Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 91% 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 chalice
The day when cosmic love switches on. Prayers come true; mercy is the whole lesson of the day.
- + Giving gifts, donating
- + Granting requests and asking yourself
- + Drinking plenty of fluid
- − Quarrels — reconciliation will be very hard
- − Self-pity, complaint
- − Coarse food, strain on the heart
- Symbol
- a chalice, a heart
- Body
- the heart (Anahata)
- Stones
- mother-of-pearl, lapis lazuli, coral
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A cleansing of the heart and upper airways; no strain of any kind on the heart. Only tried and tested medicines and cosmetics were to be used.
Dreams
Prophetic and trustworthy — evil forces cannot get into them.
Moon in Virgo earth
Order, detail, health, work. The best sign for cleaning, setting things straight, treatment, and anything that calls for precision. The risk is excess criticism of yourself and others.
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 systemThursday · Jupiter ♃︎. Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. A day for large questions: strategy, study, courts and institutions, long-term agreements, helping others. What is begun on a Thursday tends to grow. A good day to ask and to give — money included. The shadow side is exaggeration, promises beyond your strength, and the wish to teach others how to live.
Current planetary hour: Saturn ♄︎ — hour 6 of the night.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 26 days
45% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 20.3° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 21
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 73 days
- Day length
- 13.9 h · sunrise 06:28 · sunset 20:22
The sun's return to Aries was read as the year's first true warmth after winter — blood quickened, and the body was said to wake before the mind did. It was a time to test new strength carefully, not to spend it all at once. The land itself was still cold underfoot even as the light turned toward summer.
The day, read as one
Several threads lined up gently for this pirts day: the lunar corpus's day of the chalice and Thursday's Jupiter both spoke of generosity, asking, and giving, while the Moon in Virgo favoured precision and the setting-right of things, including a cleansing of body and breath. The waxing phase and Latvian folk tradition agreed that what was begun now would grow, making it a reasonable day for gathering strength rather than spending it fully. Several sources converged on caution toward the heart and toward excess — tradition held that coarse food, strain, and self-pity worked against the day's grain, and the Aries sun's early warmth was said to call for careful testing of new strength, not its full use. Taken together, the day read as one for warmth, mercy, and quiet order rather than exertion or dispute.
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.