Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 78% 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 spring
Hidden springs — of energy, of knowledge, of karmic memory. The life force was to be turned toward home and family.
- + Working with the family tree, old photographs
- + Going to the pirts — the best day
- + Laying foundations, starting to build
- − Conflicts with relatives
- − Selfishness, superficiality
- − Operations on the vessels and eyes
- Symbol
- a spring, a fountain
- Body
- the bones of the ribcage
- Stones
- sardonyx, turquoise, amber
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill, help was to be sought at once. Operations on the vessels, nerves and eyes were not advised. Misusing the day was linked to a weakening of immunity.
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 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: ☽︎ Moon — hour 6 of the night.
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 9 days
81% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 6.7° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 7
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 56 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
Several threads pulled in the same direction on this day: the lunar corpus itself named the pirts as favoured, and both Moon in Virgo and Monday's watery, home-turned mood echoed that leaning toward gentle water treatments and quiet care for the body. The waxing phase added its own note of gathering strength rather than depleting it, though it also cautioned that healing ran slower now, so nothing heavy or invasive belonged to this day. Taurus underscored the same unhurried, grounded warmth, making haste of any kind feel out of place. Where the lunar day's own health lore warned against operations on vessels and eyes, Virgo's call for precision was better read as care and order than as anything surgical. Altogether the traditions converged more than they diverged: a day suited to slow, homely, restorative pirts time, not to urgency or risk.
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.