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 golden swan
It does not fall every month, and may last only a few hours. The day for closing the circle: settling accounts, forgiving, giving thanks to the departing month.
- + Finishing what was begun this month
- + Returning debts and borrowed things
- + Cleansing the home, pirts, work with stones
- − New plans and beginnings
- − Coarse food and meat
- − Investing money
- Symbol
- a golden swan
- Body
- the heart; the pineal gland
- Stones
- marble, black garnet, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The heart and the pineal gland. Heart attacks today were held to be dangerous; other illnesses begun now do not retreat quickly, but overcoming them was said to bring a lengthening of life.
Dreams
True and wise; they show the month's mistakes.
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 golden swan; the body — the heart and the pineal gland.
epadomi.com: A separate Russian source (luna.rf) gives “the mountain” and the brain hemispheres. An exception, not the norm.
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- 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 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: Meteņi
Next: Lieldienas, in 32 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♒︎ in Aquarius, 28.7° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 29
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 32 days
- Day length
- 9.7 h · sunrise 07:47 · sunset 17:29
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 layered two closing traditions over a restless, active mood: the 30th lunar day called for settling accounts and finishing what the month had begun, while the new moon itself favoured quiet thought over effort and was traditionally met with full hands rather than empty ones. Mars's Tuesday pushed the other way, toward action and physical outlet, so anyone drawn to the pirts for hard work or sweat met a day that folklore read as better suited to stillness and gratitude than exertion. The moon in Aquarius added a pull toward shared, sociable warmth rather than closeness or solitude, echoing the Sun in Aquarius's old reading of a season for gathering close around fire rather than striving. Taken together, the traditions agreed more than they clashed: a pirts visit for finishing, cleansing, and quiet company with others suited the day far better than one for new plans or strenuous effort — and the old heart-caution attached to this 30th day was reason enough to keep things gentle.
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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.