Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waning moon 62% illuminated
The waning moon was long held as the best time for a pirts visit. This was when cleansing and letting go were most encouraged — heavier whisking and a longer, more thorough visit were favoured.
The eagle
A serious and lofty day: spiritual transformation, the overcoming of doubt. The day lends strength for a true decision.
- + The best day for fasting and revelation
- + Studying scripture
- + Staying home with the family
- − Pride, arrogance, dictating
- − Healing others with energy — you will drain yourself
- − Meat, straining the eyes
- Symbol
- an eagle
- Body
- the shoulder blades, the upper back, the peritoneum
- Stones
- red jasper, rock crystal
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
An illness begun on this day was said to be long. The shoulder blades and upper back are sensitive, as is the peritoneum.
Moon in Pisces water
Dreams, intuition, mercy, art. The border between yourself and others thins — it is easy to take on someone else's mood. A good time for meditation and music; a poor one for agreements and alcohol.
Canon: The best day for fasting and spiritual revelation; only healing others with energy is forbidden.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com: “meditation must on no account be practised.”
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- On the waning moon — pirts, water treatments, casting off the surplus.
- Trees felled on the old moon rot less.
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: Jupiter ♃︎ — hour 6 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
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Next: Jāņi, in 7 days
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The sun
- Sign
- ♊︎ in Gemini, 23.4° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 25
- Next turning point
- the summer solstice, in 7 days
- Day length
- 17.8 h · sunrise 04:29 · sunset 22:19
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
The waning moon, Latvian lore, and the lunar corpus all agreed on this one directly: cleansing and letting go were favoured, making a pirts visit well-suited to the day, with water and heat used to cast off rather than build up. The eagle's seriousness and the Pisces moon added a quieter, inward note — solitude or family rather than company, and energy work on others was best left alone, lest one drain oneself or absorb another's mood too easily. Wednesday's Mercury pulled against any plunge into silence, favouring words and small dealings, though tradition held that big decisions were ill-suited to its quick but shallow mind. The sun in Gemini, meanwhile, asked for short rests rather than long stillness, and warned against lingering chilled after the heat. Taken together, the day read as good for cleansing in quiet company, provided one kept the visit unhurried in spirit but brief in its margins.
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.