I'm two days away from winding up my six-week cross-country road trip to promote my book, 2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future, and I want to share the cosmic weather report I've been discussing with audiences around the country this summer. On the eve of my first bookstore talk, June 5th, at Gateways Books in Santa Cruz, California, my teacher Ellias Lonsdale drew my attention to a key upcoming timing in the saga of 2012.
 
As described in the opening pages of my book, in 1987 I learned to look at the 25-year period from 1987 to 2012 as a great and necessary purging of our society, which had gotten way off-track and needed to be realigned by the Harmonic Convergence. In the mystery school classes described in my book, we studied this period as a necessary prelude to construct a bridge to the future. In order to bring on an optimal destiny for humankind, everything blocking the way first had to be flushed up and out of our society. Prior to 1987 the obstacles were too hidden within things to be apparent to mass consciousness. At this point, however, 21 years into the purging, the screen of mass consciousness has become filled with daily evidence of what needs to be changed. Each of us has a personal part to play in the flushing, as well as a shared role in our overall membership in the human race.
 
When I spoke with Ellias on the eve of my Santa Cruz talk, he pointed out the single most important astrological event between now and 2012, the Ignition Point of May/June 2009, a little less than a year from now. This planetary event will be formed by a triple conjunction at the end of May and beginning of June next year, when the giant outer planet Neptune goes retrograde in 27 degrees Aquarius, at the same time (Chiron) Alpha-Omega goes retrograde in the same degree, while Jupiter passes through 27 Aquarius as well. 

 
Three powerful planets in Aquarius take on huge significance in the Changing of the Guard, because Aquarius is the Age we're entering into, in the grand scheme of things. Astrologers call the 26,000 year period of the Earth's  precession, a Great Year, composed of 12 Ages of the Zodiac. In this 26,000-year period, the Earth's north pole points to each sign of the zodiac once, backwards.
 
Neptune is the World Dream.
Alpha-Omega is the healing bridge which links the negative past with the bright future.  Jupiter is the Grand Design for the unfoldment of humanity-in-Earth.  When these three celestial forces combine in Aquarius a tremendous threshold initiation will ignite deep within our species. Like viewing a speeded-up stream-of-consciousness film, humanity will relive the previous 2,100 year-long Age of Pisces in fast-motion collage, like a William Burroughs or Jack Kerouac novel. The highlights of the rapidly-diminishing Piscean Age, since the time of Christ, will flash across the screen of our mind's eye, enabling us to overthrow the old and ring in the new.
 
Pisces has been the time when priests and kings held the fate of the masses in their elite hands. The last gasp of a corrupt power structure will play its hand in fast motion, revealing its underlying folly, before giving way to something new. It's crucial now for each of us to put our own lives on track in a future-worthy direction, so we don't get fooled again by the coming intensity. Our world is acting out now because obsolete power structures fear their diminishment and are grasping at straws. Don't take the bait.
 
As the instant replay of the previous 2,100 years unspools itself on the screen of mass awareness, we then get pulled through a time tunnel 2,100 years into the future, previewing the upcoming period. This will be the true Dawn of the Aquarian Age, which so much has been speculated about during the last fifty years.
 
Between now and the Ignition Point of next spring, a great flushing action is taking place. Everything in the way of a gigantic cosmic clearing is coming up to be cleared. We're in the midst of one big booming badass death-and-birth spasm of a planet in labor, a civilization in the midst of throwing off its false outer layer, to expose its raw inward nature to new cosmic growth rays. Everyone is affected.
 
You may feel this spasm rippling through your own personal life as well as the life of the world. As intense as it can feel, it's only one huge pang in the overall birth-and-death pains needed to wean us off false consciousness, and open our mind's eye to the light of a whole new future that is aching to come all the way in. I give many clues as to the nature of this future in my book. But all of those words are really not that important in themselves. They're secretly designed to ignite a force of consciousness in your own nature, to impel you to claim the future you were born to live rather than pissing away another incarnation.
 
Who are you really? What are you here to do? How much longer are you going to wait?