Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 91% 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 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- 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 systemThursday · Jupiter ♃︎. Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. A day for large questions: strategy, study, courts and institutions, long-term agreements, helping others. What is begun on a Thursday tends to grow. A good day to ask and to give — money included. The shadow side is exaggeration, promises beyond your strength, and the wish to teach others how to live.
Current planetary hour: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 4 of the day.
Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best hour to write, study, buy and sell, bring people together, sort papers. The mind is quick but shallow — a large decision is better not settled right now.
The year wheel
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Next: Jāņi, in 25 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 7.0° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 8
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 25 days
- Day length
- 17.2 h · sunrise 04:44 · sunset 21:58
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
Several threads agreed on gentleness and generosity: the lunar day of the chalice, ruled by mercy and giving, found an easy companion in Jupiter's Thursday, both favouring open-handedness and a soft rather than strenuous pirts visit — heart and upper airways cleansed, nothing pushed hard. The waxing moon added its own note of building energy, good for beginning things though slower to heal, while the Moon in Scorpio leaned toward deep cleansing and letting go of surplus, echoing the lunar day's warning against coarse strain. The Gemini sun sounded a lighter, more restless note, cautioning against overdoing movement or lingering in changeable air, which sat well beside the lunar day's insistence on avoiding any strain on the heart. Taken together, the traditions pointed toward a calm, generous, unhurried pirts day — gentle warmth, short rests, and no exertion — though the Scorpio moon's shadow of suspicion and old grievance was best left outside the door, since reconciliation was said to be especially hard to reach on this day.
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.