Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waning moon 82% illuminated
The waning moon was long held as the best time for a pirts visit. This was when cleansing and letting go were most encouraged — heavier whisking and a longer, more thorough visit were favoured.
The eagle
A serious and lofty day: spiritual transformation, the overcoming of doubt. The day lends strength for a true decision.
- + The best day for fasting and revelation
- + Studying scripture
- + Staying home with the family
- − Pride, arrogance, dictating
- − Healing others with energy — you will drain yourself
- − Meat, straining the eyes
- Symbol
- an eagle
- Body
- the shoulder blades, the upper back, the peritoneum
- Stones
- red jasper, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun on this day was said to be long. The shoulder blades and upper back are sensitive, as is the peritoneum.
Moon in Scorpio water
Depth, secrecy, passion, transformation. A strong sign for cleansing, investigation, and shedding the surplus. At the same time — jealousy, suspicion, the pull toward revenge.
Canon: The best day for fasting and spiritual revelation; only healing others with energy is forbidden.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: “meditation must on no account be practised.”
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- On the waning moon — pirts, water treatments, casting off the surplus.
- Trees felled on the old moon rot less.
Source: Pēteris Šmits, Latviešu tautas ticējumi. Not the numbered-day corpus above.
Planetary week
a third, independent systemWednesday · Mercury ☿︎. Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best day of the week to sort papers, write letters, study, buy and sell, bring people together. The mind is quick but shallow, so large decisions are better left. The day calls for honesty and precision: what is said today is remembered. The shadow side is chatter, distraction, small lies.
Current planetary hour: Mars ♂︎ — hour 7 of the night.
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
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Next: Lieldienas, in 2 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♓︎ in Pisces, 28.6° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 29
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 2 days
- Day length
- 12.1 h · sunrise 06:28 · sunset 18:35
With the sun in Pisces the cold began to loosen into damp and thaw, and the body was said to grow porous along with the ground — easily chilled, easily moved to feeling. It was held a poor season for firm decisions and a good one for rest before spring's demands began. Old lore warned against trusting the weather here more than the calendar.
The day, read as one
The day's threads lean toward release rather than beginning: the waning moon and the Latvian phase-lore agree directly, both naming pirts and water treatments as fitting for shedding surplus, and Scorpio's pull toward depth and cleansing only deepens that reading. The lunar day of the eagle adds a more solemn note, calling the day serious and suited to fasting and quiet reflection rather than anything showy, and it specifically warns against draining oneself through healing work or vanity. Wednesday's Mercury is something of an outlier, its mind quick but better spent on words and small dealings than on bathing lore one way or another. The Pisces sun, meanwhile, speaks to a body grown porous and easily chilled, counselling gentleness and rest over any firm resolve. Taken together, the traditions pointed toward a pirts visit of a quiet, cleansing, unhurried kind, with little support for anything demanding or decisive.
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.