as we know it" and the beginning of a new reality. Indeed, most apocalyptic literature (and movies) do not deal with the "end of time" but rather with the end of a certain period of time, the end of life as it is now, and the beginning of a new period of time. It is usually a crisis that brings an end to current reality and ushers in a new way of living / thinking / being."

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The solstice gateways and the polar-to-solar shift