Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 41% 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 cockerel and the staff
The day of word-magic. Everything spoken takes effect — blessing, curse, and lies most of all. Prayers were said to be heard quickly.
- + Praying, using charms
- + Settling matters with institutions
- + Weeding out filler words
- − Lies, gossip, idle chatter
- − Breaking dishes, tearing paper
- − Pulling teeth — the worst day
- Symbol
- a cockerel, a wind rose
- Body
- the lungs
- Stones
- sapphire, white coral, heliotrope
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Easy to catch cold. The worst day for pulling teeth. Latvian sources allow a surgical operation if the other indicators are favourable.
Dreams
Prophetic and quick to come true. A fighting cock in a dream — a sign of imminent disaster.
Moon in Aquarius air
Friends, groups, unexpected ideas, freedom. A good time for shared work and for anything new and unusual. In relationships — coolness: you want distance, not closeness.
Canon: Russian sources: the worst day for pulling teeth; operations are not discussed.
epadomi.com: astromedicus (LV): a surgical operation is permissible if the other indicators are favourable.
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 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: ♀︎ Venus — hour 4 of the day.
Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, reconciliation. A good hour to meet, to make peace, to tend to yourself, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached now rest on liking, not pressure. The shadow side is idleness and waste.
The year wheel
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 3 days
95% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♏︎ in Scorpio, 12.7° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 13
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 47 days
- Day length
- 8.8 h · sunrise 07:41 · sunset 16:31
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
Several threads converged on a day better suited to quiet gathering than to sharp action: the lunar count made this a day when words carried real weight, so sauna talk, blessings, and quiet conversation were well-favoured while complaints and idle chatter were best left unspoken. The waxing moon and its Latvian counterpart agreed that the body was open and absorbent, good for warmth and steam, though not for anything resembling a serious procedure — a caution the lunar day underscored by naming this the worst day for pulling teeth. The moon's passage through Aquarius leaned the mood toward shared company and easy talk among friends rather than close intimacy, which sat well beside Friday's own pull toward reconciliation, beauty, and gentle pleasure, though Friday's temper warned off anything rough or confrontational. Against this, the sun in Scorpio struck a cooler note, suggesting warmth was better kept and conserved than spent freely, and that any illness taken on now might settle in deeper than usual. Taken together, the day read as congenial for a companionable, unhurried pirts visit built around words and warmth, but not one for pushing limits or undertaking anything demanding on the body.
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.