Fragallia

Pirts day

April 19, 2026 · computed for Rīga

The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.

Waxing moon 3% 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.

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The horn of plenty

Neutral day Anti-phase: day 16

The start of the digestive cycle. A sense for food was said to be exact today: what appeals suits you, what repels does not. The same was held of people.

Was favoured
  • + Starting a diet or a training cycle
  • + Starting a long course of study
  • + Giving, lending, being generous
Was avoided
  • − Anger, greed, meanness
  • − Taking what is not yours
  • − Eating against your instinct
Symbol
a horn, a throat
Body
the mouth, the teeth, the palate
Stones
jadeite, chalcedony, agate

Health — a divinatory system, not medicine

Teeth could ache, kidney-stone attacks occur, and joint and chronic skin complaints flare. Illness begun today was thought to be short-lived. A good day for conceiving a child.

Dreams

Means nothing.

Moon in Taurus earth

Money, property, the body, food. Perception slows, but feeling is steady and calm. A good time to save, to buy lasting things, to put down roots. A poor time to hurry or to force yourself to change.

Sources disagree on this day

Canon: The mouth, the teeth, a diet cycle; the sense for food is exact.

epadomi.com: epadomi.com: intellectual work, contracts, signing — not a word about food.

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.

☉︎ Sun 6. of the night

Planetary week

a third, independent system

Sunday · Sun ☉︎. Strength, visibility, authority — the day for showing yourself and, at the same time, for resting. What needs authority goes well: speaking up, addressing those above you, starting what needs to be noticed. Fine, quiet work and requests where you must look small go less well. The shadow side is pride and the wish to be watched.

Current planetary hour: ☉︎ Sun — hour 6 of the night.

Strength, health, visibility, authority. The hour for showing yourself: speaking up, addressing someone higher, starting what needs to be noticed. Quiet requests and work where you must stay in the shadow go poorly.

♈︎ ♉︎ ♊︎ ♋︎ ♌︎ ♍︎ ♎︎ ♏︎ ♐︎ ♑︎ ♒︎ ♓︎ Meteņi Lieldienas Ūsiņi Jāņi Māras Miķeļi Mārtiņi Ziemassvētki ☉︎ 14.5 h

The year wheel

Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 17 days

64% through this eighth of the year

The sun

Sign
♈︎ in Aries, 28.9° fire
Day of the solar month
day 30
Next turning point
the summer solstice, in 64 days
Day length
14.5 h · sunrise 06:08 · sunset 20:39

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

Four different clocks agreed more than they disagreed today. The lunar count and the waxing phase both pointed toward growth, appetite, and starting something that needed energy — a day for taking in rather than emptying out, with the old warning that wounds and heavy work heal slowly now. Moon in Taurus steadied that same current, favouring what was lasting and bodily over anything hurried, while Sunday under the Sun asked for visibility and quiet confidence rather than modest, hidden effort. The Aries sun added its own note of fresh but untested strength, fitting a pirts visit taken at a measured pace, warmth welcomed but not overspent, in keeping with a day that every tradition read as building rather than clearing.

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 date

This 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.