Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 1% 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 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 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 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- 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: ☉︎ Sun — hour 7 of the night.
Strength, health, visibility, authority. The hour for showing yourself: speaking up, addressing someone higher, starting what needs to be noticed. Quiet requests and work where you must stay in the shadow go poorly.
The year wheel
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Next: Meteņi, in 15 days
66% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♑︎ in Capricorn, 29.9° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 30
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 60 days
- Day length
- 7.6 h · sunrise 08:45 · sunset 16:24
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 2 and the waxing moon pointed the same way — a day for taking in rather than holding back, with appetite and instinct both said to run true, and the body eager to gather what was given it. Mars' Tuesday added a restless, energetic undertone well suited to that growth, though it warned against lingering too gently in the heat and favoured a brisker, more bracing visit than a restful one. The moon in Aquarius leaned the day toward company and shared warmth rather than quiet intimacy, suiting a sauna taken with others over one taken for closeness. Capricorn's sun, turning at the year's coldest hinge, asked for endurance rather than comfort, a fire lit in hope — a fitting undertone, though it spoke to the season more than the day itself. Altogether the signs agreed more than they argued: a day favouring vigorous, generous, companionable heat, best not spent idle nor spent on matters of the heart.
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.