Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 94% 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 chalice
The day when cosmic love switches on. Prayers come true; mercy is the whole lesson of the day.
- + Giving gifts, donating
- + Granting requests and asking yourself
- + Drinking plenty of fluid
- − Quarrels — reconciliation will be very hard
- − Self-pity, complaint
- − Coarse food, strain on the heart
- Symbol
- a chalice, a heart
- Body
- the heart (Anahata)
- Stones
- mother-of-pearl, lapis lazuli, coral
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A cleansing of the heart and upper airways; no strain of any kind on the heart. Only tried and tested medicines and cosmetics were to be used.
Dreams
Prophetic and trustworthy — evil forces cannot get into them.
Moon in Libra air
Relationships, agreements, balance, beauty. A good sign for talks and reconciliation. It is harder to decide alone — today you want to weigh everything with someone.
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 systemWednesday · Mercury ☿︎. Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best day of the week to sort papers, write letters, study, buy and sell, bring people together. The mind is quick but shallow, so large decisions are better left. The day calls for honesty and precision: what is said today is remembered. The shadow side is chatter, distraction, small lies.
Current planetary hour: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 4 of the day.
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 7 days
87% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 9.0° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 10
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 54 days
- Day length
- 15.4 h · sunrise 05:40 · sunset 21:02
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
Taken together, the day leaned gentle and warm-hearted rather than urgent: the lunar day of the chalice called for mercy, giving, and plenty of fluid while warning off any strain on the heart, and Taurus's slow, grounded heat echoed that same unhurried, appetite-friendly mood. The waxing moon and Wednesday's Mercury added a favourable current for gathering strength and for honest, careful talk, and Moon in Libra reinforced this further, favouring reconciliation and shared decisions over solitary ones — a rare point where several threads agreed. The one note of caution ran through the lunar day itself, which set heavy exertion and coarse food against its own theme of tenderness, so tradition held that ease and moderation suited the day better than intensity. Altogether, it read as a day well-favoured for a soft, sociable pirts visit — one for warmth, quiet company, and few demands, rather than for anything strenuous or urgent.
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.