Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 2% 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 leopard
The day of the astral warrior. Passivity here was held to be not neutral but dangerous: the passive get hurt. Energy was to be discharged deliberately.
- + Martial arts, heavy exertion
- + Pirts
- + Work with metal, sharpening blades
- − Starting something wholly new
- − Drifting without aim
- − A sign: spilled oil — you have slid off the road
- Symbol
- a leopard before the leap
- Body
- the nape, the ears, the withers
- Stones
- carnelian, ruby, pyrite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill on this day, recovery was thought to be hard. The weak points: the ears, the nape, the withers.
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.
Canon: A warrior's day: martial arts, physical exertion.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com additionally calls it a good day for surgical operations; other sources do not mention it.
epadomi.com is a divergent branch, shown for cross-checking — not the reference.
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 systemSaturday · Saturn ♄︎. Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: a day for what needs patience, repetition and clearing out — archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old. Anything where you must say “no” goes well. New beginnings and celebrations go poorly. The shadow side is heaviness of heart, meanness, and fear.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 2 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
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The sun
- Sign
- ♑︎ in Capricorn, 18.8° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 19
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 71 days
- Day length
- 7.1 h · sunrise 08:56 · sunset 16:04
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
The day leaned strongly toward deliberate effort rather than rest: the lunar count named this the warrior's day, when passivity was thought to invite harm and the pirts itself was favoured as a place to discharge energy. The waxing moon and its Latvian counterpart agreed that this was a time for gathering and growth, though both cautioned that healing ran slower now, so anything demanding on the body was better kept brisk than deep. Saturday's Saturn pulled the other way, favouring patience, closing-off and clearing-out over any new beginning — a note of restraint sitting against the leopard's call to exertion. The moon in Aquarius added a social color, suggesting company and shared work over solitary closeness, while the sun's long Capricorn dusk asked simply for endurance, a fire kept more in hope than comfort. Altogether the traditions pointed toward a pirts visit taken with purpose and vigor, tempered by patience, rather than one sought for idle drifting.
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.