Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 33% 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 crocodile
A stress point, where the Moon's vibration changes direction. An appetite that cannot be stilled, a leaning toward fights, nightmarish ideas.
- + Guarding the home: cleaning, burning a candle, smoking it with herbs
- + Fasting; dairy
- + Forgiving, repenting
- − Anger, gluttony, revenge
- − Cutting nails, operations
- − Ventures, a sedentary regime
- Symbol
- a crocodile, a chimera, Cerberus
- Body
- the female organs (Muladhara); the spine
- Stones
- black nephrite, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The spine was to be protected; strengthening treatments for it were welcome. Illness long but not dangerous.
Dreams
To be read as the exact opposite.
Moon in Virgo earth
Order, detail, health, work. The best sign for cleaning, setting things straight, treatment, and anything that calls for precision. The risk is excess criticism of yourself and others.
Canon: Russian sources: the female organs, the ovaries, Muladhara.
epadomi.com: Latvian sources stress the spine.
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 systemFriday · Venus ♀︎. Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, peace. A good day to meet, to reconcile, to tend to yourself, to shop for beauty, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached on a Friday tend to hold, because they rest on liking rather than pressure. A poor day for rough work and confrontation. The shadow side is idleness, indulgence, waste.
Current planetary hour: ☽︎ Moon — hour 7 of the night.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
The year wheel
Last: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 38 days
15% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♏︎ in Scorpio, 21.8° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 22
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 38 days
- Day length
- 8.2 h · sunrise 08:00 · sunset 16:14
The sun's passage through Scorpio was felt as the cold taking real hold — warmth withdrew inward, and the body was said to conserve rather than spend. Old lore treated this as a season for going quiet, for keeping close what mattered, not for open display. Illness caught now was thought to run deeper and linger longer than at other turns of the year.
The day, read as one
Four strands agreed more than they clashed today. Lunar day 23 brought a tense, stress-marked turn best met with cleaning, fasting, and forgiving rather than anger or indulgence, while both the waning moon and the separate Latvian phase-lore pointed the same way, favouring pirts, water treatments, and the shedding of surplus. The Moon in Virgo reinforced this further, lending the day a fitting precision for setting things straight and tending to the body, though it warned against turning that precision into self-criticism. Friday's planetary mood of Venus softened the day toward reconciliation and gentle self-care rather than confrontation, sitting comfortably alongside the cleansing theme. Only the sun in Scorpio struck a more cautious note, suggesting warmth and openness were better conserved than spent, so a pirts visit suited the day well if kept quiet and unhurried rather than bold or showy.
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.