Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 68% 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 bat
The first satanic day: illusion, delusion, deceit. Fear and dark thoughts surface; temptation comes wearing the look of vanity.
- + Everyday routine tasks
- + Finishing what was long put off
- + Cleansing, forgiveness
- − Starting anything new
- − Large purchases, betrothal
- − Looking long in a mirror
- − Alcohol
- Symbol
- a bat, the Milky Way
- Body
- the chest
- Stones
- black pearl, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The chest area was to be watched — intercostal neuralgia, angina. Salt footbaths were advised.
Dreams
Heavy, tormenting and not to be believed.
Moon in Leo fire
Visibility, making, celebration, children. You want to be appreciated — and it works. Take care: pride and drama rise higher today than you notice yourself.
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 systemSaturday · Saturn ♄︎. Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: a day for what needs patience, repetition and clearing out — archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old. Anything where you must say “no” goes well. New beginnings and celebrations go poorly. The shadow side is heaviness of heart, meanness, and fear.
Current planetary hour: Saturn ♄︎ — hour 3 of the night.
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 10 days
79% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 5.6° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 6
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 57 days
- Day length
- 15.1 h · sunrise 05:50 · sunset 20:54
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
The day's traditions pulled in noticeably different directions rather than agreeing. The lunar corpus marked day nine as the first of the satanic days, a time clouded by illusion and dark thought, better suited to finishing old business, cleansing, and forgiveness than to anything new — and it warned specifically against mirrors, drink, and fresh starts. Saturday's planetary rule echoed that closing-off mood, favouring patience and the clearing of old debts over celebration, while the waxing moon and Leo's placement pushed the opposite way, toward growth, visibility, and a wish to be seen and appreciated. Taurus underfoot added a slower, body-settled warmth, suggesting whatever was done was done without hurry. On the whole it read as a day better given to quiet, unfinished tasks and small cleansings than to new beginnings or vanity, with the pull toward display best kept in check.
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.