Shifting the Energy...
A possibility that might explain some of the funk apparently affecting some people is that Neptune is activating the psychic centers and the energy is turning inward on them. Energy is energy. A powerful energy must be acknowledged and handled or it can turn against one in a negative way.
What's so interesting about Alice Bailey's "Initiations: Human & Solar" is that she deals with the sun and earth as conscious entities that are in the process of initiation. Bear in mind this book was written in 1922, and Alice Bailey left her body in 1948. In 1943, Bailey wrote that her book, "The Rays & The Initiations" was written for a group of initiates who would need the information at the end of the century (2000) and, in 1943, they had already started to incarnate. "Initiations: Human & Solar" is deceptively simple yet loaded with meaning that has become clearer over the years.
The energy for initiation is directed through the sun, according to Bailey's 1922 book! The Mayan calendar was not deciphered until the 1950's, and knowledge of the sun was far more limited when Bailey wrote in 1922.
The objective of the Hierarchy is to direct stimuli that will bring 3/5's of humankind through the first initiation by the middle of the next round. The next round? It may reference the next 5,200-year cycle that is actually beginning at this time. The middle of the next round would be about 2,600 years.
Initiation is driven by stress and tension that mandates new awareness and skills. The first initiation is something many people who talk about these things may have taken long ago, since the lower initiations occur over longer periods of time than higher initiations. The majority of humankind have not yet taken the first initiation at this time, and the Hierarchy seems to focus on those who have taken initiation then rely on them to bring the larger numbers through the portal.
Large numbers of those who are still working on the first and second initiations would get hit by increased psychic energy that they do not know how to deal in a more drastic way than those who have experience with dealing with that energy. Higher energies impacting those who do not know how to deal with them is both a danger and an opportunity. Ultimately, they will learn how to deal with them but most of the forms that they created in lower awareness will disappear with the learning curve. As in the personal lives of individual initiates, much of what is familiar to the past collapses in the learning curve of initiation...