Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 93% 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 bunch of grapes
The day of Shakti — fertility, the joy of living, inner freedom. Feminine energy transforms and, if not held, breaks out as wildness.
- + Meeting people, celebration, singing
- + Group practice, strength asanas
- + An excellent day for weddings
- − Losing your head, drinking too much
- − Settling deals
- − On a Saturday — particular caution
- Symbol
- a bunch of grapes, a bell
- Body
- the pituitary, the kidneys, the endocrine system
- Stones
- hematite, zircon, amethyst
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The endocrine system, the pituitary, the kidneys. An illness begun today (on a Saturday especially) was said to be hard to cure.
Moon in Libra air
Relationships, agreements, balance, beauty. A good sign for talks and reconciliation. It is harder to decide alone — today you want to weigh everything with someone.
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 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: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 3 of the day.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
Last: Meteņi
Next: Lieldienas, in 26 days
43% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♓︎ in Pisces, 4.5° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 5
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 26 days
- Day length
- 10.2 h · sunrise 07:32 · sunset 17:42
With the sun in Pisces the cold began to loosen into damp and thaw, and the body was said to grow porous along with the ground — easily chilled, easily moved to feeling. It was held a poor season for firm decisions and a good one for rest before spring's demands began. Old lore warned against trusting the weather here more than the calendar.
The day, read as one
Lunar day, moon phase, and Latvian folklore all leaned the same way today, with the waning moon favouring pirts, water treatments, and the shedding of surplus — a reading strengthened by Mars's Tuesday energy, which wanted the body's excess spent through effort rather than left to fester. The day of Shakti added its own undertow, though, warning that feminine energy not given a channel could break out as wildness, especially with Saturday's caution noted for any excess of drink or feeling. Moon in Libra asked for balance and companionship rather than solitary decisions, while the sun's passage through Pisces suggested a body grown porous and easily chilled, better suited to rest than to firm resolve. Taken together, the day suited a pirts visit well, provided it was met as release and company rather than as an occasion for deals, hard decisions, or excess.
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.