Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 6% 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 tree of knowledge
The first heavy day, and a doubled one: both good and ill are present, and a choice may have to be made. Think it over ten times before deciding.
- + Solitude, quiet housework
- + Singing — work with sound
- + A walk in the woods
- − Group work, new acquaintances
- − Felling trees, picking flowers
- − Hasty decisions
- Symbol
- a tree, the syllable OM
- Body
- the throat, the larynx
- Stones
- agate, sardonyx, amazonite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Misused, the day's energy was said to settle in the neck and spine (osteochondrosis). An illness left unattended today could turn dangerous.
Dreams
Parents often appear — read as inherited problems that ask to be resolved. Tangled threads or hair — give up the thing you had in mind.
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: The first heavy day — start nothing new, think it over ten times.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com says the opposite: “a good day precisely for starting work.”
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 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: ☽︎ Moon — hour 4 of the day.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
The year wheel
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Next: Meteņi, in 25 days
44% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♑︎ in Capricorn, 19.9° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 20
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 70 days
- Day length
- 7.2 h · sunrise 08:55 · sunset 16:06
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
Today carried a mixed signal: the lunar day itself called for solitude and quiet rather than company, favouring a walk or work done in silence over anything shared or hasty, while the waxing moon underneath it pointed toward gathering strength and beginning things, with wounds and heavy exertions best left for another time. The Moon in Aquarius pulled toward groups and unusual company, sitting oddly against the day's own preference for withdrawal — a visitor might notice that pull without needing to resolve it. Sunday's planetary tone favoured being seen and standing tall rather than tending to small, quiet matters, which echoed the lunar day's warning against anything hasty or attention-seeking done carelessly. Capricorn's sun, meanwhile, spoke only of endurance through cold and the quiet promise of returning light, asking patience rather than action. Taken together, the traditions leaned toward a solitary, unhurried visit, sound and stillness favoured over gathering or exertion, with no strong agreement on much beyond that.
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.