Sunday, December 09, 2012

FlashPoint 2012


FlashPoint 2012
© Ken Kalb

What a miracle it is to be alive as the Big Wheel is making the turn on December 21, 2012. The galactic tide is now changing directions, ladies and gentleman, like the ocean tides do each day. If we are correct in our timing of this astounding fractal in the space-time continuum -- this is the final heartbeat of an age.  Mother Earth will have completed a full revolution through all 12 astrological ages of the 26000-year Great Year. The galactic compass is now pointing true North at the solstice stillpoint, and the shifting tide is opening the portal of infinite possibility. What crashes in ashes and rises from the remains will birth the life of our destiny’s offspring. Indicators and significators from numerous cosmologies -- most famously Mayan -- have signaled this change. And despite the plethora of both measured analysis and inflated or arcane hyperbole -- we can see it, we can feel it, and we simply just know it.

Or as Bob Dylan once sang, “ something is happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones.”

Of course the key to each of our individual responses to any intensified force field is our own evolution or vibration. And this portal seems to be empowering humans in diverse directions. At the highest level, perhaps this time represents a spiritual opportunity for a great evocation of the powers of the heart, an illumination of human genius, and a test of our incredible will to survive. Yet a broad spectrum of darker frequencies -- like visionless greed, the cancer of the soul -- are also boosted as endless war and the indiscriminate scramble for money and power are still the law of the Earth jungle. We are in a charged time of dichotomy where the miraculous and the miserable are evolving simultaneously side by side.

People all over the planet will be tuned in, and millions will be mobilizing according to their beliefs and passion in awe and anticipation of the auspicious moment. Meditate, sing, dance, laugh, hoop, drum, hug, kiss, make love, surf, get married, do something you love like there IS no tomorrow. Deep inside I muse about what could happen if we could only get everyone pulling together toward a higher vision. And lots of people of goodwill are, like the One Earth One Voice initiative (www.oneearth-onevoice.org).

And I imagine there are still those who think this Mayan end date encoded in temple stone is an actual end time, waiting for the walls to come tumbling down.  

Here are some musings and meanderings in light of this period of Flashpoint 2012.

 
Signs of a New Beginning: The 11:11 Code

Pythagoras once said, “all truth lies in numbers.” It is noteworthy that 12/21/2012 breaks down numerologically to 11 One’s. And 12/21/2012 is an 11 year. The number One -- first number after zero -- marks new beginnings, and 11 is the number of illumination. Interestingly, one’s and zero’s comprise the basis for all computer coding. So like the end point of the 13th and final baktun of the Mayan calendar, our own calendar seems to point to a certain odometric reset of the human timing frequency. But most mind boggling to me is the astronomical fact that Winter Solstice, 2012 occurs at precisely 11:11 AM Greenwich Mean Time -- the absolute time reference on our planet. “ Human and divine timing systems are certainly in sync.

 12-12-12

On the way, the calendar will mark the auspicious12/12/12, the last Gregorian number line up until 1/1/1 – January 1, 3001! Geometrically, the 12 is a three-dimensional Star of David, or Merkaba (light-spirit-body), the harmonic attunement module for human ascension. Twelve – like the 12 signs of the zodiac, the 12 of notes music’s chromatic scale, the 12 disciplines, the 12 sides of a Pyramid – is a mystical gateway number. And 12/12/2012 also carries the 11 resonance as it adds up to 11.

     
The Window and the Shift of the Ages

My 1995 book “The Grand Catharsis, An Astrolog of the Shifting Ages,” dubbed the period 1996 to 2012 The Window, or cusp period between the former Piscean and dawning Aquarian dispensations. This was based on a progression of planetary movements, boosted frequencies of galactic alignments, as well as the peak of the 11-year solar cycle -- all culminating around the Winter Solstice of December 21, 2012. All of these forces would accelerate the rate of change. The Aquarian Age would no longer just dawn, but rise … Awake. And the birth pangs during the next three years of the 7 dynamic square formations of planets Uranus the Awakener, and Pluto the Transformer -- as Earth enters the galactic alignment zone -- would mark a period of massive breakdowns and breakthroughs on virtually all levels.

                                        
Presto Chango

Between 1996 and 2015, Earth’s passage through this Galactic Alignment Zone -- namely the Winter solstice Sun with the Galactic equator -- has been accompanied by an escalation of etheric energy. Age “cusps” are also high-frequency zones, so the energy of Uranus -- key ruler of the new Aquarian Age -- is highly amplified. Uranus spins sideways to all of the other planets and its motion is retrograde -- likely caused by some cataclysmic cosmic collision. Zany Uranus also rules earth changes, revolution, innovation, and the very spark of evolution -- the mechanism of change itself. Its discovery in 1781 was concurrent with the discovery of electricity, as well as various political upheavals including the American and French Revolutions. The very day Uranus entered Aries on March 11, 2011, the massive 9.0 earthquake and terrible Tsunami tore up Japan. The squares with Pluto and Saturn have seen drastic transformation on many levels.

It seems that Uranian -- and really all evolutionary energies -- have been boosted during the Window period. We don’t have to be astrologers to see the proof of this Age shift. Consider how many people were connected to the internet before the Window opened, and the multitudes now plugged in. That would be a couple thousand compared to a few billion! Consider who had cell phones, and now who doesn’t. Before the Window opened you might have to use a pay phone! When I opened my yoga studio in the 80’s, people thought I was nuts. Now, it’s standing room only and there are studio’s everywhere, even like Bakersfield!

Amplified Uranian/Aquarian frequency is the inspired wizardry of the human mastermind, the mother of invention enchanting us with human genius-- like a quantum trampoline of technological innovation. Medical Science has cracked the genetic code, physics has found the Higgs Boson or God Particle, and astronomers have discovered life-enabling water throughout the planets of our solar system. In the Window, mail has transformed into email, books are now ebooks, cd’s are now downloads, retail is now etail. 25 years after the advent of the PC, over a billion humans walk around with a computer-phone as part of their hand capable of instantly connecting around the world. This acceleration of innovation is stretching human imagination in a force field so rapid, that anything is possible. Presto Chango!

Yet at the same time, darker frequencies with dimmer dispositions of this energy can also manifest as the madman or the terrorist, the cyber-criminal or mass-murderer.

                
Pole Shift or Bi-Polar Disorder

The poles will not shift geophysically on 12/21/2012, but there is indeed a polarity in human consciousness. On the one hand, many humans are awakening to the beauty of heart, the genius of mind and the divinity of our souls. On the other, the bulk of consensus reality makes our hearts explode. Corporations and governments are committing ecocide and threatening our very existence while denying it in the name of the Almighty dollar. They are draining the EarthBlood from our planet, darkening our sacred skies, modifying our food, poisoning our water and oceans, and murdering thousands of sacred species. This greed-fueled power drive is eviscerating our planet, and governments devote the bulk of our resources to the war machine. Every minute of the war in Afghanistan, for example, costs more than the average American earns in a year. There are 820 million chronically hungry humans on Earth and 20,000 children die of starvation every single day. Yet we throw enough food away each day to feed them all. As scripture notes, “Where there is no vision, the people perish …” 

We either change when things no longer work or when we are infused with inspiration. Evidence abounds. The 2012 election demonstrated that the US political system is ready for extinction. Global economies are only holding together by fancy financial sleight of hand, and continual kicks of the proverbial can down the road. The US economy dances over “the fiscal cliff,” which is just one hill in a massive mountain range of debt. If every one of the 7 billion people inhabiting Mother Earth put in a dollar, it would take 1500 Earthfuls just to pay off the government’s credit card. On and on. The true polarity is that the terrific and the terrible are now intertwined and living side by side.

                                         
Age of Miracles

At the same time, we know we have all the resources for healing, sustainability and peaceful existence at our disposal. Every moment we are reminded that love is the most potent force in the universe, that the human heart is capable of anything. We know we are all connected, not just on the internet, but on the Innernet of divine spirit. And the law of transformation tells us that every ending births a new beginning.

There have been many conscious attempts to gather people’s of goodwill together spark an awakening including Harmonic Convergence, GaiaMind, and my own effort sponsoring the LightShift initiative at the Millennium. I salute any and all efforts to come together and awaken, individually and collectively. I think true awakening is engendered through our conscious living and interaction during each moment of our lives. It would be awesome if we could make our changes through awareness, our service, and our actions. But it may take massive adversity to test, awaken, and motivate humanity to pull together -- perhaps even economic collapse, cataclysmic earth change, or world war! We thrive at the very precipice of all of these possibilities. And the Space Brothers are late for their date. Is it possible that humans are simply destined to live in a bubble of denial while we flash in earth’s pan before we perish? Good question.

The good news is that we are at our best when up against the worst, and resolution resides a step or two beyond despair. And Aquarius -- the Age of Miracles -- also rules friendship and the Brotherhood of Man. As Emerson once said, “friendship may be considered to be the masterpiece of nature.” Awakening can happen in a holy instant, and the Age is indeed shifting and the energetic tide turning. We are all involved in this catalytic period of great cleansing and global shift, with thousands of karmic and celestial cycles dining in the amplified fires of evolution. Spirit is empowering us to make bold and wise choices, live in service, and do good deeds. Humanity will eventually have to dig much deeper, shine far brighter, and pull more together. It is only in alignment that there is fulfillment. The world of the past is passing away right before our eyes. We dance through the changes with the heavenly arranging, as the crush of the past is transformed by the flush of the future. The doorway of change is always a bit strange, but it leads through the gateway of growth into the garden of our dreams. And the magic sparkle in our children’s eyes tells me their story is long and strong, and their will to live is summoning a future. Conscious souls will just need to keep digging, praying, shining, and glowing in the dark through this highly charged portal of Flashpoint 2012 -- giving birth to the miracle.

This is a translation of an article originally written for an Italian metaphysical magazine.

Ken Kalb is an astrologer and author of several books including The Grand Catharsis: An Astrolog of the Shifting Ages, LightShift 2000: Let’s Turn on the Light of the World, La Nueva Luz del Milenio, 21st Century Goddess Calendar, and hundreds of articles. Websites include www.luckystarz.com, www.lightshift.com, www.electricstar.org . His email is birth2012@aol.com



Thursday, November 29, 2012

Mayan Calendar Cliff Notes ...


What is the short story of the Mayan calendar? On Dec. 21, 2012, it will display the equivalent of a string of zeros, like the odometer turning over on your car, with the close of something like a millennium. In Maya calendrics, however, it's not the end of a thousand years. It's the end of Baktun 13. The Maya calendar was based on multiple cycles of time, and the baktun was one of them. A baktun is 144,000 days: a little more than 394 years.
The Mayan Calendar website cites renowned Mayanist scholar Sir J. Eric Thompson to the effect that the baktuns do not end after a cycle of 13, but keep going—20 baktuns make apiktun; 20 piktuns make a kalabtun; 20 kalabtuns make a kinichiltun; 20 kinichiltuns make analautun. (A tun, the Maya word for stone, was basically a year—360 days, so named for the ritual erecting of stones to mark the passing years. A baktun was 400 tuns: 144,000 divided by 360 = 400. A piktun is therefore 8,000 tuns, and so on.) So, obviously, the Mayan "Long Count" that began ticking in 3114 BCE will keep going for many, many centuries into the future.

Saturday, November 03, 2012

Presidential Astrology Basics

Below are the Astrological basics for the Presidential and VP candidates:

Barack Obama

Sun -- Leo
Moon -- Gemini
Rising -- Aquarius

Mercury -- 2 Leo
Venus -- 2 Cancer
Mars -- 22 Virgo
Jupiter -- 1 Aquarius
Saturn -- 25 Capricorn
Neptune -- 8 Scorpio
Pluto -- 7 Virgo 
N.Node -- 27 Leo

Mitt Romney

Sun -- 21 Pisces
Moon -- 27 Scorpio   (conjunct Jupiter 27 Scorpio!)
Rising -- 1 Gemini

Mercury -- 14 Pisces
Venus -- 8 Aquarius
Mars -- 6 Pisces
Saturn -- 2 Leo
Neptune -- 10 Libra
Pluto -- 17 Gemini
N.Node -- 5 Gemini

Joe Biden

Sun -- 27 Scorpio
Moon -- 1 Taurus
Rising -- 3 Sagittarius

Mercury -- 21 Scorpio
Venus -- 28 Scorpio
Mars -- 12 Scorpio
Jupiter -- 25 Cancer
Saturn -- 10 Gemini
Uranus -- 2 Gemini
Neptune -- 1 Libra
Pluto -- 7 Leo
N.Node -- 0 Virgo 

Paul Ryan

Sun -- 9 Aquarius
Moon -- 24 Leo
Rising -- 1 Sagittarius

Mercury -- 15 Capricorn
Venus -- 10 Aquarius
Mars --3 Aries
Jupiter -- 5 Scorpio
Saturn -- 2 Taurus
Neptune -- 1 Sagittarius  (on his Ascendant!)
Pluto -- 7 Capricorn
N.Node-- 26 Scorpio   (conjunct Romney's Moon/Jupiter conjunction!)




Thursday, November 01, 2012

President Chosen by One Person!


Presidential Election Decided by One Woman!

Did you ever think that One Woman would decide the Presidential Election of 2012? After a hundreds of thousands of radio and television commercials, millions of column inches, billions of dollars and tweets, the leader of the free world is being chosen by a single person. First, a hurricane delayed the Republican National Convention at the end of August. Then, the Sandy disaster became the October Surprise. Global warming, karmic law or random chance? I don’t know, but it appears she wants the candidate who believes in Climate Change. Do not mess with your Mama! Mother Nature has chosen the President!



Saturday, June 02, 2012

The Illumination of Venus


 
Venus Illuminations

© Ken Kalb

For 7 hours from about 3pm (pdt) Wednesday, June 5th, 2012, Venus will prance visibly across the face of our Sun. Though only appearing as a tiny dot against the blazing Sun, let’s pay attention to the internal energy and this cycle in our own lives -- as it won’t happen again until 2117.  In the rhythmic dance of the heavens, these Venusian “occultations” have reoccurred in repeating sequences of 8, 121 1/2, 8 and 105 1/2 years through time. The last six Venus events happened in 1631, 1639, 1761,1769, 1874, 1882, 2004 and now in 2012, and are only possible in early December and June when her orbital nodes cross the Sun.

A key for each of us is to look at the period between June of 2004 and this current event. This 8-year window frames a Venus cycle in each of our lives. What particularly is happening in your relationship realm?

A New Venus: a fast past forward

Astrologically, Venus is making a conjunction with the Sun. In astrology, the conjunction is the most powerful of aspects, blending and magnifying the archetypal qualities of the planets involved. Each month, the New Moon gives us a refresher course on conjunction energy as she merges with the Sun – initiating a new cycle. Similarly, Venus conjuncting the Sun can be called a “New Venus.” And since Venus is both conjunct the Sun and visible during this “occultation,” Venusian energy is more conscious, amplified and powerful. However, she is also retrograde and eclipsing, so patterns from the past may be illuminated to help us build bridges into the future.
Venus will be right in the middle of the mutable air sign Gemini, the twins. Gemini bridges the vast polarities of human consciousness. Waving backward then forward in a rare retrograde, she will be moving like a windshield wiper across the Sun right after the full Moon lunar eclipse on June 4th, then again at the next new Moon on July 19tt. The ethers should be very juiced with Venusian nectar all spring and summer. Is it perhaps mating season for the soul? Or will the sprightly Geminian energy make for mating in the moment?

At the Essence

Venus is the ruler of peace and love, relationships and the energy of attraction and desire. She rules culture, dance, music and the arts, money, prosperity and wealth, beauty, social attitudes, and nurturing -- as well as the principles of harmony, balance and justice. I am grateful God placed Venus in our solar system, for Venus is the planet of gratitude itself and appreciation. She represents our values -- what we align with and what we are deeply thankful for. The life of our party.

Funny Money

Yes, Venus rules money, and money is funny. Money is the common currency of exchange on planet Earth, and in and of itself, is a simple medium of exchange for goods and services. The root of the word currency is current, and like energy itself, its basic principle is flow -- just like love. But the money thing on Earth has gotten way whacked out of balance. Like the saying goes, "all sorts of evils grow out of the love of money," and the indiscriminate scramble for wealth and power on planet Earth seems to be causing humanity’s demise. The Martian power drive over money has manifested in a culture of greed.  And greed is the cancer of the soul, with an epidemic reaching a level where it may only be an eventual system collapse and transformation where we find our very survival. The Venusian archetype reminds us that this universe is in perfect balance and will eventually return. We have the power to live our own lives in balance.

Venus the Lover

Mysterious Venus represents the feminine principle, the Goddess archetype, the anima, or internal creative source.  The brightest star in the sky, our sister planet rises as Morning Star and sets as the Evening Star. Yet the planet’s surface is shrouded in mysterious clouds, perhaps representing the feminine mystique.

Of course, both male and female genders have Venus in their cosmological makeup.

In mythology, Venus was Aphrodite, goddess of love and mother of Cupid, god of love.
Aphrodite was quite the sexual enigma. She had many lovers -- gods like Ares, men like Anchises --  and later was both Adonis’ lover and his surrogate mother. And as the mythological story goes, Aphrodite was born when Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam arose Aphrodite. Simply stated, Venus is a Mars magnet. As in the myth of Eros and Psyche, Venus is the initiator and Mars the activator.

2012: The Evolution of Tomorrow

The Venus transit comes at the threshold of an Earth-shaking 3-year cycle of  intensified shift as Uranus and Pluto make 7 grandly cathartic square formations.

Of course, the key to each of our individual responses to any intensified force field is our level of evolution or "vibration." At an evolved level, perhaps this time represents a spiritual opportunity for a great evocation and illumination of the powers of the heart: A grand remembrance and awakening of the eternal feminine or goddess energy within the collective psyche of humanity.

We are all involved in a catalytic period of great cleansing and global shift, with Spirit empowering us to make bold and wise choices. Thousands of celestial and karmic cycles are dining in the fires of evolution, and cataclysm is often the engine of planetary evolution. What crashes in ashes and rises from the remains will create the world of our tomorrow. May the amplified venusian rays spray peace in our lives and on Earth.

The Venus return is a wonderful opportunity to make a deep wish upon our brightest star as it passes across the life-giving Sun.

Ken is an author and professional astrologer
Birth2012@aol.com

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Sunspot Peak 2012

There have been many studies linking solar activity with terrestrial seismicity. The recent flurry of activity may find it's connection in the current Saros Cycle 24.

Sunspots are regions of the solar surface that are darker and cooler than their surroundings. Caused by fluctuations in the intense magnetic field that surrounds our closest star, sunspot activity increases and decreases on an 11-year cycle. Intense sunspot activity brings with it solar storms. , events where charged particles stream off the surface of the sun, with the potential to wreak havoc with our planet's upper atmosphere. During solar storms, satellites can be damaged, power transmission can be disrupted and the skies light up with auroras. There are also links between sunspot activity and climate. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, have used a new model of the sun's interior to refine predictions of future sunspot activity. By using data going back over a century, the scientists were able to determine that the sun's magnetic field has a memory of around 20 years. This model was able to predict the past six cycles with around 97 percent accuracy, and has led to revised predictions about the next cycle, number 24. According to Mausimi Dikpati, one of the physicists who gave a press conference yesterday, the next sunspot cycle will be between 30 and 50 percent stronger than the current cycle, with a peak in activity in 2012. Armed with a six year warning, mission planners at NASA, satellite controllers and engineers in the power industry ought to have ample time to take this looming danger into account.

Jethro Tull 1674-1741

Jethro Tull invented the seed drill (in 1701), the horse-drawn hoe, and an improved plough. Tull was educated at Oxford, England where studied law, he later studied agriculture during his travels across Europe. Jethro Tull inherited land in the southern part of England where he put into practice his study of agriculture. His seed drill would sow seed in uniform rows and cover up the seed in the rows. Up to that point, sowing seeds was done by hand by scattering seeds on the ground. Tull considered this method wasteful since many seeds did not take root. The first prototype seed drill was built from the foot pedals of Jethro Tull's local church organ. Jethro Tull was part of a group of farmers who founded the Norfolk system, an early attempt to apply science to farming. In 1731, Jethro Tull published "The New Horse Houghing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation".