2012 is the year of a major calendar shift in the Mayan Calendar. Think of it as this, they had huge wheels that would mark days, years, millenia, etc. The bigger wheels took "longer" to turn, so it was a huge deal when it did happen. 2012 is when one of the big wheels turn. At the same time, certain planets and "things" line up. But this does not mean anything. There is always planets lining up in certain "angles" of space. The Mayans used this rotation of planets lining up to study time, because to record time, the mayans looked to space.
It is not prophecy or armageddon, but the Mayan method of measuring time.
