Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 34% 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 systemSunday · Sun ☉︎. Strength, visibility, authority — the day for showing yourself and, at the same time, for resting. What needs authority goes well: speaking up, addressing those above you, starting what needs to be noticed. Fine, quiet work and requests where you must look small go less well. The shadow side is pride and the wish to be watched.
Current planetary hour: Sun ☉︎ — hour 6 of the night.
Strength, health, visibility, authority. The hour for showing yourself: speaking up, addressing someone higher, starting what needs to be noticed. Quiet requests and work where you must stay in the shadow go poorly.
The year wheel
Last: Māras
Next: Miķeļi, in 43 days
8% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♌︎ in Leo, 18.8° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 20
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 43 days
- Day length
- 15.5 h · sunrise 05:43 · sunset 21:12
In Leo the sun stood at its fullest strength, and the body's own heat was said to run highest with it — good for anything that needed vigour, poor for anything needing a cool head. The grain ripened under this sun, and so, tradition warned, did a person's pride. Rest in shade was taken seriously, not as weakness.
The day, read as one
Taken together, the day leaned toward speech and presence rather than quiet labor: the lunar day's word-magic, Sunday's call to visibility and authority, and the Sun in Leo's ripened vigour all pointed the same way, favouring a pirts visit built around company, blessing, and being seen rather than solitary rest. The waxing moon and Libra both added weight to doing things with others and starting rather than finishing, though the growing phase's warning that wounds heal slowly, echoed by the lunar day's verdict against tooth-pulling and any cutting, argued against anything surgical or harsh on the body. Heat itself was a mixed signal — welcomed by a sun at its fullest, yet cautioned against by the same sign's reminder that a cool head served better than an overheated one. Idle chatter and complaint were the day's clearest hazards, since the lunar tradition held that words spoken here, true or false, took hold quickly. On balance it was a day suited to a shared, unhurried pirts visit with attention paid to what was said aloud, rather than to any strenuous or solitary end.
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.