Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 26% 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 Aries fire
Short, sharp tasks that need a flare of energy but not a long stretch of it. Bold decisions, new beginnings, risky ones included. The other side is a quick temper: patience with those close to you was advised today, because a quarrel starts easily.
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 systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: Saturn ♄︎ — hour 3 of the day.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
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Next: Meteņi, in 3 days
93% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♒︎ in Aquarius, 12.0° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 12
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 48 days
- Day length
- 8.5 h · sunrise 08:23 · sunset 16:51
The sun in Aquarius still moved through the hardest cold, but the days were noticeably lengthening now, and tradition read this as a season of quiet waiting rather than action. People gathered close around fire and each other, since warmth from without was scarce and had to be shared to matter. The body was thought to want company now more than solitude.
The day, read as one
Today layered a lot of fire onto fire: lunar day 7 made speech itself potent — a sound day for a pirts visit if the goal was quiet prayer or honest words by the heat, but a poor one for gossip by the löyly bench, since the old lore held that words spoken there took hold fast. The waxing moon and Mars's Tuesday agreed on energy and effort, favouring whisking and vigorous rounds over any delicate or deep bodily work, while the Moon in Aries added a short, sharp quality — bursts of heat rather than long, slow sessions, and patience kept close at hand against a quick temper. The one note of caution came from the lunar day itself, which named tooth-pulling and heavy procedures as ill-favoured regardless of the moon's growing energy. Aquarius sat apart from all this, its old reading calling for togetherness at the fire rather than solitary effort, so a shared sauna evening suited the day better than one spent alone. Where the threads crossed — action, speech, and company all pointing toward a lively, social, energetic pirts rather than a restful or solitary one — the day leaned clearly toward doing something together, carefully, and saying only what was meant.
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.