Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 73% 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 Virgo earth
Order, detail, health, work. The best sign for cleaning, setting things straight, treatment, and anything that calls for precision. The risk is excess criticism of yourself and others.
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: ☽︎ Moon — hour 4 of the day.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 10 days
80% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 6.1° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 7
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 57 days
- Day length
- 15.1 h · sunrise 05:48 · sunset 20:56
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 threads pulled in different directions more than they agreed. The lunar day of the bat warned against anything new or vain self-regard, favouring instead finishing old business and plain cleansing — while the waxing moon, in orderly Virgo, spoke well of exactly that kind of careful, detail-minded tending, making it a fitting day for setting things straight rather than for ambitious new starts. Sunday's solar tone leaned toward visibility and rest rather than quiet, small work, sitting a little uneasily against the lunar day's caution about mirrors and vanity. Taurus underneath it all counselled patience and unhurried warmth, which at least agreed with the numbered day's call to slow, routine tasks. On balance, tradition pointed toward a modest, unhurried pirts visit given to washing away rather than beginning — with reflection, alcohol, and grand gestures better left for another day.
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.