Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waning moon 85% 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 Gemini air
We become busy and mobile — much talk, news, short trips. At the same time suggestibility rises and one is more open to another's influence; today it is easy to believe what you hear.
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 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: ♄︎ Saturn — hour 3 of the day.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 20 days
57% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 25.7° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 27
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 64 days
- Day length
- 10.1 h · sunrise 08:04 · sunset 18:11
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
The day's traditions agreed on the broad direction: the waning moon, confirmed by both the lunar corpus and the separate Latvian folk-reckoning, favoured pirts and water treatments as a release of surplus rather than any kind of building up. Mars's Tuesday added its own push toward using the day's energy physically and finishing what needed pressure, though it warned against idleness turning sour and against delicate talk — pirts fit the former better than the latter. The 20th day itself, the eagle, struck a more serious note, lending strength to decisions and inward reckoning but cautioning against strain, meat, and especially against spending oneself on others' behalf. Gemini underfoot stirred restlessness and suggestibility, a small counter-current to the eagle's call for quiet; and Libra's equinox balance, in the background, simply asked that nothing today be overdone. Taken together, little stood against a measured pirts visit, so long as it was kept simple and not turned into an excess the season itself was steadying against.
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.