Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 47% 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 Sagittarius fire
The road, wide space, learning, faith. You are drawn to distance and to meaning. A good time to travel, to study, to plan in broad strokes. The risk is to promise more than you can carry out.
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 systemMonday · Moon ☾︎. Mood, home, memory, family. Sensitivity is higher than usual — toward people and toward food. A good day for housework, for caring for a mother and elders, for water treatments, for anything that calls for gentleness. A poor day for important decisions and public steps: plans tend to change. The shadow side is emotional unsteadiness and taking offence.
Current planetary hour: Jupiter ♃︎ — hour 3 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: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 43 days
6% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 2.7° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 3
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 88 days
- Day length
- 12.0 h · sunrise 07:15 · sunset 19:13
With the sun in Libra, day and night stood equal, and the body was said to sit at its own balance point too — neither the heat of summer nor the cold of winter had the upper hand. It was held a good season to settle accounts, physical and otherwise, before the year tipped toward the dark. Overdoing anything now unbalanced what the season itself had steadied.
The day, read as one
Four quite different lenses, yet they leaned the same direction today. The lunar day of word-magic made this a time when speech carried unusual weight — good for honest words and settling matters, poor for gossip or sharp exchanges, and tradition flatly ruled out tooth-pulling or anything surgical. The waxing moon and its journey through Sagittarius favoured gathering strength, planning, and reaching outward, though wounds were said to heal slower now, counselling patience with the body. Monday's lunar rulership asked for gentleness and home-centred care rather than bold decisions, which sat easily beside Libra's seasonal call for balance and moderation — nothing pushed to extremes. Taken together, no tradition pointed toward strain or excess; a pirts visit kept quiet, unhurried, and free of harsh contrasts suited the day's temper, while sharp words, surgery, or heavy exertion were better left for another time.
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.