Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 97% 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 butterfly and the dove
One of the pure days. Moderation is its whole symbol — a balance between the physical and the astral. It was to be kept even if someone gives offence.
- + Cleaning in every sense
- + Quiet housework, solitude
- + Exercise, travel
- − Shouting, envy, aggression
- − Meat (fish aside), mushrooms
- − Operations on the bones and the thyroid
- Symbol
- a butterfly, a dove, a ladder
- Body
- the spleen; the renewal of the blood
- Stones
- spinel, tourmaline, pearl
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Bone complaints were thought possible; operations on the bones and especially the thyroid were not advised.
Moon in Sagittarius fire
The road, wide space, learning, faith. You are drawn to distance and to meaning. A good time to travel, to study, to plan in broad strokes. The risk is to promise more than you can carry out.
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 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 31 days
35% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 1.0° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 2
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 31 days
- Day length
- 16.9 h · sunrise 04:53 · sunset 21:48
The sun in Gemini brought a lighter, quicker warmth — days stretched long and the body wanted movement rather than stillness. Old lore warned that this restlessness could tip into a chill caught from too much running about before the season had fully turned. Rest was taken in short spells, never long ones.
The day, read as one
Four very different traditions agreed on the same note today: this was a day for release rather than renewal. The numbered lunar day's call to quiet cleaning and solitude, the waning moon's pull toward letting go and washing away surplus, and Saturday's Saturnian patience for clearing out old business all pointed toward pirts as a cleansing act rather than a fresh start — fitting, since the old moon was never thought to grow what was sown in it. The Moon in Sagittarius added a restless note of wanting distance and open space, sitting a little against the day's quieter pull, while Gemini's sun warned against lingering too long in any one state, bodily or otherwise. Bone and thyroid work was held to be ill-favoured now, and aggression or heavy food were best set aside — moderation, in the old reckoning, was the day's whole lesson.
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.