Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 87% 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 spider and the web
Lunar day 19 was linked to cleansing by fire — tradition favoured going through the home with a candle or smoke rather than starting anything new. A pirts visit fit the same mood: warmth and steam for clearing the day, not for beginning new plans.
The day of operative magic, and the warning runs both ways: the danger of falling into someone else's web, and an equal danger of drawing others into yours.
- + Telling your own thoughts from planted ones
- + Going round the corners of the home with a candle, or with smoke
- + Plain food from round vegetables
- − New ideas — whose are they?
- − Any contracts, marriage included
- − Neither lending money nor repaying debts
- Symbol
- a spider, a web
- Body
- the navel centre; the caecum and the sigmoid colon
- Stones
- labradorite, chrysolite, green garnet
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Digestive-tract complaints, the caecum, the sigmoid colon — though the illness passes quickly.
Dreams
May frighten you, but it is an illusion. Put them out of your head.
Moon in Pisces water
Dreams, intuition, mercy, art. The border between yourself and others thins — it is easy to take on someone else's mood. A good time for meditation and music; a poor one for agreements and alcohol.
Canon: The day of operative magic, but not “satanic” — those are the 9th, 15th, 29th.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com counts the 19th day among the satanic ones, keeping the other three as well.
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 systemSunday · Sun ☉︎. Strength, visibility, authority — the day for showing yourself and, at the same time, for resting. What needs authority goes well: speaking up, addressing those above you, starting what needs to be noticed. Fine, quiet work and requests where you must look small go less well. The shadow side is pride and the wish to be watched.
Current planetary hour: ☽︎ Moon — hour 4 of the day.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
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The sun
- Sign
- ♌︎ in Leo, 10.1° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 11
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 52 days
- Day length
- 16.2 h · sunrise 05:24 · sunset 21:34
In Leo the sun stood at its fullest strength, and the body's own heat was said to run highest with it — good for anything that needed vigour, poor for anything needing a cool head. The grain ripened under this sun, and so, tradition warned, did a person's pride. Rest in shade was taken seriously, not as weakness.
The day, read as one
Several threads agreed today favoured pirts: the waning moon's lore of release and cleansing, the Latvian folk tradition's own counsel of water and casting off surplus, and even the watchful spider-day, wary as it was of new undertakings, made room for quiet, wordless rituals like smoke round the corners of the home. The Moon in Pisces softened the edges further, leaning toward mood and intuition rather than talk. Sunday under the Sun, and the Sun's own strength in Leo, pulled the other way, toward visibility and vigour rather than rest, so the day carried a real tension between showing oneself and letting go. Lunar day 19 added its own separate caution, unrelated to bathing itself: no contracts, no new ideas taken as one's own, no debts settled or lent. On balance, tradition read this as a fitting day for the pirts itself, so long as the visit was kept a private, unspoken thing rather than an occasion for decisions or company.
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.