Editing Harmonic Convergence (section)

== Astrological interpretations ==

The convergence is purported to have "corresponded with a great shift in the earth’s energy from warlike to peaceful."<ref name="nyttravel">{{cite news|url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/travel/29spirituality.html|title=Touring the Spirit World|last=Todras-Whitehill|first=Ethan|date=April 29, 2007|work=New York Times|pages=3|access-date=2009-06-29}}</ref> Believers of this esoteric prophecy maintain that the Harmonic Convergence ushered in a five-year period of Earth's "cleansing", where many of the planet's "false structures of separation" would collapse.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}

Adherents deemed the event as beginning a new age of universal peace, with signs indicating a "major energy shift" was about to occur, a turning point in [[Earth]]'s collective [[karma]] and [[dharma]], and that this energy was powerful enough to change the global perspective of man from one of conflict to one of [[co-operation]]. Actress and author [[Shirley MacLaine]] called it a "window of light,"<ref>{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Lisa|title=Getting Cosmic With Shirley|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/08/19/getting-cosmic-with-shirley/|access-date=15 February 2013|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=August 19, 1987}}</ref> allowing access to higher realms of awareness.

According to Argüelles, the Harmonic Convergence also began the final 25-year countdown to the end of the [[Mayan Long Count]] in [[2012 millenarianism|2012]], which would be the so-called [[end of history]] and the beginning of a new 5,125-year cycle. Evils of the modern world (war, materialism, violence, abuses, injustice, oppression, etc.) would have ended with the birth of the 6th Sun and the 5th Earth on [[December 21, 2012]].{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}