Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Full moon 99% illuminated
At the full moon, the body was considered at its most sensitive. A gentler pace was favoured — less heat, a lighter hand with the whisk, and closer attention to how the body responded.
The serpent
Lunar day 15 was associated with weakened self-control, and tradition favoured restraint over indulgence — a light diet or a short fast, simple food, and a shorter, calmer pirts visit rather than a long, heavy one.
The second satanic day: astral battles and temptations of the flesh. Self-control is at its weakest, instinct at its loudest; the characteristic temptation is a sense of power over others.
- + Asceticism, restraint, discipline
- + Hot plain food, pulses
- + Standing up for a just cause
- − Quarrels, idleness, giving in to impulse
- − Planning and holding events
- − Cutting hair, treating teeth
- Symbol
- a serpent, a jackal
- Body
- the diaphragm, the pancreas, the intestines
- Stones
- jet, emerald, morion
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
A correction of the pancreas was said to take place; the diaphragm and the abdominal organs were to be watched. Teeth were not to be treated. Best to fast or keep a light diet.
Dreams
Prophetic for the whole month. A quarrel in a dream — a bad sign; a dog, a barking one especially — a good one.
Moon in Aries fire
Short, sharp tasks that need a flare of energy but not a long stretch of it. Bold decisions, new beginnings, risky ones included. The other side is a quick temper: patience with those close to you was advised today, because a quarrel starts easily.
Latvian folk tradition
a separate layer · by moon phase, not by numbered day- You must not sleep where the moon shines in — you will become moonstruck.
- Whoever stares at the moon long in the evening is troubled at night by the lietuvēns.
- Fresh meat is kept from the moonlight.
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: Saturn ♄︎ — hour 4 of the day.
Limits, discipline, ordering, closing off. Slowness is an advantage here: archives, debts, repairs, fasting, casting off the old, anything where you must say “no.” A poor hour for beginnings and celebrations. The shadow side is heaviness of heart and fear.
The year wheel
Last: Miķeļi
Next: Mārtiņi, in 6 days
88% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♏︎ in Scorpio, 9.4° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 10
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 51 days
- Day length
- 9.1 h · sunrise 07:34 · sunset 16:38
The sun's passage through Scorpio was felt as the cold taking real hold — warmth withdrew inward, and the body was said to conserve rather than spend. Old lore treated this as a season for going quiet, for keeping close what mattered, not for open display. Illness caught now was thought to run deeper and linger longer than at other turns of the year.
The day, read as one
Today's readings pulled in noticeably different directions. The lunar day, deep in its "serpent" passage, counselled restraint and plain fare, warning against impulse and against any treatment of hair or teeth — while the full moon overhead echoed the caution against cutting or vigorous intervention, favouring completion over fresh starts. Latvian custom added its own old wariness of moonlight itself, a night for shuttered windows rather than open exposure. The moon in Aries struck the one discordant note, urging short bursts of boldness even as Wednesday's Mercury favoured calm, clear-headed talk over any large decision — and the sun's turn through Scorpio, drawing warmth inward, sided with the quieter, more conservative mood of the day overall. Taken together, this was a day better suited to a gentle, restrained visit than to anything vigorous or newly begun.
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.