Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 89% 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 mirror
The world reflects your true nature. Whatever unpleasant thing is said of you today is true — not to take offence at, but to take into account.
- + The best fasting day of the cycle
- + Pirts, cleansing the skin and the gut
- + Massage with plant oil, nuts
- − Vanity, imitating others
- − Alcohol, smoking, sleeping late
- − Serious practices done alone
- Symbol
- a mirror, ice, a monkey
- Body
- the skin, the kidneys
- Stones
- white agate, opal, amethyst
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The kidneys weaken today. Skin complaints that appear now, or old wounds that reopen, were read as a sign of breaking a cosmic law.
Moon in Sagittarius fire
The road, wide space, learning, faith. You are drawn to distance and to meaning. A good time to travel, to study, to plan in broad strokes. The risk is to promise more than you can carry out.
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 systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 4 of the day.
Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. An hour for large questions: strategy, institutions and courts, long-term agreements, asking and giving. What is begun now tends to grow. The shadow side is exaggeration and promises beyond your strength.
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The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 14.8° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 16
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 48 days
- Day length
- 15.8 h · sunrise 05:26 · sunset 21:15
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
Four traditions leaned the same direction today: lunar day 18 named the pirts as the best cleansing and fasting day of its cycle, the waning moon called for release and casting off surplus, Latvian folklore echoed the same water-and-cleansing counsel, and even Mars's restless energy on Tuesday found an outlet in physical effort rather than idleness. The Moon in Sagittarius added a pull toward distance and reflection rather than deep, solitary practice, while steady Taurus sun favoured slow, settled warmth over haste. Old wounds or skin complaints surfacing now were read as the day's mirror doing its work, not as ill omen. Altogether, the day's separate signs converged unusually well on the pirts, though tradition cautioned against vanity, solitude in serious practice, and any hurried or overindulgent turn to the evening.
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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.