Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 98% 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 trumpet
A calling. An extremely fortunate day for starting anything important — the next such chance was said to come only in a month.
- + Starting the important thing, well prepared
- + Physical work, cleansing the gut
- + A dry fast; almonds, salty food
- − Magic and divination
- − A mirror, perfume, straining the eyes
- − Alcohol, operations
- Symbol
- a trumpet
- Body
- the intestines (Manipura)
- Stones
- hyacinth, sapphire, lapis lazuli
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Recovery was said to be clean; on this day people often mend after a lingering illness. The eyes and head were to be protected.
Dreams
Prophetic — do not hurry to rise in the morning; remember and weigh them.
Moon in Taurus earth
Money, property, the body, food. Perception slows, but feeling is steady and calm. A good time to save, to buy lasting things, to put down roots. A poor time to hurry or to force yourself to change.
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 systemMonday · Moon ☾︎. Mood, home, memory, family. Sensitivity is higher than usual — toward people and toward food. A good day for housework, for caring for a mother and elders, for water treatments, for anything that calls for gentleness. A poor day for important decisions and public steps: plans tend to change. The shadow side is emotional unsteadiness and taking offence.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 3 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: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 29 days
36% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 1.0° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 2
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 29 days
- Day length
- 7.6 h · sunrise 08:21 · sunset 15:58
In Sagittarius the sun rode low and the days grew short, yet tradition held that inner fire, not outer warmth, carried a person through this stretch toward the solstice. It was a season for journeys of the mind if not the body — for looking ahead rather than settling in. A restless spirit now was taken as natural, not a fault.
The day, read as one
Four threads, one loosely shared lean toward steadiness rather than push. The lunar day of the trumpet marked this as a fortunate start for something important, favouring physical work and cleansing, with recovery said to come clean — a strong current running through the visit. The waxing moon and Taurus both counselled patience and gathering rather than haste, steady feeling over quick change, which sat well with the quiet, grounded work the lunar day itself asked for. Monday's planetary mood added warmth toward home and gentleness, good for water and care, though it warned against decisions made in the heat of the moment. Sagittarius overhead, restless and inward-looking, was the one note that pulled against all this stillness — a visitor torn between settling in and wandering off, with the day's other signs favouring the former.
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.