Mother Earth

Mother Nature or Mother earth is a metaphorical expression for the Earth & its biosphere as the giver & sustainer of life. The Ancient Greek word Gaia was the primal Greek goddess personifying the Earth. Man is coming close to a tipping point wherein we could totally destroy our world unless we make some changes. It won't happen over night; however, there could come a point of no return soon.

Some think the answer lies in the rise of the feminine spirit.

James Enredy, a spiritual guide, has written extensively about this in his book Beyond 2012. He carries on conversations with Earth Spirit Nakawe (Grandmother Growth). I'm not sure I can relate to that nor his conversations with Fire Spirit Tataiwari (Grandfather Fire), but neither am I ready to write it off as fantasy. Let the mythological stories abound! They're the glue that holds us in many ways.

What I do know is that there is an ascendency of the feminine spirit. And there needs to be because of the distinct natures of the masculine and feminine. As foreign as it may sound to some, our earth needs to be nutured back to health and therein comes the Mayan calendar and it's attendent concepts.

There are nine Underworlds in the Maya consciousness. They are called Underworlds, not because of a Mayan concept of Hell, but because of the activated crystalline structures in the earth's inner core. These crystalline structures were not "scientifically" known by the Mayans, but were "sensed" or "intuited" by the spiritual priests and tribal leaders, chief of whom was Kukulcan - better known as Quetzalcoatl in the Aztec culture.

Carl Johan Calleman has written most of the relevant material on this coming age that I know of in his book, The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness. His dating of the Mayan calendar is a bit different and I'm not sure I agree with his end dating but, here's his reasoning.

This doomsday clock may just be the opposite!

The ninth cycle, known as the Universal Underworld, will begin on February 11, 2011 and will end on October 28, 2011, lasting only 260 days. At the end of this final 260-day cycle, the Mayan Calendar simply stops. The original calculated date marking the beginning of the calendar defined the end of the "long count" as December 21, 2012 and that's the date I'm currently giving the msot credence to. Many believe the end of this ninth cycle is also known as the birth of the 6th Sun and the 5th Earth - the beginning of a new 5,125-year cycle.

Regardless of the exact date, they all speak of the ushering in of a strengthening feminine cycle. Mother earth needs that!