Facing the start of classes and a few weeks before the end of the summer in the southern hemisphere, the third month of the year indicates for many the true beginning of work and academic commitments
.
The influence of Mars is not accidental at this time
.
Astrology and history offer an explanation in this regard.
To find the origins of this powerful influence, the astrologer
Álvaro Norambuena
tells
Clarín
that knowing the history of calendaring is one of the first steps.
The company was undertaken by different civilizations with purposes that ranged from the organization of crops to the determination of the most propitious moments to go out on a campaign to war.
“While the Egyptians observed the Sun and determined its calendar based on the cycles of the solar year, the Mesolithic peoples of ancient Britain closely followed the cycles of the lunar phases,” says the astrologer.
The Chinese civilization united both methods in a calendar that continues to be used today.
The first calendar systems were created for the purpose of demarcating time and organizing life according to the seasons (Photo: Illustration Shutterstock)
In the words of Norambuena, the purpose of the various calendars was, above all, to translate terrestrial events and
the influence of heaven
in the best possible way .
That same influence is what associates the red planet with the third month of the year.
Although we owe this neither to the Egyptians nor to the Chinese, but to the Romans.
“The Romans were the ones who developed a calendar system that is the basis of the measurement of time that we use to this day.
Uniting in one, sometimes confusing amalgamation, traditions born in Babylonian territory and in ancient Greece”, says the astrology professor.
At first, the Roman calendar had only ten months.
March was the first month and was dedicated to Mars, the god of war
.
The deity also represented "the metaphor of initiating, leading and going into battle," Norambuena clarifies.
Originally, March was the first month and was dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war (Photo: Illustration Shutterstock)
Like March, other of the first months were also named after gods:
April
, for example, comes from the original name "Aphril", whose semantic root is
Aphro
, alluding to Aphrodite.
June
, according to the astrologer, is dedicated to the goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and goddess of marriage, fertility and the family.
Likewise, Norambuena affirms that "we have bequeathed the nomenclature of the seventh month (September), the eighth (October), the ninth (November) and the tenth month (December), which was the time that corresponded to the harvest."
March: the month chosen as the beginning of the astrological year
The spring equinox, the date that begins the astrological year in the sign of Aries, occurs in March (Photo: illustration Shutterstock)
Everything seems to point to this month as the great driving force, the starting point in the cycles that will mark the objectives of the year.
According to the astrologer, the god Mars was so important to the Romans that they not only called the month that way, they also honored him with the name of the second day of the week: Tuesday.
“Since the Roman civilization,
March (Martius) marked the beginning of the war campaigns of the empire
, taking into account that spring was approaching in the northern hemisphere.
It was a propitious moment to receive the purification of those who would go into battle, receiving the approval of the god of war.
Religious ceremonies intended to get the blessing of troops enlisting for combat were common.
The so-called Campo de Marte was one of the places chosen to perform these ceremonies ”, he recounts.
In the words of the specialist, it is not a coincidence that the astrological year begins in March.
"From the astrological vision, the spring equinox
occurs
in the northern hemisphere, which marks the beginning of the astrological year. From this moment, the day begins to gain territory over the night and it can be said that the light begins to make back into the dark."
Aries, the Fire sign that begins the zodiac wheel, represents competitiveness, movement and the energy of impulse.
(Photo: illustration Shutterstock)
It is during the March equinox that we experience the passage from Piscean energy to Aries momentum.
"We leave behind the season of Pisces, which flooded us with more purely reflective processes marking the closing of the astrological year —explains Norambuena— and we welcome the first sign of the zodiac, the zodiacal archetype that speaks of competitiveness, aggressiveness, the need
to move
and the purest masculine energy that it receives precisely from its ruling planet Mars”.
According to the astrologer, there is also another reason why January and February do not give us as obvious a feeling of beginning as March.
The addition of two months responded to the need to adjust the calendar and make it coincide with the solar and zodiacal cycles of the 12 signs, thus reaching twelve months.
It is no coincidence that the ruling planet of the Aries sign is Mars.
(Photo: illustration Shutterstock).
Norambuena explains that for this very reason each month has seven-day weeks, an average of the time it takes for each phase of the lunar cycle.
Thus, from the perspective of the tropical zodiac, we must consider that, from our point of view, understanding that the Earth also moves, it takes just over 29 days, or virtually 30, to close the lunar cycle.
Therefore, a new system began to be configured.
As March was still the time that announced the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, the astrologer indicates that two previous months were added that corresponded to the winter season.
"The first, enero or 'January' in English, a word that allows us a better association with Jano, the god of two faces and of portals, whose mission it is to welcome us," he says.
As for February, Norambuena points out as "an extremely important month from the Roman worldview", since it was entrusted to Pluto, the equivalent of Hades for the Greeks.
Statue of the god Pluto, guardian and ruler of the underworld.
(Photo: illustration Shutterstock)
“Pluto, the god of the underworld and of the dead, was the one to whom rituals were offered to rid the hosts of health problems, especially the fever that was usually contracted at the end of winter and that could deplete the battalion in number. .
An attempt was made to appease the effects of the god that could cause the fearsome 'febrile' or 'februo' states, whose semantic root comes from the Februatio or Februa festival, and which later derived in the word 'february'”.
The specialist indicates that, strictly speaking, "from a functional perspective, January and February simply respond to moments prior to the true start of the year, widely represented by the month of March."
The influence of Mars offers us drive, decision and courage in the face of the challenges that the year holds for us (Photo: illustration Shutterstock)
Norambuena points out that this 31-day cycle "assures us of the necessary strength and energy to start the battle, but it also forces us to wake up, to generate
the creative spark
that will give us the impetus for the rest of the year."
The astrologer proposes to face this month as an opportunity to take advantage of: the influence of the god Mars accompanies us and his presence is more than necessary to propose, initiate, and decide with courage and courage the objectives that the experience of a new year brings us in our lives. lives.
Advised Álvaro Norambuena, astrologer and professor of astrology, author of Do not blame Mercury retrograde (Grijalbo). On Instagram @astroenergia.
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