Sunrise on the 21st December 2012 marks the start of a New Mayan Year.
One Mayan Year is equivalent to approximately 26,000 Earth Years.
An Earth Year starts every 12 months on 1st January.
A Mayan Year starts and ends every 26,000 years.
An Earth Year is a measure of the time that our Earth takes to orbit our Sun.
A Mayan Year is a measure of the time it takes our Solar System to rotate around its axis of motion around the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy.
As our Solar System slowly revolves, it moves through all 12 segments of the Cosmic Sky and the 12 astrological signs of the zodiac that symbolise them.
This Mayan New Year’s Day marks our transition through more than 2,000 years of the Piscean Age into the New Age of Aquarius.
On this Winter Solstice Day, our sunrise completes its journey westwards and turns eastward on its 6 month journey towards the Summer Solstice on 21st June 2013.
It will complete this journey another 26,000 times before the arrival of our next Mayan New Year.