Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waning moon 84% 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 Gemini air
We become busy and mobile — much talk, news, short trips. At the same time suggestibility rises and one is more open to another's influence; today it is easy to believe what you hear.
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 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: Venus ♀︎ — hour 7 of the night.
Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, reconciliation. A good hour to meet, to make peace, to tend to yourself, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached now rest on liking, not pressure. The shadow side is idleness and waste.
The year wheel
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 30 days
34% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♎︎ in Libra, 15.2° air
- Day of the solar month
- day 16
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 75 days
- Day length
- 10.9 h · sunrise 07:42 · sunset 18:38
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
The waning moon and Latvian folklore agree without reservation: this was a release day, suited to pirts, water treatments, and casting off what the body no longer needed. Lunar day 20, the eagle, lent that cleansing a graver cast — favouring fasting and quiet reflection over indulgence, and warning against meat, strain, and any attempt to heal others by spending one's own strength. The moon's passage through Gemini stirred restlessness and talk, sitting a little at odds with the eagle's call to stay home and turn inward, while Sunday's solar authority pulled toward visibility rather than the small, quiet work the day otherwise favoured. The sun's season in Libra, meanwhile, echoed the balance theme from a different angle, counselling against overdoing anything just as the eagle warned against pride and excess. Taken together, a visitor found more convergence than conflict — a day for release and a measured, undramatic pirts, kept modest rather than showy.
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.