Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 95% 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 wheel
A magical day and a day of renewal: blood and nutrients circulate excellently, so care treatments were said to work strongly.
- + Baking bread, spinning, making round talismans
- + Starting a new course of study
- + Calmly settling old problems
- − Fasting without a plan
- − Passivity
- − Carelessness with water treatments
- Symbol
- a wheel, a braided band, a fire-cross
- Body
- the blood, the stomach, the pancreas
- Stones
- red opal, ruby
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Medicines and cosmetics were said to act excellently. The kidneys and the soles of the feet were to be protected. A hospital stay begun today tended to drag on.
Moon in Virgo earth
Order, detail, health, work. The best sign for cleaning, setting things straight, treatment, and anything that calls for precision. The risk is excess criticism of yourself and others.
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 systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: ♂︎ Mars — hour 6 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 36 days
22% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 10.2° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 11
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 83 days
- Day length
- 13.0 h · sunrise 06:58 · sunset 19:58
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
Several threads pointed the same direction here: the wheel of lunar day 13, the waxing moon, and Mars's own restless energy all spoke of a body ready for strong action and care treatments that would work with unusual force, while Moon in Virgo added its own note of precision, favouring anything done with attention to detail. Tradition held this made for excellent effect from cosmetics and remedies alike, though carelessness with water treatments was to be avoided, and the kidneys and soles of the feet were thought to need protection. Tuesday's Mars temper warned against idleness but also against delicate talk, so this suited a day of doing rather than resting or reconciling. The Sun in Aries added a caution beneath all this vigour — the old lore held that the body woke before the mind, so new strength was to be tested carefully rather than spent all at once. Only the Latvian folk-phase reading struck a slower note, reserving its deepest trust for planting and gathering rather than for treatments themselves, a small divergence from the rest.
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.