Barbara Hand Clow - The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind

This book is dedicated to my oldest son, Tom, who died in June of 2004.

Tom, you had such a fine mind. Since you couldnt tell this story in this dimensionyet you transmitted it through meI have written it for you.

I will always wish I had some time with you sitting by the Inukshuk on the edge of English Bay in Vancouver, BC.

THE
MAYAN
CODE

Barbara Hand Clows inspired and well-researched articulation of the Mayan Calendar provides a significant aid to understanding the mechanics of the acceleration of time and the process of human evolution. She offers a refreshingly radical and hopeful outcome for our future beyond the Calendars end in 20112012.

Nicki Scully, author of Alchemical Healing and
coauthor of Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt

From now through 2012 we are walking what the Mayas call Xi Balba bih, The Road of Awe. Tools that assist us in looking at the vast acceleration and wave of evolution that we are experiencing, through the largest possible soul lens, will be of great assistance during these transformative times. This book is highly recommended for that process.

Ariel Spilsbury, coauthor of The Mayan Oracle:
Return Path to the Stars

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank Carl Johan Calleman for discovering the time-acceleration factor in the Mayan Calendar, and for his unshakable devotion in bringing this news to the public. Carl is a devoted researcher and friend who always had time to spare when I hammered him with questions and piles of paper. Then to top that, he even took the time to write a wonderful foreword when I finished the book! You, Carl, are changing the worldpossibly more than you realize.

As always, working with my son Christopher was a joy. Being a fellow artist with ones child is possibly the greatest happiness a mother can experience. When I was young and enjoying the works of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz and his wife, Isha, I loved the way they worked with their daughter, the illustrator Lucy Lamy. I always hoped Id have a child who would work with me in the same way, and I do! Something special happens, Chris, when you use your inner artists eye to make my thoughts visible, so thank you!

Richard Drachenbergs editorial assistance greatly improved this text, but Richard, your work meant much more to me than that. Writing this book was daunting because I had so little time, and I had to hurry way too much due to the fact that the material contained herein is of such extreme importance. I felt the urgency of my task, and often, when I doubted my ability to get through it, your encouragement kept me going. I thank you very much for your profound contributions.

I thank Ian Lungold for writing the Conversion Codex for the Mayan Calendar (appendix D), and I thank Ians partner, Matty, for giving me generous permission to use it. It is the best codex I have ever found because it is so easy to use! And thank you, Gerry Clow, for editing the Codex and making it just perfect. Thanks for all the other help you gave on this book, especially editing the final page proofs. As always, your support and assistance has been given with love and concern for the readers. And thank you, Louisa McCuskey, for helping on the artwork for the Conversion Codex. You have done a beautiful job.

As for Inner Traditions/Bear & Company, I am so grateful to Jon Graham for seeing the importance of this book. It was your encouragement, Jon, that helped me realize I must write it. Thank you, Ehud Sperling, for being at the helm of one of the greatest publishing houses ever. Thank you to my copy editor Judy Stein and thank you to Jeanie Levitan, Anne Dillon, Peri Champine, Rob Meadows, and all the other great people at Inner Traditions/Bear & Company.

CONTENTS

REFLECTIONS ON EARTHS TILTING AXIS

ASTROLOGICAL TRANSITS THROUGH AD 2012

GUIDE TO THE GALACTIC UNDERWORLD

FINDING YOUR MAYA DAY SIGN: CONVERSION CODEX FOR THE MAYAN CALENDAR by Ian Lungold

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

APPENDIX C

FOREWORD

In the legends of the ancient Maya, a divine incarnation who went by the name First Mother played a significant role. According to the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, this divinity was born on December 7, 3121 BC, to prepare for the creation of what we may now call the National Underworld (the original Maya name is unknown). Surprisingly, perhaps, although it happened first, the birth of First Father, June 16, 3122 BC (exactly seven years before the onset of the National Underworld through his activation of the World Tree), was mentioned only after that of the First Mother. This attests to the importance of the First Mother, who was later also to take a pivotal part in the dynastic politics of Palenque, where the shaman King Pacal is known to have manipulated his own birthday to prove his spiritual heritage from her.

Barbara Hand Clow, Grandmother Sky, has literally played a role in the modern world corresponding to that of First Mother in the retrieval of the Mayan calendrical knowledge. Thus, through her publishing activities at Bear & Company, she helped disseminate to the world the books that pioneered this genre. Not only did she publish the early works by Arguelles and Jenkins on the Mayan Calendar, her advice as a reviewer was instrumental in the later publication of one of my own books by Bear & Company. Throughout the time she was active as a publisher, she herself wrote a series of books, among which I find especially relevant The Mind Chronicles and The Pleiadian Agenda. She has also taught countless students, who have come to experience many aspects of Native American and Maya knowledge through her work. Like the Maya, in the Pleiades she sees an origin for her information. Since she has seen this field be born and grow to its current extent, it is at present very valuable to read the synthesis of her thoughts in The Mayan Code, not only of the current state of the art of the study of the Mayan Calendar, but also of her extensive knowledge about astrology, esotericism, and shamanism.

What is meant by at present? As always, when it comes to studies related to the Mayan Calendar, it is critical to observe when a phenomenon emerges and what energy brings it into the world. The whole point of the Mayan Calendar is that it is not a linear calendar counting astronomical cycles, but one that describes the shifting spiritual energies of time. In such an energetic perspective, The Mayan Code comes onto the shelves shortly after the Fifth Day of the Galactic Underworld began on November 24, 2006. Today it is critical that information about the prophetic meaning become broadly accessible in a rigorous and yet attractive form to the public at large. At a time when Mel Gibsons film Apocalypto has raised mainstream awareness of the existence of the Mayan Calendar, it is vital that we move beyond the question What will happen in the year 2012? to the deeper question of what is happening at the current time and what divine creation is all about. I believe we can understand what will happen in the year 2012 only if we realize that we are living in an ongoing divine process of creation and its timelines. So far, only a small minority of humanity is aware of this.

Because its mission is to strengthen the right brain, the Fifth Day of the Galactic Underworld will see the creation of new syntheses, especially of science and spirituality. The Fifth Day is also ruled by the energy of Quetzalcoatl or Christ, which in any particular Underworld leads to a decisive breakthrough of its particular phenomena. Since the Galactic Underworld fundamentally brings an end to Western dominance in the external world, and an integration of the intuitive and rational aspects of self in the internal world of the individual,