Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 58% 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 bat
The first satanic day: illusion, delusion, deceit. Fear and dark thoughts surface; temptation comes wearing the look of vanity.
- + Everyday routine tasks
- + Finishing what was long put off
- + Cleansing, forgiveness
- − Starting anything new
- − Large purchases, betrothal
- − Looking long in a mirror
- − Alcohol
- Symbol
- a bat, the Milky Way
- Body
- the chest
- Stones
- black pearl, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The chest area was to be watched — intercostal neuralgia, angina. Salt footbaths were advised.
Dreams
Heavy, tormenting and not to be believed.
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.
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 systemSaturday · Saturn ♄︎. Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: a day for what needs patience, repetition and clearing out — archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old. Anything where you must say “no” goes well. New beginnings and celebrations go poorly. The shadow side is heaviness of heart, meanness, and fear.
Current planetary hour: Sun ☉︎ — hour 4 of the day.
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: Jāņi
Next: Māras, in 5 days
90% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♌︎ in Leo, 10.3° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 11
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 52 days
- Day length
- 16.1 h · sunrise 05:24 · sunset 21:33
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
The day's threads mostly agreed on finishing rather than starting: the lunar count's ninth day called for closing out old tasks and cleansing rather than any new venture, and Saturday's Saturn echoed that same note of clearing out, repayment, and patience over celebration. The Moon in Scorpio reinforced this with its own pull toward shedding the surplus, though it carried an undertow of suspicion worth sitting with quietly rather than stirring. The waxing moon and the Latvian phase-lore pulled slightly the other way, favouring gathering and growth, so steam taken for building strength sat less easily with the day's more inward, clearing mood. Leo's sun, meanwhile, ran the body's heat high and warned against too much pride or exertion, suggesting shade and a cooled head were better honoured than ignored. Altogether it read as a day better suited to quiet finishing and letting go than to beginnings, celebration, or testing one's limits.
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.