Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 69% 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 eagle
A serious and lofty day: spiritual transformation, the overcoming of doubt. The day lends strength for a true decision.
- + The best day for fasting and revelation
- + Studying scripture
- + Staying home with the family
- − Pride, arrogance, dictating
- − Healing others with energy — you will drain yourself
- − Meat, straining the eyes
- Symbol
- an eagle
- Body
- the shoulder blades, the upper back, the peritoneum
- Stones
- red jasper, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun on this day was said to be long. The shoulder blades and upper back are sensitive, as is the peritoneum.
Moon in Scorpio water
Depth, secrecy, passion, transformation. A strong sign for cleansing, investigation, and shedding the surplus. At the same time — jealousy, suspicion, the pull toward revenge.
Canon: The best day for fasting and spiritual revelation; only healing others with energy is forbidden.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: “meditation must on no account be practised.”
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- 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 systemMonday · Moon ☾︎. Mood, home, memory, family. Sensitivity is higher than usual — toward people and toward food. A good day for housework, for caring for a mother and elders, for water treatments, for anything that calls for gentleness. A poor day for important decisions and public steps: plans tend to change. The shadow side is emotional unsteadiness and taking offence.
Current planetary hour: ☉︎ Sun — hour 5 of the day.
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
Last: Meteņi
Next: Lieldienas, in 12 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♓︎ in Pisces, 18.8° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 19
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 12 days
- Day length
- 11.3 h · sunrise 06:55 · sunset 18:13
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
Several threads ran in the same direction today. The waning moon, echoed in Latvian folk tradition and reinforced by the Moon's position in Scorpio, pointed toward release — pirts, water treatments, and the shedding of surplus were all well favoured by this combination. The 20th lunar day, the eagle, added a graver note: a day suited to fasting and quiet reckoning rather than to healing others or display, with doubt to be faced rather than avoided. Monday under the Moon's rule leaned toward gentleness and home rather than important decisions, which sat easily alongside the eagle's own caution against pride and public assertion, while the sun in Pisces lent the whole day a porous, easily-moved quality, better suited to rest than to firm resolve. Taken together, the day's traditions agreed more than they disagreed: a fitting one for pirts and cleansing, so long as it was met with some gravity rather than haste.
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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.