Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 12% 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 Aries fire
Short, sharp tasks that need a flare of energy but not a long stretch of it. Bold decisions, new beginnings, risky ones included. The other side is a quick temper: patience with those close to you was advised today, because a quarrel starts easily.
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: ♂︎ Mars — hour 4 of the day.
Leadership, struggle, conflict, surgery. Much energy, and it wants an outlet — physical work, sport, a decisive conversation, casting off surplus. The shadow side: irritability, haste, injury, burnt bridges.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 3 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 12.6° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 13
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 50 days
- Day length
- 15.6 h · sunrise 05:32 · sunset 21:10
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
Several threads fell into agreement today. The lunar day of the trident, the waning moon, and the planetary rule of Monday all leaned toward water, gentleness, and letting go rather than beginning anything new — pirts and quiet cleansing were held in good standing by each in turn, though the trident's own counsel added a note of prayer and intuition rather than self-concern. The moon's passage through Aries struck a different note, favouring short bursts of energy and warning of a quick temper, which sat a little at odds with Monday's call for softness — a reminder to keep patience close even while tending to rest. The Taurus sun, meanwhile, asked for no hurry at all, its slow steady warmth agreeing well with the waning moon's spirit of release. Old lore also marked the lower legs as the day's tender place, and warned against breaking the day's stillness for too long a stretch. Altogether the day read as suited to a quiet pirts visit, best kept unhurried, modest in ambition, and free of old grudges.
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.