Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 2% 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 leopard
The day of the astral warrior. Passivity here was held to be not neutral but dangerous: the passive get hurt. Energy was to be discharged deliberately.
- + Martial arts, heavy exertion
- + Pirts
- + Work with metal, sharpening blades
- − Starting something wholly new
- − Drifting without aim
- − A sign: spilled oil — you have slid off the road
- Symbol
- a leopard before the leap
- Body
- the nape, the ears, the withers
- Stones
- carnelian, ruby, pyrite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill on this day, recovery was thought to be hard. The weak points: the ears, the nape, the withers.
Moon in Libra air
Relationships, agreements, balance, beauty. A good sign for talks and reconciliation. It is harder to decide alone — today you want to weigh everything with someone.
Canon: A warrior's day: martial arts, physical exertion.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com additionally calls it a good day for surgical operations; other sources do not mention it.
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- 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 systemSaturday · Saturn ♄︎. Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: a day for what needs patience, repetition and clearing out — archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old. Anything where you must say “no” goes well. New beginnings and celebrations go poorly. The shadow side is heaviness of heart, meanness, and fear.
Current planetary hour: ♂︎ Mars — hour 3 of the day.
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: Māras
Next: Miķeļi, in 11 days
77% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 19.6° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 21
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 11 days
- Day length
- 13.0 h · sunrise 06:47 · sunset 19:50
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
The day's traditions pulled in different directions more than they agreed. The lunar corpus and the waxing moon both spoke for deliberate exertion — the leopard day naming pirts itself as favoured, with passivity read as risky — while the waxing phase added its usual bias toward energetic, generative work over rest. Saturday's Saturn counseled the opposite temper: patience, closing-off, and clearing out rather than any vigorous new start, and Virgo's steady, harvest-bound sun likewise favoured finishing quietly over pushing hard. The Moon in Libra, meanwhile, turned attention toward balance and company rather than solitary effort. Taken together, a visitor might read the day as one where pirts itself was well supported by two threads of the tradition, though the manner urged was brisk and deliberate rather than restful, and any grand new undertaking begun there sat uneasily against both the numbered day's own caution and Saturn's counsel.
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.