What is katun 2 ahau? I saw you mention it and am quite curious
Sorry for taking such a long time to answer this question. Meant to answer it a few ago, which then became weeks ago, except then I got busy.
K'atun 2 Ahau comes from Mayan/Mesoamerican cosmology. I’m not thoroughly familiar with Mayan cosmology & astrology, but I happened to read an e-book by Kenneth Johnson about the Mayan Long Count calendar back when everyone was freaking out about 2012. Kenneth Johnson is a western astrologer, a Vedic astrologer, and now a Mayan daykeeper. Anyhow I read his e-book, The Mayan Prophecies: The Renewal of the World 2012-2072, seven or eight years ago. (If you’re interested in it, you can still buy it on his online store for $8. It’s basically a pdf, so you can read it on anything. I recommend getting it if you’re interested because it’s an easy read and not expensive.)
Anyhow, when I saw this post, it reminded me of Parasite, Bong Joon-ho’s movie, due to the mention of South Korea. I haven’t seen Parasite yet, but I do know it’s about capitalism, class, and greed just based on things I’ve seen mentioned about it.
Which I suppose brings me to a (hopefully coherent) explanation of K'atun 2 Ahau. A K'atun is a unit of time that is close to twenty years. It’s part of the Mayan Long Count. In Kenneth Johnson’s book, he goes over in detail the Mayan Long Count and how it’s calculated. In the last part of that book, he writes his opinion of what he thinks the next 60 years would be using the Mayan Long Count and world history. And you can use world history for the basis of prediction because each K'atun has a different focus and saying attributed to it.
I mean, at the very beginning of the book, KJ lists this quote: “Pathih hun ten e; bey he u patal u lac e. It could happen once; the like could happen again.” ~ Yukatek Mayan Proverb
Due to how the Mayans kept records, you can use the dates of prior K'atuns to see what historical events correspond to each K'atun. K'atun 2 Ahau has occurred in previous history from 731 to 751, 1500 to 1520, and 1756 to 1776. There are other occurrences prior to 731; however, the written record is much more sparse and provides less of an ability for comparison.
The translation for the associated saying by Chumayel for K'atun 2 Ahau is: “It was halfway famine; it was halfway feast.” Now, you have to remember that this is trying to convey an idea with poetic metaphor and can’t necessarily be taken literally. Kenneth Johnson gave a subtitle to the period as “The Haves and the Have Nots.” He then examines the previous periods I listed above and the notable societal inequities that occurred.
And that’s why I mentioned K'atun 2 Ahau. Because there is massive societal inequity happening in the world; you can see signs of it everywhere. Now, this is not to say that social inequalities did not exist prior to this period, but instead these issues are certainly more prominent and pervasive now than they were ten years ago.
In his book, Kenneth Johnson mentions the Occupy Movement that was happening as he was publishing this book. I would point out that Pope Francis was elected to the papacy in 2013, which is after this K'atun began. I’d say both of those things are indicative that Johnson was correct in pointing out that we are in K'atun 2 Ahau.
In Vedic astrology, often the Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions are used to determine general societal trends. They currently don’t align with the Mayan K'atuns since the next one happens later this year in 2020. But when reading or listening to what other Vedic astrologers have to say about future trends, I think what Johnson has written provides more clarity on the situation we’re all in. Part of that is also because while you can get a lot out of going through the individual country charts like James Kelleher does. (He does an excellent one every year, and I recommend checking it out if you’re interested.) However, sometimes I feel that certain things are still unacknowledged in that process, and I think what Kenneth Johnson has written about the next sixty years based on his own opinions and research has helped fill out the gaps.
This is probably a LOT longer than you were expecting or asking for. But these are some of the things I had in my mind when I made that comment. Also, it’s been on my mind a little bit more recently since I had a text conversation with a friend/acquaintance who does/follows mainly western astrology but has an interest in Vedic. She’s very comfortable with the status quo and can’t understand why people aren’t interested in having an actual oligarch–Mike Bloomberg–as US president. I mean, we’re talking 1788-Versailles-France mentality. I wanted to tell her that she doesn’t seem to understand how many people in the US are #eattherich already.
Perhaps that’s the most clear example I can think of. Many people in power think the status quo is perfectly fine. Plenty of other people are, like, fuck the system; we need change. And let me tell you, if things don’t change or the inequities aren’t addressed, then change will be forced on people. The next K'atun is not a peaceful or tranquil one.
