Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 60% 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 Sagittarius fire
The road, wide space, learning, faith. You are drawn to distance and to meaning. A good time to travel, to study, to plan in broad strokes. The risk is to promise more than you can carry out.
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 systemMonday · Moon ☾︎. Mood, home, memory, family. Sensitivity is higher than usual — toward people and toward food. A good day for housework, for caring for a mother and elders, for water treatments, for anything that calls for gentleness. A poor day for important decisions and public steps: plans tend to change. The shadow side is emotional unsteadiness and taking offence.
Current planetary hour: Mars ♂︎ — hour 4 of the day.
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
Last: Māras
Next: Miķeļi, in 22 days
54% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 9.1° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 10
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 22 days
- Day length
- 13.9 h · sunrise 06:26 · sunset 20:19
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
The day's signs leaned toward steadiness rather than beginnings: the numbered lunar day of the bat warned against anything new, large purchases, or lingering before a mirror, favouring instead routine work, finishing old tasks, and cleansing — a counsel echoed by the Virgo sun's call to gather in and complete rather than push outward. The waxing moon and Latvian folk tradition pulled the other way, marking this as a time when what was sown grew "twisting upward," suiting work that gathers and builds, though the numbered day's caution about slow healing suggested patience with anything strenuous. Moon in Sagittarius added a pull toward distance and broad learning, while Monday under the Moon's rule heightened sensitivity and favoured gentleness, home, and water treatments over important decisions. Taken together, the traditions agreed this suited quiet, careful, homeward work — cleansing, finishing, tending — rather than fresh starts or bold moves, though they diverged on whether the day's energy was better spent gathering in or reaching outward.
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.