Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 92% 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 systemThursday · Jupiter ♃︎. Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. A day for large questions: strategy, study, courts and institutions, long-term agreements, helping others. What is begun on a Thursday tends to grow. A good day to ask and to give — money included. The shadow side is exaggeration, promises beyond your strength, and the wish to teach others how to live.
Current planetary hour: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 6 of the night.
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: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 45 days
2% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 0.9° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 1
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 89 days
- Day length
- 12.2 h · sunrise 07:10 · sunset 19:20
With the sun in Libra, day and night stood equal, and the body was said to sit at its own balance point too — neither the heat of summer nor the cold of winter had the upper hand. It was held a good season to settle accounts, physical and otherwise, before the year tipped toward the dark. Overdoing anything now unbalanced what the season itself had steadied.
The day, read as one
Four threads pulled toward the same word on this day: beginning. The lunar count named its fourteenth day a trumpet-call, fortunate for starting anything important and for physical cleansing, while the waxing moon and the Latvian phase-lore agreed that what was taken in now would be absorbed and would grow, though not quickly mended if strained. Thursday's tone favoured this too, lending itself to effort undertaken with others rather than alone, and Aquarius in the moon leaned the same way, toward company and shared work over solitude and closeness. Only the sun in Libra sounded a different note, its season asking for balance and moderation rather than the vigor the other threads called for — so a visit begun today might suit starting something, best kept from tipping into excess. The eyes and head, by the old lunar reckoning, were worth some care regardless.
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.