Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 2% 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 lotus
The alchemy of the soul. The classic day of prophetic dreams and a day for work with the astral body; all the chakras may open.
- + Contemplation, work with dreams
- + Buying or selling land, starting a repair
- + Planting useful plants; a juice fast
- − Fate-changing decisions
- − Sawing trees, picking flowers
- − Straining the eyes, bright light
- Symbol
- a lotus, karma
- Body
- the head; the eyes, blood pressure
- Stones
- aragonite, chrysoprase, amethyst
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The head, blood pressure, the eyes. Eye-cleansing treatments were held to be very favourable. Illnesses not dangerous.
Dreams
The classic day of prophetic dreams; in sleep the soul was said to review its former births.
Moon in Virgo earth
Order, detail, health, work. The best sign for cleaning, setting things straight, treatment, and anything that calls for precision. The risk is excess criticism of yourself and others.
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 systemWednesday · Mercury ☿︎. Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best day of the week to sort papers, write letters, study, buy and sell, bring people together. The mind is quick but shallow, so large decisions are better left. The day calls for honesty and precision: what is said today is remembered. The shadow side is chatter, distraction, small lies.
Current planetary hour: ♃︎ Jupiter — hour 6 of the night.
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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Next: Mārtiņi, in 40 days
12% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 5.6° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 6
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 85 days
- Day length
- 11.8 h · sunrise 07:20 · sunset 19:07
With the sun in Libra, day and night stood equal, and the body was said to sit at its own balance point too — neither the heat of summer nor the cold of winter had the upper hand. It was held a good season to settle accounts, physical and otherwise, before the year tipped toward the dark. Overdoing anything now unbalanced what the season itself had steadied.
The day, read as one
Lunar day 28, the waning moon, and Latvian folklore all pointed the same direction: this was a day for release rather than renewal, making pirts, water treatments, and the shedding of accumulated excess well-favoured. The Moon in Virgo reinforced that cleansing, detail-minded quality, lending the day a favourable air for ordinary health treatment, though eye-cleansing in particular carried its own old prophetic weight, while bright light and strain on the eyes were better avoided. Mercury's Wednesday sat a little apart from this inward, bodily focus, leaning instead toward talk, trade, and paperwork — fitting enough for quiet conversation after the pirts, but not the day's main thread. The Libra sun added a wider seasonal note of balance and settling of accounts, agreeing in spirit with the waning moon's call to let go, provided nothing was taken to excess.
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.