Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waning moon 49% 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 crocodile
A stress point, where the Moon's vibration changes direction. An appetite that cannot be stilled, a leaning toward fights, nightmarish ideas.
- + Guarding the home: cleaning, burning a candle, smoking it with herbs
- + Fasting; dairy
- + Forgiving, repenting
- − Anger, gluttony, revenge
- − Cutting nails, operations
- − Ventures, a sedentary regime
- Symbol
- a crocodile, a chimera, Cerberus
- Body
- the female organs (Muladhara); the spine
- Stones
- black nephrite, smoky topaz
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
The spine was to be protected; strengthening treatments for it were welcome. Illness long but not dangerous.
Dreams
To be read as the exact opposite.
Moon in Leo fire
Visibility, making, celebration, children. You want to be appreciated — and it works. Take care: pride and drama rise higher today than you notice yourself.
Canon: Russian sources: the female organs, the ovaries, Muladhara.
epadomi.com: Latvian sources stress the spine.
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 systemFriday · Venus ♀︎. Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, peace. A good day to meet, to reconcile, to tend to yourself, to shop for beauty, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached on a Friday tend to hold, because they rest on liking rather than pressure. A poor day for rough work and confrontation. The shadow side is idleness, indulgence, waste.
Current planetary hour: Mars ♂︎ — hour 4 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
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Next: Mārtiņi, in 16 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 29.2° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 30
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 61 days
- Day length
- 9.9 h · sunrise 08:10 · sunset 18:04
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 23 struck a tense, guarded note, warning against anger and gluttony while favouring fasting and quiet acts of cleansing — and here the waning moon agreed closely, both the numbered corpus and Latvian folklore pointing toward pirts, water treatments, and letting go of surplus rather than beginning anything new. Friday's Venus leaned the day toward reconciliation and gentle self-tending, softening the crocodile day's sharper edges and making forgiveness or quiet peace-making especially fitting. The Moon in Leo added a pull toward being seen and admired, which sat a little awkwardly against a day better suited to restraint than display, so a visitor might enjoy the pirts quietly rather than make an occasion of it. The sun in Libra underlined balance and the settling of accounts, reinforcing the overall sense that today favoured release, moderation, and mending rather than exertion or confrontation — a day better spent cleansing and forgiving than striving or showing off.
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.