Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 98% illuminated
The waning moon was long held as the best time for a pirts visit. This was when cleansing and letting go were most encouraged — heavier whisking and a longer, more thorough visit were favoured.
The butterfly and the dove
One of the pure days. Moderation is its whole symbol — a balance between the physical and the astral. It was to be kept even if someone gives offence.
- + Cleaning in every sense
- + Quiet housework, solitude
- + Exercise, travel
- − Shouting, envy, aggression
- − Meat (fish aside), mushrooms
- − Operations on the bones and the thyroid
- Symbol
- a butterfly, a dove, a ladder
- Body
- the spleen; the renewal of the blood
- Stones
- spinel, tourmaline, pearl
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Bone complaints were thought possible; operations on the bones and especially the thyroid were not advised.
Moon in Libra air
Relationships, agreements, balance, beauty. A good sign for talks and reconciliation. It is harder to decide alone — today you want to weigh everything with someone.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- On the waning moon — pirts, water treatments, casting off the surplus.
- Trees felled on the old moon rot less.
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: ♃︎ 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.
The year wheel
Last: Meteņi
Next: Lieldienas, in 16 days
65% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♓︎ in Pisces, 14.4° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 15
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 16 days
- Day length
- 10.9 h · sunrise 07:09 · sunset 18:02
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
Lunar day sixteen, moderate and cleansing in its own right, fell this time on a waning moon — both the numbered corpus and Latvian folklore agreeing plainly that this was a day for pirts, water, and quiet housework over anything taken in or stirred up. The moon's position in Libra asked that balance be sought together rather than alone, a gentle echo of the day's own theme of restraint. Thursday's Jupiter brought a wider pull toward generosity and large questions, growth and agreements, which sat easily enough alongside the day's call for calm, though it tugged toward the expansive where lunar day sixteen counselled moderation. The sun's passage through Pisces added a seasonal porousness, a body more easily chilled and moved to feeling, reinforcing the case for gentleness rather than firm decisions. Taken together, the traditions pointed the same way — toward washing, releasing, and quiet company — with only Thursday's larger ambitions sounding a different, if not contrary, note.
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.