Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 39% 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 phoenix
Cleansing and repentance. The characteristic practice was cleansing by fire, from a bonfire down to a single candle.
- + Fasting, cleansing the gut
- + Preparing herbal remedies
- + Travelling, moving house
- − Indulgence, egotism
- − Carelessness near water
- − A poor day to fall ill
- Symbol
- a phoenix, a casket of jewels
- Body
- the stomach
- Stones
- garnet, chrysolite, morion
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A diagnosis was said to be hard to make today, and illness could drag on — a poor day to fall ill.
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 systemSunday · Sun ☉︎. Strength, visibility, authority — the day for showing yourself and, at the same time, for resting. What needs authority goes well: speaking up, addressing those above you, starting what needs to be noticed. Fine, quiet work and requests where you must look small go less well. The shadow side is pride and the wish to be watched.
Current planetary hour: Venus ♀︎ — hour 4 of the night.
Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, reconciliation. A good hour to meet, to make peace, to tend to yourself, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached now rest on liking, not pressure. The shadow side is idleness and waste.
The year wheel
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 40 days
13% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 5.9° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 7
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 84 days
- Day length
- 11.7 h · sunrise 07:21 · sunset 19:06
With the sun in Libra, day and night stood equal, and the body was said to sit at its own balance point too — neither the heat of summer nor the cold of winter had the upper hand. It was held a good season to settle accounts, physical and otherwise, before the year tipped toward the dark. Overdoing anything now unbalanced what the season itself had steadied.
The day, read as one
The day's traditions pointed in more than one direction at once. The lunar corpus marked it a fire-and-cleansing day, favouring fasting and herbal preparation but warning against indulgence and carelessness, while the waxing moon — echoed by Latvian folklore — leaned instead toward growth, gathering, and work begun rather than work undone, with healing itself said to run slower. Moon in Sagittarius and a Sunday ruled by the Sun both added a pull toward the outward and visible — travel, broad plans, speaking up — rather than the small, quiet, inward work the lunar day's penance called for. The sun's own season in Libra struck a different note again, favouring balance and moderation over either cleansing extremes or expansive starts. Someone weighing a pirts visit today found fire and restraint urged by one voice, growth and movement by another, and measured balance by a third — a day better suited to quiet tending and modest aims than to any one of these pulled to its fullest.
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.