Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 42% 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 Pisces water
Dreams, intuition, mercy, art. The border between yourself and others thins — it is easy to take on someone else's mood. A good time for meditation and music; a poor one for agreements and alcohol.
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 systemSunday · Sun ☉︎. Strength, visibility, authority — the day for showing yourself and, at the same time, for resting. What needs authority goes well: speaking up, addressing those above you, starting what needs to be noticed. Fine, quiet work and requests where you must look small go less well. The shadow side is pride and the wish to be watched.
Current planetary hour: Moon ☽︎ — hour 4 of the day.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
The year wheel
Last: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 17 days
62% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 13.0° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 13
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 17 days
- Day length
- 7.1 h · sunrise 08:42 · sunset 15:45
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
Four traditions touched today without quite agreeing. The lunar day of the phoenix called for cleansing by fire and fasting rather than indulgence, and warned that illness taken on now could linger — a thread echoed by the waxing moon, which favoured beginnings and good appetite but asked that nothing heavy or strenuous be forced on the body. The Moon in Pisces softened the mood further, leaning toward intuition and quiet rather than agreements or drink, while Sunday under the Sun pulled the other way, favouring visibility and standing tall rather than small, careful work. With the Sun itself in Sagittarius, restlessness and a pull toward distant thoughts were taken as fitting for the season — so a pirts visit suited today's quieter, cleansing mood well enough, so long as it stayed gentle and unhurried rather than bold or demonstrative.
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.