Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 73% 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 bat
The first satanic day: illusion, delusion, deceit. Fear and dark thoughts surface; temptation comes wearing the look of vanity.
- + Everyday routine tasks
- + Finishing what was long put off
- + Cleansing, forgiveness
- − Starting anything new
- − Large purchases, betrothal
- − Looking long in a mirror
- − Alcohol
- Symbol
- a bat, the Milky Way
- Body
- the chest
- Stones
- black pearl, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The chest area was to be watched — intercostal neuralgia, angina. Salt footbaths were advised.
Dreams
Heavy, tormenting and not to be believed.
Moon in Virgo earth
Order, detail, health, work. The best sign for cleaning, setting things straight, treatment, and anything that calls for precision. The risk is excess criticism of yourself and others.
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 systemSaturday · Saturn ♄︎. Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: a day for what needs patience, repetition and clearing out — archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old. Anything where you must say “no” goes well. New beginnings and celebrations go poorly. The shadow side is heaviness of heart, meanness, and fear.
Current planetary hour: ☉︎ Sun — hour 4 of the day.
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 38 days
20% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 24.3° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 25
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 38 days
- Day length
- 16.5 h · sunrise 05:06 · sunset 21:35
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
Taken together, the day leaned toward quiet, unglamorous work rather than any kind of fresh start: the lunar day's warning against beginnings and mirrors echoed Saturday's own pull toward closing off and clearing out, and Moon in Virgo reinforced this further by favouring precision, cleaning, and attending to health over anything bold. The waxing moon and the Latvian phase-lore both pointed to growth and gathering, which sat a little at odds with Saturn's call to limit and withdraw — a visitor might read this as energy best spent finishing old business rather than starting new habits. Sun in Taurus added a steady, unhurried warmth to the mix, suggesting that whatever was done, it suited slowness over urgency. On balance the traditions agreed more than they disagreed: a pirts visit framed around cleansing, unfinished tasks, and patient attention to the body — not spectacle, not haste, and not new ventures — fit the character of the day.
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.