Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 59% 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 bat
The first satanic day: illusion, delusion, deceit. Fear and dark thoughts surface; temptation comes wearing the look of vanity.
- + Everyday routine tasks
- + Finishing what was long put off
- + Cleansing, forgiveness
- − Starting anything new
- − Large purchases, betrothal
- − Looking long in a mirror
- − Alcohol
- Symbol
- a bat, the Milky Way
- Body
- the chest
- Stones
- black pearl, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The chest area was to be watched — intercostal neuralgia, angina. Salt footbaths were advised.
Dreams
Heavy, tormenting and not to be believed.
Moon in Taurus earth
Money, property, the body, food. Perception slows, but feeling is steady and calm. A good time to save, to buy lasting things, to put down roots. A poor time to hurry or to force yourself to change.
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 8 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♒︎ in Aquarius, 7.0° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 7
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 53 days
- Day length
- 8.1 h · sunrise 08:33 · sunset 16:38
The sun in Aquarius still moved through the hardest cold, but the days were noticeably lengthening now, and tradition read this as a season of quiet waiting rather than action. People gathered close around fire and each other, since warmth from without was scarce and had to be shared to matter. The body was thought to want company now more than solitude.
The day, read as one
Today's readings pulled in several directions rather than one. The lunar day of the bat counselled against beginnings, against lingering before mirrors, and favoured instead the quiet finishing of old business, cleansing, and forgiveness — a mood echoed by Mars's Tuesday energy only insofar as both agreed something should be *finished*, though the planetary day wanted that done through effort and pressure, not stillness. The waxing moon in Taurus added a steadying note: growth was favoured, but of the slow, rooted kind — saving, settling, tending the body gently rather than pushing it, which sat uneasily beside Tuesday's appetite for exertion and risk of haste or injury. Aquarius's sun, meanwhile, spoke only of warmth sought in company during the lingering cold, with no real bearing on action or rest. Taken together, there was little harmony here — a day perhaps better suited to quiet, communal, unhurried time by the heat than to any new undertaking or vigorous effort, with the old lunar caution about alcohol and mirrors worth remembering.
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.