Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 19% 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 crane and the clouds
The day of prāna — breath, telepathy, foretelling. Perception sharpens, smell most of all.
- + Breathing practice, divination
- + Work with words, study
- + Watching the clouds
- − Lamenting your life
- − Insistence in conversation
- − Retelling dreams
- Symbol
- a crane, clouds
- Body
- the bronchi, the upper airways
- Stones
- hyacinth, citrine
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A good day for treating and restoring the airways. Illnesses were held to be not serious.
Dreams
Must not be retold — then they may not come true.
Moon in Aquarius air
Friends, groups, unexpected ideas, freedom. A good time for shared work and for anything new and unusual. In relationships — coolness: you want distance, not closeness.
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: Mercury ☿︎ — hour 5 of the night.
Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best hour to write, study, buy and sell, bring people together, sort papers. The mind is quick but shallow — a large decision is better not settled right now.
The year wheel
Last: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 9 days
82% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 21.8° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 22
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 9 days
- Day length
- 6.8 h · sunrise 08:53 · sunset 15:41
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 Crane and the Clouds was a day of prana in the numbered corpus — breath, keen perception and a good day for treating the airways and for recovery. The Moon in Aquarius drew toward friends, groups and unexpected ideas, with a cool distance in relationships. Sunday's Sun balanced visibility with rest, and the waxing moon and Latvian folk lore spoke of growth and gathering. The sun in Sagittarius favoured journeys of the mind as the solstice neared.
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.