Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 62% 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 eagle
A serious and lofty day: spiritual transformation, the overcoming of doubt. The day lends strength for a true decision.
- + The best day for fasting and revelation
- + Studying scripture
- + Staying home with the family
- − Pride, arrogance, dictating
- − Healing others with energy — you will drain yourself
- − Meat, straining the eyes
- Symbol
- an eagle
- Body
- the shoulder blades, the upper back, the peritoneum
- Stones
- red jasper, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun on this day was said to be long. The shoulder blades and upper back are sensitive, as is the peritoneum.
Moon in Scorpio water
Depth, secrecy, passion, transformation. A strong sign for cleansing, investigation, and shedding the surplus. At the same time — jealousy, suspicion, the pull toward revenge.
Canon: The best day for fasting and spiritual revelation; only healing others with energy is forbidden.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: “meditation must on no account be practised.”
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- 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 systemSaturday · Saturn ♄︎. Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: a day for what needs patience, repetition and clearing out — archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old. Anything where you must say “no” goes well. New beginnings and celebrations go poorly. The shadow side is heaviness of heart, meanness, and fear.
Current planetary hour: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 7 of the night.
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
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Next: Lieldienas, in 22 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♓︎ in Pisces, 8.1° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 9
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 22 days
- Day length
- 10.4 h · sunrise 07:25 · sunset 17:48
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
Several threads pointed the same way today: lunar day 20, the waning moon, its passage through Scorpio, and Saturday's Saturn all leaned toward release, cleansing and the shedding of surplus, making the pirts itself well-favoured by this convergence. Yet the lunar day's own counsel was more austere than welcoming — it favoured fasting and quiet withdrawal over company, and warned against draining oneself through healing others or indulging pride, so a solitary and restrained visit sat more easily with the day than a sociable one. Scorpio's undertow of suspicion and old grievance, together with Saturday's heaviness of heart, suggested the cleansing was as much emotional as physical, and better approached without expectation of lightness afterward. The sun in Pisces added a further note of porousness and poor footing for firm decisions, reinforcing that this was a day for letting go rather than beginning anew. Taken together, the traditions agreed on cleansing but not on cheer — the pirts suited the day, so long as it was entered quietly and without pressing demands of the body or the will.
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.