Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 79% 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 eagle
A serious and lofty day: spiritual transformation, the overcoming of doubt. The day lends strength for a true decision.
- + The best day for fasting and revelation
- + Studying scripture
- + Staying home with the family
- − Pride, arrogance, dictating
- − Healing others with energy — you will drain yourself
- − Meat, straining the eyes
- Symbol
- an eagle
- Body
- the shoulder blades, the upper back, the peritoneum
- Stones
- red jasper, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun on this day was said to be long. The shoulder blades and upper back are sensitive, as is the peritoneum.
Moon in Aquarius air
Friends, groups, unexpected ideas, freedom. A good time for shared work and for anything new and unusual. In relationships — coolness: you want distance, not closeness.
Canon: The best day for fasting and spiritual revelation; only healing others with energy is forbidden.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: “meditation must on no account be practised.”
epadomi.com is a divergent branch, shown for cross-checking — not the reference.
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 systemFriday · Venus ♀︎. Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, peace. A good day to meet, to reconcile, to tend to yourself, to shop for beauty, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached on a Friday tend to hold, because they rest on liking rather than pressure. A poor day for rough work and confrontation. The shadow side is idleness, indulgence, waste.
Current planetary hour: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 5 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 17 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 14.7° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 16
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 17 days
- Day length
- 17.6 h · sunrise 04:34 · sunset 22:10
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 day's traditions leaned toward the same quiet purpose: the waning moon and the Latvian folk lore both named pirts and water treatments as fitting now, a time for releasing surplus rather than building anything new, and the lunar day of the eagle reinforced this with its call toward fasting, reflection, and staying close to home rather than seeking company. Friday's Venus added a gentler note, favouring self-tending and quiet pleasure over rough work or confrontation, which sat comfortably beside the eagle's warning against pride, drama, or trying to heal others. The Aquarius moon introduced a slight tension, tilting the mood toward friends and groups even as the day itself asked for withdrawal — a visitor might feel pulled between solitude and sociability. The Gemini sun, meanwhile, cautioned against overexertion or lingering too long in changing warmth, suggesting that if the day suited a pirts visit at all, it favoured something unhurried and brief rather than prolonged.
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.