Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 3% 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 lotus
The alchemy of the soul. The classic day of prophetic dreams and a day for work with the astral body; all the chakras may open.
- + Contemplation, work with dreams
- + Buying or selling land, starting a repair
- + Planting useful plants; a juice fast
- − Fate-changing decisions
- − Sawing trees, picking flowers
- − Straining the eyes, bright light
- Symbol
- a lotus, karma
- Body
- the head; the eyes, blood pressure
- Stones
- aragonite, chrysoprase, amethyst
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The head, blood pressure, the eyes. Eye-cleansing treatments were held to be very favourable. Illnesses not dangerous.
Dreams
The classic day of prophetic dreams; in sleep the soul was said to review its former births.
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 systemWednesday · Mercury ☿︎. Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best day of the week to sort papers, write letters, study, buy and sell, bring people together. The mind is quick but shallow, so large decisions are better left. The day calls for honesty and precision: what is said today is remembered. The shadow side is chatter, distraction, small lies.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 6 of the night.
Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. An hour for large questions: strategy, institutions and courts, long-term agreements, asking and giving. What is begun now tends to grow. The shadow side is exaggeration and promises beyond your strength.
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The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 14.2° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 15
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 48 days
- Day length
- 15.7 h · sunrise 05:29 · sunset 21:12
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 28th day of the lunar corpus and the waning moon both leaned the same way today, toward release rather than renewal — the lotus day's call to quiet contemplation sat easily with the old moon's pull to let go, cleanse, and finish what was unfinished, and Latvian folklore agreed that a waning pirts was a casting-off of surplus rather than a building-up. The moon's passage through Aries added a brighter, quicker note underneath that stillness, a flare of sharp energy best spent before it curdled into impatience with those nearby. Wednesday's Mercury asked for the day's few words to be honest and exact, though it pressed against the lotus day's own warning to leave eyes and bright light alone and to postpone anything fate-changing. The sun's steady Taurus warmth, meanwhile, favoured slowness of body over haste of mind — a quiet undercurrent of patience running beneath the day's more mixed and restless signals.
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.