Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 2% 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 horn of plenty
The start of the digestive cycle. A sense for food was said to be exact today: what appeals suits you, what repels does not. The same was held of people.
- + Starting a diet or a training cycle
- + Starting a long course of study
- + Giving, lending, being generous
- − Anger, greed, meanness
- − Taking what is not yours
- − Eating against your instinct
- Symbol
- a horn, a throat
- Body
- the mouth, the teeth, the palate
- Stones
- jadeite, chalcedony, agate
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Teeth could ache, kidney-stone attacks occur, and joint and chronic skin complaints flare. Illness begun today was thought to be short-lived. A good day for conceiving a child.
Dreams
Means nothing.
Moon in Scorpio water
Depth, secrecy, passion, transformation. A strong sign for cleansing, investigation, and shedding the surplus. At the same time — jealousy, suspicion, the pull toward revenge.
Canon: The mouth, the teeth, a diet cycle; the sense for food is exact.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: intellectual work, contracts, signing — not a word about food.
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- 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 systemSaturday · Saturn ♄︎. Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: a day for what needs patience, repetition and clearing out — archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old. Anything where you must say “no” goes well. New beginnings and celebrations go poorly. The shadow side is heaviness of heart, meanness, and fear.
Current planetary hour: Jupiter ♃︎ — hour 4 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
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 8 days
83% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♏︎ in Scorpio, 7.2° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 8
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 53 days
- Day length
- 9.3 h · sunrise 08:28 · sunset 17:45
The sun's passage through Scorpio was felt as the cold taking real hold — warmth withdrew inward, and the body was said to conserve rather than spend. Old lore treated this as a season for going quiet, for keeping close what mattered, not for open display. Illness caught now was thought to run deeper and linger longer than at other turns of the year.
The day, read as one
Today's readings pulled in more than one direction. The lunar day and the waxing moon both leaned toward growth, appetite, and beginnings — a day when instinct about food and people was said to run sharp and true, and when starting something, even a visit to the pirts, was reckoned favourable. But Saturday's planetary mood and the Scorpio placements cut against that openness: Saturn called for slowness, closing-off, and discipline rather than celebration, while the Moon and Sun both in Scorpio deepened the sense of something inward, intense, and better suited to quiet cleansing than display. Folklore agreed with the lunar corpus that what was begun now would grow rather than stall, yet the Scorpio undertone and Saturday's heaviness suggested that if the pirts was visited, it suited a private, reflective turn rather than a festive one. Taken together, the day favoured going — but going inward.
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.