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Can We Schedule the End for Someone Else's Birthday?
Posted on May 1st, 2008
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drechanteuse
drechanteuse
Okay, this is just too much. I can handle a lot without getting rattled, but this is the ultimate jip, the big rip-off, and I can't be quiet about this one. When I first joined Zaadz, my friend was reading 2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl. Well, he has since bailed out of here, and while I know there are many 2012ers running around the site, I never bothered to fight the agonizing L.A. traffic so I could run over to the bookstore on Melrose, do the Buddhist parking chant (you'd understand if you ever had to actually park on Melrose) and buy the book.
So, I'm going about, minding my own business, knowing that a major shift is going to occur sometime in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar, the most accurate calendar ever devised, trying to just "be" in the midst of the craziness: the whacked out principal who has my name on a list (I wonder what the heading of her list is? obliterate, maybe,) the looney husband who once got drafted by the Dodgers and forgot to show up, living with cancer in my right breast for over six months because the clinic that could best do the surgery is selective, dealing with my mom who preferred to walk around half-blind for two years because she didn't like the optometrist at her HMO and having to read every single thing for her no matter what time of day or night. Then, suddenly, I realized this. The friggin' Mayan calendar ends on MY BIRTHDAY
in 2012.
Do I need to explain what it is like to have a birthday on December 21st? It's like that old poster about war rewritten. "What if they gave a birthday party and nobody came?" It has been a succession of combination presents and Christmas shopping with friends as the big, exciting birthday activity. For a while, I thought Macy's was the sight of all birthday bashes, where the only action was seen by my credit card. I thought helping others deep clean their house in expectation of company was akin to "Pin the Tail on the Donkey."
So, excuse me if I seem to misunderstand the entire theory about entering into a new consciousness. Right now, I am just a bratty little child, realizing there are only THREE birthdays left to help others get ready for Christmas on, and then... the amazing stolen birthday.
I'm thinking of renting a venue in Vegas and selling tickets to my party now. We'll start on the 17th, and just keep going until...
Or, I could get ahold of Christopher Lloyd, a Delorean, go back to the Life and Times of Quetzacoatl, have a talk with the bird-God (I do speak some Nahuatl) and convince him to add just one more day. Stop the sun in its tracks, suspend time in limbo for 24 more hours. Yeah, sounds good. Let those born on the 22nd take the fall. Or move the whole darned shebang to January. Give those practical Capricorns something to talk about.
Planning on having kids? Aim for a July birth. It's much easier.
So, I'm going about, minding my own business, knowing that a major shift is going to occur sometime in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar, the most accurate calendar ever devised, trying to just "be" in the midst of the craziness: the whacked out principal who has my name on a list (I wonder what the heading of her list is? obliterate, maybe,) the looney husband who once got drafted by the Dodgers and forgot to show up, living with cancer in my right breast for over six months because the clinic that could best do the surgery is selective, dealing with my mom who preferred to walk around half-blind for two years because she didn't like the optometrist at her HMO and having to read every single thing for her no matter what time of day or night. Then, suddenly, I realized this. The friggin' Mayan calendar ends on MY BIRTHDAY
in 2012.
Do I need to explain what it is like to have a birthday on December 21st? It's like that old poster about war rewritten. "What if they gave a birthday party and nobody came?" It has been a succession of combination presents and Christmas shopping with friends as the big, exciting birthday activity. For a while, I thought Macy's was the sight of all birthday bashes, where the only action was seen by my credit card. I thought helping others deep clean their house in expectation of company was akin to "Pin the Tail on the Donkey."
So, excuse me if I seem to misunderstand the entire theory about entering into a new consciousness. Right now, I am just a bratty little child, realizing there are only THREE birthdays left to help others get ready for Christmas on, and then... the amazing stolen birthday.
I'm thinking of renting a venue in Vegas and selling tickets to my party now. We'll start on the 17th, and just keep going until...
Or, I could get ahold of Christopher Lloyd, a Delorean, go back to the Life and Times of Quetzacoatl, have a talk with the bird-God (I do speak some Nahuatl) and convince him to add just one more day. Stop the sun in its tracks, suspend time in limbo for 24 more hours. Yeah, sounds good. Let those born on the 22nd take the fall. Or move the whole darned shebang to January. Give those practical Capricorns something to talk about.
Planning on having kids? Aim for a July birth. It's much easier.
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as we get closer to 2012, I think it will start becoming more and more ovious to increasing numbers of people that a HUGE SHIFT is imminent. Like the dawn's rays shining over the horizon, this sunrise has been approaching us in earnest since around 1987 (according to some experts, the frist of the “harmonic convergences”). The growing light, is actually physical, but it is through its effects and influences that people will recognise it. A greater openness, a higher awareness, a growing intolerance of the old, brutal ways; peoples minds themselves are undergoing this change. We here at gaia are at the forefront of this consciousness movement; one need only drop into a few random profiles to see the Light shining most bright here. A forerunner for what awaits the rest of the planet; harmony, delight, joy in living, creating and just being yourself.
2012 awaits.
so … you must be right on the cusp of Sagittarius and Capricorn … your profile says you're the former, but it must be pretty close.
blessings
I have a late January birthday. Sometime in my tweens my birthday dawned as usual with just hugs and a “happy day!” from my parents. The celebration was always after dinner. I was told we were going to a party and because I was young I assumed the party was in my honor. Joy of Joys! Parties were few and far between at our house. Imagine my horror when we arrived at my parents friends' house and the party was not for me but to celebrate the Superbowl. I still despise football. ;-)
I will lovingly celebrate your un-birthday with you, dear Andrea! What would you like most? Something frivalous. A pony? A swimming pool? Ice skates? Anything, anything!
Hugs and kisses!
You know I am just being facetious here, I hope, the spoiled child watching yet another birthday get overshadowed. I tend to write very tongue in cheek, a bit'o dry wit.
I am right on the cusp, but am not in the least Capricorn as far as personality goes.
Amanda,
Now that you mention it, a swimming pool is on that wish list… ; )
Ponies are nice, too.
Andrea
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps….. just perhaps….. they got it wrong. Like for years everyone hung on the prognostications of Nostradamus - and according to his predictions, by now the Roman Catholic Church should lie in ruins, the last Pope gone, and the world shuddering in chaos. Well, maybe, since he seems to have missed the mark by at least a few years, perhaps the Aztecs did too. For me, this is something I just cannot seem to get too worked up about.
So my suggestion to you is to just continue on, except that starting with your next birthday, YOU make the plans and if it suits you to have a huge party, then go all out. Don't allow ANYONE to hoodwink you out of another birthday bash - so start planning now. Much big hugs to you, Sage lady!
~~^v^~~ Gem
Gem,
I even considered that everyTHING that has a start point must also have an endpoint. I mean we go buy a new calendar every year, right? I'm really just being silly because I feel it's very ironic to have an endpoint fall on my birthday. But, most definitely, in honor of this real or falaciously important date, plan a very special party. No Barbara Streisand presold Vegas events, but something quie nice.
After surgery yesterday, I just had to unleash a little blogging wit.
; ) Andrea
The Queen of England (Liz) has an official birthday sometime in June.. her real birthday's some other day.
Having a birthday on Jan 3rd I know all about the combined present, no-desire-to-party thing and have often thought of having an official one in mid July … but having my birthday at the end of life-as-we-know-it .. now that's COOOL..
might have to get you an ice-skating pony who can dance on your specially frozen over new swimming pool!!!!!
Btw .. there are a lot, and I mean a LOT, of intercalations and places where errors could have and almost certainly have entered in the synchronizing of indiginous calendars with our gregorian one. Looking into our calendar is a hoot too - why is the 10th month called oct(8)ober and the 11th nov(9)ember? Calends was the name of the roman tax book - no wonder 'time is money'!!
Chances are, the end date falls next Tuesday … just doesn't have the same ring as if it falls on Andrea's Birthday ;-))))
Ooooh, this stuff is fascinating, Lynx.
Yes, no wonder time is money. Those darn Romans!
Please, no, not next Tuesday, because that will wipe out my three final days of vacation from teaching. That would not be cool. My birthday (and all of us 21sters hanging around this planet) could be kind of like folk heroes if the Sun and Venus merge and marry on our day in 2012. I have got to see the ice skating pony on the frozen pool. Sounds like a crazy party. : )
Andrea
Andrea, hilarious…
God - these Mayans! What were they thinking?!
They did know that 28 x 13 is 364 with a whole day extra for celebrating, forgiveness and renewal!! Now who would want to mess with that?!
Ah, they were the mathematicians, weren't they. We should all take that day for celebration, forgiveness and renewal. Not just a New Years Eve bash.
Gabriele, so glad you understand my humor. Really ;)
Ok, you are hereby saved, this is what one of the leading experts on the Mayan Calendar sais:
“Many people hear about the so-called end date of the Mayan calendar, and today some people have even created the illusion that the Mayan calendar was designed only to point out this end date. In reality, there is nothing to indicate that the ancient Maya who developed the Long Count calendar had any interest in what would happen as this calendar came to an end. Instead what the ancient Mayan scriptures talk about is its beginning. The exact date for this beginning was apparently based on the day of the year, August 11, when the sun was in zenith in Izapa, where most likely this calendar first came into use. Ancient Mayan inscriptions also talk about this time as the time when the First Father erected the World Tree so that the light could enter, a significant event in creation. The various dynasties in the different Mayan city-states would then try to track a relationship to this seminal event by First Father and legitimize their power based on this.
The fact that the Mayan Long Count was based on the day the sun was in zenith in Izapa, has however created a very significant misunderstanding among modern people, and this is that it would end on December 21, 2012. The particular date the sun is in zenith in this location obviously has no relevance in the rest of the world, but because of the power of tradition some will still adhere to it. In reality, the creation cycle that began as the First Father erected the World Tree will end on October 28, 2011. This day is also 13 Ahau in the sacred Mayan calendar, an energy with great prophetical relevance.”
His name is Carl Johan Calleman, and he is a great fella..Check out his spaceAnd BTW, that date, 28 oct 2011 is a helluva day astrologically speaking..This is the day I will walk on water, levitate, transfigure myself into a daunting dragon and speak in flaming tounges..And rescue the world from oblivion..Off course…
Cool Sol,
I checked him out. Very interesting, and much less full of ego than the aforementioned book. Feels good to be saved.
Sounds like you'll be busy on October 28, 2011 : )
Andrea
Funny post, Andrea, followed by some interesting discussion! As for July birthdays, mine is July 6th and if you think anyone remembers my birthday after celebrating the Fourth of July - well, boo hoo & wah - it seems to be very forgettable. Luckily, my Grandma, who made cakes for a living, always made me incredible birthday cakes. My wish, her creation! Doll cakes, grand piano's - you name it. (Thanx Grandma!) My first grandbaby is due on my birthday. Would that be the ultimate present or what?
Hey Andrea .. Today's THE day!!!! Is it another 2k or will The End end the day??!
Enjoy the last day of your vacation.. come what may ;-D
Thanks for the heads-up on July birthdays Ayla .. looking at June… ;-)
Hey Alya,
You're right. Any birthday that follows another holiday isn't perfect, for sure. However the cakes sound wonderful. My cousin, Michael, became a baker and would bake me cakes with banana cream filling. I once went to the cake decorating store with him. It was like wonderland.
That would be the greatest present to have your grandbaby born on your birthday. I am hoping it happens for you. Is it a boy or girl? The baby's going to be born in the Phoenix area, right? Imagine coming out of the womb into a hundred plus degree heat. Charming. Thank goodness for the AC.
Yeah, there's quite a bit on interesting conversation here. I think that's pretty cool.
Oh no Lynx,
Another end date today? These are getting hard to keep up with.
Boy or girl? <she speaks through gritted teeth> I have two brothers, three sons … what do you suppose it is? Yeah, my grandaughter is a grandson! I'm out buying blue again. I was actually born on my great grandfather's birthday so it would be especially cool - but who has their babies on their actual due date? My Mom has never liked me because I was supposed to be due in May - lol! She got so sick of carrying me that she drank a bottle of castor oil and took a bumpy car ride, and it worked.