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 horn of plenty
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.
- + Starting a diet or a training cycle
- + Starting a long course of study
- + Giving, lending, being generous
- − 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 Aries fire
Short, sharp tasks that need a flare of energy but not a long stretch of it. Bold decisions, new beginnings, risky ones included. The other side is a quick temper: patience with those close to you was advised today, because a quarrel starts easily.
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- 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 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, 28.8° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 29
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 2 days
- Day length
- 12.1 h · sunrise 06:28 · sunset 18:35
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 2, a new moon, sat with the sun in Pisces to give the day a soft, inward cast — low strength, little for firm decisions, better for rest and quiet intention than for exertion, which suited a pirts visit taken gently rather than pushed. The moon in Aries added a contrary spark, favouring short, bold undertakings but also a quick temper, so patience with companions in the heat was worth keeping in mind. Thursday's Jupiter agreed with the lunar day's own theme of generosity and appetite — both traditions pointed toward giving, sharing, and trusting what genuinely appealed rather than forcing anything, food included. Latvian new-moon custom added its own separate note, unrelated to the others: greet the day with full hands and a coin turned in the pocket, not empty-handed. Altogether the threads agreed more than they clashed — a day for a mild, unhurried pirts, generous in spirit, light on ambition.
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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.