Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 6% 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 Leo fire
Visibility, making, celebration, children. You want to be appreciated — and it works. Take care: pride and drama rise higher today than you notice yourself.
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 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: Sun ☉︎ — hour 6 of the night.
Strength, health, visibility, authority. The hour for showing yourself: speaking up, addressing someone higher, starting what needs to be noticed. Quiet requests and work where you must stay in the shadow go poorly.
The year wheel
Last: Jāņi
Next: Māras, in 44 days
9% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♋︎ in Cancer, 3.9° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 5
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 90 days
- Day length
- 17.9 h · sunrise 04:30 · sunset 22:21
The sun's arrival in Cancer marked the year's turning at its warmest and longest days, when the hearth fire mattered more than the sun itself. Tradition held that the body was at its most tender now, and the home was where strength was restored, not away from it. Water, kept close, was said to cool what the height of summer stirred up.
The day, read as one
Four very different clocks, yet several pointed toward exertion and visibility today: the lunar day of the warrior called for deliberate, vigorous effort rather than drifting, the waxing moon favoured work that gathers and builds, and Moon and Sun both sitting in fire-and-heart signs (Leo, with Sunday's solar authority) suggested a day for being seen and for pirts taken openly rather than quietly. The classical solar sign struck a different note, holding Cancer's warmth as a season for tenderness and homecoming rather than exertion — a reminder that strength was to be restored near the hearth, not spent far from it. Folk tradition agreed only on the growing moon favouring gathering and new starts, saying nothing of the pirts itself. Taken together, the day leaned toward a vigorous, visible pirts visit, tempered by the older caution to keep it close to home and not push the body past what the warm season already asked of it.
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.