Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 8% 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 Pisces water
Dreams, intuition, mercy, art. The border between yourself and others thins — it is easy to take on someone else's mood. A good time for meditation and music; a poor one for agreements and alcohol.
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 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: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 32 days
31% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 14.3° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 15
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 79 days
- Day length
- 13.4 h · sunrise 06:45 · sunset 20:08
The sun's return to Aries was read as the year's first true warmth after winter — blood quickened, and the body was said to wake before the mind did. It was a time to test new strength carefully, not to spend it all at once. The land itself was still cold underfoot even as the light turned toward summer.
The day, read as one
Lunar day 27, the waning moon, and Latvian folklore all pointed the same direction, toward water and the shedding of surplus, making a pirts visit well-favoured by the oldest threads of the reading. The moon's passage through Pisces deepened that watery, inward mood, favouring quiet and intuition over talk or drink, though it warned that others' moods might cling more easily than usual. Sunday's planetary tone sat somewhat apart, calling for visibility and authority rather than retreat, while the sun's early fire in Aries added a restless, quickened undercurrent beneath the day's stillness. Taken together, the day leaned toward cleansing and inward quiet, with only a thin current of restlessness running against that grain.
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.