Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 47% 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 phoenix
Cleansing and repentance. The characteristic practice was cleansing by fire, from a bonfire down to a single candle.
- + Fasting, cleansing the gut
- + Preparing herbal remedies
- + Travelling, moving house
- − Indulgence, egotism
- − Carelessness near water
- − A poor day to fall ill
- Symbol
- a phoenix, a casket of jewels
- Body
- the stomach
- Stones
- garnet, chrysolite, morion
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A diagnosis was said to be hard to make today, and illness could drag on — a poor day to fall ill.
Moon in Capricorn earth
Work, responsibility, career, limits. Emotion quiets, the mind turns cold and clear. The best time for serious, sustained work; the worst for seeking warmth and comfort.
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 systemSunday · Sun ☉︎. Strength, visibility, authority — the day for showing yourself and, at the same time, for resting. What needs authority goes well: speaking up, addressing those above you, starting what needs to be noticed. Fine, quiet work and requests where you must look small go less well. The shadow side is pride and the wish to be watched.
Current planetary hour: ☽︎ Moon — hour 4 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 21 days
56% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 25.0° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 26
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 65 days
- Day length
- 10.2 h · sunrise 08:02 · sunset 18:13
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 different clocks agreed today was better suited to steady, deliberate effort than to comfort or indulgence: the lunar day counselled cleansing and restraint over excess, the waxing moon favoured beginnings even as it warned that healing ran slower now, and the Moon in Capricorn sharpened the mind toward disciplined, sustained work rather than warmth-seeking. Sunday's planetary rule added a note of visibility and authority, well suited to anything requiring one to stand forward rather than retreat quietly. The Libra sun, meanwhile, pointed toward balance and moderation, cautioning against tipping any of this discipline into excess. Where the threads diverged was in temperament — fire and cleansing against Capricorn's coolness, boldness against equilibrium — leaving a visitor to weigh purposeful, unhurried practice over anything indulgent or careless, particularly around water.
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.