Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 39% illuminated
As the moon waxed, strength was thought to be building. A pirts visit in this phase was taken more for enjoyment and vitality than for deep cleansing — a good time for warmth and company.
The cockerel and the staff
The day of word-magic. Everything spoken takes effect — blessing, curse, and lies most of all. Prayers were said to be heard quickly.
- + Praying, using charms
- + Settling matters with institutions
- + Weeding out filler words
- − Lies, gossip, idle chatter
- − Breaking dishes, tearing paper
- − Pulling teeth — the worst day
- Symbol
- a cockerel, a wind rose
- Body
- the lungs
- Stones
- sapphire, white coral, heliotrope
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Easy to catch cold. The worst day for pulling teeth. Latvian sources allow a surgical operation if the other indicators are favourable.
Dreams
Prophetic and quick to come true. A fighting cock in a dream — a sign of imminent disaster.
Moon in Leo fire
Visibility, making, celebration, children. You want to be appreciated — and it works. Take care: pride and drama rise higher today than you notice yourself.
Canon: Russian sources: the worst day for pulling teeth; operations are not discussed.
epadomi.com: astromedicus (LV): a surgical operation is permissible if the other indicators are favourable.
epadomi.com is a divergent branch, shown for cross-checking — not the reference.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- What is sown on the old moon does not grow; on the new moon it grows “twisting upward.”
- This is the time of planting and gathering.
Source: Pēteris Šmits, Latviešu tautas ticējumi. Not the numbered-day corpus above.
Planetary week
a third, independent systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: Mars ♂︎ — hour 5 of the day.
Leadership, struggle, conflict, surgery. Much energy, and it wants an outlet — physical work, sport, a decisive conversation, casting off surplus. The shadow side: irritability, haste, injury, burnt bridges.
The year wheel
Last: Ūsiņi
Next: Jāņi, in 38 days
20% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 24.0° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 25
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 38 days
- Day length
- 16.5 h · sunrise 05:06 · sunset 21:34
With the sun in Taurus the warmth settled into the ground rather than the blood — a slower, steadier heat that favoured the body over the mind. Appetite returned in full, and rest felt earned rather than lazy. It was held to be a poor season for hurry of any kind.
The day, read as one
Word-magic and Mars energy made for an unusually charged day: the lunar count warned that nothing spoken would go unnoticed, while Tuesday's restless drive pushed toward action and firm words rather than quiet reflection — a pairing that favoured settling matters plainly but not gossip or sharp exchanges. The waxing moon and the old Latvian phase-lore agreed that this was a building time, suited to beginnings and gathering rather than to anything heavy or corrective, which sat uneasily beside Mars's appetite for exertion and the lunar day's flat warning against tooth-pulling or surgery. The Moon in Leo added a wish to be seen and praised, so whatever was undertaken tended to draw an audience, for better or worse. Underneath it all, the Taurus sun pulled the other way entirely, asking for slowness and settled appetite rather than haste — a quiet counterweight to the day's sharper currents. Altogether the traditions diverged more than they agreed, suggesting a pirts visit kept simple, unhurried, and free of idle talk.
Generated with Claude · cached for this day and updated when the corpus changes
Your lunar birth day
computed on your device · only the day (1–30) is used, never the dateThis is folk and divinatory material, not health advice. It is written in the past tense on purpose — "was avoided", "was considered" — and describes what tradition held, not what you should do. A pirts visit is a real load on the heart and circulation; judge heat, duration and frequency for your own body.