Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 88% 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 chalice
The day when cosmic love switches on. Prayers come true; mercy is the whole lesson of the day.
- + Giving gifts, donating
- + Granting requests and asking yourself
- + Drinking plenty of fluid
- − Quarrels — reconciliation will be very hard
- − Self-pity, complaint
- − Coarse food, strain on the heart
- Symbol
- a chalice, a heart
- Body
- the heart (Anahata)
- Stones
- mother-of-pearl, lapis lazuli, coral
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A cleansing of the heart and upper airways; no strain of any kind on the heart. Only tried and tested medicines and cosmetics were to be used.
Dreams
Prophetic and trustworthy — evil forces cannot get into them.
Moon in Aquarius air
Friends, groups, unexpected ideas, freedom. A good time for shared work and for anything new and unusual. In relationships — coolness: you want distance, not closeness.
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: ☿︎ Mercury — hour 3 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: Miķeļi, in 11 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 19.3° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 20
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 11 days
- Day length
- 13.1 h · sunrise 06:47 · sunset 19:51
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 day's threads mostly ran toward gentleness rather than exertion: the lunar day of the chalice called for mercy, fluids, and a quiet cleansing of heart and airways, with any strain on the heart expressly set aside, while Virgo's sun favoured steady, careful finishing over any burst of effort. The waxing moon added its own encouragement to take things in well, though it also warned that healing ran slower now, a caution worth carrying into the sauna's heat. Aquarius lent a sociable, slightly cool-headed air — good for shared company, less suited to closeness — and Sunday's planetary mood invited quiet visibility and rest rather than display. Where the traditions agreed was on restraint and care; where they diverged was mainly in temperament, folklore's growing twisting upward sitting a little apart from the others' call to finish rather than begin. Altogether, it read as a day better suited to a mild, unhurried visit than to anything pushed or prolonged.
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.