Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 8% 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 leopard
The day of the astral warrior. Passivity here was held to be not neutral but dangerous: the passive get hurt. Energy was to be discharged deliberately.
- + Martial arts, heavy exertion
- + Pirts
- + Work with metal, sharpening blades
- − Starting something wholly new
- − Drifting without aim
- − A sign: spilled oil — you have slid off the road
- Symbol
- a leopard before the leap
- Body
- the nape, the ears, the withers
- Stones
- carnelian, ruby, pyrite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill on this day, recovery was thought to be hard. The weak points: the ears, the nape, the withers.
Moon in Gemini air
We become busy and mobile — much talk, news, short trips. At the same time suggestibility rises and one is more open to another's influence; today it is easy to believe what you hear.
Canon: A warrior's day: martial arts, physical exertion.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com additionally calls it a good day for surgical operations; other sources do not mention it.
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.
Planetary week
a third, independent systemSunday · 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 3 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.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 16 days
66% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 29.8° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 31
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 63 days
- Day length
- 14.6 h · sunrise 06:05 · sunset 20:41
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 day's separate readings mostly leaned the same way: the lunar corpus named pirts outright as favoured, calling for deliberate, vigorous effort rather than passivity, and the waxing moon agreed in spirit, favouring work that takes energy even as it noted that wounds and heavy operations were better postponed. The Latvian phase lore, working independently, simply confirmed this as a growing, gathering time. The Moon in Gemini added a lighter, more scattered note — talk, movement, and suggestibility rather than focus — while Sunday under the Sun called for visibility and strength but not quiet, careful work, and the Sun in Aries counselled testing new strength gently rather than spending it all at once. Taken together, tradition held this a day suited to vigorous, deliberate pirts use, though several threads cautioned against pushing the body past what it was ready for.
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.