Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 96% 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 trumpet
A calling. An extremely fortunate day for starting anything important — the next such chance was said to come only in a month.
- + Starting the important thing, well prepared
- + Physical work, cleansing the gut
- + A dry fast; almonds, salty food
- − Magic and divination
- − A mirror, perfume, straining the eyes
- − Alcohol, operations
- Symbol
- a trumpet
- Body
- the intestines (Manipura)
- Stones
- hyacinth, sapphire, lapis lazuli
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Recovery was said to be clean; on this day people often mend after a lingering illness. The eyes and head were to be protected.
Dreams
Prophetic — do not hurry to rise in the morning; remember and weigh 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 systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: ♂︎ Mars — hour 6 of the night.
Leadership, struggle, conflict, surgery. Much energy, and it wants an outlet — physical work, sport, a decisive conversation, casting off surplus. The shadow side: irritability, haste, injury, burnt bridges.
The year wheel
Last: Māras
Next: Miķeļi, in 10 days
80% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 20.9° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 22
- 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
Four traditions largely agreed on effort and energy, though not on beginnings. The lunar day, the waxing moon, and Tuesday's Mars all pointed to vigorous, physical engagement — cleansing work, repairs, anything that needed pressure and an outlet — and the fourteenth day in particular was held to favour starting the important thing while well prepared. The Aquarius moon added a social, communal note, better suited to shared effort than to closeness or delicate talk. Virgo's sun struck the one dissenting chord, counselling steady finishing-work over fresh starts, so a visitor was left to weigh bold beginning against careful completion. Mirrors, perfume, and strain on the eyes were best set aside regardless, with recovery from illness said to go cleanly on this day.
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.