Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 60% 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 herd of horses
All the horsepower of the body. The body is the chariot, the mind the driver. Courage, fearlessness, records and feats.
- + Exercise, fresh air, cold-water bathing
- + Group work, shared decisions
- + Starting new work
- − Lies, flattery, fawning
- − Overloading the liver
- − Trading a principle for an advantage
- Symbol
- a herd of horses, a chariot
- Body
- the liver, the blood
- Stones
- pyrite, aventurine, obsidian
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The blood-forming system, the liver especially — it was not to be overloaded. Blood-cleansing foods: carrots, beetroot, cranberries, rowan; herbal teas and fresh-pressed juices.
Moon in Leo fire
Visibility, making, celebration, children. You want to be appreciated — and it works. Take care: pride and drama rise higher today than you notice yourself.
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 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 22 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 8.1° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 9
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 22 days
- Day length
- 7.3 h · sunrise 08:34 · sunset 15:49
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
Several threads agreed that today leaned toward release rather than beginnings: both the waning moon and Latvian folklore pointed to pirts and water treatments as well-suited, a good stretch for cleansing and letting go of what had run its course. Lunar day 21 added its own note of vigor — fresh air, cold water, and shared effort were favoured, though the liver asked for some restraint, so blood-cleansing foods like beetroot or cranberry suited the day. Monday's planetary mood reinforced the gentler, homeward reading, favouring water treatments and care for family while cautioning against big decisions, as plans tended to shift underfoot. The Moon in Leo added a brighter, more sociable note — a wish to be seen and appreciated, tempered by watchfulness against pride — while the sun's passage through Sagittarius simply framed the season as one of inner fire and restless outlook, sitting apart from the day's more immediate signals. Taken together, the day read as a favourable one for pirts and quiet cleansing, so long as one moved through it with a little humility and without forcing new ventures.
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.