Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 24% 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 tree of knowledge
The first heavy day, and a doubled one: both good and ill are present, and a choice may have to be made. Think it over ten times before deciding.
- + Solitude, quiet housework
- + Singing — work with sound
- + A walk in the woods
- − Group work, new acquaintances
- − Felling trees, picking flowers
- − Hasty decisions
- Symbol
- a tree, the syllable OM
- Body
- the throat, the larynx
- Stones
- agate, sardonyx, amazonite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
Misused, the day's energy was said to settle in the neck and spine (osteochondrosis). An illness left unattended today could turn dangerous.
Dreams
Parents often appear — read as inherited problems that ask to be resolved. Tangled threads or hair — give up the thing you had in mind.
Moon in Libra air
Relationships, agreements, balance, beauty. A good sign for talks and reconciliation. It is harder to decide alone — today you want to weigh everything with someone.
Canon: The first heavy day — start nothing new, think it over ten times.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com says the opposite: “a good day precisely for starting work.”
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: Jupiter ♃︎ — hour 5 of the day.
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
Last: Jāņi
Next: Māras, in 12 days
75% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♌︎ in Leo, 3.9° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 5
- Next turning point
- the autumn equinox, in 59 days
- Day length
- 16.6 h · sunrise 05:11 · sunset 21:47
In Leo the sun stood at its fullest strength, and the body's own heat was said to run highest with it — good for anything that needed vigour, poor for anything needing a cool head. The grain ripened under this sun, and so, tradition warned, did a person's pride. Rest in shade was taken seriously, not as weakness.
The day, read as one
Four strands met today with more friction than agreement: the lunar day itself counsels solitude and quiet, caution against hasty choices, while the waxing moon favours bold new beginnings and the week's Mercury-day pulls toward talk, trade, and company. The Libra moon wanted things weighed together with another, which sits uneasily beside the lunar day's warning that group work and new acquaintances were best avoided. Where the threads did agree was in urging care before committing to anything large — a slow mind was favoured over a quick one. The Leo sun added its own note, of heat and pride best met with rest in shade rather than exertion. A visitor was better served by quiet company with themselves than by decisions, deals, or new faces.
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.