Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 97% 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 trumpet
A calling. An extremely fortunate day for starting anything important — the next such chance was said to come only in a month.
- + Starting the important thing, well prepared
- + Physical work, cleansing the gut
- + A dry fast; almonds, salty food
- − Magic and divination
- − A mirror, perfume, straining the eyes
- − Alcohol, operations
- Symbol
- a trumpet
- Body
- the intestines (Manipura)
- Stones
- hyacinth, sapphire, lapis lazuli
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Recovery was said to be clean; on this day people often mend after a lingering illness. The eyes and head were to be protected.
Dreams
Prophetic — do not hurry to rise in the morning; remember and weigh them.
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.
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 systemWednesday · Mercury ☿︎. Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best day of the week to sort papers, write letters, study, buy and sell, bring people together. The mind is quick but shallow, so large decisions are better left. The day calls for honesty and precision: what is said today is remembered. The shadow side is chatter, distraction, small lies.
Current planetary hour: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 4 of the day.
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
Last: Māras
Next: Miķeļi, in 28 days
40% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 3.1° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 4
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 28 days
- Day length
- 14.4 h · sunrise 06:13 · sunset 20:36
The sun in Virgo watched over the harvest, and the body was expected to keep pace with it — steady, careful work rather than a burst of effort. The warmth was already turning thin at the edges, so tradition favoured finishing tasks over starting new ones. A tired body was read as a sign to gather in, not to push on.
The day, read as one
Day 14, the trumpet, and the waxing moon both spoke with unusual force in the same direction — an auspicious opening, a day for beginning the important thing while the body was said to hold heat and food well. Latvian folk tradition agreed that what was sown now grew upward, and Mercury's Wednesday added its own blessing on plain talk, clear words, and honest dealings, though it counselled against letting the day's quick mind carry any large decision. The moon in Aquarius leaned the gathering toward friends and shared, unusual undertakings rather than intimacy, which sat easily enough alongside the trumpet's call to act. Only the sun in Virgo pulled against the grain, favouring the finishing of old work over the starting of new — a quiet friction worth noting rather than resolving. Altogether the day read as strongly favoured for a considered pirts visit built around beginnings and plain cleansing, provided the eyes and head were kept sheltered and the mirror, the perfume, and the wine were left for another 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.