Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waning moon 59% illuminated
The waning moon was long held as the best time for a pirts visit. This was when cleansing and letting go were most encouraged — heavier whisking and a longer, more thorough visit were favoured.
The crocodile
A stress point, where the Moon's vibration changes direction. An appetite that cannot be stilled, a leaning toward fights, nightmarish ideas.
- + Guarding the home: cleaning, burning a candle, smoking it with herbs
- + Fasting; dairy
- + Forgiving, repenting
- − Anger, gluttony, revenge
- − Cutting nails, operations
- − Ventures, a sedentary regime
- Symbol
- a crocodile, a chimera, Cerberus
- Body
- the female organs (Muladhara); the spine
- Stones
- black nephrite, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The spine was to be protected; strengthening treatments for it were welcome. Illness long but not dangerous.
Dreams
To be read as the exact opposite.
Moon in Gemini air
We become busy and mobile — much talk, news, short trips. At the same time suggestibility rises and one is more open to another's influence; today it is easy to believe what you hear.
Canon: Russian sources: the female organs, the ovaries, Muladhara.
epadomi.com: Latvian sources stress the spine.
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- On the waning moon — pirts, water treatments, casting off the surplus.
- Trees felled on the old moon rot less.
Source: Pēteris Šmits, Latviešu tautas ticējumi. Not the numbered-day corpus above.
Planetary week
a third, independent systemFriday · Venus ♀︎. Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, peace. A good day to meet, to reconcile, to tend to yourself, to shop for beauty, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached on a Friday tend to hold, because they rest on liking rather than pressure. A poor day for rough work and confrontation. The shadow side is idleness, indulgence, waste.
Current planetary hour: Mars ♂︎ — hour 4 of the night.
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 36 days
22% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 9.6° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 10
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 81 days
- Day length
- 11.4 h · sunrise 07:28 · sunset 18:55
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
The Crocodile was held to be a stress point of the lunar month, a day for guarding the home with cleaning, candlelight and herb smoke, and for fasting rather than feasting. The waning moon and the Latvian folk lore of the old moon both pointed toward cleansing, and named the pirts among its fitting works. Friday's Venus leaned the other way, toward pleasure, liking and tending to oneself, while the Moon in Gemini made the mind busy and easily swayed. Under the sun in Libra, overdoing was said to upset a balance the season had just reached.
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.