Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 9% 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 tree of knowledge
The first heavy day, and a doubled one: both good and ill are present, and a choice may have to be made. Think it over ten times before deciding.
- + Solitude, quiet housework
- + Singing — work with sound
- + A walk in the woods
- − Group work, new acquaintances
- − Felling trees, picking flowers
- − Hasty decisions
- Symbol
- a tree, the syllable OM
- Body
- the throat, the larynx
- Stones
- agate, sardonyx, amazonite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Misused, the day's energy was said to settle in the neck and spine (osteochondrosis). An illness left unattended today could turn dangerous.
Dreams
Parents often appear — read as inherited problems that ask to be resolved. Tangled threads or hair — give up the thing you had in mind.
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: The first heavy day — start nothing new, think it over ten times.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com says the opposite: “a good day precisely for starting work.”
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 systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: Jupiter ♃︎ — hour 4 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: Māras
Next: Miķeļi, in 28 days
41% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 3.3° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 4
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 28 days
- Day length
- 14.4 h · sunrise 06:13 · sunset 20:35
The sun in Virgo watched over the harvest, and the body was expected to keep pace with it — steady, careful work rather than a burst of effort. The warmth was already turning thin at the edges, so tradition favoured finishing tasks over starting new ones. A tired body was read as a sign to gather in, not to push on.
The day, read as one
Today layered a heavy, doubled lunar day over an otherwise energetic sky, and the traditions did not entirely agree on what to do with that energy. The numbered day and Mars's Tuesday both leaned toward caution with the body — the old lore warning that neck and spine took the brunt of misused energy, Tuesday warning that idleness turned sour by evening, so some outlet for the day's force was called for, but not a forceful one. The waxing moon and Latvian phase-lore agreed that growth and gathering were apt, while Virgo's steady, finishing temperament sat well with the lunar day's own counsel of solitude and quiet work over new beginnings. Libra's pull toward company and balance stood apart from the numbered day's warning against new acquaintances and group work, a point where the traditions simply diverged. On the whole it read as a day for unhurried, solitary tending rather than exertion or decision, with the body's signals — tiredness, tension in the neck or back — taken as worth heeding rather than pushing through.
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.