Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 40% 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 Aquarius air
Friends, groups, unexpected ideas, freedom. A good time for shared work and for anything new and unusual. In relationships — coolness: you want distance, not closeness.
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 systemThursday · Jupiter ♃︎. Growth, learning, law, travel, generosity. A day for large questions: strategy, study, courts and institutions, long-term agreements, helping others. What is begun on a Thursday tends to grow. A good day to ask and to give — money included. The shadow side is exaggeration, promises beyond your strength, and the wish to teach others how to live.
Current planetary hour: Jupiter ♃︎ — hour 7 of the night.
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: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 29 days
36% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 1.2° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 2
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 29 days
- Day length
- 7.6 h · sunrise 08:22 · sunset 15:57
In Sagittarius the sun rode low and the days grew short, yet tradition held that inner fire, not outer warmth, carried a person through this stretch toward the solstice. It was a season for journeys of the mind if not the body — for looking ahead rather than settling in. A restless spirit now was taken as natural, not a fault.
The day, read as one
Several threads converged on word and intention today: the lunar day of word-magic made speech and prayer potent, Thursday's Jupiter favoured institutions, learning, and long-term agreements, and the Sagittarius sun leaned toward looking ahead rather than settling in — all pointing toward a pirts visit framed by clear intention and honest words rather than idle chatter. The waxing moon and its Latvian counterpart agreed that this was a time for building and beginning, though both cautioned that anything requiring deep rest or recovery was better postponed, as healing was said to be slower now. The moon's passage through Aquarius added a note of sociability and fresh ideas, suiting a shared sauna visit over a solitary one, even as it cooled the pull toward closeness. One firm warning cut across the day regardless of mood: the lunar day itself was held to be the worst for pulling teeth or any dental work, a caution worth heeding on its own terms.
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.