It's good to be curious about many things. So what does the Mayan Calendar prophesize? It certainly isn't the "fire-and-brimstone" Revelations Ending of the Catholic church, who actually posses the ancient Maya scrolls thought to have been destroyed by the Spanish crown. In order to understand anything about the Maya, we need to study the 26,000 year cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, the 2,150year ages, and the very basics of Astrology. This is a crash course for the skeptic. Time to merge the two competing hemispheres of our brain - the calculated mathematical precision of the left with the intuitive artistic right. As such, Astronomy is only half of the study of the heavens - the other half is rooted in Astrology. Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.