Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Full moon 100% illuminated
At the full moon, the body was considered at its most sensitive. A gentler pace was favoured — less heat, a lighter hand with the whisk, and closer attention to how the body responded.
The butterfly and the dove
One of the pure days. Moderation is its whole symbol — a balance between the physical and the astral. It was to be kept even if someone gives offence.
- + Cleaning in every sense
- + Quiet housework, solitude
- + Exercise, travel
- − Shouting, envy, aggression
- − Meat (fish aside), mushrooms
- − Operations on the bones and the thyroid
- Symbol
- a butterfly, a dove, a ladder
- Body
- the spleen; the renewal of the blood
- Stones
- spinel, tourmaline, pearl
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Bone complaints were thought possible; operations on the bones and especially the thyroid were not advised.
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.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- You must not sleep where the moon shines in — you will become moonstruck.
- Whoever stares at the moon long in the evening is troubled at night by the lietuvēns.
- Fresh meat is kept from the moonlight.
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: Saturn ♄︎ — hour 5 of the night.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
Last: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 28 days
39% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 2.6° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 3
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 28 days
- Day length
- 7.6 h · sunrise 08:23 · sunset 15:56
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
The Butterfly and the Dove was one of the pure days of the numbered corpus, a day of moderation, cleaning in every sense and quiet housework, when shouting and aggression were avoided. The full moon, by contrast, exaggerated everything, and Tuesday's Mars brought energy that wanted an outlet, with quarrels as its shadow. The Moon in Gemini added talk and suggestibility, and Latvian folk lore warned against sleeping in the moonlight. The sun in Sagittarius favoured looking ahead, while the Butterfly asked above all for 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.