Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 50% 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 Virgo earth
Order, detail, health, work. The best sign for cleaning, setting things straight, treatment, and anything that calls for precision. The risk is excess criticism of yourself and others.
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 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: Ūsiņi
Next: Jāņi, in 21 days
56% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 10.4° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 11
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 21 days
- Day length
- 17.4 h · sunrise 04:39 · sunset 22:04
The sun in Gemini brought a lighter, quicker warmth — days stretched long and the body wanted movement rather than stillness. Old lore warned that this restlessness could tip into a chill caught from too much running about before the season had fully turned. Rest was taken in short spells, never long ones.
The day, read as one
Word-magic and Mercury's day fell together, and both pointed the same way: lunar day 7 and Wednesday agreed that speech carried unusual weight, favouring quiet clarity over chatter, with charms and plain honesty better suited to the hours than argument or gossip. The waxing moon and Virgo added a second, consistent thread — appetite and the body's uptake both rising, precision and order well-favoured, though wounds were said to heal slowly and nothing heavy or surgical belonged to this stretch, a caution lunar day 7 echoed loudly by naming tooth-pulling its very worst day. Latvian phase-lore simply confirmed the waxing moon's own verdict, offering nothing contrary. The sun in Gemini sat a little apart from this agreement, lending the day a quicker, lighter warmth and a restless pull toward movement, with old warnings against lingering too long in any one state, hot or cold. Taken together, the day leaned toward care, precision, and watched words rather than exertion or anything invasive.
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.