One Can Hope

IT HARD TO BELIEVE that the end of the mayan calendar, and thus the end of the world, is only six weeks away. Now that the presidential election is over in america, and december approaches, excitement and talk will presumably increase all the way to the actual crossing of the galactic equator by "our" planet on december 21.

Will the world, even if it doesn't "end", bu subjected to violent shaking, earthquakes, storms, electromagnetic disasters of all shapes and sizes? It says here that what will actually happen is nothing, but, what do we know?

All the forecasts are not gloomy. There is in fact a rather large number of people who insist that this grand astronomical event will be followed by drastic changes here on earth; all for the better.

Something similar happened back in nineteen eighty seven, when the so called "harmonic convergence" occured in the western sky at sunset. Its equally hard to believe that anyone under the age of early thirties doesn't remember the harmonic convergence. tempest fugit.

It was, if memory serves, in the late summer or autumn of that year when most of the planets, venus,mars, jupiter, saturn, and maybe even quick little mercury all clustered up close together in the sky for a few weeks, getting especially close on one certain day, which is a rather rare occurance.

The people who predicted vast and wonderful changes on earth at that time now remind us that those changes inceed came to pass shortly thereafter, and included such historical milestones as the fall of the berlin wall, the break up of the soviet union, and the end of the "cold war". Exact causal connections between planetary configurations and human activity are yet to be precisely determined and described.

This time the world's tyrannical economic arrangements are supposed to be replaced by world wide prosperity, and political tyranny, atrocities, and war shall end. Or something like that.

So the holidays should be, or might be, very special this year. One can hope.