Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 34% 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 Gemini air
We become busy and mobile — much talk, news, short trips. At the same time suggestibility rises and one is more open to another's influence; today it is easy to believe what you hear.
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 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: Mars ♂︎ — hour 3 of the day.
Leadership, struggle, conflict, surgery. Much energy, and it wants an outlet — physical work, sport, a decisive conversation, casting off surplus. The shadow side: irritability, haste, injury, burnt bridges.
The year wheel
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 34 days
27% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♈︎ in Aries, 12.1° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 13
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 81 days
- Day length
- 13.2 h · sunrise 06:52 · sunset 20:03
The sun's return to Aries was read as the year's first true warmth after winter — blood quickened, and the body was said to wake before the mind did. It was a time to test new strength carefully, not to spend it all at once. The land itself was still cold underfoot even as the light turned toward summer.
The day, read as one
Today's readings agreed more often than not: the lunar day of word-magic cautioned sharply against lies, gossip, and idle chatter, while Saturday's planetary temper favoured discipline and the quiet closing-off of old business — both pointing toward restraint rather than indulgence. The waxing moon and the old Latvian phase-lore both leaned toward gathering and beginning, though they also warned that wounds and operations fared worse now, a note the lunar day echoed loudly by naming this the very worst day for pulling teeth. The Moon in Gemini added a current of chatter and suggestibility that sat uneasily against the day's call for careful speech, so whatever was said today was worth weighing twice. The Sun in Aries, meanwhile, spoke of a body quickening before the mind was ready, urging that any new strength be tested gently rather than spent all at once. Taken together, no single verdict emerged, but the traditions leaned toward a pirts visit kept unhurried, quiet-tongued, and modest in its demands on the body.
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.