"The accurate content of the message for the Maya Prophecy for our times is that the date of December 21, 2012 is nothing more than a general marker, a specific date that infact indicates a whole era, an era of hope, an era of opportunity - the opportunity to re-establish a sense of community amongst all humans of this planet..." -From The Maya Taino Prophecy Initiative, led by Maya Elder Antonio Aj Ik and Taino Elder Miguel Sague - www.mayatainoprophecy.webs.com

December 21, 2012 marks the Shifting of World Ages, a return to zero point, where we officially transition from the current 5,125 year World Age Cycle, and enter into a New World Cycle; marking a new level of our unfoldment as a planetary collective; a new level of our human evolution in concert with our living Universe.

The proposed Mount Ashland Association ski area expansion is a corporate snow job, blowing a bitter wind in August; and the public has been given neither good science or any real supporting evidence to justify what is transpiring under our noses; nor even the real reasons why the ski area wants to expand into a pristine roadless area when there are five other documented MAA expansion plans that would cause little or no impact to the last and largest wilderness area of its kind in the Eastern Siskiyou Mountains.

When the recession put an end to the Phoenix Day Spa in Ashland, owner Jessica Vineyard turned to her lifelong passion — astronomy — to make a living. Now she's charted a new course as a wandering star wizard, "Ms. Galaxy."