Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 17% 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 crane and the clouds
The day of prāna — breath, telepathy, foretelling. Perception sharpens, smell most of all.
- + Breathing practice, divination
- + Work with words, study
- + Watching the clouds
- − Lamenting your life
- − Insistence in conversation
- − Retelling dreams
- Symbol
- a crane, clouds
- Body
- the bronchi, the upper airways
- Stones
- hyacinth, citrine
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A good day for treating and restoring the airways. Illnesses were held to be not serious.
Dreams
Must not be retold — then they may not come true.
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 systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 4 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
Last: Ziemassvētki
Next: Meteņi, in 23 days
49% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♑︎ in Capricorn, 21.9° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 22
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 68 days
- Day length
- 7.3 h · sunrise 08:54 · sunset 16:09
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
Lunar day six sharpened breath and perception, favouring quiet study and cloud-watching over argument, and the waxing moon backed anything begun rather than finished — energy gathering, wounds healing slower, so a light visit suited the day better than a demanding one. Moon in Pisces softened the edges further, drawing the day toward mercy and half-dreamed feeling rather than conversation or bargains, which sat a little uneasily against Tuesday's Mars-driven pull toward action and outlet. Whoever felt that restless Tuesday energy might have used it to move rather than sit idle, though the shadow of haste and quarrel was worth noting where it crossed the day's gentler, breath-led mood. Capricorn's sun, meanwhile, asked for endurance rather than ease, a fire kept more in hope than comfort — a steady backdrop rather than a call to any particular action. Taken together, the traditions leaned toward a restorative, unhurried pirts visit: good for breath and quiet mind, less suited to heavy exertion or difficult talk.
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.