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 Capricorn earth
Work, responsibility, career, limits. Emotion quiets, the mind turns cold and clear. The best time for serious, sustained work; the worst for seeking warmth and comfort.
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 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: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 6 of the night.
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
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Next: Jāņi, in 18 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 13.3° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 14
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 18 days
- Day length
- 17.5 h · sunrise 04:36 · sunset 22:07
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
Four traditions, four different emphases, but on cleansing they largely agreed: lunar day 18 names pirts and skin care outright, the waning moon in both the lunar corpus and Latvian folklore favoured water and letting go of surplus, and even Capricorn's cool, businesslike mood left room for finishing old matters rather than starting new ones. Thursday's planetary mood sat a little apart from this, more inclined toward study and large plans than toward quiet bodily work, while Gemini's restless, quick-moving sun warned against lingering too long in heat or stillness and favoured short spells over extended ones. Taken together, the day read as sound for a modest, unhurried pirts visit focused on cleansing rather than celebration or company — old wounds or skin complaints noticed today were, by the lunar day's own lore, worth taking seriously rather than dismissing. No tradition here spoke against pirts itself; they simply disagreed on how long and in what spirit to sit with it.
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.