Star Gates and do they open?
On the northern hemisphere winter solstice, the arc of the sun is at its lowest point in the southern sky. This marks the 'return of the sun' as it climbs northward and days lengthen. The solstice is not the only astronomical event that will occur on December 21, 2012. A rare alignment will take place that has been dubbed a 'star gate.' At midnight, the sun at solctice will be exactly positioned on a line between the earth and the center of the galaxy. The dark rift in this area of the sky was called the heart of heaven by the Maya. Starlight is obscured by dust, and many believe a black hole exists at the very center.
Such alignments are rare indeed, and this 'eclipse' of the galactic center by the sun at solstice takes place once every 25,600 years, the length of the precession cycle as sun position wanders backward through the zodiac. It has been suggested that Mayan dates, which seem to record events by the number of days following the creation date of August 13, 3114 BC, are actually pre-dated, and should be read as the number of days preceding December 21, 2012 (Adrian Gilbert, Mayan Year of Destiny). Precession is caused by the slow wobble of the earth as it spins in its axis. In exactly the same fassion, a spinning toy top wobbles, the top of its axis moving in a circle. The earth's 'wobble' completes one circle each 25,600 solar years, sometimes called a 'Great Year,' and this is the length of 5 Mayan 'Great Cycles.' Every five Great Cycles the sun returns to an original position against the background of the stars and Milky Way, and on December 12, 2012, it returns to the galaxy's center (John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012).
So what is a star gate? The word 'gate' implies something moving from one side to another, like physical travel across a wall, or the travel of information, as in one of the ports of the computer you're using. The implied suggestion is that the sun would somehow facilitate, or amplify, movement from one part of the galaxy to another, either physical movement, or a flow of energy. It has even been calculated that a similar gate was 'open' on May 27, AD 29, and that this might have been the day Jesus chose to ascend into heaven.
These ideas challenge our modern belief systems. We've given over the flow of energy to our inventions and devices, yet we hang onto a vestigial sense that more is possible. Various religions pray either prostrate, foreheads in contact with the earth, or with arms outstretched and palms turned upward toward the sky. All these postures are like adjusting an antenna. What else would we be doing? I remember a passage from the bible where a hemorrhaging woman touches the tzitzit on Jesus's garment. Tzitzit, ritualistic fringe sewn onto the tallit, was commanded to be worn by God speaking through Moses. As the woman's hand makes a connection, Jesus stops and says, "I feel energy leaving me." This bit of reportage is passed down by the author without explanation. Indeed, we can explain it no better today. We only know there was energy, the energy was flowing, and Jesus felt it.