Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 4% 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.
The leopard
The day of the astral warrior. Passivity here was held to be not neutral but dangerous: the passive get hurt. Energy was to be discharged deliberately.
- + Martial arts, heavy exertion
- + Pirts
- + Work with metal, sharpening blades
- − Starting something wholly new
- − Drifting without aim
- − A sign: spilled oil — you have slid off the road
- Symbol
- a leopard before the leap
- Body
- the nape, the ears, the withers
- Stones
- carnelian, ruby, pyrite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill on this day, recovery was thought to be hard. The weak points: the ears, the nape, the withers.
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: A warrior's day: martial arts, physical exertion.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com additionally calls it a good day for surgical operations; other sources do not mention it.
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.
Planetary week
a third, independent systemFriday · Venus ♀︎. Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, peace. A good day to meet, to reconcile, to tend to yourself, to shop for beauty, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached on a Friday tend to hold, because they rest on liking rather than pressure. A poor day for rough work and confrontation. The shadow side is idleness, indulgence, waste.
Current planetary hour: Mars ♂︎ — hour 4 of the night.
Leadership, struggle, conflict, surgery. Much energy, and it wants an outlet — physical work, sport, a decisive conversation, casting off surplus. The shadow side: irritability, haste, injury, burnt bridges.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 46 days
1% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 0.2° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 1
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 93 days
- Day length
- 12.2 h · sunrise 06:26 · sunset 18:37
The sun's return to Aries was read as the year's first true warmth after winter — blood quickened, and the body was said to wake before the mind did. It was a time to test new strength carefully, not to spend it all at once. The land itself was still cold underfoot even as the light turned toward summer.
The day, read as one
Today's readings pulled in different directions more than they agreed. The lunar day of the leopard and the Moon in Aries both called for decisive, energetic action — the pirts itself was named outright as favoured, and this was no day for drifting passively — while the waxing moon added that the body was thought to take things in readily now, though healing was said to run slower. Friday's planetary rule, by contrast, leaned toward gentleness, reconciliation, and tending to oneself rather than rough exertion, and the sun in Aries counselled testing new strength carefully rather than spending it all at once. Where these traditions overlapped was in treating this as a day of waking energy rather than rest; where they differed was on how boldly that energy should be spent. A visitor weighing the day might have read it as a moment for a vigorous pirts taken with some restraint, mindful of the ears and nape named as this lunar day's weak points, and wary of the quick temper the Aries moon warned could flare with those nearby.
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.