Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 7% 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 leopard
The day of the astral warrior. Passivity here was held to be not neutral but dangerous: the passive get hurt. Energy was to be discharged deliberately.
- + Martial arts, heavy exertion
- + Pirts
- + Work with metal, sharpening blades
- − Starting something wholly new
- − Drifting without aim
- − A sign: spilled oil — you have slid off the road
- Symbol
- a leopard before the leap
- Body
- the nape, the ears, the withers
- Stones
- carnelian, ruby, pyrite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill on this day, recovery was thought to be hard. The weak points: the ears, the nape, the withers.
Moon in Scorpio water
Depth, secrecy, passion, transformation. A strong sign for cleansing, investigation, and shedding the surplus. At the same time — jealousy, suspicion, the pull toward revenge.
Canon: A warrior's day: martial arts, physical exertion.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com additionally calls it a good day for surgical operations; other sources do not mention it.
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- 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 systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 4 of the day.
Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. An hour for large questions: strategy, institutions and courts, long-term agreements, asking and giving. What is begun now tends to grow. The shadow side is exaggeration and promises beyond your strength.
The year wheel
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 26 days
45% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 20.0° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 21
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 70 days
- Day length
- 10.6 h · sunrise 07:52 · sunset 18:26
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 and three of them pointed the same way today: the lunar day of the leopard, Mars's Tuesday, and Scorpio's intensity all agreed that this was a day for deliberate exertion rather than drifting, with the pirts itself named outright as favoured by the numbered day. The waxing moon backed this with rising appetite and absorption, though it also warned that anything sown or wounded now would heal slower and grow "twisting upward." Scorpio's pull toward cleansing sat well with sauna heat and sweat, even as its shadow of suspicion and Mars's shadow of haste and injury both cautioned against carrying that sharp energy into arguments or careless moves. Libra's sun alone struck a different note, urging balance and warning against overdoing anything — a quiet counterweight to the day's otherwise martial mood, worth heeding as a reminder not to push too hard even on a day built for pushing.
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.