Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 76% 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 spider and the web
Lunar day 19 was linked to cleansing by fire — tradition favoured going through the home with a candle or smoke rather than starting anything new. A pirts visit fit the same mood: warmth and steam for clearing the day, not for beginning new plans.
The day of operative magic, and the warning runs both ways: the danger of falling into someone else's web, and an equal danger of drawing others into yours.
- + Telling your own thoughts from planted ones
- + Going round the corners of the home with a candle, or with smoke
- + Plain food from round vegetables
- − New ideas — whose are they?
- − Any contracts, marriage included
- − Neither lending money nor repaying debts
- Symbol
- a spider, a web
- Body
- the navel centre; the caecum and the sigmoid colon
- Stones
- labradorite, chrysolite, green garnet
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Digestive-tract complaints, the caecum, the sigmoid colon — though the illness passes quickly.
Dreams
May frighten you, but it is an illusion. Put them out of your head.
Moon in Capricorn earth
Work, responsibility, career, limits. Emotion quiets, the mind turns cold and clear. The best time for serious, sustained work; the worst for seeking warmth and comfort.
Canon: The day of operative magic, but not “satanic” — those are the 9th, 15th, 29th.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com counts the 19th day among the satanic ones, keeping the other three as well.
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 systemMonday · Moon ☾︎. Mood, home, memory, family. Sensitivity is higher than usual — toward people and toward food. A good day for housework, for caring for a mother and elders, for water treatments, for anything that calls for gentleness. A poor day for important decisions and public steps: plans tend to change. The shadow side is emotional unsteadiness and taking offence.
Current planetary hour: ☽︎ Moon — hour 6 of the night.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 10 days
79% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 5.5° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 6
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 57 days
- Day length
- 15.0 h · sunrise 05:51 · sunset 20:53
With the sun in Taurus the warmth settled into the ground rather than the blood — a slower, steadier heat that favoured the body over the mind. Appetite returned in full, and rest felt earned rather than lazy. It was held to be a poor season for hurry of any kind.
The day, read as one
The waning moon, Latvian folk tradition, and Monday's lunar rulership all pointed the same direction today — toward water, cleansing, and gentleness rather than anything bold or decisive, which made a pirts visit well-timed by three separate reckonings at once. The lunar day of the spider counselled plain, round foods and a wary, inward mood, steering clear of new ventures or binding agreements, but said nothing against quiet bodily care. Capricorn's cool, work-minded air sat a little apart from the day's softer currents, while the Taurus sun added its own slow, grounded warmth, content with rest rather than haste. Taken together, the separate traditions did not agree on everything, but none of them stood against the pirts — most leaned toward it, and tradition held that was enough to call the day favourable.
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.