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 lamp
A clean sheet: the tone of the whole month is set here. A day for planning rather than starting — thought was said to carry unusual weight today.
- + Planning the month
- + Sitting by a fire or a candle
- + Forgiving old grievances
- + Returning to family and childhood
- − Starting new work
- − Group work
- − Alcohol, sharp food
- − Wishing anyone ill
- Symbol
- a lamp, a light, the third eye
- Body
- the face, the brain
- Stones
- diamond, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun today was thought to drag on, but to be curable. Care was advised over strain on the heart and vessels, and over complaints tied to stones forming in the organs.
Dreams
Light, not heavy. A good dream was taken as a sign of joy; a bad one could simply be let go.
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.
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 systemMonday · Moon ☾︎. Mood, home, memory, family. Sensitivity is higher than usual — toward people and toward food. A good day for housework, for caring for a mother and elders, for water treatments, for anything that calls for gentleness. A poor day for important decisions and public steps: plans tend to change. The shadow side is emotional unsteadiness and taking offence.
Current planetary hour: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 7 of the night.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
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The sun
- Sign
- ♑︎ in Capricorn, 28.9° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 29
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 61 days
- Day length
- 7.6 h · sunrise 08:46 · sunset 16:21
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
A quiet convergence marked this day: the numbered lunar count, the new moon's low strength, and Monday's gentler rhythm all pointed toward reflection rather than exertion, making it better suited to sitting by the heat in thought than to any vigorous visit. The Latvian custom of greeting the new moon with full hands sat comfortably alongside this, favouring warmth kept for home and family over anything begun new or shared with a crowd. Aquarius in the moon introduced a milder pull toward company and unusual ideas, a small counter-note to Monday's call for softness, though neither tradition spoke against pirts itself. The Capricorn sun, meanwhile, framed the whole day in terms of endurance through cold rather than comfort sought — a fire lit in hope, tradition said, not in need alone. Taken together, the day leaned toward a slow, unhurried visit, kept gentle and private, with planning and quiet company favoured over anything begun in haste or shared too widely.
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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.