Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 6% illuminated
The waning moon was long held as the best time for a pirts visit. This was when cleansing and letting go were most encouraged — heavier whisking and a longer, more thorough visit were favoured.
The trident
The day of Neptune. The day holds the memory of all the lunar days before it and passes knowledge on through intuition. The lesson: pray for the world, not for yourself.
- + Meditation, healing, prayer
- + Water treatments, travel by water
- + Sowing and planting; repaying debts
- − Alcohol, a mirror, illusions
- − Open fire
- − Praying only for yourself
- Symbol
- a staff, a trident
- Body
- the lower legs, the calves
- Stones
- red coral, amethyst, charoite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The lower legs and calves; breaking the day over a long stretch was linked to thrombophlebitis and lymphatic complaints. Illnesses light and short.
Moon in Capricorn earth
Work, responsibility, career, limits. Emotion quiets, the mind turns cold and clear. The best time for serious, sustained work; the worst for seeking warmth and comfort.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- On the waning moon — pirts, water treatments, casting off the surplus.
- Trees felled on the old moon rot less.
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: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 7 of the night.
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.
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The sun
- Sign
- ♒︎ in Aquarius, 14.9° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 15
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 45 days
- Day length
- 8.6 h · sunrise 08:19 · sunset 16:56
The sun in Aquarius still moved through the hardest cold, but the days were noticeably lengthening now, and tradition read this as a season of quiet waiting rather than action. People gathered close around fire and each other, since warmth from without was scarce and had to be shared to matter. The body was thought to want company now more than solitude.
The day, read as one
Several threads agreed on quiet, cleansing rather than beginning: the lunar day of Neptune counselled water treatments and prayer for others over the self, the waning moon favoured pirts and letting go of surplus, and Latvian folklore echoed the same release. Moon in Capricorn cooled the mood further, better suited to steady, sober work than to seeking comfort, while Thursday's Jupiter leaned toward larger questions, generosity, and shared learning rather than solitary ease. The sun in Aquarius pulled gently against Capricorn's austerity, suggesting warmth was best found in company rather than alone. Taken together, tradition pointed toward a pirts visit for cleansing and quiet fellowship rather than for indulgence or new undertakings, with the lower legs marked as the day's tender spot by the lunar health lore. Where the readings differed was mainly in emphasis — release and modesty from the moon traditions, an undertone of ambition and reach from the planetary and solar signs — rather than outright contradiction.
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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.