Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
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 Cancer water
Home, family, memory, the sense of roots. Sensitivity is high, hurt runs deep and lasts. A good time to be at home, to cook, to care for your own; a poor time for public confrontation.
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 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: Ziemassvētki
Next: Meteņi, in 42 days
6% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♑︎ in Capricorn, 2.5° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 3
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 87 days
- Day length
- 6.7 h · sunrise 09:01 · sunset 15:45
The sun turned at its lowest in Capricorn, and the shortest day was kept as the year's true hinge — the cold was at its hardest, but so, tradition insisted, was the promise that light was about to grow again. Endurance, not comfort, was the virtue of this season; a fire lit now was lit in hope rather than in need alone. The body was told to bear with the cold rather than fight it.
The day, read as one
Several threads agreed that this was a day for quiet steadying rather than beginnings: the sixteenth lunar day counselled moderation and calm solitude, the full moon asked only to reveal and complete what was already in motion, and Cancer's moon deepened feelings and drew attention homeward. Folk custom added its old caution against sleeping in the moon's light and against staring too long into it. Thursday's planetary mood leaned toward larger, outward questions — study, agreements, generosity — which sat a little apart from the night's inward, domestic pull, while Capricorn's sun simply asked for endurance through the year's coldest turn. A visitor might read the day as suited to something gentle, unhurried, and close to home, with vigorous exertion or any new bone or thyroid treatment better left for another time.
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.