Living the carnival in a spiritual way is an opportunity to think of yourself in a completely different way. If the body is unconsciously experiencing it passively or as a prison, carnival is an opportunity to subvert and return to feeling yourself.
Carnival, carnem levare
Technically, from the tradition of the liturgical-Roman Catholic calendar, during the carnival period ( carnem levare ) meat is not eaten from the first days of Lent until Holy Thursday before Easter. Until the eighth century BC unbridled celebrations are witnessed in this precise period of time.
The party is based on a total subversion of the existing social order: from themes such as wealth and poverty to the reversal par excellence, or the death that reigns over life. In a cathartic sense, to affirm that death triumphs over life is an act of vital importance, which seems a contradiction in terms, but it is not so. Keeping death in mind, not confining it to the state of taboo, here we have a further affirmation of the immense value of being alive and at the same time the possibility of taking existence itself with renewed lightness.
Masking reminds us that we can change the role we are playing, if we don't like it, if it's not useful to us. Masking reminds us that nothing is fixed and immutable. Make-up pushes us to look in the mirror. Changing skin means being willing to abandon the old woman.
We can take this carnival as the stimulus to act, to laugh, to abandon heaviness and anxiety and little useful paths.
The entrance of Mars and the personal revolution
To change, you must die to yourself. And this often means reconnecting to an inner child who wants to rejoice. It is no coincidence that with the carnival the end of winter and the arrival of spring are greeted: energy is given to the opening of an opulent, fertile and fertile land, the crops are already seen in perspective .
Just like a tree ready to bear fruit or land we should think about it at this stage. Also from the astrological point of view, as our expert Manuela Livi, co-author of the Natural Horoscope, explains to us from the beginning of March we will all live a passage of Mars very significant because it will move between Scorpio and Sagittarius. It will remain in the latter until May and then turn back in June and July in Scorpio and again in Sagittarius in August and September.
This transit will have an impact in all of us. Mars wants to change things, embodies the willpower, the active energy that is expressed, the body that wants to move with discipline and the possibility of rebelling against what is watertight. Clearly, for each of us this influence will be translated differently on a practical level, but we should not underestimate it and use it, make it an ally.
This means for example putting energy into a project, starting a purification to release the energy that comes from inner hygiene. We have the possibility to contact a part of us that is very close to the center, to the will that does not bend and does not cool down.
In summary, we can begin to see ourselves as a war figure that does not abandon laughter and joy, rather it fills us, indeed it nourishes it, indeed it expands, without climbing, wanting to nourish its own vitality and ending up enriching that of others. To start this rebirth process in the best way we leave you with some tips for an eco carnival and for carnival recipes all to be enjoyed ...
