Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 11% 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 tree of knowledge
The first heavy day, and a doubled one: both good and ill are present, and a choice may have to be made. Think it over ten times before deciding.
- + Solitude, quiet housework
- + Singing — work with sound
- + A walk in the woods
- − Group work, new acquaintances
- − Felling trees, picking flowers
- − Hasty decisions
- Symbol
- a tree, the syllable OM
- Body
- the throat, the larynx
- Stones
- agate, sardonyx, amazonite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Misused, the day's energy was said to settle in the neck and spine (osteochondrosis). An illness left unattended today could turn dangerous.
Dreams
Parents often appear — read as inherited problems that ask to be resolved. Tangled threads or hair — give up the thing you had in mind.
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: The first heavy day — start nothing new, think it over ten times.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com says the opposite: “a good day precisely for starting work.”
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 systemMonday · Moon ☾︎. Mood, home, memory, family. Sensitivity is higher than usual — toward people and toward food. A good day for housework, for caring for a mother and elders, for water treatments, for anything that calls for gentleness. A poor day for important decisions and public steps: plans tend to change. The shadow side is emotional unsteadiness and taking offence.
Current planetary hour: ♂︎ Mars — hour 4 of the day.
Leadership, struggle, conflict, surgery. Much energy, and it wants an outlet — physical work, sport, a decisive conversation, casting off surplus. The shadow side: irritability, haste, injury, burnt bridges.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 16 days
67% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 0.3° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 1
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 63 days
- Day length
- 14.7 h · sunrise 06:03 · sunset 20:43
With the sun in Taurus the warmth settled into the ground rather than the blood — a slower, steadier heat that favoured the body over the mind. Appetite returned in full, and rest felt earned rather than lazy. It was held to be a poor season for hurry of any kind.
The day, read as one
Today's readings mostly lean toward quiet rather than ambition: the fourth lunar day called for solitude and a walk in the woods rather than company or hasty choices, and Monday's planetary mood agreed, favouring gentleness, water treatments, and care for the home over important decisions. The waxing moon added its own encouragement toward beginnings and gathering, though it also warned that wounds and strains healed more slowly now, echoing the lunar day's caution that neglect could settle painfully in the neck and spine. The Moon's passage through Gemini introduced a restless, talkative note and a susceptibility to others' words that sat oddly against the day's call for solitude, while the sun in steady Taurus pulled firmly back toward slowness, appetite, and earned rest. Altogether the traditions agreed more than they clashed: a pirts visit suited quiet, unhurried care rather than socializing or decisions, with only Gemini's chattiness striking a different note.
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.