Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 37% 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 crocodile
A stress point, where the Moon's vibration changes direction. An appetite that cannot be stilled, a leaning toward fights, nightmarish ideas.
- + Guarding the home: cleaning, burning a candle, smoking it with herbs
- + Fasting; dairy
- + Forgiving, repenting
- − Anger, gluttony, revenge
- − Cutting nails, operations
- − Ventures, a sedentary regime
- Symbol
- a crocodile, a chimera, Cerberus
- Body
- the female organs (Muladhara); the spine
- Stones
- black nephrite, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The spine was to be protected; strengthening treatments for it were welcome. Illness long but not dangerous.
Dreams
To be read as the exact opposite.
Moon in Pisces water
Dreams, intuition, mercy, art. The border between yourself and others thins — it is easy to take on someone else's mood. A good time for meditation and music; a poor one for agreements and alcohol.
Canon: Russian sources: the female organs, the ovaries, Muladhara.
epadomi.com: Latvian sources stress the spine.
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- 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
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The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 8.3° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 9
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 23 days
- Day length
- 17.3 h · sunrise 04:43 · sunset 22:00
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
Several threads agreed on cleansing today: lunar day 23 called for guarding the home and letting fasting or dairy do their work, while the waning moon and Latvian folk tradition both pointed to pirts and water treatments as fitting, with little lost by releasing rather than building. The Moon in Pisces leaned the day toward something softer and inward — fitting for quiet time in the heat, though it warned against picking up others' moods too easily. Sunday under the Sun asked for visibility and rest in the same breath, which sat a little uneasily beside the crocodile day's caution against ventures and a sedentary regime — a day better spent tending what already stood than starting anything new. The Sun in Gemini added its own note of restlessness, a reminder that the old lore favoured short spells of rest over long stillness, and that any warmth taken was best not followed by a chill.
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.