Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 99% 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 trumpet
A calling. An extremely fortunate day for starting anything important — the next such chance was said to come only in a month.
- + Starting the important thing, well prepared
- + Physical work, cleansing the gut
- + A dry fast; almonds, salty food
- − Magic and divination
- − A mirror, perfume, straining the eyes
- − Alcohol, operations
- Symbol
- a trumpet
- Body
- the intestines (Manipura)
- Stones
- hyacinth, sapphire, lapis lazuli
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Recovery was said to be clean; on this day people often mend after a lingering illness. The eyes and head were to be protected.
Dreams
Prophetic — do not hurry to rise in the morning; remember and weigh them.
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 systemWednesday · Mercury ☿︎. Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best day of the week to sort papers, write letters, study, buy and sell, bring people together. The mind is quick but shallow, so large decisions are better left. The day calls for honesty and precision: what is said today is remembered. The shadow side is chatter, distraction, small lies.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 6 of the night.
Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. An hour for large questions: strategy, institutions and courts, long-term agreements, asking and giving. What is begun now tends to grow. The shadow side is exaggeration and promises beyond your strength.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 35 days
25% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 11.2° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 12
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 82 days
- Day length
- 13.1 h · sunrise 06:56 · sunset 20:00
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 strands lined up well for a pirts day: the fourteenth lunar day was named a fortunate beginning, favouring physical work and gut-cleansing, and the waxing moon likewise called for gathering energy rather than spending it, with Virgo overhead sharpening the whole day toward order, detail, and treatment. Mercury's Wednesday agreed in its own register, better suited to sorting and precision than to large decisions, so a pirts visit undertaken as ordinary, careful upkeep fit the day's temper. The sun in Aries added a caution rather than a contradiction — early strength was said to wake before the mind did, so tradition favoured testing the heat gently rather than spending all one's warmth at once. The lunar day's own warnings — against mirrors, perfume, strained eyes, and alcohol — stood apart from the others but pointed the same direction: a plain, attentive visit was well favoured, an indulgent or reckless one was not.
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.