Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 74% 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 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 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: ♂︎ Mars — hour 6 of the night.
Leadership, struggle, conflict, surgery. Much energy, and it wants an outlet — physical work, sport, a decisive conversation, casting off surplus. The shadow side: irritability, haste, injury, burnt bridges.
The year wheel
Last: Ūsiņi
Next: Jāņi, in 27 days
44% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 4.7° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 5
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 27 days
- Day length
- 17.1 h · sunrise 04:48 · sunset 21:53
The sun in Gemini brought a lighter, quicker warmth — days stretched long and the body wanted movement rather than stillness. Old lore warned that this restlessness could tip into a chill caught from too much running about before the season had fully turned. Rest was taken in short spells, never long ones.
The day, read as one
The lunar corpus was emphatic here — day ten names the pirts outright as one of its best days, the energy called home toward family and foundation-laying — and the waxing moon agreed, favouring anything begun and gathered rather than released. Mars' Tuesday added its own restless charge, pushing for effort and an outlet rather than idleness, which sat well enough alongside the day's building mood, though it warned against delicate talk. The moon in Libra pulled slightly against this, asking for balance and shared decisions rather than solitary pressing-forward, a small tension rather than a contradiction. Gemini's quick, restless warmth echoed the call to movement but cautioned against overdoing it before rest — so tradition, taken together, leaned toward the pirts suiting the day, provided it was met with the family's grounding rather than haste or conflict.
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.