Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 82% illuminated
The waning moon was long held as the best time for a pirts visit. This was when cleansing and letting go were most encouraged — heavier whisking and a longer, more thorough visit were favoured.
The eagle
A serious and lofty day: spiritual transformation, the overcoming of doubt. The day lends strength for a true decision.
- + The best day for fasting and revelation
- + Studying scripture
- + Staying home with the family
- − Pride, arrogance, dictating
- − Healing others with energy — you will drain yourself
- − Meat, straining the eyes
- Symbol
- an eagle
- Body
- the shoulder blades, the upper back, the peritoneum
- Stones
- red jasper, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun on this day was said to be long. The shoulder blades and upper back are sensitive, as is the peritoneum.
Moon in Taurus earth
Money, property, the body, food. Perception slows, but feeling is steady and calm. A good time to save, to buy lasting things, to put down roots. A poor time to hurry or to force yourself to change.
Canon: The best day for fasting and spiritual revelation; only healing others with energy is forbidden.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: “meditation must on no account be practised.”
epadomi.com is a divergent branch, shown for cross-checking — not the reference.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- On the waning moon — pirts, water treatments, casting off the surplus.
- Trees felled on the old moon rot less.
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
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The sun
- Sign
- ♍︎ in Virgo, 27.1° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 28
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 3 days
- Day length
- 12.4 h · sunrise 07:03 · sunset 19:29
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 waning moon, the Latvian lore of casting off surplus, and Monday's call for gentleness all pointed toward release rather than ambition, making water treatments and quiet cleansing well-favoured by three strands at once. The lunar day of the eagle added weight to this, urging true decisions but warning sharply against healing others or any draining of the self — pride and dictation were held to cost dearly here. The Moon's placement in Taurus steadied the day further, favouring calm, grounded care of the body over haste, while Virgo's late-harvest sun likewise counselled finishing old business rather than starting anew. Where they diverged was in mood: Monday's sensitivity warned against important choices and public steps even as the eagle day called for firm inner resolve, so the day leaned toward a pirts taken quietly, for cleansing and settling rather than for beginnings.
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.