The 2012 bandwagon has been gathering momentum since the 90s. With every new-ager, self-styled prophet, UFO buff, fundamentalist end times freak, or tin foil hat salesman that buys into the vision of the end of the world, so does the meme become more viral. And as the meme infects new hosts, it grows the collective expectation of humanity that something bad is going to happen in 2012. Which of course only makes it more likely that something bad WILL happen.
So, by way of reversing this trend, I have chosen to kick off this 2012 series of posts with some good news. My prediction is:
"In 2010/2011 there is going to be a technological or scientific breakthrough that completely transforms/revolutionises the world - socially, politically, economically. It will be something exponentially beyond the "average" type of progress and innovation we are used to. This development is not a new cell phone or revolutionary miracle medical procedure or some such mediocrity. This is something so big and so far reaching that it will shape the nature of society for the next 80 years at least."We have become inured to scientific and technological progress. Discoveries are announced almost daily which, as recently as 10 years ago, would have been hailed as miraculous. Just to mention two that occurred last year (2008) ... the invisibility cloak produced by UCLA scientists and the discovery of 45 small exoplanets by Swiss astronomer Michael Mayor. Both these developments were in the domain of science fiction not too long ago.
The breakthrough coming in 2010 will be astonishing even by today's standards. I am not going to speculate what it could be but an equivalent level of impact would be the formal announcement by orthodox scientists and the political elite that extraterrestrial contact has been established; or there have been breakthroughs in antigravity or the harvesting of free energy. Something of this ilk. Whatever it is will be mind-blowing.
The timing of this breakthrough is difficult to pinpoint. There is inevitably a lag between the event and the announcement. If it is as big as the astrology seems to indicate, they could be prepping the spin for months before the public gets to hear about it. A further source of delay could be the filing of patents before the news enters the public domain. Click on the graphic below to expand it. (Open in a separate window because the article refers back to it.)
The astrological correlate of this seminal event is the conjoining of Uranus and Jupiter in 0 degrees of Aries. (Purple square in the graphic.) The conjunction partiles (goes exact) in June 2010.
For the non-astrologers, the blue curve depicts the passage of Uranus through the zodiac. The red horizontal line is the Aries point. The thin grey line is the passage of Jupiter. The two connect around 8th June 2010 at 18 minutes of an arc just into the sign of Aries.
The Aries point represents the start of the tropical zodiac. It is defined by the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator - the vernal equinox around March 21st. This point is not static and retrogrades through the sidereal zodiac by a small arc each year, according to the precession.
An active Aries point in natal astrology depicts the nature of one's public impact on the world. It represents "making a splash". It is also associated with the birth of new enterprises and projects. The Sun's imprint at this point defines the start of the astrological new year. When another planet interacts with the Aries point, there is an energetic projection into reality of the said planet's intrinsic quality.
The effect of the Uranus-Jupiter conjunction is very simply described as "big innovation" or "revolutionary growth". Occurring at the Aries point, as it does in 2010, it portends some kind of astonishing event that transforms the global outlook. The technological or scientific nature of this transformation is inferred in part by the nature of Uranus (the planet with natural jurisdiction over science technology)and partly by an analysis of history. This analysis follows below.
"Coincidentally", the last time Uranus crossed the Aries point, it did so with Jupiter as a fellow traveller. The conjunction partiled in January 1928 at a longitude of 23 arc minutes into the sign of Aries. This corresponded to the peak of the frenzied race to produce technology that could transmit moving images, namely television cameras and receivers (sets).
Many have staked their claim to have invented the television. Of all these, the one who stands out as possibly the most deserving of this accolade is a Japanese man by the name of Kenjiro Takayanagi. He was the first to construct a fully electronic system of television transmission by using a cathode ray tube to display the transmitted image. A close runner up was San Franciscan Philo Farnsworth who pioneered the non-mechanical fully electronic television camera. Takayanagi demonstrated his equipment on December 25th 1927, Farnsworth on September 1st 1928. The Japanese demo was barely a month away from the partiled Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in January 1928. 1928 was also the year the first commercially available TV sets went on sale to the general public.
It is not necessary to describe the sociological impact of commercial TV broadcast on the global culture. To say that it has shaped an era is an understatement. The breakthrough coming in 2010/2011 will be just as transformational.
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