Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 2% 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 leopard
The day of the astral warrior. Passivity here was held to be not neutral but dangerous: the passive get hurt. Energy was to be discharged deliberately.
- + Martial arts, heavy exertion
- + Pirts
- + Work with metal, sharpening blades
- − Starting something wholly new
- − Drifting without aim
- − A sign: spilled oil — you have slid off the road
- Symbol
- a leopard before the leap
- Body
- the nape, the ears, the withers
- Stones
- carnelian, ruby, pyrite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill on this day, recovery was thought to be hard. The weak points: the ears, the nape, the withers.
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.
Canon: A warrior's day: martial arts, physical exertion.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com additionally calls it a good day for surgical operations; other sources do not mention it.
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 systemWednesday · Mercury ☿︎. Words, documents, roads, trade, talks. The best day of the week to sort papers, write letters, study, buy and sell, bring people together. The mind is quick but shallow, so large decisions are better left. The day calls for honesty and precision: what is said today is remembered. The shadow side is chatter, distraction, small lies.
Current planetary hour: Saturn ♄︎ — hour 4 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
Last: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 9 days
81% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 6.6° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 7
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 56 days
- Day length
- 15.2 h · sunrise 05:46 · sunset 20:57
With the sun in Taurus the warmth settled into the ground rather than the blood — a slower, steadier heat that favoured the body over the mind. Appetite returned in full, and rest felt earned rather than lazy. It was held to be a poor season for hurry of any kind.
The day, read as one
Today's threads pulled in different directions more than they agreed. The lunar day of the leopard called for deliberate, vigorous exertion and named pirts itself as favoured, warning that passivity on this day invited harm — a clear mandate for a bathhouse visit. But the waxing moon and Taurus placements, both by Latvian folk reckoning and classically, leaned toward slowness, steadiness, and rootedness rather than martial energy, with the moon's own lore cautioning that wounds healed more sluggishly now. Mercury's Wednesday added its own note, favouring words and trade over bodily exertion and best left to small, precise matters rather than large undertakings. Someone weighing today's pirts might read the leopard's urgency as the strongest single voice, while letting the Taurus steadiness temper it — vigour was called for, but without pushing the body past what the slow-healing moon could mend.
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.