Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 13% 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 trident
The day of Neptune. The day holds the memory of all the lunar days before it and passes knowledge on through intuition. The lesson: pray for the world, not for yourself.
- + Meditation, healing, prayer
- + Water treatments, travel by water
- + Sowing and planting; repaying debts
- − Alcohol, a mirror, illusions
- − Open fire
- − Praying only for yourself
- Symbol
- a staff, a trident
- Body
- the lower legs, the calves
- Stones
- red coral, amethyst, charoite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The lower legs and calves; breaking the day over a long stretch was linked to thrombophlebitis and lymphatic complaints. Illnesses light and short.
Moon in Virgo earth
Order, detail, health, work. The best sign for cleaning, setting things straight, treatment, and anything that calls for precision. The risk is excess criticism of yourself and others.
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 systemWednesday · Mercury ☿︎. Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best day of the week to sort papers, write letters, study, buy and sell, bring people together. The mind is quick but shallow, so large decisions are better left. The day calls for honesty and precision: what is said today is remembered. The shadow side is chatter, distraction, small lies.
Current planetary hour: ☽︎ Moon — hour 3 of the day.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
The year wheel
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 32 days
31% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 14.0° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 15
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 76 days
- Day length
- 11.1 h · sunrise 07:39 · sunset 18:42
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 ran together on the Trident: the numbered corpus favoured water treatments, meditation and prayer, the waning moon named the pirts and cleansing, and the Latvian folk lore of the old moon spoke of casting off the surplus. The Moon in Virgo, held the best sign for cleaning and treatment, pointed the same way. Wednesday's Mercury was more a day for words and documents, and it too left large decisions aside. The Trident's warnings against alcohol, illusions and open fire stood alone, while the sun in Libra kept the season's note of balance.
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.