Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 93% 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 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 systemMonday · Moon ☾︎. Mood, home, memory, family. Sensitivity is higher than usual — toward people and toward food. A good day for housework, for caring for a mother and elders, for water treatments, for anything that calls for gentleness. A poor day for important decisions and public steps: plans tend to change. The shadow side is emotional unsteadiness and taking offence.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 3 of the day.
Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. An hour for large questions: strategy, institutions and courts, long-term agreements, asking and giving. What is begun now tends to grow. The shadow side is exaggeration and promises beyond your strength.
The year wheel
Last: Māras
Next: Miķeļi, in 10 days
79% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 20.3° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 21
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 10 days
- Day length
- 13.0 h · sunrise 06:49 · sunset 19:48
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 agreed this was a day for gentle, attentive work rather than ambition: the thirteenth lunar day promised that care treatments and remedies would act strongly, the waxing moon supported gathering and taking in rather than depleting, and Monday's lunar rule favoured water treatments and tenderness toward body and mood alike. The Aquarius moon added a sociable, slightly detached note, better suited to shared company than closeness, while the sun in Virgo counselled steadiness and finishing rather than beginning. Where the day's lore cautioned restraint was in its warnings against passivity and carelessness with water, and in Virgo's reminder that tiredness was itself a signal to ease off. Taken together, tradition read this as a day well disposed toward a pirts visit, provided it was approached calmly and attentively rather than as the start of some new, ambitious undertaking.
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.