Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 84% 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 fiery sword
Lunar day 11 was held as the most energetically charged day of the cycle — strength surged, but so did carelessness, and tradition warned against inattention near water. A pirts visit called for care with water poured on the stones and with any dip afterward, rather than a rushed or careless one.
The most energetically charged day of the cycle. A vast force wakes in the body — which is exactly why restraint was advised.
- + Finishing everything you have started
- + Cleansing, prayer
- + Long journeys, moving house
- − Heavy exertion, sharp objects
- − Quarrels, killing insects
- − Bread to be broken, not cut
- − Alcohol
- Symbol
- a sword, a crown, a labyrinth
- Body
- the spine (Kundalini)
- Stones
- selenite, fire opal, hematite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A raised chance of injury; sensitive skin, possible allergy. Operations on the sense organs, the legs and the liver were forbidden. No alcohol; fluids to be limited. A good day to begin a fast.
Moon in Gemini air
We become busy and mobile — much talk, news, short trips. At the same time suggestibility rises and one is more open to another's influence; today it is easy to believe what you hear.
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 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: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 4 of the day.
Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best hour to write, study, buy and sell, bring people together, sort papers. The mind is quick but shallow — a large decision is better not settled right now.
The year wheel
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Next: Meteņi, in 6 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♒︎ in Aquarius, 9.5° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 10
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 51 days
- Day length
- 8.3 h · sunrise 08:28 · sunset 16:45
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
Taken together, the day's strands mostly leaned toward energy and momentum rather than rest: lunar day 11 marked the cycle's most charged point, the waxing moon favoured gathering and beginning, and Jupiter's Thursday echoed that same encouragement toward growth, generosity, and long undertakings. Yet the numbered day's own counsel was restraint — no heavy exertion, no alcohol, a day better suited to finishing things, cleansing, and quiet prayer than to vigorous effort. The Moon in Gemini added a current of talkativeness and openness to others' words, while the Aquarius sun pulled gently the other way, toward gathering close with others around warmth rather than pushing outward. A visitor might read this as a day for a gentle, sociable pirts visit — company and quiet cleansing favoured, intensity and excess best left for another day.
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.