Fragallia

Pirts day

February 19, 2026 · computed for Rīga

The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.

Waxing moon 2% 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.

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2

The horn of plenty

Neutral day Anti-phase: day 16

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.

Was favoured
  • + Starting a diet or a training cycle
  • + Starting a long course of study
  • + Giving, lending, being generous
Was avoided
  • − 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 Pisces water

Dreams, intuition, mercy, art. The border between yourself and others thins — it is easy to take on someone else's mood. A good time for meditation and music; a poor one for agreements and alcohol.

Sources disagree on this day

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.

♃︎ Jupiter 7. of the night

Planetary week

a third, independent system

Thursday · 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: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 7 of the night.

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.

♈︎ ♉︎ ♊︎ ♋︎ ♌︎ ♍︎ ♎︎ ♏︎ ♐︎ ♑︎ ♒︎ ♓︎ Meteņi Lieldienas Ūsiņi Jāņi Māras Miķeļi Mārtiņi Ziemassvētki ☉︎ 9.8 h

The year wheel

Last: Meteņi
Next: Lieldienas, in 30 days

34% through this eighth of the year

The sun

Sign
♓︎ in Pisces, 0.3° water
Day of the solar month
day 1
Next turning point
the spring equinox, in 30 days
Day length
9.8 h · sunrise 07:44 · sunset 17:31

With the sun in Pisces the cold began to loosen into damp and thaw, and the body was said to grow porous along with the ground — easily chilled, easily moved to feeling. It was held a poor season for firm decisions and a good one for rest before spring's demands began. Old lore warned against trusting the weather here more than the calendar.

The day, read as one

Today's threads mostly agreed: lunar day two's instinct for what suited the body, the waxing moon's pull toward growth and gathering, Jupiter's Thursday generosity, and even the folk saying that what is sown now "grows twisting upward" all leaned toward openness, giving, and beginning something meant to last. The Pisces moon added a softer, more porous note — good for feeling and intuition, less suited to firm agreements or sharp decisions, which sat a little against Jupiter's instinct to settle long-term matters today. The sun's own passage through Pisces echoed that same thinning of boundaries, a season better suited to rest and quiet mercy than to resolve. For a pirts visit itself, nothing here spoke against it — only a reminder that wounds and heavy exertions were thought to mend more slowly under a waxing moon, and that the day favoured warmth, generosity, and gentleness over anything demanding or decisive.

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 date

This 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.