Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 10% 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 tree of knowledge
The first heavy day, and a doubled one: both good and ill are present, and a choice may have to be made. Think it over ten times before deciding.
- + Solitude, quiet housework
- + Singing — work with sound
- + A walk in the woods
- − Group work, new acquaintances
- − Felling trees, picking flowers
- − Hasty decisions
- Symbol
- a tree, the syllable OM
- Body
- the throat, the larynx
- Stones
- agate, sardonyx, amazonite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Misused, the day's energy was said to settle in the neck and spine (osteochondrosis). An illness left unattended today could turn dangerous.
Dreams
Parents often appear — read as inherited problems that ask to be resolved. Tangled threads or hair — give up the thing you had in mind.
Moon in Aquarius air
Friends, groups, unexpected ideas, freedom. A good time for shared work and for anything new and unusual. In relationships — coolness: you want distance, not closeness.
Canon: The first heavy day — start nothing new, think it over ten times.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com says the opposite: “a good day precisely for starting work.”
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- 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 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: Ziemassvētki
Next: Meteņi, in 43 days
4% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♑︎ in Capricorn, 1.8° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 2
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 88 days
- Day length
- 6.7 h · sunrise 09:00 · sunset 15:44
The sun turned at its lowest in Capricorn, and the shortest day was kept as the year's true hinge — the cold was at its hardest, but so, tradition insisted, was the promise that light was about to grow again. Endurance, not comfort, was the virtue of this season; a fire lit now was lit in hope rather than in need alone. The body was told to bear with the cold rather than fight it.
The day, read as one
Lunar day 4 struck a cautious note today — a doubled day for quiet reflection rather than company, with the body's heavy energy said to gather in the neck and spine if the day was spent carelessly. The waxing moon and Mars's restless Tuesday pulled the other way, favouring vigorous effort and release of surplus energy, though the same waxing moon warned that wounds and strain healed more slowly now. The moon's passage through Aquarius echoed Tuesday's call for shared activity, even as the lunar day itself counselled solitude — a point where the traditions parted company. Overhead, the sun's deep rest in Capricorn asked for endurance rather than ease, a fitting undertone for a day whose signs, taken together, leaned more toward restraint and care than toward a vigorous pirts outing.
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.