Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 28% 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: Sun ☉︎ — hour 5 of the night.
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: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 19 days
59% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 11.4° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 12
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 19 days
- Day length
- 7.1 h · sunrise 08:39 · sunset 15:47
In Sagittarius the sun rode low and the days grew short, yet tradition held that inner fire, not outer warmth, carried a person through this stretch toward the solstice. It was a season for journeys of the mind if not the body — for looking ahead rather than settling in. A restless spirit now was taken as natural, not a fault.
The day, read as one
Lunar day 7 set a watchful tone — words carried unusual weight, so the visit was better kept quiet and unhurried, free of complaint or idle talk, and no one would have chosen this day for dental work or heavy procedures. The waxing moon and its Latvian counterpart agreed, favouring gathering and gentle building of warmth rather than anything strenuous, since wounds and strain were thought to mend slower now. The moon's passage through Aquarius inclined the day toward shared company and easy, unusual sociability rather than closeness or solitude, which Friday under Venus echoed warmly — a day traditionally suited to beauty, reconciliation, and quiet pleasure, though not to confrontation or hard labour. Overhead, the sun in Sagittarius added a restless, far-looking mood, as if the mind wandered even while the body stayed near the warmth. Taken together, the traditions pointed toward a sociable, mild, word-careful pirts day — better for ease and company than for exertion or dispute.
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.