Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
New moon 1% illuminated
During the new moon, the body's strength was considered at its lowest ebb. Folk tradition favoured a shorter, gentler pirts visit over this phase — little vigour was expected, and rest mattered more than a vigorous whisking.
The lamp
A clean sheet: the tone of the whole month is set here. A day for planning rather than starting — thought was said to carry unusual weight today.
- + Planning the month
- + Sitting by a fire or a candle
- + Forgiving old grievances
- + Returning to family and childhood
- − Starting new work
- − Group work
- − Alcohol, sharp food
- − Wishing anyone ill
- Symbol
- a lamp, a light, the third eye
- Body
- the face, the brain
- Stones
- diamond, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun today was thought to drag on, but to be curable. Care was advised over strain on the heart and vessels, and over complaints tied to stones forming in the organs.
Dreams
Light, not heavy. A good dream was taken as a sign of joy; a bad one could simply be let go.
Moon in Cancer water
Home, family, memory, the sense of roots. Sensitivity is high, hurt runs deep and lasts. A good time to be at home, to cook, to care for your own; a poor time for public confrontation.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- The new moon is met with full hands, not empty.
- You must not look at the new moon with an empty pocket — rub a coin in your pocket without taking it out.
- On first sight: “The itch to the fence, sleep to the pig, health from God to me!”
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 6 days
88% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 24.8° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 26
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 6 days
- Day length
- 17.8 h · sunrise 04:29 · sunset 22:19
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
Today's readings pulled in more than one direction. The lunar day and phase both counselled quiet — a new moon favours thought over action, plans over starting, and the numbered day underscored this as a time for sitting by the fire, mending old grievances, and returning to family rather than pushing anything new. The moon in Cancer echoed that same homeward, tender mood, better suited to quiet care than to exertion or confrontation. Tuesday's Mars energy stood apart from this, restless and wanting outlet through effort rather than stillness, while the sun in Gemini added its own light, quick-moving warmth that old lore cautioned against overdoing before the season had settled. Taken together, a pirts visit today sat more easily with warmth, quiet, and the company of family than with vigor or long exertion — a day, by most of these threads, for gentleness rather than intensity.
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.