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 horn of plenty
The start of the digestive cycle. A sense for food was said to be exact today: what appeals suits you, what repels does not. The same was held of people.
- + Starting a diet or a training cycle
- + Starting a long course of study
- + Giving, lending, being generous
- − Anger, greed, meanness
- − Taking what is not yours
- − Eating against your instinct
- Symbol
- a horn, a throat
- Body
- the mouth, the teeth, the palate
- Stones
- jadeite, chalcedony, agate
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Teeth could ache, kidney-stone attacks occur, and joint and chronic skin complaints flare. Illness begun today was thought to be short-lived. A good day for conceiving a child.
Dreams
Means nothing.
Moon in Scorpio water
Depth, secrecy, passion, transformation. A strong sign for cleansing, investigation, and shedding the surplus. At the same time — jealousy, suspicion, the pull toward revenge.
Canon: The mouth, the teeth, a diet cycle; the sense for food is exact.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: intellectual work, contracts, signing — not a word about food.
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 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: ♀︎ Venus — hour 3 of the day.
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: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 32 days
30% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♏︎ in Scorpio, 28.3° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 29
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 32 days
- Day length
- 7.8 h · sunrise 08:15 · sunset 16:02
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
Several threads agreed on this one: lunar day two's instinct for what to welcome and what to refuse, Jupiter's Thursday generosity, and the new moon's counsel to begin quietly but with full hands rather than empty, all pointed toward giving, starting, and trusting a clear appetite or aversion. Scorpio moon deepened this toward cleansing and shedding surplus, though it carried an undertow of suspicion and old grudges that folk wisdom warned against indulging. The solar sign struck a different note, holding this as a season for withdrawing inward rather than open display, so anything begun now was better kept modest and close rather than announced. Taken together, it favoured a quiet start made in good faith — a generous act, a diet or study begun, a debt forgiven — more than any bold or showy undertaking, with low strength counselling thought over labor. Latvian custom added its own small gesture: meeting the new moon with a coin turned in the pocket, not an empty hand.
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.