Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 97% 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 wheel
A magical day and a day of renewal: blood and nutrients circulate excellently, so care treatments were said to work strongly.
- + Baking bread, spinning, making round talismans
- + Starting a new course of study
- + Calmly settling old problems
- − Fasting without a plan
- − Passivity
- − Carelessness with water treatments
- Symbol
- a wheel, a braided band, a fire-cross
- Body
- the blood, the stomach, the pancreas
- Stones
- red opal, ruby
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Medicines and cosmetics were said to act excellently. The kidneys and the soles of the feet were to be protected. A hospital stay begun today tended to drag on.
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- 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 systemThursday · Jupiter ♃︎. Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. A day for large questions: strategy, study, courts and institutions, long-term agreements, helping others. What is begun on a Thursday tends to grow. A good day to ask and to give — money included. The shadow side is exaggeration, promises beyond your strength, and the wish to teach others how to live.
Current planetary hour: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 4 of the day.
Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best hour to write, study, buy and sell, bring people together, sort papers. The mind is quick but shallow — a large decision is better not settled right now.
The year wheel
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Next: Jāņi, in 5 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 25.9° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 28
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 5 days
- Day length
- 17.9 h · sunrise 04:28 · sunset 22:20
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 quite different threads met well on this day. The lunar day's own essence — circulation strong, treatments said to act with unusual force — matched the waxing moon's logic of taking in and building, while Latvian folklore's old rule that what is sown on the new moon "grows twisting upward" pointed the same hopeful direction. Jupiter's Thursday and the Moon in Sagittarius added a wide, expansive mood: good for beginnings, study, long views, though both traditions warned against overreaching or promising more than could be delivered. The Sun in Gemini sat a little apart, favouring brief spells of rest over long stillness — a small caution of restlessness threaded through what was otherwise, by most readings, a strong and favourable day.
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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.