Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 46% illuminated
As the moon waxed, strength was thought to be building. A pirts visit in this phase was taken more for enjoyment and vitality than for deep cleansing — a good time for warmth and company.
The cockerel and the staff
The day of word-magic. Everything spoken takes effect — blessing, curse, and lies most of all. Prayers were said to be heard quickly.
- + Praying, using charms
- + Settling matters with institutions
- + Weeding out filler words
- − Lies, gossip, idle chatter
- − Breaking dishes, tearing paper
- − Pulling teeth — the worst day
- Symbol
- a cockerel, a wind rose
- Body
- the lungs
- Stones
- sapphire, white coral, heliotrope
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Easy to catch cold. The worst day for pulling teeth. Latvian sources allow a surgical operation if the other indicators are favourable.
Dreams
Prophetic and quick to come true. A fighting cock in a dream — a sign of imminent disaster.
Moon in Leo fire
Visibility, making, celebration, children. You want to be appreciated — and it works. Take care: pride and drama rise higher today than you notice yourself.
Canon: Russian sources: the worst day for pulling teeth; operations are not discussed.
epadomi.com: astromedicus (LV): a surgical operation is permissible if the other indicators are favourable.
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- What is sown on the old moon does not grow; on the new moon it grows “twisting upward.”
- This is the time of planting and gathering.
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: Sun ☉︎ — hour 2 of the night.
Strength, health, visibility, authority. The hour for showing yourself: speaking up, addressing someone higher, starting what needs to be noticed. Quiet requests and work where you must stay in the shadow go poorly.
The year wheel
Last: Ūsiņi
Next: Jāņi, in 40 days
15% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 21.9° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 23
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 40 days
- Day length
- 16.3 h · sunrise 05:12 · sunset 21:29
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
Word-magic ran through the whole day: the lunar count's seventh day, where blessing and lie alike were said to take hold, found an echo in Mercury's Wednesday, the week's own day for honest talk, clear papers, and careful speech. The waxing moon and the Latvian phase-lore agreed that this was a time for gathering and growth rather than rest, lending the pirts a sense of building rather than winding down, though both traditions also held that healing ran slower now, so anything heavy was better postponed — advice the lunar count underlined sharply by naming this the worst day for pulling teeth. Moon in Leo added a wish to be seen and warmed, fine for company at the pirts but worth watching for pride creeping in, while Taurus's sun pulled the other way, toward a grounded, unhurried heat rather than any mental sharpness. Taken together, the traditions pointed toward a sociable, deliberate pirts day built around careful words and good company, with the body treated gently and nothing demanding or invasive attempted.
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.