Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 73% 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 spring
Hidden springs — of energy, of knowledge, of karmic memory. The life force was to be turned toward home and family.
- + Working with the family tree, old photographs
- + Going to the pirts — the best day
- + Laying foundations, starting to build
- − Conflicts with relatives
- − Selfishness, superficiality
- − Operations on the vessels and eyes
- Symbol
- a spring, a fountain
- Body
- the bones of the ribcage
- Stones
- sardonyx, turquoise, amber
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill, help was to be sought at once. Operations on the vessels, nerves and eyes were not advised. Misusing the day was linked to a weakening of immunity.
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 systemFriday · Venus ♀︎. Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, peace. A good day to meet, to reconcile, to tend to yourself, to shop for beauty, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached on a Friday tend to hold, because they rest on liking rather than pressure. A poor day for rough work and confrontation. The shadow side is idleness, indulgence, waste.
Current planetary hour: ♀︎ Venus — hour 4 of the day.
Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, reconciliation. A good hour to meet, to make peace, to tend to yourself, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached now rest on liking, not pressure. The shadow side is idleness and waste.
The year wheel
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Next: Miķeļi, in 13 days
72% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 17.4° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 18
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 13 days
- Day length
- 13.2 h · sunrise 06:43 · sunset 19:56
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
Several threads of tradition converged well on this day: the lunar corpus named it the best day of the thirty for going to the pirts, and the waxing moon likewise favoured gathering strength and beginning things, even as it warned that wounds and overexertion healed more slowly now. Moon in Capricorn and the sun in Virgo both leaned toward restraint rather than indulgence — steady, grounded effort, with emotion quiet and comfort-seeking out of favour — so a pirts visit sat better as disciplined care than as soft pampering. Friday's Venus added a gentler note, suiting reconciliation with family and quiet self-tending, which echoed the lunar day's own pull toward home, ancestry and the family tree. Where the day asked for caution was around the body itself: no operations on vessels or eyes, and any illness was to be met promptly rather than ignored. Taken together, the traditions pointed toward a pirts visit grounded in steadiness and family warmth rather than excess or confrontation.
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.