Tiger year 2010 will bring political upheaval and violence. But Tiger chaos does not result in the end of the world on 12/21/2012. This day will go by just like 1984, 2000, and Y2K. 2012 will be a Dragon year, and in the last Dragon year 2000 people had similar fears. But a new age is predicted on 12/21/2012 by many indigenous cultures including the Mayan, Aztec, and Peruvian Q'ero Indians. The Sun on that solstice day will be in alignment with the center of the Milky Way (between Scorpio and Sagittarius). To the Mayans, this place in space was a womb of creation, the mother's milk of the Milky Way. The solstice Sun aligns with this galactic center every 26,000 years.
 
The Mayan calendar does not really end on winter solstice 2012; there is another cycle in the Mayan astrological system. It's based on the number two and is a smaller minor cycle of cooperation and partnership. That challenge will be people polarized between the haves and have nots, and how to balance that split of stuffed or starved. This date also marks the end of the 2,000-year Piscean age and beginning of the age of Aquarius. We're in a new world of technology, jet travel, globalization, and the internet. Old institutions end as new generations use the electronic tools of the Aquarian age. The world becomes Aquarian, multicultural, a global village.

In Vedic astrology, this is also the end of  the Kali yuga, the age of iron. The Kali yuga began 5,125 years ago. The Mayan age began in 3114 BC. Both systems indicate another completion and another beginning as we all swim together through this sea of life.

Courtesy of Susan Levitt - www.SusanLevitt.com