Keep Calm, The Real New Year Is NOT January 1st, It’s In March!

Are you aware?

The REAL New Year is NOT on January 1st? It’s on March 20th!

The real New Year starts when the cycle of life begins again with a NEW GROWTH and new blossoms. This new beginning is Spring, called ‘Vernal Equinox’ which happens on March 20th. So, the real New Year’s Eve is March 19th with New Year’s Day being March 20th. You can’t begin something new in the dead of winter, and this is why so many people break their New Year’s resolutions in one to six weeks after making them! This is because Winter is not the right timing to set goals; Spring is!

In fact, 11 cultures don’t celebrate New Year on January 1st! Interestingly enough, our ancestors celebrated the New Year in March.

The earliest recording of New Year being celebrated is believed to have been in Mesopotamia, circa 2000 B.C. That celebration along with many other ancient celebrations of the new year following it, were celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox, which is around March 20th. In the meanwhile, ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians began their new year with the autumnal equinox around September 20th. The ancient Greeks celebrated New Year during the winter solstice, around December 20th.

Regardless of the dates in when the New Year is celebrated, the real New Year is in March, the beginning of the Spring Equinox. The Spring Equinox is the start of a new beginning, making it a fresh start to set goals.

In the early Roman calendar, March 1st was believed to be the beginning of the New Year.

The History of The New Year
Are you aware that the new year celebration on January 1st is actually a relatviely new phenomenon. The earliest recording of a New Year Celebration in fact was believed to have been in Mesopotamia, c. 2000 B.C and was celebtrated around the vernal equinox, which is in Mid-March. The Phoenicians, Egyptians, and Persians began their new year with the fall equinox, whereas the Greeks celebtrated new year during the winter solstice.

In the Early Roman Calendar, march 1st is the New Year.

The Roman calendar had just 10 months, beginning with March and the first time the new year was celebrated on January 1st was in 153 B.C in Rome. January did not even exist as a month until around 700 B.C. when Numa Pontilius, the second king of Rome, added the months of January and February. Since then, the new year was moved from March to January because that was the beginning of the civil year, which happens to be the that the two newly elected Roman consuls, whom are the highest officials in the Roman republic.

The Origin of January

The name of the month January comes from the Roman god who is the god of doorways and beginnings. Janus was depicted as having two faces. One face of Janus looked back into the past, whereas the other peering forward to the future.

By the Middle Ages, in many places, the New Year began in March and around the 16th century, a movement developed to restore January 1st as New Year’s Day.

For as long as circas date back to thousands of years ago, man kept changing the date for New Year’s from spring to fall—from March 1st to January 1st. In other cases, the date was even December 25th and back to March 25th, then to January 1st again!

January 1st was made into effect by the Gregorian calendar (AD 1582), immediately adopted by the Roman Catholic countries.

In the New Style or Gregorian calendar, the New Year begins on the first of January.

It makes sense to celebrate New Years in March because of the Spring Equinox in March.

If you wish to learn more herstory of everything you’ve been taught about the New Year’s, here’s a link to a very informative post.

Who else celebrates the New Year in March? Share in the comments below!

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