Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
New moon 0% illuminated
During the new moon, the body's strength was considered at its lowest ebb. Folk tradition favoured a shorter, gentler pirts visit over this phase — little vigour was expected, and rest mattered more than a vigorous whisking.
The golden swan
It does not fall every month, and may last only a few hours. The day for closing the circle: settling accounts, forgiving, giving thanks to the departing month.
- + Finishing what was begun this month
- + Returning debts and borrowed things
- + Cleansing the home, pirts, work with stones
- − New plans and beginnings
- − Coarse food and meat
- − Investing money
- Symbol
- a golden swan
- Body
- the heart; the pineal gland
- Stones
- marble, black garnet, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The heart and the pineal gland. Heart attacks today were held to be dangerous; other illnesses begun now do not retreat quickly, but overcoming them was said to bring a lengthening of life.
Dreams
True and wise; they show the month's mistakes.
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 golden swan; the body — the heart and the pineal gland.
epadomi.com: A separate Russian source (luna.rf) gives “the mountain” and the brain hemispheres. An exception, not the norm.
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- The new moon is met with full hands, not empty.
- You must not look at the new moon with an empty pocket — rub a coin in your pocket without taking it out.
- On first sight: “The itch to the fence, sleep to the pig, health from God to me!”
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: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 17 days
63% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 28.2° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 29
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 62 days
- Day length
- 9.9 h · sunrise 08:09 · sunset 18:05
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
Taken together, the day read as one of closing rather than opening: the lunar count's 30th-day call to settle accounts and give thanks met the new moon's advice to think rather than labour, while both Libra placements — moon and sun — leaned toward balance, reconciliation, and finishing what pressed for resolution rather than starting anew. Tuesday's Mars energy sat awkwardly against this, pushing for action and exertion where the rest of the day favoured quiet closure, so any physical effort was better spent lightly, on cleansing or repair, than on strain or confrontation. Latvian new-moon custom added its own thread, unrelated to the rest — meeting the moon with full hands and a coin turned in the pocket, for the month ahead. A visitor weighing a pirts visit found the traditions mostly in agreement that this suited quiet closing work — cleansing, settling, giving thanks — far more than new undertakings or heavy exertion, with Mars alone urging caution against overdoing it.
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.