On March 13th 2013 at 7:06 pm (CNN) the Vatican conclave in Rome elected  Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, – Francis to be the 266th Pope (the first pope born outside Europe in 1,282 years). According to the Catholic Prophecy of the Popes by Saint Malachy, a 12th‑century Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, states that during the reign of  266th Pope, he would deal with many tribulations, including the destruction of Rome.  Saint Malachy’s vision of world-wide tribulations and the destruction of Rome correlates well with the Book of Revelation, Chapter 17, which refers to a “great harlot that sits on many waters” that has been interpreted as the Roman church gone apostate (abandoning its faith).  According to researcher and writer John Hogue, Saint Malachy was on a pilgrimage in Rome in 1139 and while situated on a hill at sunset, he “went into an ecstatic trance and experienced a vision of future popes; his serving monks around him put out candles and paper and started writing down…his revelations of 2 or 3 word Latin mottoes”.

The result was a prophetic list of the succession of the Papacy with mottos representing the name or heraldry of the next 112 Popes, that was handed to Pope Celestine II.  The prophetic manuscript was then deposited in the Vatican Secret Archives, and forgotten about until its rediscovery in 1590.

Final part of the prophecies in Lignum Vitæ (1595), p. 311.

According to approved Catholic prophecy shortly after the election of the 266th Pope – Petrus Romanus  (Peter the Roman), there will be several stages leading up to the Apocalypse, including a time of miracles, with mass healings, divine apparitions, and signs in the heavens that will followed by great tribulations that will shock the world.  For Saint Malachy’s prophecy for the 266th Pope states;

In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit, as bishop, Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills of Rome that will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End

Source:  O’Brien 1880, p. 83; Bander 1969, p. 96.

In order to determine if there is any relevant mundane astrological correlation of Saint Malachy’s Papal prophecy we will need to determine the horoscope of the Catholic Church by reviewing the biblical narrative of Pentecost -described by Christians today as the “Birthday of the Church,” where the 11 Disciples of Christ (Acts 1:13, 26), along with about 109 other individuals (Acts 1:15), including many women, among whom was Mary the mother of Jesus (Acts 1:14), received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room, of Cenacle in Jerusalem.

The Cenacle on Mount Zion, claimed to be the location of the Last Supper and Pentecost. Bargil Pixner^[7] claims the original Church of the Apostles is located under the current structure.

Pentecost is the old Greek name for the Jewish harvest festival in the calendar of ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai. This feast is still celebrated today as Shavuot. Now based on the apostle John’s (John 19:31) account, Jesus was taken by the high priests and soldiers, judged, beaten, humiliated,  and crucified, before the Passover feast’s “high day” (on the Sabbath when the Passover lambs were being slaughtered), on Nissan 14 on April 1st, 33 AD at approximately 3:00 pm LMT in Jerusalem.

This date is confirmed by astronomical calculations that show that the date of the crucifixion, derived from calculating the dates when the crescent (waxing) of the New Moon would be first visible from Jerusalem, which marked by Jews as the first day of a lunar month  to be April 2, 33 AD.  This is also confirmed from the time Jesus began his three year public ministry after he reached the age of 31, in mid October of 29 AD which  satisfies the statement in Luke 3:23 “And when He began his ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age…”, and also by  2nd Century Christian scholars, such as Irenaaus who said that Jesus “of was beginning to be about thirty years of age” [Against Heresies h, II, xxii, 5].

Ruth in Boaz’s Field

The Feast of Weeks of Shevuot began 50 days after the Passover (April 2-3,), on Sunday May 22nd, 33 AD.  On that day, according to the New Testament book of Acts (Acts 2:15), 2 When the day of Shevuot came (Hellenistic Jews later gave it the name Pentecost), they (the Apostles) were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a noise came from heaven. It sounded like a strong wind blowing. This noise filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw something that looked like flames of fire. The flames were separated and stood over each person there.

4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak different languages. The Holy Spirit was giving them the power to do this. 5 There were some godly Jews in Jerusalem at this time. They were from every country in the world. 6 A large crowd came together because they heard the noise. They were surprised because, as the apostles were speaking, everyone heard in their own language. 7 They were all amazed at this. They did not understand how the apostles could do this. They said, “Look! These men we hear speaking are all from Galilee. 8 But we hear them in our own languages. How is this possible? We are from all these different places: 9 Parthia, Media, Elam, Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the areas of Libya near the city of Cyrene, Rome, 11 Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others have changed their religion to worship God like Jews. We are from these different countries, but we can hear these men in our own languages! We can all understand the great things they are saying about God.” 12 The people were all amazed and confused. They asked each other, “What is happening?” 13 But others were laughing at the apostles, saying they were drunk from too much wine.

14 Then Peter (the 1st Pope of the future Roman Catholic Church) stood up with the other eleven apostles. He spoke loudly so that all the people could hear. He said, “My Jewish brothers and all of you who live in Jerusalem, listen to me. I will tell you something you need to know. Listen carefully. 15 These men are not drunk as you think; it’s only nine o’clock in the morning. Peter in (Acts 2:39) says, 39 “This promise is for you. It is also for your children and for the people who are far away. It is for everyone the Lord our God calls to himself.”  Stating that this event was the beginning of a continual outpouring that would be available to all believers from that point on, Jews and Gentiles alike.

Thus Pentecost, which took place on  May 22nd 33 AD at 9:00 AM LMT in Jerusalem  in Roman Judea, signaled the beginning of the public ministry of the Church and can be considered the “birth event” of the Christian Church, that would eventually become the Roman Catholic Church by the early 2nd Century.

If Saint Malacy’s Papal Prophecy is credible, based on the Pentecost horoscope we can project the several stages leading up to the Apocalypse. Again, according to approved Catholic Papal Prophecy, after the selection of the 266th Pope – Pope Francis, there will be a time of miracles, with mass healings and divine apparitions, along with signs in the heavens and followed by great tribulations.

Using modern astrological  forecasting technology we can speculate the timeline when these prophetic events according to Saint Malachy are likely to unfold. Employing dynamic  astrology, starting from the date when Pope Francis ascended to the papacy – March 13th, 2013, we can project ahead over the next 7 years based on direct hits by planetary transits and solar arc progressions to the Pentecost horoscope. The Blackbox graph (above) indicates that we can expect major crisis to unfold with the Roman Catholic Church that will cause a significant shakeup within the Papacy. This will likely result in a significant decline in the Church’s prestige and power and coincide with the tribulations of  Saint Malachy’s apocalyptic prophecy whose final words were: “Rome, the seat of the Vatican, will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.”  

Chronological list of Popes

1st–5th centuries

1st century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
1	33 – 67		St Peter PETRUS	Simon Peter Σίμων (or Συμεών) Κηφᾶς ܫܶܡܥܽܘܢ ܟ݁ܺܐܦ݂ܳܐ	Bethsaida, Galilea	Apostle of Jesus from whom he received the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, according to Matthew 16:18–19 . Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day (Feast of Saints Peter and Paul) 29 June, (Chair of Saint Peter) 22 February. Recognized by the Catholic Church as the first Bishop of Rome (Pope) appointed by Christ. Also revered as saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 29 June.[4]
2	67 – 79		St Linus LINUS	Linus	Tuscia	Feast day 23 September. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 7 June.
3	79 – 92		St Anacletus (Cletus) ANACLETUS	Anacletus	Rome	Martyred; feast day 26 April. Once erroneously split into Cletus and Anacletus[5]
4	92 – 97		St Clement I CLEMENS	Clement	Rome	Feast day 23 November. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 25 November.
5	97 – 107		St Evaristus EVARISTUS	Aristus	Bethlehem, Judea	Feast day 26 October

2nd century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
6	107 – 116		St Alexander I ALEXANDER	Alexander	Rome	Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 16 March.
7	116 – 125		St Sixtus I XYSTUS	Xystus	Rome	6 April. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 10 August.
8	125 – 136		St Telesphorus TELESPHORUS	Telesphorus	Terranova da Sibari, Calabria
9	136 – 142		St Hyginus HYGINUS	Hyginus	Athens, Greece	Traditionally martyred; feast day 11 January
10	142 – 155		St Pius I PIUS	Pius	Aquileia, Friuli	Martyred by sword; feast day 11 July
11	155–166		St Anicetus ANICETUS	Anicitus	Emesa, Syria	Traditionally martyred; feast day 17 April
12	c. 166 – 174/175		St Soter SOTERIUS	Soter	Fondi, Latium	Traditionally martyred; feast day 22 April
13	174/175 – 189		St Eleuterus ELEUTHERIUS	Eleuther	Nicopoli, Epirus	Traditionally martyred; feast day 6 May
14	189 – 198/199		St Victor I VICTOR	Victor	Roman Africa
15	199–217		St Zephyrinus ZEPHYRINUS	Zephyrinus	Rome

3rd century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
16	c. 217 – 222/223		St Callixtus I CALLISTUS	Callistus	Iberian Peninsula	Martyred; feast day 14 October
17	222/223 – 230		St Urban I URBANUS	Urban	Rome	Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 25 May.
18	21 July 230 – 28 September 235 (5 years+)		St Pontian PONTIANUS	Pontianus	Rome	First to abdicate office after exile to Sardinia by Emperor Maximinus Thrax. TheLiberian Catalogue records his death on 28 September 235, the earliest exact date in papal history.[6][7]
19	21 November 235 – 3 January 236 (44 days)		St Anterus ANTERUS	Anterus	Petilia Policastro – Calabria	Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 5 August.
20	10 January 236 – 20 January 250 (14 years+)		St Fabian FABIANUS	Fabianus	Rome	Feast day 20 January. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 5 August.
21	6/11 March 251 – June 253 (2 years+)		St Cornelius CORNELIUS	Cornelius		Died a martyr, through extreme hardship; feast day 16 September
22	25 June 253 – 5 March 254 (256 days)		St Lucius I LUCIUS	Lucius	Rome	Feast day 4 March
23	12 May 254 – 2 August 257 (3 years+)		St Stephen I STEPHANUS	Stephanus	Rome	Martyred by beheading; feast day 2 August. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with the same feast day.
24	30/31 August 257 – 6 August 258 (340/341 days)		St Sixtus II XYSTUS Secundus	Sixtus	Greece	Martyred by beheading. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 10 August.
25	22 July 259 – 26 December 268 (9 years+)		St Dionysius DIONYSIUS	Dionysius	Greece	Feast day 26 December
26	5 January 269 – 30 December 274 (5 years+)		St Felix I FELIX	Felix	Rome
27	4 January 275 – 7 December 283 (8 years+)		St Eutychian EUTYCHIANUS	Eutychianus
28	17 December 283 – 22 April 296 (12 years+)		St Caius CAIUS	Gaius		Martyred (according to legend) Feast day 22 April. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 11 August.
29	30 June 296 – 1 April 304 (7 years+)		St Marcellinus MARCELLINUS	Marcellinus		Feast day 26 April. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 7 June.

[edit]4th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
30	308–309		St Marcellus I MARCELLUS
31	c.309 – c.310		St Eusebius EUSEBIUS
32	2 July 311 – 10 January 314 (2 years+)		St Miltiades (Melchiades) MILTIADES		Africa	First pope after the end of the persecution of Christians through the Edict of Milan(313 AD) issued by Constantine the Great
33	31 January 314 – 31 December 335 (21 years+)		St Sylvester I SILVESTER		Sant’Angelo a Scala, Avellino	Feast day 31 December. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 2 January. First Council of Nicaea, 325.
34	18 January 336 – 7 October 336 (263 days)		St Mark MARCUS		Rome	Feast day 7 October
35	6 February 337 – 12 April 352 (15 years+)		St Julius I IULIUS		Rome
36	17 May 352 – 24 September 366 (14 years+)		Liberius LIBERIUS			Earliest Pope not yet canonized by the Roman Church. Revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 27 August.[8]
37	1 October 366 – 11 December 384 (18 years+)		St Damasus I DAMASUS		Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal	Patron of Jerome, commissioned the Vulgate translation of the Bible. Council of Rome, 382.
38	11 December 384 – 26 November 399 (14 years+)		St Siricius Papa SIRICIUS
39	27 November 399 – 19 December 401 (2 years+)		St Anastasius I Papa ANASTASIUS

[edit]5th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
40	22 December 401 – 12 March 417 (15 years+)		St Innocent I Papa INNOCENTIUS			Visigoth Sack of Rome (410) under Alaric
41	18 March 417 – 26 December 418 (1 year+)		St Zosimus Papa ZOSIMUS		Mesoraca – Calabria
42	28/29 December 418 – 4 September 422 (3 years+)		St Boniface I Papa BONIFATIUS
43	10 September 422 – 27 July 432 (9 years+)		St Celestine I Papa COELESTINUS		Rome, Western Roman Empire	Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 8 April.
44	31 July 432 – March/August 440 (~8 years)		St Sixtus III Papa SIXTUS Tertius
45	29 September 440 – 10 November 461 (21 years+)		St Leo I Papa LEO MAGNUS		Rome	Convinced Attila the Hun to turn back his invasion of Italy. Wrote the Tome which was instrumental in the Council of Chalcedon and in defining the hypostatic union. Feast day 10 November. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 18 February.
46	19 November 461 – 29 February 468 (6 years+)		St Hilarius Papa HILARIUS	Hilarius	Sardinia
47	3 March 468 – 10 March 483 (15 years+)		St Simplicius Papa SIMPLICIUS	Simplicius	Tivoli
48	13 March 483 – 1 March 492 (8 years+)		St Felix III (Felix II) Papa FELIX Tertius (Secundus)	Felice	Rome	Sometimes called Felix II
49	1 March 492 – 21 November 496 (4 years+)		St Gelasius I Papa GELASIUS	Gelasius	Africa	To date, the last pope to have been born on the continent of Africa.
50	24 November 496 – 19 November 498 (~2 years)		Anastasius II Papa ANASTASIUS Secundus	Anastasius
51	22 November 498 – 19 July 514 (15 years+)		St Symmachus Papa SYMMACHUS	Simmaco	Sardinia

6th–15th centuries

6th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
52	20 July 514 – 19 July 523 (~9 years)		St Hormisdas Papa HORMISDAS	Hormisdas	Frosinone, Southern Latium	Father of Pope Silverius
53	13 August 523 – 18 May 526 (2 years+)		St John I Papa IOANNES	Giovanni	Toscana
54	13 July 526 – 22 September 530 (4 years+)		St Felix IV (Felix III) Papa FELIX Quartus (Tertius)	Felice	Samnium	Sometimes called Felix III
55	22 September 530 – 17 October 532 (2 years+)		Boniface II Papa BONIFATIUS Secundus	Bonifacio	Rome to Ostrogoth parents
56	2 January 533 – 8 May 535 (2 years+)		John II Papa IOHANNES Secundus	Mercurio	Rome	First pope to not use personal name. This was due to Mercury being a Roman god.
57	13 May 535 – 22 April 536 (346 days)		St Agapetus I Papa AGAPITUS	Agapito	Rome, Ostrogothic Kingdom	Feast days 22 April 20 September. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 17 April.
58	1 June 536 – 11 November 537 (1 year+)		St Silverius Papa SILVERIUS	Silverius		Exiled; feast day 20 June, son of Pope Hormisdas
59	29 March 537 – 7 June 555 (18 years+)		Vigilius Papa VIGILIUS		Rome
60	16 April 556 – 4 March 561 (~5 years)		Pelagius I Papa PELAGIUS		Rome
61	17 July 561 – 13 July 574 (~13 years)		John III Papa IOANNES Tertius	Catelinus	Rome, Eastern Roman Empire
62	2 June 575 – 30 July 579 (4 years+)		Benedict I Papa BENEDICTUS
63	26 November 579 – 7 February 590 (10 years+)		Pelagius II Papa PELAGIUS Secundus		Rome
64	3 September 590 – 12 March 604 (13 years+)		St Gregory I (Gregory the Great) Papa GREGORIUS MAGNUS	Gregorio O.S.B.	Rome	First to formally employ the titles “Servus servorum Dei“ and “Pontifex Maximus“. Feast day 3 September. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 12 March.

7th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
65	13 September 604 – 22 February 606 (1 year+)		Sabinian Papa SABINIANUS		Blera
66	19 February 607 – 12 November 607 (267 days)		Boniface III Papa BONIFATIUS Tertius	Bonifacio	Rome
67	25 August 608 – 8 May 615 (6 years+)		St Boniface IV Papa BONIFATIUS Quartus	Bonifacio O.S.B.	Marsi	First Pope to bear the same name as his immediate predecessor. Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
68	19 October 615 – 8 November 618 (3 years+)		St Adeodatus I (Deusdedit) Papa ADEODATUS sive DEUSDEDIT		Rome	Sometimes called Deusdedit, as a result Pope Adeodatus II is sometimes called Pope Adeodatus without a number
69	23 December 619 – 25 October 625 (5 years+)		Boniface V Papa BONIFATIUS Quintus	Bonifacio	Naples
70	27 October 625 – 12 October 638 (12 years+)		Honorius I Papa HONORIUS	Onorio	Campania, Byzantine Empire	Named a heretic and anathematized by the Third Council of Constantinople (680)
71	October 638 – 2 August 640 (1 year+)		Severinus Papa SEVERINUS	Severino	Rome
72	24 December 640 – 12 October 642 (1 year+)		John IV Papa IOANNES Quartus		Zadar, Dalmatia, Byzantine Empire
73	24 November 642 – 14 May 649 (6 years+)		Theodore I Papa THEODORUS		Jerusalem
74	July 649 – 16 September 655 (6 years+)		St Martin I Papa MARTINUS	Martino	Near Todi, Umbria, Byzantine Empire	Feast Day 12 November. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 14 April.
75	10 August 654 – 2 June 657 (2 years+)		St Eugene I Papa EUGENIUS	Eugenio	Rome
76	30 July 657 – 27 January 672 (14 years+)		St Vitalian Papa VITALIANUS		Segni, Byzantine Empire
77	11 April 672 – 17 June 676 (4 years+)		Adeodatus II Papa ADEODATUS Secundus	unknown O.S.B.	Rome, Byzantine Empire	Sometimes called Pope Adeodatus (without a number) in reference to Pope Adeodatus I sometimes being called Pope Deusdedit. Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
78	2 November 676 – 11 April 678 (1 year+)		Donus Papa DONUS		Rome, Byzantine Empire
79	27 June 678 – 10 January 681 (2 years+)		St Agatho Papa AGATHO		Sicily	Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 20 February.
80	December 681 – 3 July 683 (1 year+)		St Leo II Papa LEO Secundus	Leo	Sicily	Feast day 3 July
81	26 June 684 – 8 May 685 (317 days)		St Benedict II Papa BENEDICTUS Secundus	Benedetto	Rome, Byzantine Empire	Feast day 7 May
82	12 July 685 – 2 August 686 (1 year+)		John V Papa IOANNES Quintus		Syria
83	21 October 686 – 22 September 687 (335 days)		Conon Papa CONON
84	15 December 687 – 8 September 701 (13 years+)		St Sergius I Papa SERGIUS		Sicily

8th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
85	30 October 701 – 11 January 705 (3 years+)		John VI Papa IOANNES Sextus	Ιωάννης	Greece
86	1 March 705 – 18 October 707 (2 years+)		John VII Papa IOANNES Septimus	Ιωάννης	Rossano – Calabria	Second pope to bear the same name as his immediate predecessor
87	15 January 708 – 4 February 708 (21 days)		Sisinnius Papa SISINNIUS		Syria
88	25 March 708 – 9 April 715 (7 years+)		Constantine Papa COSTANTINUS sive CONSTANTINUS		Syria	Last pope to visit Greece while in office, until John Paul II in 2001
89	19 May 715 – 11 February 731 (15 years+)		St Gregory II Papa GREGORIUS Secundus	Gregorio	Rome, Byzantine Empire	Feast day 11 February
90	18 March 731 – 28 November 741 (10 years+)		St Gregory III Papa GREGORIUS Tertius		Syria	Third pope to bear the same name as his immediate predecessor. Was previously the last pope to have been born outside Europe until the election of Francis in 2013.
91	3 December 741 – 14/22 March 752 (10 years+)		St Zachary Papa ZACHARIAS		Santa Severina – Calabria	Feast day 15 March
(never consecrated)	23 March 752 – 25 March 752 (Never took office as pope)		Pope-elect Stephen Papa Electus STEPHANUS			Sometimes known as Stephen II. Died three days after his election having never received episcopal consecration. Some lists still include his name. The Vatican sanctioned his addition to the list of popes in the sixteenth century; however he was removed in 1961. He is no longer considered a pope by the Catholic Church.
92	26 March 752 – 26 April 757 (5 years+)		Stephen II (Stephen III) Papa STEPHANUS Secundus (Tertius)			Sometimes called Stephen III
93	29 May 757 – 28 June 767 (10 years+)		St Paul I Papa PAULUS	Paolo	Rome
94	1/7 August 767 – 24 January 772 (4 years+)		Stephen III (Stephen IV) Papa STEPHANUS Tertius (Quartus)	Stefano	Sicily	Sometimes called Stephen IV
95	1 February 772 – 26 December 795 (23 years+)		Adrian I Papa HADRIANUS	Adriano	Rome
96	26 December 795 – 12 June 816 (20 years+)		St Leo III Papa LEO Tertius	Leo	Rome	Crowned Charlemagne Imperator Augustus on Christmas Day, 800, thereby initiating what would become the office of Holy Roman Emperor requiring the imprimatur of the pope for its legitimacy

[edit]9th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at election / death or resigned	# years as pope	Notes
97	12 June 816 – 24 January 817		St Stephen IV (Stephen V) Papa STEPHANUS Quartus (Quintus)	Stephanus			<1	Sometimes called Stephen V
98	25 January 817 – 11 February 824		St Paschal I Papa PASCHALIS	Pasquale	Rome		7
99	8 May 824 – August 827		Eugene II Papa EUGENIUS Secundus	Eugenio	Rome		3
100	August 827 – September 827		Valentine Papa VALENTINUS	Valentino	Rome		<1
101	827 – January 844		Gregory IV Papa GREGORIUS Quartus	Gregorio	Rome		17
102	January 844 – 7 January 847		Sergius II Papa SERGIUS Secundus		Rome		3
103	January 847 – 17 July 855		St Leo IV Papa LEO Quartus	Leo O.S.B.	Rome		8	Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
104	855 – 7 April 858		Benedict III Papa BENEDICTUS Tertius	Benedetto	Rome
105	24 April 858 – 13 November 867		St Nicholas I (Nicholas the Great) Papa NICOLAUS MAGNUS	Niccolò	Rome		9
106	14 December 867 – 14 December 872		Adrian II Papa HADRIANUS Secundus	Adriano	Rome		5
107	14 December 872 – 16 December 882		John VIII Papa IOANNES Octavus	Giovanni	Rome		10
108	16 December 882 – 15 May 884		Marinus I Papa MARINUS	Marino	Gallese, Rome		1
109	17 May 884 – c.September 885		St Adrian III Papa HADRIANUS Tertius	Adriano	Rome
110	885 – 14 September 891		Stephen V (Stephen VI) Papa STEPHANUS Quintus (Sextus)	Stefano	Rome			Sometimes called Stephen VI
111	19 September 891 – 4 April 896		Formosus Papa FORMOSUS	Formoso	Ostia		4	Posthumously ritually executed following the Cadaver Synod
112	4 April 896 – 19 April 896		Boniface VI Papa BONIFATIUS Sextus	Bonifacio	Rome		<1
113	22 May 896 – August 897		Stephen VI (Stephen VII) Papa STEPHANUS Sextus (Septimus)	Stefano			1	Sometimes called Stephen VII
114	August 897 – November 897		Romanus Papa ROMANUS	Romano	Gallese, Rome		<1
115	December 897		Theodore II Papa THEODORUS Secundus	Teodoro	Rome		<1
116	January 898 – January 900		John IX Papa IOANNES Nonus	Giovanni O.S.B.	Tivoli			Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
117	900 – 903		Benedict IV Papa BENEDICTUS Quartus	Benedetto	Rome

10th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at election / death or resigned	# years as pope	Notes
118	July 903 – September 903		Leo V Papa LEO Quintus	Leo	Ardea		<1
119	29 January 904 – 14 April 911		Sergius III Papa SERGIUS Tertius	Sergio	Rome		7	“Saeculum obscurum” begins
120	April 911 – June 913		Anastasius III Papa ANASTASIUS Tertius		Rome		2
121	July/August 913 – February/March 914		Lando Papa LANDUS	Lando	Sabina		<1
122	March 914 – May 928		John X Papa IOANNES Decimus	Giovanni	Romagna		14
123	June 928 – February 929		Leo VI Papa LEO Sextus	Leo	Rome		<1
124	February 929 – March 931		Stephen VII (Stephen VIII) Papa STEPHANUS Septimus (Octavus)	Stefano	Rome		2	Sometimes called Stephen VIII
125	February/March 931 – December 935		John XI Papa IOANNES Undecimus	Giovanni	Rome		4
126	3 January 936 – 13 July 939		Leo VII Papa LEO Septimus	Leo O.S.B.			3	Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
127	14 July 939 – October 942		Stephen VIII (Stephen IX) Papa STEPHANUS Octavus (Nonus)	Stephan	Rome		3	Sometimes called Stephen IX
128	30 October 942 – May 946		Marinus II Papa MARINUS Secundus	Marino	Rome		3
129	10 May 946 – December 955		Agapetus II Papa AGAPITUS Secundus	Agapito	Rome		9
130	16 December 955 – 14 May 964		John XII Papa IOANNES Duodecimus	Octavian	Rome		8	Deposed in 963 by Emperor Otto invalidly; end of the “Saeculum obscurum“
131	22 May 964 – 23 June 964		Benedict V Papa BENEDICTUS Quintus		Rome		<1	Elected after John XII‘s death by the people of Rome, in opposition to the Antipope Leo VIII who was appointed by Emperor Otto; Benedict accepted his deposition in 964 leaving Leo as sole pope.
132	July 964 – 1 March 965		Leo VIII Papa LEO Octavus		Rome		<1	Appointed antipope by Emperor Otto in 963 in opposition to John XIIand Benedict V. He became the true Pope after Benedict V was deposed
133	1 October 965 – 6 September 972		John XIII Papa IOANNES Tertius Decimus		Rome		6
134	19 January 973 – June 974		Benedict VI Papa BENEDICTUS Sextus		Rome, Papal States		1	Deposed and murdered
135	October 974 – 10 July 983		Benedict VII Papa BENEDICTUS Septimus		Rome		8
136	December 983 – 20 August 984		John XIV Papa IOANNES Quartus Decimus	Pietro Campanora	Pavia		<1
137	August 985 – March 996		John XV Papa IOANNES Quintus Decimus		Rome		10
138	3 May 996 – 18 February 999		Gregory V Papa GREGORIUS Quintus	Bruno of Carinthia	Germany, Holy Roman Empire		2	First German Pope
139	2 April 999 – 12 May 1003		Sylvester II Papa SILVESTER Secundus	Gerbert d’Aurillac	Auvergne region of France		4	First French Pope

11th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
140	June 1003 – 6 December 1003		John XVII Papa IOANNES Septimus Decimus	Siccone	Rome, Papal States
141	25 December 1003 – July 1009 (5 years+)		John XVIII Papa IOANNES Duodevicesimus	Giovanni Fasano; Phasianus	Rapagnano, Papal States
142	31 July 1009 – 12 May 1012 (2 years+)		Sergius IV Papa SERGIUS Quartus	Pietro Boccapecora	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
143	18 May 1012 – 9 April 1024 (11 years+)		Benedict VIII Papa BENEDICTUS Octavus	Theophylactus II, Conti di Tusculum	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
144	April/May 1024 – 20 October 1032 (8 years+)		John XIX Papa IOANNES Undevicesimus	Romanus, Conti di Tusculum	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
145	20 October 1032–31 December 1044		Benedict IX Papa BENEDICTUS Nonus	Theophylactus III, Conti di Tusculum	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	1st Term
146	1 January 1045-31 March 1045		Sylvester III Papa SILVESTER Tertius	John, Bishop of Sabina	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Validity of election questioned; considered Anti-Pope; deposed at the Council of Sutri.
147	1 April 1045–10 November 1045		Benedict IX Papa BENEDICTUS Nonus	Theophylactus III, Conti di Tusculum	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	2nd Term; deposed at the Council of Sutri
148	10 November 1045– 23 December 1046		Gregory VI Papa GREGORIUS Sextus,	Johannes Gratianus	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Deposed at the Council of Sutri
149	24 December 1046 – 9 October 1047		Clement II Papa CLEMENS Secundus	Suidger	Hornburg, Duchy of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire	Appointed by Henry III at the Council of Sutri; crowned Henry III as Holy Roman Emperor.
150	November 1047–17 July 1048		Benedict IX Papa BENEDICTUS Nonus	Theophylactus III, Conti di Tusculum	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	3rd Term; deposed and excommunicated
151	17 July 1048 – 9 August 1048 (23 days)		Damasus II Papa DAMASUS Secundus	Poppo	Pildenau, Duchy of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire
152	12 February 1049 – 19 April 1054 (5 years+)		St Leo IX Papa LEO Nonus	Bruno, Count of Dagsbourg	Eguisheim, Swabia, Holy Roman Empire	In 1054, mutual excommunications of Leo IX and Patriarch of Constantinople Michael I Cerularius began the East–West Schism. The anathematizations were rescinded byPope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras in 1965.[9]
153	13 April 1055 – 28 July 1057 (2 years+)		Victor II Papa VICTOR Secundus	Gebhard, Count of Calw, Tollenstein, and Hirschberg	Kingdom of Germany, Holy Roman Empire
154	2 August 1057 – 29 March 1058 (241 days)		Stephen IX (Stephen X) Papa STEPHANUS Nonus (Decimus)	Frédéric de Lorraine, O.S.B.	Duchy of Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire	Sometimes called Stephen X. Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
155	6 December 1058 – 27 July 1061 (2 years+)		Nicholas II Papa NICOLAUS Secundus	Gérard de Bourgogne	Château de Chevron, Kingdom of Arles
156	30 September 1061 – 21 April 1073 (11 years+)		Alexander II Papa ALEXANDER Secundus	Anselmo da Baggio	Milan, Italy, Holy Roman Empire	Authorised the Norman conquest of England in 1066
157	22 April 1073 – 25 May 1085 (12 years+)		St Gregory VII Papa GREGORIUS Septimus	Hildebrand O.S.B.	Sovana, Italy, Holy Roman Empire	Initiated the Gregorian Reforms. Restricted the use of title “Papa” to the Bishop of Rome.[4] Member of the Order of Saint Benedict. Political struggle with German Emperor Henry IV, who had to go to Canossa (1077).
158	24 May 1086 – 16 September 1087 (1 year+)		Bd. Victor III Papa VICTOR Tertius	Desiderio; Desiderius; Dauferius O.S.B.	Benevento, Duchy of Benevento	Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
159	12 March 1088 – 29 July 1099 (11 years+)		Bd. Urban II Papa URBANUS Secundus	Odo of Lagery, O.S.B.	Lagery, County of Champagne, France	Started the First Crusade. Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
160	13 August 1099 – 21 January 1118 (18 years+)		Paschal II Papa PASCHALIS Secundus	Raniero O.S.B.	Bleda, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.

12th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
161	24 January 1118 – 28 January 1119 (1 year, 4 days)		Gelasius II Papa GELASIUS Secundus	Giovanni Coniulo, O.S.B.	Gaeta, Principality of Capua	Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
162	2 February 1119 – 13 December 1124 (5 years, 315 days)		Callixtus II Papa CALLISTUS Secundus	Guido, Comte de Bourgogne	Quingey, County of Burgundy,Holy Roman Empire	Opened the First Council of the Lateran in 1123
163	15 December 1124 – 13 February 1130 (5 years, 60 days)		Honorius II Papa HONORIUS Secundus	Lamberto Scannabecchi, Can.Reg.	Fiagnano, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Canon Regular of S. Maria di San Reno
164	14 February 1130 – 24 September 1143 (13 years, 222 days)		Innocent II Papa INNOCENTIUS Secundus	Gregorio Papareschi, Can.Reg.	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Canon Regular of Lateran; Convened the Second Council of the Lateran, 1139
165	26 September 1143 – 8 March 1144 (0 years, 164 days)		Celestine II Papa COELESTINUS Secundus	Guido	Città di Castello, Papal States,Holy Roman Empire
166	12 March 1144 – 15 February 1145 (0 years, 340 days)		Lucius II Papa LUCIUS Secundus	Gerardo Caccianemici dal Orso, Can.Reg.	Bologna, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Canon Regular of S. Frediano di Lucca
167	15 February 1145 – 8 July 1153 (8 years, 143 days)		Bd. Eugene III Papa EUGENIUS Tertius	Bernardo da Pisa, O.Cist.	Pisa, Republic of Pisa, Holy Roman Empire	Member of the Order of Cistercians. Announced the Second Crusade.
168	8 July 1153 – 3 December 1154 (1 year, 148 days)		Anastasius IV Papa ANASTASIUS Quartus	Corrado Demetri della Suburra	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
169	4 December 1154 – 1 September 1159 (4 years, 271 days)		Adrian IV Papa HADRIANUS Quartus	Nicholas Breakspear, Can.Reg.	Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, Kingdom of England	First and only English pope; purportedly granted Ireland to Henry II, King of England. Canon Regular of St. Rufus Monastery .
170	7 September 1159 – 30 August 1181 (21 years, 357 days)		Alexander III Papa ALEXANDER Tertius	Rolando	Siena, Italy, Holy Roman Empire	Convened the Third Council of the Lateran, 1179
171	1 September 1181 – 25 November 1185 (4 years, 85 days)		Lucius III Papa LUCIUS Tertius	Ubaldo	Lucca, Italy, Holy Roman Empire
172	25 November 1185 – 19 October 1187 (1 year, 328 days)		Urban III Papa URBANUS Tertius	Uberto Crivelli	Cuggiono, Italy, Holy Roman Empire
173	21 October 1187 – 17 December 1187 (0 years, 57 days)		Gregory VIII Papa GREGORIUS Octavus	Alberto di Morra, Can.Reg.	Benevento, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Canon Regular Premostratense. Proposed the Third Crusade
174	19 December 1187 – 20 March 1191[10] (3 years, 91 days)		Clement III Papa CLEMENS Tertius	Paolo Scolari	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
175	21 March 1191 – 8 January 1198 (6 years, 293 days)		Celestine III Papa COELESTINUS Tertius	Giacinto Bobone	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
176	8 January 1198 – 16 July 1216 (18 years, 190 days)		Innocent III Papa INNOCENTIUS Tertius	Lothario dei Conti di Segni	Gavignano, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Convened the Fourth Council of the Lateran, 1215. Initiated the Fourth Crusade. Initiated the medieval Inquisition in Spain and Portugal.

13th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
177	18 July 1216 – 18 March 1227 (10 years, 243 days)		Honorius III Papa HONORIUS Tertius	Cencio	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Initiated the Fifth Crusade.
178	19 March 1227 – 22 August 1241 (14 years, 156 days)		Gregory IX Papa GREGORIUS Nonus	Ugolino dei Conti di Segni	Anagni, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Canonized Elisabeth of Hungary, 1235. Initiated the Inquisition in France.
179	25 October 1241 – 10 November 1241 (0 years, 16 days)		Celestine IV Papa COELESTINUS Quartus	Goffredo Castiglioni	Milan, Italy, Holy Roman Empire	Died before coronation.
180	25 June 1243 – 7 December 1254 (11 years, 165 days)		Innocent IV Papa INNOCENTIUS Quartus	Sinibaldo Fieschi	Genoa, Republic of Genoa, Holy Roman Empire	Convened the First Council of Lyons, 1245
181	12 December 1254 – 25 May 1261 (6 years, 164 days)		Alexander IV Papa ALEXANDER Quartus	Rinaldo dei Conti di Jenne	Jenne, Papal States
182	29 August 1261 – 2 October 1264 (3 years, 34 days)		Urban IV Papa URBANUS Quartus	Jacques Pantaléon	Troyes, County of Champagne, France
183	5 February 1265 – 29 November 1268 (3 years, 298 days)		Clement IV Papa CLEMENS Quartus	Gui Faucoi	Saint-Gilles, Languedoc, France
N/A	29 November 1268 – 1 September 1271		Interregnum			Almost 3 year period without a valid pope elected. This was due to a deadlock among cardinals voting for the pope.
184	1 September 1271 – 10 January 1276 (4 years, 131 days)		Bd. Gregory X Papa GREGORIUS Decimus	Tebaldo Visconti	Piacenza, Italy, Holy Roman Empire	Convened the Second Council of Lyons, 1274.
185	21 January 1276 – 22 June 1276 (0 years, 153 days)		Bd. Innocent V Papa INNOCENTIUS Quintus	Pierre de Tarentaise, O.P.	County of Savoy, Holy Roman Empire	Member of the Dominican Order.
186	11 July 1276 – 18 August 1276 (0 years, 38 days)		Adrian V Papa HADRIANUS Quintus	Ottobuono Fieschi	Genoa, Republic of Genoa, Holy Roman Empire
187	8 September 1276 – 20 May 1277 (0 years, 254 days)		John XXI Papa IOANNES Vicesimus Primus	Pedro Julião (a.k.a. Petrus Hispanus and Pedro Hispano)	Lisbon, Portugal	Due to a confusion over the numbering of popes named John in the 13th century, there was no John XX. There has never been a Pope John XX, because the 20th pope of this name, formerly Petrus Hispanus, when elected Pope in 1276, decided to skip the number XX and to be counted as John XXI instead. He wanted to correct what in his time was believed to be an error in the counting of his predecessors John XV to XIX
188	25 November 1277 – 22 August 1280 (2 years, 271 days)		Nicholas III Papa NICOLAUS Tertius	Giovanni Gaetano Orsini	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
189	22 February 1281 – 28 March 1285 (4 years, 34 days)		Martin IV Papa MARTINUS Quartus	Simon de Brion	Meinpicien, Touraine, France
190	2 April 1285 – 3 April 1287 (2 years, 1 day)		Honorius IV Papa HONORIUS Quartus	Giacomo Savelli	Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
191	22 February 1288 – 4 April 1292 (4 years, 42 days)		Nicholas IV Papa NICOLAUS Quartus	Girolamo Masci, O.F.M.	Lisciano, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire	Member of the Franciscan Order.
N/A	4 April 1292 – 5 July 1294		Interregnum			2 year period without a valid pope elected. This was due to a deadlock among cardinals voting for the pope.
192	5 July 1294 – 13 December 1294 (0 years, 161 days)		St Celestine V Papa COELESTINUS Quintus	Pietro da Morrone, O.S.B.	Sant’Angelo Limosano, Kingdom of Sicily	One of the few popes who resigned. Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
193	24 December 1294 – 11 October 1303 (8 years, 291 days)		Boniface VIII Papa BONIFATIUS Octavus	Benedetto Caetani	Anagni, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire

14th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Notes
194	22 October 1303 – 7 July 1304 (0 years, 259 days)		Bd. Benedict XI Papa BENEDICTUS Undecimus	Niccolò Boccasini, O.P.	Treviso	Member of the Dominican Order.
195	5 June 1305 – 20 April 1314 (8 years, 319 days)		Clement V Papa CLEMENS Quintus	Bertrand de Got	Villandraut, Gascony, France	Pope at Avignon. Convened the Council of Vienne, 1311–1312. Initiated the persecution of the Knights Templar with the Pastoralis Praeeminentiae under pressure from King Philip IV of France.
N/A	20 April 1314 – 7 August 1316		Interregnum			2 year period without a valid pope elected. This was due to a deadlock among cardinals voting for the pope.
196	7 August 1316 – 4 December 1334 (18 years, 119 days)		John XXII Papa IOANNES Vicesimus Secundus	Jacques d’Euse; Jacques Duèse	Cahors, Quercy, France	Pope at Avignon
197	20 December 1334 – 25 April 1342 (7 years, 126 days)		Benedict XII Papa BENEDICTUS Duodecimus	Jacques Fournier, O.Cist.	Saverdun, County of Foix, France	Pope at Avignon. Member of the Order of Cistercians.
198	7 May 1342 – 6 December 1352 (10 years, 213 days)		Clement VI Papa CLEMENS Sextus	Pierre Roger, O.S.B.	Maumont, Limousin, France	Pope at Avignon
199	18 December 1352 – 12 September 1362 (9 years, 268 days)		Innocent VI Papa INNOCENTIUS Sextus	Étienne Aubert	Les Monts, Limousin, France	Pope at Avignon
200	28 September 1362 – 19 December 1370 (8 years, 82 days)		Bd. Urban V Papa URBANUS Quintus	Guillaume (de) Grimoard, O.S.B.	Grizac, Languedoc, France	Pope at Avignon. Member of the Order of Saint Benedict.
201	30 December 1370 – 27 March 1378 (7 years, 87 days)		Gregory XI Papa GREGORIUS Undecimus	Pierre Roger de Beaufort	Maumont, Limousin, France	Pope at Avignon; returns to Rome; last French Pope
202	8 April 1378 – 15 October 1389 (11 years, 190 days)		Urban VI Papa URBANUS Sextus	Bartolomeo Prignano	Naples, Kingdom of Naples	Western Schism
203	2 November 1389 – 1 October 1404 (14 years, 334 days)		Boniface IX Papa BONIFATIUS Nonus	Pietro Tomacelli	Naples, Kingdom of Naples	Western Schism

15th century

• ^R This pope resigned his office.
• ^B The exact birth date of Innocent VIII and almost all popes prior to Eugene IV is unknown, therefore the lowest probable age has been assumed for this table.

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at start/end of papacy	Notes
204	17 October 1404 – 6 November 1406 (2 years, 20 days)		Innocent VII Papa INNOCENTIUS Septimus	Cosimo Gentile Migliorati	Sulmona, Kingdom of Naples	65 / 67 [B]	Western Schism
205	30 November 1406 – 4 July 1415 (8 years, 216 days)		Gregory XII Papa GREGORIUS Duodecimus	Angelo Correr	Venice, Republic of Venice	[R]	Western Schism; abdicated during the Council of Constance, which had been called by his opponent John XXIII.
N/A	4 July 1415 – 11 November 1417		Interregnum				Two-year period without a valid pope elected.
206	11 November 1417 – 20 February 1431 (13 years, 101 days)		Martin V Papa MARTINUS Quintus	Oddone Colonna	Genazzano, Papal States	48 / 62	Convened the Council of Basel, 1431
207	3 March 1431 – 23 February 1447 (15 years, 357 days)		Eugene IV Papa EUGENIUS Quartus	Gabriele Condulmer, O.S.A.	Venice, Republic of Venice	47 / 63 [B]	Member of the Augustinian Order. Crowned Sigismund emperor at Rome in 1433. Transferred the Council of Basel to Ferrara. It was later transferred again, to Florence, because of the Bubonic plague.
208	6 March 1447 – 24 March 1455 (8 years, 18 days)		Nicholas V Papa NICOLAUS Quintus	Tommaso Parentucelli	Sarzana, Republic of Genoa	49 / 57	Held Jubilee of 1450. Crowned Frederick III emperor at Rome in 1452. Created a library in the Vatican which would eventually become the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana.
209	8 April 1455 – 6 August 1458 (3 years, 120 days)		Callixtus III Papa CALLISTUS Tertius	Alfonso de Borgia	Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, Crown of Aragon	76 / 79	First Spanish pope
210	19 August 1458 – 15 August 1464 (5 years, 362 days)		Pius II Papa PIUS Secundus	Enea Silvio Piccolomini	Corsignano, Republic of Siena	52 / 58	Interest in urban planning. Founded Pienza (near Siena) as the ideal city (1462).
211	30 August 1464 – 26 July 1471 (6 years, 330 days)		Paul II Papa PAULUS Secundus	Pietro Barbo	Venice, Republic of Venice	47 / 54	Nephew of Eugene IV
212	9 August 1471 – 12 August 1484 (13 years, 3 days)		Sixtus IV Papa XYSTUS Quartus	Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M.	Celle Ligure, Republic of Genoa	57 / 70	Member of the Franciscan Order. Commissioned the Sistine Chapel. Authorized an Inquisition targeting converted (Jewish) Christians in Spain, at the request of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand.
213	29 August 1484 – 25 July 1492 (7 years, 331 days)		Innocent VIII Papa INNOCENTIUS Octavus	Giovanni Battista Cybo	Genoa, Republic of Genoa	51 / 59 [B]	Appointed Tomás de Torquemada
214	11 August 1492 – 18 August 1503 (11 years, 7 days)		Alexander VI Papa ALEXANDER Sextus	Rodrigo de Lanzol-Borgia	Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, Crown of Aragon	61 / 72	Nephew of Callixtus III. Father to Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia. Divided the extra-European world between Spain and Portugal in 1493 by the Bull Inter caetera.

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16th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at start/end of papacy	Notes
215	22 September 1503 – 18 October 1503 (0 years, 26 days)		Pius III Papa PIUS Tertius	Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini	Siena, Republic of Siena	64 / 64	Nephew of Pius II
216	31 October 1503 – 21 February 1513 (9 years, 113 days)		Julius II Papa IULIUS Secundus	Giuliano della Rovere	Albisola, Republic of Genoa	59 / 69	Nephew of Sixtus IV; Convened the Fifth Council of the Lateran, 1512. Took effective control of the whole territory of the Papal States for the first time. Commissioned Michelangelo to paint theSistine Chapel ceiling. Proposed plans for rebuilding of St Peter’s Basilica
217	9 March 1513 – 1 December 1521 (8 years, 267 days)		Leo X Papa LEO Decimus	Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici	Florence, Republic of Florence	37 / 45	Son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Excommunicated Martin Luther. Extended the Spanish Inquisition into Portugal.
218	9 January 1522 – 14 September 1523 (1 year, 248 days)		Adrian VI Papa HADRIANUS Sextus	Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens	Utrecht, Bishopric of Utrecht,Holy Roman Empire (presently The Netherlands)	62 / 64	The only Dutch pope but also known as a German Pope. Last non-Italian to be elected pope until John Paul II in 1978. The tutor of Emperor Charles V
219	26 November 1523 – 25 September 1534 (10 years, 303 days)		Clement VII Papa CLEMENS Septimus	Giulio di Giuliano de’ Medici	Florence, Republic of Florence	45 / 56	Cousin of Leo X. Rome plundered by imperial troops (“Sacco di Roma“), 1527. He forbade the divorce of Henry VIII and crowned Charles V Emperor at Bologna in 1530. His niece Catherine de’ Medici was married to the future Henry II of France.
220	13 October 1534 – 10 November 1549 (15 years, 28 days)		Paul III Papa PAULUS Tertius	Alessandro Farnese	Canino, Lazio, Papal States	66 / 81	Opened the Council of Trent in 1545. His illegitimate son became the first Duke of Parma.
221	7 February 1550 – 29 March 1555 (5 years, 50 days)		Julius III Papa IULIUS Tertius	Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte	Rome, Papal States	62 / 67	Established the Collegium Germanicum.
222	9 April 1555 – 30 April or 1 May 1555 (0 years, 21/22 days)		Marcellus II Papa MARCELLUS Secundus	Marcello Cervini	Montefano, Marche, Papal States	53 / 53	Last to use birth name as regnal name
223	23 May 1555 – 18 August 1559 (4 years, 87 days)		Paul IV Papa PAULUS Quartus	Giovanni Pietro Carafa, C.R.	Capriglia Irpina, Campania, Kingdom of Naples	78 / 83
224	26 December 1559 – 9 December 1565 (5 years, 348 days)		Pius IV Papa PIUS Quartus	Giovanni Angelo Medici	Milan, Duchy of Milan	60 / 66	Reopened the Council of Trent, 1562, it concluded its proceedings in 1563
225	7 January 1566 – 1 May 1572 (6 years, 115 days)		St Pius V Papa PIUS Quintus	Michele Ghislieri, O.P.	Bosco, Duchy of Milan	61 / 68	Member of the Dominican Order. Excommunicated Elizabeth I of England, 1570. Victory of Lepanto 1571
226	13 May 1572 – 10 April 1585 (12 years, 332 days)		Gregory XIII Papa GREGORIUS Tertius Decimus	Ugo Boncompagni	Bologna, Papal States	70 / 83	Reform of the calendar 1582
227	24 April 1585 – 27 August 1590 (5 years, 125 days)		Sixtus V Papa XYSTUS Quintus	Felice Peretti, O.F.M. Conv.	Grottammare, Marche, Papal States	63 / 68	Member of the Conventual Franciscan Order.
228	15 September 1590 – 27 September 1590 (0 years, 12 days)		Urban VII Papa URBANUS Septimus	Giovanni Battista Castagna	Rome, Papal States	69 / 69	Shortest-reigning pope; died before coronation.
229	5 December 1590 – 15/16 October 1591 (0 years, 314/315 days)		Gregory XIV Papa GREGORIUS Quartus Decimus	Niccolò Sfondrati	Somma Lombardo, Duchy of Milan	55 / 56
230	29 October 1591 – 30 December 1591 (0 years, 62 days)		Innocent IX Papa INNOCENTIUS Nonus	Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti	Bologna, Papal States	72 / 72
231	30 January 1592 – 3 March 1605 (13 years, 32 days)		Clement VIII Papa CLEMENS Octavus	Ippolito Aldobrandini	Fano, Marche, Papal States	55 / 69	Convened the Congregatio de Auxiliis which addressed doctrinal disputes between the Dominicans and Jesuits regarding free will and divine grace.[11]

17th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at start/end of papacy	Notes
232	1 April 1605 – 27 April 1605 (0 years, 26 days)		Leo XI Papa LEO Undecimus	Alessandro Ottaviano de’ Medici	Florence, Duchy of Florence	69 / 69	Nephew of Leo X.
233	16 May 1605 – 28 January 1621 (15 years, 257 days)		Paul V Papa PAULUS Quintus	Camillo Borghese	Rome, Papal States	52 / 68	Known for building projects, including the facade of St Peter’s Basilica.
234	9 February 1621 – 8 July 1623 (2 years, 149 days)		Gregory XV Papa GREGORIUS Quintus Decimus	Alessandro Ludovisi	Bologna, Papal States	67 / 69	Established the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, 1622.
235	6 August 1623 – 29 July 1644 (20 years, 358 days)		Urban VIII Papa URBANUS Octavus	Maffeo Barberini	Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany	55 / 76	Trial against Galileo Galilei
236	15 September 1644 – 7 January 1655 (10 years, 114 days)		Innocent X Papa INNOCENTIUS Decimus	Giovanni Battista Pamphilj	Rome, Papal States	70 / 80	Great-great-great-grandson of Alexander VI.
237	7 April 1655 – 22 May 1667 (12 years, 45 days)		Alexander VII Papa ALEXANDER Septimus	Fabio Chigi	Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany	56 / 68	Great-nephew of Paul V. Commissioned St. Peter’s Square.
238	20 June 1667 – 9 December 1669 (2 years, 172 days)		Clement IX Papa CLEMENS Nonus	Giulio Rospigliosi	Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany	67 / 69	Commissioned the colonnade of St. Peter’s Square.
239	29 April 1670 – 22 July 1676 (6 years, 84 days)		Clement X Papa CLEMENS Decimus	Emilio Altieri	Rome, Papal States	79 / 86	Canonized the first saint from the Americas, Saint Rose of Lima, in 1671.
240	21 September 1676 – 11/12 August 1689 (12 years, 324/325 days)		Bd. Innocent XI Papa INNOCENTIUS Undecimus	Benedetto Odescalchi	Como, Duchy of Milan	65 / 78	Suspected to have secretly funded William III of Orange‘s Glorious Revolution to overthrow the Catholic James II of England.
241	6 October 1689 – 1 February 1691 (1 year, 118 days)		Alexander VIII Papa ALEXANDER Octavus	Pietro Vito Ottoboni	Venice, Republic of Venice	79 / 80
242	12 July 1691 – 27 September 1700 (9 years, 77 days)		Innocent XII Papa INNOCENTIUS Duodecimus	Antonio Pignatelli	Spinazzola, Kingdom of Naples	76 / 85	Issued Romanum decet Pontificem, 1692.

18th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at start/end of papacy	Notes
243	23 November 1700 – 19 March 1721 (20 years, 116 days)		Clement XI Papa CLEMENS Undecimus	Giovanni Francesco Albani	Urbino, Marche, Papal States	51 / 71	Chinese Rites controversy
244	8 May 1721 – 7 March 1724 (2 years, 304 days)		Innocent XIII Papa INNOCENTIUS Tertius Decimus	Michelangelo de’ Conti	Poli, Lazio, Papal States	65 / 68
245	29 May 1724 – 21 February 1730 (5 years, 268 days)		Benedict XIII Papa BENEDICTUS Tertius Decimus	Pierfrancesco Orsini, O.P.	Gravina in Puglia, Kingdom of Naples	75 / 81	Member of the Dominican Order. Third and last member of the Orsini family to be Pope.
246	12 July 1730 – 6 February 1740 (9 years, 209 days)		Clement XII Papa CLEMENS Duodecimus	Lorenzo Corsini	Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany	78 / 87	Completed the new façade of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, 1735. Commissioned the Trevi Fountain, 1732.
247	17 August 1740 – 3 May 1758 (17 years, 259 days)		Benedict XIV Papa BENEDICTUS Quartus Decimus	Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini	Bologna, Papal States	65 / 83
248	6 July 1758 – 2 February 1769 (10 years, 211 days)		Clement XIII Papa CLEMENS Tertius Decimus	Carlo della Torre Rezzonico	Venice, Republic of Venice	65 / 75	Provided the famous fig leaves on male statues in the Vatican. Defended the Society of Jesus in Apostolicum pascendi, 1765.
249	19 May 1769 – 22 September 1774 (5 years, 126 days)		Clement XIV Papa CLEMENS Quartus Decimus	Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli,O.F.M. Conv.	Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, Papal States	63 / 68	Member of the Conventual Franciscan Order. Suppressed the Jesuit Order.
250	15 February 1775 – 29 August 1799 (24 years, 195 days)		Pius VI Papa PIUS Sextus	Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi	Cesena, Papal States	57 / 81	Condemned the French Revolution and was expelled from the Papal States by French troops from 1798 until his death.
N/A	29 August 1799 –14 March 1800		Interregnum				six month period without a valid pope elected. This was due to unique logistical problems (the old pope died a prisoner and the Conclave was in Venice) and a deadlock among cardinals voting.

19th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at start/end of papacy	Notes
251	14 March 1800 – 20 August 1823 (23 years, 159 days)		Pius VII Papa PIUS Septimus	Count Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, O.S.B.	Cesena, Papal States	57 / 81	Member of the Order of Saint Benedict. Present at Napoleon’scoronation as Emperor of the French. Temporarily expelled from the Papal States by the French between 1809 and 1814.
252	28 September 1823 – 10 February 1829 (5 years, 135 days)		Leo XII Papa LEO Duodecimus	Count Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga	Genga or Spoleto, Papal States	63 / 68	Placed the Catholic educational system under the control of the Jesuits through Quod divina sapientia, 1824.
253	31 March 1829 – 30 November 1830 (1 year, 244 days)		Pius VIII Papa PIUS Octavus	Francesco Saverio Castiglioni	Cingoli, Marche, Papal States	67 / 69	Accepted Louis Philippe I as King of the French.
254	2 February 1831 – 1 June 1846 (15 years, 119 days)		Gregory XVI Papa GREGORIUS Sextus Decimus	Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, O.S.B. Cam.	Belluno, Republic of Venice	65 / 80	Member of the Camaldolese Order. The last non-bishop to be elected
255	16 June 1846 – 7 February 1878 (31 years, 236 days)		Bd. Pius IX Papa PIUS Nonus	Count Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti,O.F.S.	Senigallia, Marche, Papal States	54 / 85	Opened First Vatican Council; lost the Papal States to Italy. Longest serving pope in history (see note on St Peter.)
256	20 February 1878 – 20 July 1903 (25 years, 150 days)		Leo XIII Papa LEO Tertius Decimus	Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci,O.F.S.	Carpineto Romano,Lazio, Papal States.	67 / 93	Issued the encyclical on social teaching, Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) and supported Christian democracy as against communism; the fourth-longest reigning pope after Pius IX, St Peterand John Paul II.

20th century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal Motto Latin (English)	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at start/end of papacy	Notes
257	4 August 1903 – 20 August 1914 (11 years, 16 days)		St Pius X Papa PIUS Decimus	Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto	Riese, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire	68 / 79	Encouraged and expanded reception of Holy Communion, and combatted Modernistic theology. Most recent pope to be canonized.
258	3 September 1914 – 22 January 1922 (7 years, 141 days)		Benedict XV Papa BENEDICTUS Quintus Decimus	Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa	Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia	59 / 67	Credited for intervening for peace during World War I. Remembered by Pope Benedict XVI as “prophet of peace”.
259	6 February 1922 – 10 February 1939 (17 years, 4 days)		Pius XI Papa PIUS Undecimus	Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti	Desio, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire	64 / 81	Signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, establishing the Vatican City as a sovereign state. Created the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
260	2 March 1939 – 9 October 1958 (19 years, 221 days)		Ven. Pius XII Papa PIUS Duodecimus Opus Justitiae Pax (“The work of justice [shall be] peace”)	Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli	Rome, Italy	63 / 82	Invoked papal infallibility in encyclical Munificentissimus Deus.
261	28 October 1958 – 3 June 1963 (4 years, 218 days)		Bd. John XXIII Papa IOANNES Vicesimus Tertius Obedientia et Pax (“Obedience and peace”)	Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli	Sotto il Monte, Bergamo, Italy	76 / 81	Opened Second Vatican Council; sometimes called “Good Pope John”.
262	21 June 1963 – 6 August 1978 (15 years, 46 days)		Ven. Paul VI Papa PAULUS Sextus Cum Ipso in Monte (“With Him on the mount”)	Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini	Concesio, Brescia, Italy	65 / 80	The last pope to be crowned with the Papal Tiara. First pope to travel to the United States. Concluded Second Vatican Council.
263	26 August 1978 – 28 September 1978 (0 years, 33 days)		Servant of God John Paul I Papa IOANNES PAULUS Primus Humilitas (“Humility”)	Albino Luciani	Forno di Canale, Veneto, Italy	65 / 65	First pope to use ‘the First’ in regnal name. First pope with two names, for his two immediate predecessors.
264	16 October 1978 – 2 April 2005 (26 years, 168 days)		Bd. John Paul II Papa IOANNES PAULUS Secundus Totus Tuus (“Totally yours”)	Karol Józef Wojtyła	Wadowice, Poland	58 / 84	First Polish pope, first non-Italian pope in 455 years and first pope to travel to Canada. Canonized more saints than all predecessors. Traveled extensively. Third longest known reign after Pius IX and St Peter. Beatified by Pope Benedict XVI.

21st century

Numerical order	Pontificate	Portrait	Name English · Regnal Motto Latin (English)	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at start/end of papacy	Notes
265	19 April 2005 – 28 February 2013 (7 years, 315 days)		Benedict XVI Papa BENEDICTUS Sextus Decimus Cooperatores Veritatis (“Cooperators of the truth”)	Joseph Alois Ratzinger	Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany	78 / 85	Oldest to become pope since Pope Clement XII in 1730. Elevated theTridentine Mass to a more prominent position. First pope to renounce the Papacy on his own initiative since Pope Celestine V in 1294,[12]retaining regnal name with title of pope emeritus.[13]
266	13 March 2013 – present (0 years, 20 days)		Francis Papa FRANCISCUS Miserando atque Eligendo (“by having mercy, by choosing him”)[14]	Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J.	Buenos Aires, Argentina	76 / -	First pope born outside Europe since St. Gregory III and first from the Americas. First Pope from the Southern Hemisphere. First Jesuitpope. First to use a new and non-composed regnal name sinceLando (913–914).

2001: 9-11 Attack – U.S. War with Afghanistan
1989: Tiananmen Square & Fall of the Berlin Wall – Collapse of the Soviet Empire in Europe
1977: Second Cold War with the Soviet Union Begins
1965: Vietnam War – Counter Culture Revolution
1953: Korean War
1941: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor – Word War II U.S.A.
1929: Stock Market Crash that heralded the Great Depression
1917: Russian Revolution Begins – Heralds the creation of the U.S.S.R.
1905: Russo-Japanese War – Battle of Tsushima
1893: The Depression of 1893
1881: Assassination of President James Garfield
1869: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – Black Males given the right to vote

According to Stellhorn, the principle of Chinese Astrology is to identify what one can expect in a given year and then alter the environment using the principles of Feng Shui to increase luck. Simply by moving objects around, the subconscious reacts and we can see things differently and avoid danger, she said.

The convergence of the Chinese Year of the Water Snake combined with the Uranus-Pluto Waxing Square (Jun 24 2012 – Mar 16, 2015) and the Mayan k’atun 8-Ahau that began on December 21st, 2012 – the Mayan 5th Age of the Sun, we can expect at least one or more of the following events to unfold:

• U.S. Constitutional Crisis
• “Occupy All Street” Global Protest
• The Breakdown of 2-Party System of Government
• Social Revolution in Europe
• Social Revolution in the United States
• Political Revolution in China
• Government Disclosure of the Extraterrestrial Presence
• Emergence of Peak Oil Crisis
• Euro Zone Collapse
• Derivative Market Meltdown
• Third Industrial Revolution: Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Fusion Power, Solar Energy, Wireless Power, 3-D Printing, and Robotics
• The Emergence of “Peak Oil”
• New International “Reserve Currency to Replace the Dollar
• Sovereign Debt Implosion
• Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
• Iran Detonates First Nuclear Bomb
• Regional War in the Middle East
• Military Crisis the Korean Peninsula
• Japan Military Crisis with China
• 2nd Woman’s Liberation Movement in Asia and the Middle East
• 2nd Psychedelic Revolution – DMT & Holotropic Breath-work
• A “Middle Class” tax revolt?
• Collapse of the “Permanent Political Class”
• Escalation of Radiological Contamination from Fukushima Reactor 4
• Marital Law Imposed on U.S. Cities
• Drone Strikes on Civilians within the United States
• Income Tax Reform
• U.S. Immigration Reform
• Bond Market Collapse in the United Kingdom
• Collapse of the Japanese economy & Yen
• U.S. Dollar Implosion
• Crisis in the Obama Presidency
• China surpasses the United States as the World’s Next Industrial Superpower

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- Terence McKenna

The Mayan Long Count End Date (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count) represents the rare alignment of the Winter Solstice Sun crossing through the Galactic Equator along the dark band of stars at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Ecliptic (the path of the Sun) that will occur exactly 11:11 AM Greenwich Mean Time.

Our solar system, the Sol System, is located in our galaxy, the Milky Way, at the outer reaches of the spiral arm, the Orion arm, and is approximately 26,000 light-years from the center. As the Solar System orbits the Milky Way galaxy it follows a path that travels above and below the equator of the galactic plane.

The Mayan Calendar is based on a 260-day astrological almanac that is based on a sacred divinatory tradition. The Mayans systematized time in blocks of 20 years and grouped these in sets of 13.

Tzolk’in 260-day astrological calendar:

The core of the Mayan Calendar is a prophetic calendar based on 13 numbers and 20 astrological day signs. The 13 numbers cycle through the Mayan day signs 20 times (13 x 20 = 260), taking 260 days for a complete cycle. A complete 260-day cycle is called a tzolkin by the Mayans, and closely correlates the Venus visibility interval (length of time as either “The Morning Star” or “The Evening Star”) of 263 days.

According to the Mayans the completion of a Long Count is 5,125 years. The Long Count is subdivided into 260 sections (5,125/260 = 19.71) resulting in nearly 20-year units of time that correlates closely with the Jupiter/Saturn cycle of 19.86 years. In modern astrology the Jupiter/Saturn cycle is considered of the greatest importance in shaping the course of history and the development and the evolution of long-term social structures (religion, law, philosophy, and government).

These 20-year intervals are known to the Maya as k’atuns. K’atuns are generational markers for the Maya that are marked by sacred ceremonies (as one ends and another begins) each having their own set of prophecies associated with them.

So there are 260 k’atuns in the Long Count, and December 21^st is the end of the last k’atun. Although there is no clear prophecy according to Mayan scholars for the ending of the Long Count on December 21st, there are prophecies for the groupings of the 13 k’atuns (19.71 x 13 = 256.23 years) known as the Short Count, found in the Maya sacred book of the Chilam Balam (Jaguar Priest).

The k’atuns were read by the Mayan priest for purpose of divination – in tandem with the Tzolk’in – the 260 day calendar, that foretold the fate of their civilization for that particular period.

Each of the 13 k’atun’s was named after its concluding day-sign Ahau (‘Lord’). And each day-sign had a detailed and explicit fated outcome attached to it. The most recent k’atun of 4-Ahau which began April 6th, 1993 states that this will be a time of great difficulty resulting in mankind’s disharmony of spirit. According to the Chilam Balam the delineation of k’atun 4-Ahau prophecy is a follows:

There will be scarcities of corn and squash during this k’atun and this will lead to a great mortality. It is the k’atun of remembering and recording knowledge.

This was the same k’atun period during the founding of Chichen Itza (832 AD), a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya, when the man-god Kukulcan (also known as Quetzalcoatl) arrived.

According to the Mayan Elders, during the period of 4-Ahau k’atun (1993 – 2012), resources will be scarce, natural disasters will increase, and the people will be troubled and anxious about what the future may bring. This k’atun also states a period of remembering (old) and recording knowledge. From this, many Mayan Elders believe that the Mayan Masters will reincarnate during this period to spread the wisdom and knowledge throughout the world to ease the time of purification, and open the way for collective transformation.

The next k’atun 8-Ahau will begin on December 21st, 2012, which comes at the completion of a Long Count (5,125 years) and measures the changing of the “suns” in the precession of the equinoxes: a 25,700 year galactic cycle, and the precession of a Mayan Grand Cycle of 25,630 years. According to the Chilam Balam the delineation of k’atun 2-Ahau prophecy is a follows:

For half of the k’atun there will be food, for half some misfortunes. This k’atun brings the end of the “word of God.” It is a time of uniting for a cause.

According to Mayan Elders during the period of 8-Ahau k’atun (2012 – 2032), scarcity in essential resources (food, fuel, and water) and economic distress will continue to intensify, as natural disasters will accelerate and increase in frequency. This k’atun also states the end of the “word of God.” For the Mayan Elders this will be a period where there will be collapse of false belief systems, both sacred (religious) and secular (such as science based on mechanistic materialism) as a new paradigm begins to emerge. Thus, people will lose confidence in religious leaders and government officials, leading to doubt and distrust of world leadership in providing the necessary solution and guidance during this period of unprecedented global crises.

The prophecy states “this is a time for uniting for a cause.” The Mayan Elders say this will be period of suppression of dissenting voices in all areas of life by governments creating civil unrest that will lead to violent forms of group defiance and rebellion. Nations will suppress other nations, groups will suppress other groups, and the use of violent force will increase. Therefore, we are likely to see a reemergence of large scale organized protest movements around the world, e.g. “Occupy All Street,” with the primary driving issues being social and economic inequality, corporate greed, and the unwarranted influence of banks and the financial sector on government.

The Mayan Calendar End Date is set for December 21st, 2012 at 11:11 AM GMT in Chichen Itza, Mexico. From the perspective of contemporary Western Astrology, the horoscope for this cosmological event shows the Solstice Sun at 0° Capricorn at the World Point shortly before dawn. The most outstanding configuration in the horoscope is a Yod, also known as the Finger of God that consists of two planets sextile (60° aspect) in relation to each other, with both quincunx (150° aspect) in relation to a third.

In the Mayan End Date horoscope, Saturn (8° Scorpio) and Pluto (8° Capricorn) are in exact sextile with each other, with both in quincunx to Jupiter (8° Gemini).  The Yod configuration aspect activates a powerful conduit of energy from the two harmonious sextile planets (Saturn and Pluto), in the direction of the quincunxed planet (Jupiter).

The meaning the Yod configuration may augur the process of collective spiritual maturation that will require humanity to discard religious dogma and restore its relationship between man and God in order to be in the right relationship with the Divine. This configuration also suggests that many of the intractable problems facing our civilization will reach crisis level, causing great suffering that will deepen humanity and make it question and be more open to a greater understanding of the higher laws of life and the universe.

Also in the horoscope figure the Moon is in Aries, separating from a conjunction of Uranus, while the Sun is close to the Galactic Equator (27° GC), exactly sextile Neptune, and forms a conjunction with Pluto.  Thus the Mayan Calendar End Date may signify a radical reconfiguration of our civilization marked by a period of deep soul searching, as humanity begins to seek the answers to its own enigma as a species and the meaning of its existence and place in the cosmos.

The Mayan Elders have stated that the meaning of the Long Count Calendar change is a time of purification and a period where humanity must undergo a collective spiritual death-rebirth transformation in order to overcome its dark, destructive nature. Therefore we are not facing a single moment of change but an era of change.

According to Jose Arguelles, the person who put the Mayan 2012 end date on the map, says, “Everything that we know, everything that we are, is about to undergo a substantial and radical alteration.” The end result is that the human mind/body is evolving so that we can become empowered multi-dimensional beings.

Time is accelerating due to that fact the Solar System is passing through high-energy particle zone in space. The high energy particles are bombarding our bodies affecting our (junk) DNA, thereby increasing cellular frequency. Therefore thought-to-action, e.g. the “Law of Attraction”, will accelerate along with the general rate of cause and effect.

If Arguelles is right, signs of meta-consciousness will likely increase as we begin the Mayan 5th Age of the Sun. Therefore we can expect a dramatic increase in meta-conscious states, such as intensified level of synchronicity (unique timing of events that seem related, but not caused one by the other), an awakening to ESP and telepathy (to know things outside the rational mind), heightened altered states awareness that allow one to see and feel energy fields, and the ability to remote view the future.

Western astrology also indicates that we are also in an era change based on the Barbault Planetary Cyclic Index between 2001 and 2022, and a succession of major outer planetary alignments positioned on the Cardinal Points (Equinoxes and Solstices) happening between 2008 and 2016.

Cyclic Index

The Cyclic Index is plotted by calculating ten subsets of angular separations of the five outer planets, Jupiter through Pluto. The angular separations of Jupiter-Saturn, Jupiter-Uranus, Jupiter-Neptune, etc. all the way through to the tenth subset, Neptune-Pluto, are added together and plotted on a graph.

The ascending arcs of the graph are times when the planets are moving toward (0°-180°) opposition.  In the example above the four outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) began moving toward opposition after 1914 and were farthest apart shortly after the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in September 1921.

The upward phase of the Cyclic Index indicates the period’s economic growth, expansion and development. The upward phase coincides with collective optimism, social stability, advances in civil rights and emancipatory movements, creative breakthroughs and innovation, scientific ingenuity, public unrestraint, and periods marked with prolific artistic creativity.

Descending arcs are times when the planets are moving toward (180°-0°) conjunction. Troughs in the graph are thus planetary line-ups. In the example above, the four outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto) began moving toward conjunction after the Jupiter/Saturn opposition of July 1932 and were closest together in February 1941.

The downward phase of the Cyclic Index coincides with periods of economic contraction and financial crisis. The downward phase coincides with societal breakdown, increasing pessimism, political instability, reactionary movements, resource crisis, periods marked by confusion, general chaos, restraint and moderation, global tension, military conflict, and destructive resource wars.

The fluctuation of the Cyclic Index originates in the alternative movement of the ascending (0°-180°) and descending (180°-0°) phases of all the cycles, as if the solar system was expanding and contracting.  The good periods go hand-in-hand with celestial expansion, as the planets separate from each other, and the critical times occur simultaneously with planetary concentrations, or conjunctions.

As an example, in the 20th century the Index collapsed at the time of both the First and Second World Wars. Astrologers who have studied the Cyclic Index in depth agree that it is a reliable future indicator of global economic and social stability, political relations, military conflict, and technological development.

The first decade of the 21st century spanning from 2000 to 2008 illustrates a long downward phase in the Cyclic Index. This period began with a significant stock market correction in March of 2000 followed by the September 11th attacks in 2001 that triggered a war in Afghanistan and subsequent U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. In general the decade was dominated by several wide ranging topics, such as international terrorism, nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran, major trade imbalances, concerns over energy resources, increasing global demand of oil from the Middle East, global warming, the rising economic growth of China and the slow but steady economic decline of Japan, and the United States.

During 2010 the slow-moving planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto formed a T-Square configuration (when two or more planets in opposition make a square to a third planet), within 0° of the World Points of the Cardinal signs.  The World Points are 0° of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) and 15° of fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius). Planets located at these degrees express their archetypal power on the global stage with direct and unequivocal force, like a super volcano ready erupt.

The outer planet Cardinal T-Square alignment in late July 2010 corresponded to a period marked by a tangible intensification and acceleration of imminent environmental catastrophe, and near-term exhaustion of natural resources and fossil fuels due to exponential population growth and accelerating global consumption. This period has also been marked by a stagnating global economy and a worldwide debt crisis that reached a dangerous new phase, particularly in the United States, Japan, and the Eurozone which is clearly in an advanced state of decline.

The Uranus-Pluto square alignment will have seven exact passes from 2012-15, making it the longest alignment of Uranus to Pluto in more than 500 years. In 2012, there were two of seven Uranus-Pluto square alignments. The Mayan Long Count will occur nearly 93 days after the second Uranus-Pluto alignment on September 19, 2012. If the Mayan Long Count could be compared to the hour hand of a historical clock, the Planetary Cyclic Index would be the minute hand, and the Uranus-Pluto square alignment would be equated as the second hand.

The general tenor of Uranus-Pluto alignments is revolution – the Dionysian (Pluto) impulse for revolutionary empowerment and Promethean (Uranus) thrust for radical change and innovative reform to establish a new order. Uranus-Pluto alignments have historically correlated with periods of social breakdown and the collapse of old forms and structures as potent instinctual forces emerge from within the collective that are stronger than the existing power structure to contain it.

Below is a listing of the Uranus-Pluto major alignments, the starting and ending dates, accompanied with the most significant historical events during the 220-year period following the discovery of Uranus in 1781.

Uranus-Pluto Opposition (September 19th 1792 – July 04^th 1794):

• The French Revolution
• United States Bank Panic Of 1792
• The Haitian Revolution
• The Polish Revolt
• The Whiskey Revolution in Pittsburgh, PA and the Monongahela Valley
• Polish-Russian War of 1792
• Burmese-Siamese War

Uranus-Pluto Waning Square (January 1^st, 1820 – September 04^th 1821):

• United States in Deep Recession From the 1819 Panic
• Scottish Insurrection in Great Britain
• Revolution in Spain
• Revolution In Portugal
• Revolutionary War Of Independence in Peru
• The Greek War of Independence
• Ottoman-Persian War

Uranus-Pluto Conjunction (June 25^th 1850 – March 23^rd 1851):

• Second Industrial Revolution in Great Britain: Revolved around steel, railroads, electricity, and chemicals
• The Taiping Rebellion of China
• San Francisco Gold Rush
• Winchester Rifle
• Breech Loading Cannon
• Great Fire of San Francisco
• Slave trade Abolished in Washington, D.C., but slavery allowed to continue in the Southern States
• Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of Blue Jeans
• Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
• First National Women’s Rights Convention Convenes in Worcester, MA
• Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked
• The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India

Uranus-Pluto Waxing Square (October 21^st 1876 – August 25^th 1877):

• Great Sioux War of 1876
• The Second Rebellion Against the President of Mexico
• The April Uprising revolt by the Bulgarian population against the Ottoman rule
• The Satsuma Rebellion Against the Meji Government of Japan
• Hamburg Massacre in Aiken County, South Carolina
• Battle of Little Bighorn River
• Anti-Chinese rioting swept the city of San Francisco
• Germany in Economic Depression
• Rail Road Service in the U.S. Grinds to a Standstill Due To Strike

Uranus-Pluto Opposition (January 31^st 1901 – November 6^th 1902):

• Boxer Rebellion in China
• New York Stock Exchange Panic of 1901
• The Philippine-American War
• Unification of Saudi Arabia War
• Anglo-Aro War
• The United States becomes the world leader in industrial production making 24% of the world total output, followed by Britain (19%), Germany (13%), Russia (9%) and France (7%)

Uranus-Pluto Waning Square (April 21^st 1932 – Jan 17^th 1934):

• The Great Depression
• Constitution Revolution in Brazil
• The Aprista Revolt in Trujillo, Peru
• The 1932 Salvadorian Peasant Uprising
• The Siamese coup d’état end absolute monarchy in Thailand
• Populist Revolution in Cuba
• Ecuadorian Civil War
• Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
• Shanghai War of 1932
• Chaco War
• Colombian-Peru War
• Third Reich – Adolf Hitler Comes To Power in Germany
• Nation Bank Holiday & Gold Confiscation Act in the United States
• Glass-Steagall Act
• Securities and Exchange Commission established to oversee Wall Street trading
• The United States becomes the worlds industrial superpower as its production exceeds the combined output of Britain, Germany, Russia, France, and Japan

Uranus-Pluto Conjunction (October 9^th 1965 – June 30^th 1966):

• ’60s Counter Culture Revolution
• Dominican Civil War
• United States Occupation of the Dominican Republic
• Indo-Pakistan War of 1965
• Civil War in Chad
• Korean DMZ Conflict
• South African Border War
• Namibian War
• The Colombian Armed Conflict
• The March of Intifada in Bahrain
• Coup d’état in Ghana
• Ulster Volunteer Force was Created to Wage War on the Irish Republican Army
• United States Debased its Coinage
• Malcolm X Assassinated
• Watt’s Riot in Los Angeles
• “Great Society” Act
• Race Riots and Looting in Atlanta, Chicago, and Cleveland
• People’s Republic of China Denotes First Nuclear Bomb
• United States Doubles its Draft Quota – Vietnam War Escalates
• Large Scale Anti-War Rallies in 4 Major Cities in the United States
• “Flower Power” and the Counter Culture Revolution
• “Psychedelic Revolution”
• Civil Rights Movement
• Women’s Liberation Movement
• Gay Rights Movement
• “Free Love” Sexual Emancipation Movement
• Human Potential Movement
• Environmental Movement
• “Beatlemania” – The Beginning of the World Music Movement
• Microprocessor Revolution
• Information Revolution

Uranus-Pluto Waxing Square (Jun 24 2012 – Mar 16, 2015):

• “Occupy All Street” Global Protest?
• A Constitutional Crisis?
• The Breakdown of 2-Party System of Government?
• U.S. Dollar Collapse?
• Social Revolution in Europe
• Social Revolution in the United States
• Political Revolution in China?
• Government Disclosure of the Extraterrestrial Presence?
• Emergence of Peak Oil Crisis?
• Euro Zone Collapse?
• Derivative Market Meltdown?
• Third Industrial Revolution: revolves around Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Fusion Power, Solar Energy, Wireless Power, 3-D Printing, and Robotics?
• The Emergence of “Peak Oil”?
• New International “Reserve Currency to Replace the Dollar?
• Sovereign Debt Implosion?
• Bee Colony Collapse Disorder?
• Iran Detonates First Nuclear Bomb?
• Regional War in the Middle East?
• Military Crisis the Korean Peninsula?
• Japan Military Crisis with China?
• 2^nd Woman’s Liberation Movement in Asia and the Middle East?
• A “Middle Class” tax revolt?
• Collapse of the “Permanent Political Class”?
• Escalation of Radiological Contamination from Fukushima Reactor 4?
• Marital Law Imposed on U.S. Cities?
• Drone Strikes on Civilians within the United States?
• Income Tax Reform?
• U.S. Immigration Reform?
• China surpasses the United States as the World’s Next Industrial Superpower?

The next Uranus-Pluto square alignments will occur on April 20^th and on November 1st, and will be hitting the heliocentric North Node of Jupiter – the planet of economic expansion and wealth. Therefore we can expect a continued intensification and acceleration of social and political breakdown among many nations throughout the globe, particularly in the European Union, due to a weakening economic environment of bankruptcy, monetary debasement, high unemployment/underemployment rates, large scale demonstrations, nationwide strikes and riots in major cities, leading to increasing polarization and political partisanship and government in taking measures against its own citizenry, that will ultimately lead that radical reconfiguration of the monetary system and global power structure.

2012 – 2024: A pronounced drop of the Barbault Planetary Cycle Index occurs 497 days after the Mayan End Date, during the peak of the Uranus-Pluto square alignment in the spring of 2014. The Cyclic Index continues to decline until it reaches its baseline trough in 2020-22, during the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, and remains there until 2024. The “Great Recession,” that began in 2007 (Phase I) in the United States under G.W. Bush during the Uranus-Saturn opposition when the Saturn-Pluto square was in applying orb, was followed by a liquidity crisis in 2008 . This was  followed by a sovereign debt in Europe and global bank solvency crisis in 2010 (Phase II) as the Uranus-Pluto square was in applying orb. Since 2010 the deteriorating global economy and financial markets have been artificially bolstered by massive amounts of monetary liquidity (digital money creation) by the central-banks. As we approach the Mayan Long Count in late 2012, we are close to the global economic “tipping point” (Phase III) where sovereign debt and bank solvency issues will reach crisis level in Asia, such as Japan which is already buckling.

To the Mayans, the approach of Long Count End Date represents the end of a 25,625-year long cycle that began in 3113 BC and signifies the transition from one world age to another, as humanity moves into alignment with higher consciousness. The period from 1998 – 2016 is the “Sacred Hall of Mirrors” that, according the Mayans, is a time of upheaval (storms, earthquakes, global warming, economic collapse, social revolution, food and resource shortages, radiological contamination, destructive war) that would hasten the awakening of humanity and the rise of global consciousness and become the dawn of a new era in human civilization.

Therefore, we should expect a period of continued global economic contraction leading to depression level status in certain nations including the United States, friction over trade and resources among nations, high unemployment leading to large-scale protest, an acceleration of extreme weather, and general world decay, from 2012 to 2022.

However, starting in 2023 the Cyclic Index moves into an upward phase, indicating a period of rapid economic growth, social and cultural development and general optimism. Most likely, astounding technological progress and spiritual advancement will be the central feature of this decade. In fact, it is even arguable that during this period we can expect the rise of artificial life on Earth with greater-than-human intelligence as we begin to develop the first generation computers that are self-aware with superhuman intelligence – A.I., where large computer networks that become sentient. We can also expect the development of nanotech computer/human interfaces that will give humans superhuman intelligence. Also, we can expect a major breakthrough in alternative energy systems and the full implementation of fusion power to begin to replace diminishing fossil fuel reserves. We can also expect major breakthroughs in the biological sciences that will improve the quality of human life and dramatically extend lifespan with minimal aging.  As we approach “technological singularity” by 2030, humanity will be at a turning point by being the first species to be on the verge of taking control of its own evolution. Different types of technology – genetic, robotic, information, and nanotech – will converge and will lead the human enhancement capabilities that will literally change what it means to be human.

On November 8, 2012, the RealClearPolitics state poll aggregation indicated that President Obama was slated to score 290 electoral votes to Mitt Romney’s 248. Because of errors in pre-polling, using 2008 assumptions by most pollsters that the 2012 Voter ID makeup would remain the same (39% Democrat / 32% Republican / 29% Independent), and a strong Get-Out-The-Vote operation in the 9 key swing states on either side, I conjectured that most of the polls would be off by a number of points in either direction. I believed using contest horary snapshots of based on the date and time a poll was published, I  could determine which candidate was incrementally outperforming in the polls, and could accurately speculate where the vote projection would be on Election Day, as I did so successively in both the 2008 and 2010 mid-term elections.

Based on numerous horary snapshots based on published poll data sources, I concluded that Romney would outperform the composite polling aggregate by 3 points in most every battleground state, enough to deprive Obama of his demographic advantage in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, giving him an electoral vote majority of  291 Electoral Votes and slightly over 50% of the National Vote. However, Romney’s momentum slowed to a screeching halt as the devastating cyclone Sandy blew the campaign off course and allowed the President to project leadership at the head of a multi-state disaster response, neutralizing Romney’s gains in the swing states after his command performance in his first debate with a lackluster Obama.

The final contest horary snapshots of the final polls on the evening of November 5^th, reflected a much close race with mixed testimonies for both candidates, but I gave the edge Romney since Gallup indicated that voter turnout for Obama will be lower then in 2008, and the fact that Romney led for 12 straight days with margins of six points with Independent voters that composed approximately 30% of the electorate, most of that time in the combined 11 key swing states won by President Obama in 2008 and thought to be competitive in 2012 up to October 29^th.

However, Obama was able regain considerable momentum in the final days of the campaign and reverse the so-called “Incumbent Re-Election Rule” that states nearly 80% of the time when the challenger has been found to be an acceptable choice as in this election, at least ¾ of the undecided will vote for the challenger. On November 5^th the RCP national composite poll had Romney’s average at 47.3% and Obama’s average at 47.6%, with 4.8% of registered voters undecided. The most recent Exit Poll data revels that a majority of undecided voters began to break heavily for the President giving him a significant 3.6% advantage with no additional votes going to Romney. The last minute undecided voter  turnout for the incumbent President, an anomaly that is unprecedented based on my understanding of  modern presidential elections, was a factor that I was not able to detect in my political speculations and foresee in my horary judgments.

So I was wrong. I although I take no pleasure in finding I have been wrong, I also realize it an opportunity to learn more and learn from those astrologers that called it right. Over the next few weeks, as many of us will begin to speculate about the approaching Mayan Calendar End Date on December 21^st and the coming Fiscal Cliff on January 1^st, 2013, I will continue to prowl through the 2012 election statistics and vote data and compare the results with my published horary speculations and polling sources, to learn much more about where I came up short, and more importantly determine the national political dynamic of Tuesday’s election, where nothing has changed with Barack Obama remaining as President, the Democrats remaining in control of the Senate with a non-filibuster-proof majority, and the Republicans remaining in control of the House of Representatives.

Below is the contest horary data of the 11 key swing states, using Intrade predictions  and  the latest non-partisan polling data to project the winner:

Colorado: Romney 50% vs. Obama 48 - November 1st, 2012 2:59 PM EDT, Asbury Park, N.J. - Rasmussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Romney at 52% – Obama 48% chance.
Predicted Winner: 50-48 Romney — a surprise for many

Florida: Romney 50% vs. Obama 48% -October 26th, 2012 8:37 AM EDT, Asbury Park, N.J. - Rasmussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Romney at 52% – Obama 48% chance.
Predicted Winner: 51-48 Romney –closer then expected.

Iowa:  Obama 49% vs. Romney 49%  - November 5th, 2012 2:28 PM EST, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Ramussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 69% – Obama 42% chance
Predicted Winner: 50-48 Romney — many don’t expect this

Michigan: Obama 51% vs. Romney 47%  - November 1st, 2012 9:26 AM EST, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Ramussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 94% – Romney 14% chance
Predicted Winner: 50-48 Obama — closer then expected

Nevada: Obama vs. Romney  - October 24th, 2012 08:22 AM EDT, Asbury Park, N.J. – Rasmussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 80% – Romney 12% chance
Predicted Winner: 51-48 Obama — much closer then expected

New Hampshire: Obama 50% vs. Romney 48% – November 5th, 2012 2:28 PM EST, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Ramussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 67% – Obama 33% chance
Predicted Winner: 50-48 Romney — maybe a true bellwether of the popular vote

North Carolina: Romney 52 vs. Obama 46  - October 27th, 2012 8:59 AM EDT, Asbury Park, N.J. – Rasmussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Romney at 79% – Obama 20% chance
Predicted Winner: 53 – 45 Romney — not as close as expected

Ohio: Obama vs. Romney  - Obama 50% vs. Romney 48% – November 5th, 2012 10:49 AM EST, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Ramussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 65% – Romney 31% chance
Predicted Winner: 50-49  Romney — the surprise of the night

Pennsylvania: Obama vs. Romney  - Obama 47% vs. Romney 47% – November 5th, 2012 4:29 PM EST, Winter Gardens, FL  - Gravis Marketing
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 83% – Romney 15% chance
Predicted Winner: 50-48  Obama —  much closer then expected

Virginia: Obama 48% vs. Romney 50%  - November 5th, 2012 8:53 AM EST, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Ramussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 60% – Romney 39% chance
Predicted Winner: 51 -48 Romney — very close

Wisconsin: Obama 49% vs. Romney 49%  - November 1st, 2012 11:35 AM EDT, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Ramussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 77% – Romney 22% chance
Predicted Winner: 51-49 Romney — a real squeaker and surprise

Final Swing State Daily Tracking Of The Combined 11 Key States:
Obama 46% vs. Romney 50% - October 29th, 2012 10:15 AM EDT, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Rasmussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 60% – Romney 39% chance
Predicted Winner: 51-48 Romney — extremely close electoral college race

National: Obama (48%) vs. Romney (49%) - November 06th, 2012 7:36 AM EST, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Rasmussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 70% – Romney 30% chance
Predicted Winner: 50 -48 Romney — very close, by a razor thin margin,

Below is the contest horary data of the 11 key swing states, using Intrade predictions  and  the latest non-partisan polling data to project the winner:

Colorado: Romney 50% vs. Obama 48 - November 1st, 2012 2:59 PM EDT, Asbury Park, N.J. - Rasmussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Romney at 52% – Obama 48% chance.
Predicted Winner: 50-48 Romney — a surprise for many

Florida: Romney 50% vs. Obama 48% -October 26th, 2012 8:37 AM EDT, Asbury Park, N.J. - Rasmussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Romney at 52% – Obama 48% chance.
Predicted Winner: 51-48 Romney –closer then expected.

Iowa:  Obama 49% vs. Romney 49%  - November 5th, 2012 2:28 PM EST, Asbury Park, N.J.  - Ramussen Reports
Intrade Odds On Favorite: Obama at 69% – Obama 42% chance
Predicted Winner: 50-48 Romney — many don’t expect this