Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 45% 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 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: Jupiter ♃︎ — hour 5 of the day.
Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. An hour for large questions: strategy, institutions and courts, long-term agreements, asking and giving. What is begun now tends to grow. The shadow side is exaggeration and promises beyond your strength.
The year wheel
Last: Jāņi
Next: Māras, in 36 days
24% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♋︎ in Cancer, 10.7° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 12
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 83 days
- Day length
- 17.7 h · sunrise 04:35 · sunset 22:19
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
Several threads converged on speech and agreement today. The lunar day of word-magic and Mercury's Wednesday both singled out talk, letters, and honest dealing as favoured, with the lunar tradition warning that lies and idle chatter landed harder than usual — while Moon in Libra reinforced the pull toward balance, conversation, and reaching agreement with others rather than deciding alone. The waxing moon and the Latvian phase-lore agreed that this was a time for growth, beginnings, and gathering, though both cautioned that healing ran slower now, and the lunar day's old warning against tooth-pulling echoed that same caution from its own angle. Sun in Cancer added a quieter note underneath it all, holding that the body was tender and the hearth, not the open air, was where strength was restored. Taken together, it read as a day better suited to conversation, small beginnings, and staying close to home than to anything demanding or surgical.
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.