Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 4% 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 lotus
The alchemy of the soul. The classic day of prophetic dreams and a day for work with the astral body; all the chakras may open.
- + Contemplation, work with dreams
- + Buying or selling land, starting a repair
- + Planting useful plants; a juice fast
- − Fate-changing decisions
- − Sawing trees, picking flowers
- − Straining the eyes, bright light
- Symbol
- a lotus, karma
- Body
- the head; the eyes, blood pressure
- Stones
- aragonite, chrysoprase, amethyst
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The head, blood pressure, the eyes. Eye-cleansing treatments were held to be very favourable. Illnesses not dangerous.
Dreams
The classic day of prophetic dreams; in sleep the soul was said to review its former births.
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- 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: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 7 of the night.
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.
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The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 26.3° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 26
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 4 days
- Day length
- 6.7 h · sunrise 08:57 · sunset 15:42
In Sagittarius the sun rode low and the days grew short, yet tradition held that inner fire, not outer warmth, carried a person through this stretch toward the solstice. It was a season for journeys of the mind if not the body — for looking ahead rather than settling in. A restless spirit now was taken as natural, not a fault.
The day, read as one
Lunar day 28, the lotus, favoured quiet contemplation and release rather than new undertakings, and here both the waning moon and the separate Latvian folk tradition agreed closely with it — this was reckoned a good stretch for pirts, water treatments, and casting off what was no longer needed, with illnesses of the time held to be not dangerous. The moon's passage through Sagittarius and the Thursday rule of Jupiter added a wider, restless note, drawing thought toward distance, study, and large questions rather than small daily matters; the sun's own stay in Sagittarius echoed this, favouring journeys of the mind over stillness of body. Eye-cleansing treatments were counted favourable for the day, though bright light and strain on the eyes were best avoided. Taken together, the pull toward cleansing and release stood comfortably alongside the day's expansive, far-seeing mood, even if the two currents — one inward and emptying, the other outward and growing — did not spring from the same root.
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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.