{The [later] (Roman) Calendar}[11th July 1987]

[Redbook4:35][19870711:1000]{The [later] (Roman) Calendar}[11^th July 1987]

19870711.1000

I felt that the last few pages tailed off into something unproductive.* One can become so addicted to this sort of thing that one tries to force it.

Roman Calendar

				I~
			(10th)	21/12	Janus
		(9th)	20/11		21/1	Febr
	(8th)	23/10				20/2	Mars	Early Roman New Year
M~	21/9			.			21/3	G~
	(7th)	22/8				20/4	?Aperio
		Augustus	23/7		20/5	Maia
			Julius	21/6	Juno
				A~

[January:] Janus – The god who looks two ways. A way in or out, doorway, arch (Janua: key to a territory (military). Arab sacrifice.

[February:] Roman festival of purification & expiation (& surname of Juno).

[March:] Mars – god of agriculture, pasture & war (cf. Ares/Aries) [Early] Roman New Year [1^st March]

[April:] ?Aperio = to [sic] uncover, disclose to view, open up, make accessible.

[May:] Maia: (goddess of growth & increase). f.d. of Atlas & Pleiona (– f., m. of Pleiades) & m. of Mercury by Jupiter.

[June:] Juno, d. of Saturn, s. & w. of Jupiter {Queen of Heaven}

[July:] Julius Caesar, Emperor.

[August:] Emperor. (Sacred, grand)

[September:] (7th)

[October:] (8th)

[November:] (9th)

[December:] (10^th)

[The notes above are written alongside their months in the ms diagram. Arrows on the ms diagram cannot be represented here.]

Note that although the [early] Roman year began in March (when Winter ended?), January's name is entirely consistent with an astronomical or Solar New Year (i.e. when the days get longer). Only Mars seems to be completely out of time with my own archetypal derivations: I adopted (not chose – that was earlier) “+Mk” at A~ partly because of Mars. However, +G's Outer position is known for internal war (+M's for external war), so it may be that I am “wrong” in this. Perhaps the correct way of looking at it is to say that the Romans could have attributed Mars to either equinox, or the Summer Solstice?**

The happiest correlations are:

January and February – the gateway and the purification sacrifice

May and June – the two goddesses/queens at Tarot III Empress

July and August – the two emperors at Tarot IV Emperor, and Leo

*{cf.II.76 (re File Note)} [Unclear to what this note refers.]

**i.e. as a motive power of material considerations at both equinoxes.

[Presumably the Romans placed Mars around the Spring Equinox because Spring marked the start of the military campaigning season...? <20160617>]

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