Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 63% 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 spring
Hidden springs — of energy, of knowledge, of karmic memory. The life force was to be turned toward home and family.
- + Working with the family tree, old photographs
- + Going to the pirts — the best day
- + Laying foundations, starting to build
- − Conflicts with relatives
- − Selfishness, superficiality
- − Operations on the vessels and eyes
- Symbol
- a spring, a fountain
- Body
- the bones of the ribcage
- Stones
- sardonyx, turquoise, amber
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill, help was to be sought at once. Operations on the vessels, nerves and eyes were not advised. Misusing the day was linked to a weakening of immunity.
Moon in Capricorn earth
Work, responsibility, career, limits. Emotion quiets, the mind turns cold and clear. The best time for serious, sustained work; the worst for seeking warmth and comfort.
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 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: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 3 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: Miķeļi, in 3 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 27.3° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 29
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 3 days
- Day length
- 12.4 h · sunrise 07:04 · sunset 19:28
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
Four traditions, four separate voices, but the lunar day itself made the strongest claim: day 10, the spring, was named outright as the best day for the pirts, its energy turned toward home, family and old foundations. The waxing moon and Capricorn placement leaned the same direction without contradicting it — supporting steady, sustained effort rather than urging rest, and warning only that healing ran slower and heavy work on vessels or eyes was better left for another day. Sunday under the Sun added its own note of visibility and authority, sitting a little apart from the quiet, homeward mood of the lunar day, while the Sun in Virgo counseled careful, gathering-in work over anything new. Nothing here spoke against a visit; if anything the separate threads converged more than they usually do, so tradition, read across all four, held today as an unusually favourable one for the pirts, so long as it served rest and family rather than ambition or a fresh start.
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.