Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 49% 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 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: ♀︎ Venus — hour 4 of the day.
Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, reconciliation. A good hour to meet, to make peace, to tend to yourself, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached now rest on liking, not pressure. The shadow side is idleness and waste.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 26 days
45% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 20.5° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 21
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 73 days
- Day length
- 13.9 h · sunrise 06:29 · sunset 20:21
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
The waning moon, the Latvian lore of this same phase, and lunar day 23 all leaned the same direction: this was a day for release rather than accumulation, pirts and water treatments favoured precisely because the body was said to let go more readily than it took in, with fasting and quiet cleansing of the home named outright. Day 23's own temperament ran stormy, though — an appetite hard to still, a pull toward quarrels — so tradition cautioned against anger and gluttony and urged forgiveness over grievance, a caution echoed by Capricorn's cool, limiting mood, which favoured discipline over comfort-seeking. Friday's planetary rule softened that austerity somewhat, offering reconciliation and gentle self-care rather than confrontation, which sat well beside the day's own call to forgive. The sun in Aries added a note of cautious newness, a body waking before the mind, counselling against spending strength all at once. Taken together, the traditions agreed on cleansing and restraint, and a visitor minded to visit the pirts that day would have done best to keep it calm, unhurried, and free of grudges rather than ambitious or indulgent.
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.