Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 51% 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 bat
The first satanic day: illusion, delusion, deceit. Fear and dark thoughts surface; temptation comes wearing the look of vanity.
- + Everyday routine tasks
- + Finishing what was long put off
- + Cleansing, forgiveness
- − Starting anything new
- − Large purchases, betrothal
- − Looking long in a mirror
- − Alcohol
- Symbol
- a bat, the Milky Way
- Body
- the chest
- Stones
- black pearl, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The chest area was to be watched — intercostal neuralgia, angina. Salt footbaths were advised.
Dreams
Heavy, tormenting and not to be believed.
Moon in Pisces water
Dreams, intuition, mercy, art. The border between yourself and others thins — it is easy to take on someone else's mood. A good time for meditation and music; a poor one for agreements and alcohol.
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 systemThursday · Jupiter ♃︎. Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. A day for large questions: strategy, study, courts and institutions, long-term agreements, helping others. What is begun on a Thursday tends to grow. A good day to ask and to give — money included. The shadow side is exaggeration, promises beyond your strength, and the wish to teach others how to live.
Current planetary hour: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 4 of the day.
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 5 days
90% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 25.4° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 26
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 5 days
- Day length
- 6.7 h · sunrise 08:57 · sunset 15:42
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
Today's readings pulled in more than one direction. The lunar day of the bat warned against beginnings, mirrors, and drink, favouring instead routine work and quiet cleansing — a caution echoed by moon-in-Pisces, which likewise counselled against agreements and alcohol while wrapping the day in a soft, permeable, dreamlike mood well suited to unhurried bathing. Against this, the waxing moon and the Latvian phase-lore agreed that growth-work and gathering were favoured, and Jupiter's Thursday added its own voice for generosity, learning, and things meant to grow — though its shadow side of overreach sat oddly alongside the bat's warning against illusion and vanity. The sun in Sagittarius asked only for a restless, inward-looking spirit rather than any outer effort. On the whole, a pirts visit built around quiet finishing-work, forgiveness, and modest care of the chest fit the day better than any new undertaking or venture into drink.
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.