Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Full moon 100% illuminated
At the full moon, the body was considered at its most sensitive. A gentler pace was favoured — less heat, a lighter hand with the whisk, and closer attention to how the body responded.
The butterfly and the dove
One of the pure days. Moderation is its whole symbol — a balance between the physical and the astral. It was to be kept even if someone gives offence.
- + Cleaning in every sense
- + Quiet housework, solitude
- + Exercise, travel
- − Shouting, envy, aggression
- − Meat (fish aside), mushrooms
- − Operations on the bones and the thyroid
- Symbol
- a butterfly, a dove, a ladder
- Body
- the spleen; the renewal of the blood
- Stones
- spinel, tourmaline, pearl
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Bone complaints were thought possible; operations on the bones and especially the thyroid were not advised.
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.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- You must not sleep where the moon shines in — you will become moonstruck.
- Whoever stares at the moon long in the evening is troubled at night by the lietuvēns.
- Fresh meat is kept from the moonlight.
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: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 43 days
7% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 3.2° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 4
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 87 days
- Day length
- 11.9 h · sunrise 07:16 · sunset 19:12
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
Several threads converged today on restraint rather than renewal: the lunar day's own symbol was moderation, Saturday's discipline favoured closing off and clearing rather than beginning, and the full moon added its old caution against vigorous treatment of the body, its blood said to clot less readily. Pisces lent the day a soft, permeable mood, well suited to quiet and music but not to firm agreements, while Libra's balanced season echoed the same call for evenness rather than excess. Folk custom's warning to keep out of the moon's direct light was its own separate thread, unconnected to the others but pointing likewise toward carefulness after dark. Taken together, tradition leaned toward a subdued pirts visit — gentle, unhurried, more suited to quiet washing and rest than to anything strenuous or new. Where the readings diverged was mainly in emphasis: the bone and thyroid caution belonged to the lunar day alone, and no other tradition here spoke to it directly.
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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.