Focusing on writing this blog has been difficult of late. Alot has been going through my mind, as I am sure can be said for most of us.  The tragedy of the Newtown massacre on top of the still very real repercussions of Sandy, the Scorpio Eclipse season in November, the ending of the Mayan Long Count calender on December 21st, the Solstice, Christmas and Hanukkah, added to the surprises and turnings in our personal lives leaves little time for inner peace and reflection.

At first I wanted to write about the movie "Lincoln" and why that movie is premiering now (actually November 9th).  It was in the news again having garnered 7 Golden Globe nominations last week.  It is a fact, not readily understood by those not acquainted with astrological cycles, that one's birth chart does not die with one's passing out of earth's plane. Deceased persons, no matter what the age, when they become newsworthy again will have active planetary cycles hitting their natal placements and so get recaught in the public eye.

Both the publication of Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, from which the movie is taken from in part, November 6th, 2005, and the release of the current film, November 9th, 2012 show strong connections to Lincoln's natal chart.  That is to say that the current planetary cycles, (planets orbiting around the Sun-placements that never repeat exactly alike, as no moment in time is like any other), in the sky at both times, (and all other times in the past when his life came into the public eye), are contacting Lincoln's natal chart in an area that guarantees prominence even after death.  Why do some people become famous only after death? Why did Goodwin study Lincoln for 10 years?  My guess is that her chart connects strongly with his; or her chart moved into connecting with Lincoln's during the years of her research.

In turning towards our current tragedy I turn to : "Guns Are America's Other Original Sin" an interview with Frank Rich from New York magazine. Of course our first original sin is slavery, the source and scourge of Lincoln's life's work to bear. Rich's point is that our obsession with guns (45% of all Americans have them in the house) is not something that can be legislated away in one Congressional session. Just as the fight to abolish slavery took decades, so will this project. But that is not to say that we cannot begin the process now. Both climate change and our culture of violence were not spoken about during the last presidential campaign by either party says Rich. "That's inexcusable, but we do have to fear that he (Obama) is taking his own life into his hands by venturing into this hot political area." It certainly seems from the tone of Sunday's address to Newtown and all of us Americans that the President is taking this seriously.

The one thing that Rich is probably not aware of is the significance of this happening so close to all the above astronomical and cultural events. Friday December 21st at 6:12 AM is the end of the 5,125 years of the Mayan Long Count.  There are no extent predictions for the Long Count (there are for the Short Count).  The current Maya elders are very forthright about the inability of any "New Agers" to predict anything about what will happen at the end of this calendar cycle and the beginning of the next. They do say that this might be a time when humanity can/will/ must overcome the "dark" and identify with and move more quickly toward the 'light", understanding that there is no calendar mechanics that can make this happen. It is up to each one of us to make the journey.