Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
New moon 0% illuminated
During the new moon, the body's strength was considered at its lowest ebb. Folk tradition favoured a shorter, gentler pirts visit over this phase — little vigour was expected, and rest mattered more than a vigorous whisking.
The horn of plenty
The start of the digestive cycle. A sense for food was said to be exact today: what appeals suits you, what repels does not. The same was held of people.
- + Starting a diet or a training cycle
- + Starting a long course of study
- + Giving, lending, being generous
- − Anger, greed, meanness
- − Taking what is not yours
- − Eating against your instinct
- Symbol
- a horn, a throat
- Body
- the mouth, the teeth, the palate
- Stones
- jadeite, chalcedony, agate
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Teeth could ache, kidney-stone attacks occur, and joint and chronic skin complaints flare. Illness begun today was thought to be short-lived. A good day for conceiving a child.
Dreams
Means nothing.
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 mouth, the teeth, a diet cycle; the sense for food is exact.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: intellectual work, contracts, signing — not a word about food.
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- The new moon is met with full hands, not empty.
- You must not look at the new moon with an empty pocket — rub a coin in your pocket without taking it out.
- On first sight: “The itch to the fence, sleep to the pig, health from God to me!”
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: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 3 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: Meteņi
Next: Lieldienas, in 42 days
7% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♒︎ in Aquarius, 18.3° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 19
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 42 days
- Day length
- 8.9 h · sunrise 08:10 · sunset 17:05
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
This was a day the traditions asked more for stillness than effort: the lunar day sharpened appetite and instinct toward what genuinely suited you, the new moon kept strength low and favoured intention over exertion, and the Aquarius placements — both moon and sun — pointed toward company, shared warmth, and a certain cool distance from closeness rather than intimacy. Sunday's planetary note added a wish to be seen and to rest at once, sitting easily alongside the Latvian custom of meeting the new moon with full hands and a coin kept close, a small gesture against want. None of these strands quite agreed on what to do, but they leaned together toward a pirts visit taken quietly, in company rather than solitude, trusting whatever the body plainly wanted or refused. It was not a day tradition marked for pushing through resistance, lunar day lore even warning that old joint, skin, or tooth complaints might flare. A gentle, companionable sitting suited the day rather better than any ambitious plan begun in it.
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.