I don't know if an awakening will/is for sure happening, if we are all going to die, or if jesus, the eschaton, and barney will all show up and hand out free biscuits...

but i'm pretty sure that its a well established astronomical fact that on 12/21/12 the earth and sun line up with the galactic center.. and that these celestial cycles are what the maya were mapping, since they saw the galactic center as our cosmic mother and birth place and thus held this time as one of great importance, as the shifting into the next age. This fact seems, more often than not, to get lost among all of the shaky new age theories about it all