Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 94% 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 bunch of grapes
The day of Shakti — fertility, the joy of living, inner freedom. Feminine energy transforms and, if not held, breaks out as wildness.
- + Meeting people, celebration, singing
- + Group practice, strength asanas
- + An excellent day for weddings
- − Losing your head, drinking too much
- − Settling deals
- − On a Saturday — particular caution
- Symbol
- a bunch of grapes, a bell
- Body
- the pituitary, the kidneys, the endocrine system
- Stones
- hematite, zircon, amethyst
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The endocrine system, the pituitary, the kidneys. An illness begun today (on a Saturday especially) was said to be hard to cure.
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 systemSunday · Sun ☉︎. Strength, visibility, authority — the day for showing yourself and, at the same time, for resting. What needs authority goes well: speaking up, addressing those above you, starting what needs to be noticed. Fine, quiet work and requests where you must look small go less well. The shadow side is pride and the wish to be watched.
Current planetary hour: ☉︎ Sun — hour 6 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 30 days
37% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 1.6° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 2
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 30 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
Taken together, the day leaned toward release rather than renewal: the waning moon and the Latvian folk tradition agreed plainly that this was pirts weather, a time for water and for shedding what no longer served, and the lunar corpus's seventeenth day added its own caution about excess rather than arguing against the visit itself. The Sagittarius moon turned the mind toward distance and broad thinking, a pull somewhat at odds with the quiet, inward work the waning half-month favoured. Sunday's planetary rule of the Sun called for visibility and standing tall, sitting a little uneasily beside a lunar day that warned against wildness and losing one's head, particularly on this weekday. The sun in Gemini, for its part, spoke only to the wider season — a restless warmth best answered with short rests rather than long ones. No single verdict emerged, but the traditions that spoke of water and release pointed, independently, toward the same door.
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.