Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waning moon 79% illuminated
The waning moon was long held as the best time for a pirts visit. This was when cleansing and letting go were most encouraged — heavier whisking and a longer, more thorough visit were favoured.
The eagle
A serious and lofty day: spiritual transformation, the overcoming of doubt. The day lends strength for a true decision.
- + The best day for fasting and revelation
- + Studying scripture
- + Staying home with the family
- − Pride, arrogance, dictating
- − Healing others with energy — you will drain yourself
- − Meat, straining the eyes
- Symbol
- an eagle
- Body
- the shoulder blades, the upper back, the peritoneum
- Stones
- red jasper, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun on this day was said to be long. The shoulder blades and upper back are sensitive, as is the peritoneum.
Moon in Taurus earth
Money, property, the body, food. Perception slows, but feeling is steady and calm. A good time to save, to buy lasting things, to put down roots. A poor time to hurry or to force yourself to change.
Canon: The best day for fasting and spiritual revelation; only healing others with energy is forbidden.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: “meditation must on no account be practised.”
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- On the waning moon — pirts, water treatments, casting off the surplus.
- Trees felled on the old moon rot less.
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: Mars ♂︎ — hour 3 of the night.
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
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Next: Miķeļi, in 11 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 19.3° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 20
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 11 days
- Day length
- 13.1 h · sunrise 06:46 · sunset 19:52
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 waning moon, the Latvian folk tradition, and the lunar day's call for quiet introspection all pointed the same way: a day for pirts in its cleansing and releasing sense, for shedding what was no longer needed rather than beginning anything new. The eagle's day added a serious, almost solemn note — fitting for staying home and settling old business rather than socializing widely. The Moon in Taurus favoured a slow, steady, grounded pace, echoing Virgo's preference for careful finishing over fresh starts, though Thursday's Jupiter energy sat somewhat apart, nudging toward larger ambitions that the day's other voices counseled against. Altogether, tradition read this as a day better suited to withdrawal, cleansing, and finishing than to launching anything bold.
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.