Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 41% 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 crocodile
A stress point, where the Moon's vibration changes direction. An appetite that cannot be stilled, a leaning toward fights, nightmarish ideas.
- + Guarding the home: cleaning, burning a candle, smoking it with herbs
- + Fasting; dairy
- + Forgiving, repenting
- − Anger, gluttony, revenge
- − Cutting nails, operations
- − Ventures, a sedentary regime
- Symbol
- a crocodile, a chimera, Cerberus
- Body
- the female organs (Muladhara); the spine
- Stones
- black nephrite, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The spine was to be protected; strengthening treatments for it were welcome. Illness long but not dangerous.
Dreams
To be read as the exact opposite.
Moon in Capricorn earth
Work, responsibility, career, limits. Emotion quiets, the mind turns cold and clear. The best time for serious, sustained work; the worst for seeking warmth and comfort.
Canon: Russian sources: the female organs, the ovaries, Muladhara.
epadomi.com: Latvian sources stress the spine.
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 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: ☽︎ Moon — hour 5 of the day.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
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The sun
- Sign
- ♓︎ in Pisces, 21.8° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 22
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 9 days
- Day length
- 11.5 h · sunrise 06:47 · sunset 18:20
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 agreed that this was a day for release rather than renewal: both the waning moon and Latvian folk tradition pointed to pirts and water treatments as fitting, a time for casting off surplus, and the lunar day itself favoured fasting, cleansing smoke, and forgiving old grievances over any new venture. The crocodile day's warning against anger, gluttony, and cutting nails sat well with the Moon in Capricorn's cool, limiting mood, both counselling restraint rather than indulgence. Thursday's Jupiter brought a different note — a pull toward generosity, study, and larger undertakings — which sat somewhat at odds with the day's otherwise inward, guarding character, so any such ambitions were better kept modest. The sun in Pisces added a backdrop of thaw and porousness, a body more easily chilled and moved to feeling, reinforcing the case for gentleness rather than exertion. Taken together, the day leaned toward quiet cleansing and guarding the home rather than beginnings, with the spine said to merit particular care.
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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.