Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 81% 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 chalice
The day when cosmic love switches on. Prayers come true; mercy is the whole lesson of the day.
- + Giving gifts, donating
- + Granting requests and asking yourself
- + Drinking plenty of fluid
- − Quarrels — reconciliation will be very hard
- − Self-pity, complaint
- − Coarse food, strain on the heart
- Symbol
- a chalice, a heart
- Body
- the heart (Anahata)
- Stones
- mother-of-pearl, lapis lazuli, coral
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A cleansing of the heart and upper airways; no strain of any kind on the heart. Only tried and tested medicines and cosmetics were to be used.
Dreams
Prophetic and trustworthy — evil forces cannot get into 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 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: ♀︎ Venus — hour 2 of the day.
Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, reconciliation. A good hour to meet, to make peace, to tend to yourself, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached now rest on liking, not pressure. The shadow side is idleness and waste.
The year wheel
Last: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 2 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 28.4° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 29
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 2 days
- Day length
- 6.7 h · sunrise 08:59 · 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
Four separate threads found unusual agreement today. The lunar day of the chalice set a tone of mercy and steady, gentle care — mercy for the heart and upper airways above all, with nothing coarse or straining asked of the body — while the waxing moon and Taurus both leaned toward calm, grounded steadiness rather than haste or hard change. Sunday's planetary character added weight and visibility, favouring quiet rest over quarrels or striving, and the low winter sun in Sagittarius reminded that warmth now was more a matter of inner fire than of outer heat. Together the traditions, each in its own voice, pointed toward the same kind of pirts day: unhurried, mild, restorative rather than testing, better suited to gentle warmth and calm company than to any strain or dispute.
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.