Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 99% illuminated
The waning moon was long held as the best time for a pirts visit. This was when cleansing and letting go were most encouraged — heavier whisking and a longer, more thorough visit were favoured.
The butterfly and the dove
One of the pure days. Moderation is its whole symbol — a balance between the physical and the astral. It was to be kept even if someone gives offence.
- + Cleaning in every sense
- + Quiet housework, solitude
- + Exercise, travel
- − Shouting, envy, aggression
- − Meat (fish aside), mushrooms
- − Operations on the bones and the thyroid
- Symbol
- a butterfly, a dove, a ladder
- Body
- the spleen; the renewal of the blood
- Stones
- spinel, tourmaline, pearl
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Bone complaints were thought possible; operations on the bones and especially the thyroid were not advised.
Moon in Scorpio water
Depth, secrecy, passion, transformation. A strong sign for cleansing, investigation, and shedding the surplus. At the same time — jealousy, suspicion, the pull toward revenge.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- On the waning moon — pirts, water treatments, casting off the surplus.
- Trees felled on the old moon rot less.
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: ☉︎ Sun — hour 6 of the night.
Strength, health, visibility, authority. The hour for showing yourself: speaking up, addressing someone higher, starting what needs to be noticed. Quiet requests and work where you must stay in the shadow go poorly.
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The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 12.5° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 13
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 50 days
- Day length
- 15.6 h · sunrise 05:33 · sunset 21:08
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
Lunar day sixteen and the waning moon agreed unusually well on this one: both called it a day for release rather than accumulation, favouring quiet cleaning, solitude, and letting the body shed its surplus — pirts-going sat comfortably within that reading, and Latvian folklore's own waning-moon lore said the same. The moon's passage through Scorpio deepened that cleansing note, though it carried an undertow of suspicion and old grudges best left outside the door, and the numbered day's own warning against shouting and offence pointed the same way. Sunday's planetary tone pulled slightly against the grain, being a day suited to visibility and authority rather than the small, inward work the rest of the day recommended, so this was better spent unseen than performed. The Taurus sun added a steadier note underneath it all — no hurry, appetite and rest both considered earned. Bone and thyroid work were held unwise under this lunar day regardless of the rest.
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.