Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 6% 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 lotus
The alchemy of the soul. The classic day of prophetic dreams and a day for work with the astral body; all the chakras may open.
- + Contemplation, work with dreams
- + Buying or selling land, starting a repair
- + Planting useful plants; a juice fast
- − Fate-changing decisions
- − Sawing trees, picking flowers
- − Straining the eyes, bright light
- Symbol
- a lotus, karma
- Body
- the head; the eyes, blood pressure
- Stones
- aragonite, chrysoprase, amethyst
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The head, blood pressure, the eyes. Eye-cleansing treatments were held to be very favourable. Illnesses not dangerous.
Dreams
The classic day of prophetic dreams; in sleep the soul was said to review its former births.
Moon in Pisces water
Dreams, intuition, mercy, art. The border between yourself and others thins — it is easy to take on someone else's mood. A good time for meditation and music; a poor one for agreements and alcohol.
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 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: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 4 of the day.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 21 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 25.3° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 26
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 68 days
- Day length
- 14.3 h · sunrise 06:16 · sunset 20:32
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
Lunar day 28 and the waning moon were in close agreement, both favouring contemplation, water treatments, and letting go rather than beginning anything new — the lotus day's eye-cleansing lore and dream-work fit naturally with a pirts visit aimed at release rather than renewal. The Moon in Pisces deepened this further, lending the evening an intuitive, dreamlike quality well suited to quiet and meditation, though it cautioned against important agreements or excess. Wednesday's Mercury energy sat apart from this inward mood, better suited to talk and practical matters than to the soul-work the day otherwise pointed toward, so it added little here but no real conflict either. The Sun in Aries struck the only contrasting note, its restless, quickening warmth pulling against the waning moon's call to subtract and settle — a reminder that the body's newly stirring vigour was best spent carefully rather than all at once. On the whole, three of the four threads leaned toward a gentle, cleansing pirts, with only the solar sign urging a touch of restraint.
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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.