Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 95% 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 Capricorn earth
Work, responsibility, career, limits. Emotion quiets, the mind turns cold and clear. The best time for serious, sustained work; the worst for seeking warmth and comfort.
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 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: Māras
Next: Miķeļi, in 40 days
15% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♌︎ in Leo, 21.9° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 23
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 40 days
- Day length
- 15.3 h · sunrise 05:48 · sunset 21:07
In Leo the sun stood at its fullest strength, and the body's own heat was said to run highest with it — good for anything that needed vigour, poor for anything needing a cool head. The grain ripened under this sun, and so, tradition warned, did a person's pride. Rest in shade was taken seriously, not as weakness.
The day, read as one
Several threads converged on this being a day of strong, active energy rather than quiet rest: the lunar day's wheel brought excellent circulation and made care treatments and cosmetics work powerfully, the waxing moon favoured work that drew on the body's own vigour, and the Sunday–Leo pairing added its own heat and vitality, good for anything bold rather than for seeking comfort. Moon in Capricorn struck the one contrasting note, favouring cool, disciplined effort over warmth-seeking, so a visit taken for serious, grounded purpose suited the day better than one taken purely for soothing. Folk caution held that the kidneys and soles of the feet wanted protection, and that carelessness with water treatments was unwise despite — or because of — how strongly things were said to act today. Altogether, tradition leaned toward a vigorous, attentive pirts day rather than a gentle or idle one.
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.