Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 35% 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 Libra air
Relationships, agreements, balance, beauty. A good sign for talks and reconciliation. It is harder to decide alone — today you want to weigh everything with someone.
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 systemFriday · Venus ♀︎. Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, peace. A good day to meet, to reconcile, to tend to yourself, to shop for beauty, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached on a Friday tend to hold, because they rest on liking rather than pressure. A poor day for rough work and confrontation. The shadow side is idleness, indulgence, waste.
Current planetary hour: Mercury ☿︎ — hour 5 of the day.
Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best hour to write, study, buy and sell, bring people together, sort papers. The mind is quick but shallow — a large decision is better not settled right now.
The year wheel
Last: Jāņi
Next: Māras, in 26 days
46% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♋︎ in Cancer, 20.5° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 22
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 73 days
- Day length
- 17.4 h · sunrise 04:48 · sunset 22:09
The sun's arrival in Cancer marked the year's turning at its warmest and longest days, when the hearth fire mattered more than the sun itself. Tradition held that the body was at its most tender now, and the home was where strength was restored, not away from it. Water, kept close, was said to cool what the height of summer stirred up.
The day, read as one
Taken together, the day leaned sociable and gentle rather than strenuous: lunar day 7's word-magic made this a day when speech carried unusual weight, so blessings, prayers, and honest settling of affairs were well favoured while lies and idle talk were best left alone. The waxing moon and the Latvian phase-lore agreed that this was a time for beginning and gathering rather than for heavy toil on the body, and both the Moon in Libra and Friday's rule of Venus pointed the same way, toward reconciliation, good company, and tending to beauty rather than confrontation. The solar sign added a quieter note, Cancer's pull toward the hearth and toward water kept close, suggesting that comfort and restoration at home suited the day more than ambition abroad. The one clear warning came from the lunar day itself, which named this the worst day for pulling teeth and urged caution with anything surgical. On the whole the traditions converged more than they conflicted: a day for words spoken with care, company sought gently, and nothing forced.
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.