Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 50% 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 bat
The first satanic day: illusion, delusion, deceit. Fear and dark thoughts surface; temptation comes wearing the look of vanity.
- + Everyday routine tasks
- + Finishing what was long put off
- + Cleansing, forgiveness
- − Starting anything new
- − Large purchases, betrothal
- − Looking long in a mirror
- − Alcohol
- Symbol
- a bat, the Milky Way
- Body
- the chest
- Stones
- black pearl, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The chest area was to be watched — intercostal neuralgia, angina. Salt footbaths were advised.
Dreams
Heavy, tormenting and not to be believed.
Moon in Taurus earth
Money, property, the body, food. Perception slows, but feeling is steady and calm. A good time to save, to buy lasting things, to put down roots. A poor time to hurry or to force yourself to change.
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: ☿︎ 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 35 days
23% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♒︎ in Aquarius, 25.4° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 26
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 35 days
- Day length
- 9.4 h · sunrise 07:54 · sunset 17:21
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
The day's threads pulled in different directions rather than one. The lunar count named the ninth day a wary, "satanic" one, better spent finishing old tasks and cleansing than beginning anything, with the chest worth minding and salt footbaths favoured — a caution echoed, oddly, by nothing else here, since the waxing moon and its Taurus placement instead spoke of steady growth, appetite, and a calm, grounded feeling that suited saving, rooting, and slow deliberate care rather than force. Sunday's solar authority added a note of visibility and standing tall, though the mirror-avoidance of the lunar day sat uneasily against that wish to be seen. The Aquarius sun, meanwhile, pointed away from action altogether, toward shared warmth and quiet company by the fire. Altogether it read as a day for gentle, communal, unhurried presence — finishing rather than starting — with the old lunar warning suggesting that vanity and haste, in particular, were best left alone.
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.