Pirts day
The time shifts the planetary hours and the lunar-day boundary; the sun and phase readings stay day-based.
Waxing moon 50% 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 phoenix
Cleansing and repentance. The characteristic practice was cleansing by fire, from a bonfire down to a single candle.
- + Fasting, cleansing the gut
- + Preparing herbal remedies
- + Travelling, moving house
- − Indulgence, egotism
- − Carelessness near water
- − A poor day to fall ill
- Symbol
- a phoenix, a casket of jewels
- Body
- the stomach
- Stones
- garnet, chrysolite, morion
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A diagnosis was said to be hard to make today, and illness could drag on — a poor day to fall ill.
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.
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: ☉︎ Sun — hour 4 of the day.
Strength, health, visibility, authority. The hour for showing yourself: speaking up, addressing someone higher, starting what needs to be noticed. Quiet requests and work where you must stay in the shadow go poorly.
The year wheel
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 2 days
97% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♏︎ in Scorpio, 13.7° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 14
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 46 days
- Day length
- 8.8 h · sunrise 07:44 · sunset 16:29
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
The day's threads mostly pulled in one direction: the phoenix's fire-cleansing and fasting, Saturday's discipline and clearing-out, and Scorpio's inward-turning cold all pointed toward withdrawal, repentance, and patient work rather than anything festive or new. The waxing moon complicated this somewhat, favouring beginnings and growth even as it warned that wounds healed slowly — a caution echoed strongly by the lunar day's own note that illness taken on now was hard to diagnose and slow to pass, a warning Scorpio repeated in its own voice. Aquarius in the sky suggested company and unusual ideas, sitting a little apart from the closing-off mood of Saturn and the fire-day's call to solitary cleansing. Taken together, tradition leaned toward a quiet, disciplined pirts visit — fasting and simple cleansing welcomed, indulgence and risk near water avoided, and any thought of falling ill set aside as particularly ill-favoured today.
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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.