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 crane and the clouds
The day of prāna — breath, telepathy, foretelling. Perception sharpens, smell most of all.
- + Breathing practice, divination
- + Work with words, study
- + Watching the clouds
- − Lamenting your life
- − Insistence in conversation
- − Retelling dreams
- Symbol
- a crane, clouds
- Body
- the bronchi, the upper airways
- Stones
- hyacinth, citrine
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A good day for treating and restoring the airways. Illnesses were held to be not serious.
Dreams
Must not be retold — then they may not come true.
Moon in Taurus earth
Money, property, the body, food. Perception slows, but feeling is steady and calm. A good time to save, to buy lasting things, to put down roots. A poor time to hurry or to force yourself to change.
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 systemThursday · Jupiter ♃︎. Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. A day for large questions: strategy, study, courts and institutions, long-term agreements, helping others. What is begun on a Thursday tends to grow. A good day to ask and to give — money included. The shadow side is exaggeration, promises beyond your strength, and the wish to teach others how to live.
Current planetary hour: Jupiter ♃︎ — hour 7 of the night.
Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. An hour for large questions: strategy, institutions and courts, long-term agreements, asking and giving. What is begun now tends to grow. The shadow side is exaggeration and promises beyond your strength.
The year wheel
Last: Meteņi
Next: Lieldienas, in 19 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♓︎ in Pisces, 11.9° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 12
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 19 days
- Day length
- 10.8 h · sunrise 07:12 · sunset 17:59
With the sun in Pisces the cold began to loosen into damp and thaw, and the body was said to grow porous along with the ground — easily chilled, easily moved to feeling. It was held a poor season for firm decisions and a good one for rest before spring's demands began. Old lore warned against trusting the weather here more than the calendar.
The day, read as one
Several threads agreed on this being a day for gathering rather than deciding: the lunar day's sharpened breath and perception, Jupiter's Thursday pull toward learning and long-term undertakings, and the waxing moon's favour for building and beginning all pointed toward steady, unhurried work rather than force. The lunar day singled out the airways as especially responsive, with ailments generally held to be mild — a pairing that sat well with a pirts visit built around breath and warmth. Taurus asked for calm and patience rather than haste, echoing Pisces' caution against firm decisions in a season better suited to rest. Where the day turned contrary was in speech: the lunar day warned against insistence and against dwelling on complaints or dreams, so a visitor was better served by quiet breathing and watching than by argument or confession.
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.