Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 30% 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 Cancer water
Home, family, memory, the sense of roots. Sensitivity is high, hurt runs deep and lasts. A good time to be at home, to cook, to care for your own; a poor time for public confrontation.
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 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: Lieldienas
Next: Ūsiņi, in 5 days
90% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♉︎ in Taurus, 10.5° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 11
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 52 days
- Day length
- 15.5 h · sunrise 05:37 · sunset 21:05
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
Taken together, the day leaned toward quiet steadiness rather than action. The lunar day of word-magic and Sunday's call to visibility pulled toward speaking plainly and settling things openly, while the waxing moon and Moon in Cancer both turned attention homeward, favouring care of the body and the people close to one rather than anything public or strenuous. Sun in Taurus reinforced that slower register, with warmth and appetite returning but no patience for haste. Where the traditions agreed was in setting aside this day for ease and restoration rather than exertion; the lunar day's old warning against tooth-pulling and the waxing moon's note on slow healing both counselled against anything heavy or irreversible. A visitor seeking calm, grounding warmth would have found the day well-aligned, so long as words spoken there were kept honest and kind.
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.