Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 61% 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 bat
The first satanic day: illusion, delusion, deceit. Fear and dark thoughts surface; temptation comes wearing the look of vanity.
- + Everyday routine tasks
- + Finishing what was long put off
- + Cleansing, forgiveness
- − Starting anything new
- − Large purchases, betrothal
- − Looking long in a mirror
- − Alcohol
- Symbol
- a bat, the Milky Way
- Body
- the chest
- Stones
- black pearl, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The chest area was to be watched — intercostal neuralgia, angina. Salt footbaths were advised.
Dreams
Heavy, tormenting and not to be believed.
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: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 6 of the night.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
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Next: Miķeļi, in 15 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 16.0° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 17
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 15 days
- Day length
- 13.4 h · sunrise 06:39 · sunset 20:02
The sun in Virgo watched over the harvest, and the body was expected to keep pace with it — steady, careful work rather than a burst of effort. The warmth was already turning thin at the edges, so tradition favoured finishing tasks over starting new ones. A tired body was read as a sign to gather in, not to push on.
The day, read as one
The lunar day's shadow — illusion, vanity, dark thoughts — sat in some tension with the lift of the waxing moon, Sagittarius, and Jupiter's Thursday, all of which leaned toward growth, reach, and broad undertakings; yet all of these outward-looking currents met the same caution from two directions, as the ninth day counselled finishing rather than beginning and Virgo's late-harvest mood likewise favoured steady, completing work over any fresh start. Folklore's old plant-by-phase wisdom simply reinforced the waxing moon's bias toward gathering and growth, without touching the day's warier mood. Taken together, a pirts visit on such a day sat better as something to close out a stretch of put-off tasks and old tension — a cleansing, unhurried session — than as the start of anything new or as an occasion for excess. The chest was traditionally watched, and a salt footbath was the old remedy of choice, while mirrors, large decisions, and drink were best set aside for another 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.