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 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.
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 systemFriday · Venus ♀︎. Relationships, beauty, pleasure, art, peace. A good day to meet, to reconcile, to tend to yourself, to shop for beauty, to make and to enjoy. Agreements reached on a Friday tend to hold, because they rest on liking rather than pressure. A poor day for rough work and confrontation. The shadow side is idleness, indulgence, waste.
Current planetary hour: Sun ☉︎ — hour 3 of the day.
Strength, health, visibility, authority. The hour for showing yourself: speaking up, addressing someone higher, starting what needs to be noticed. Quiet requests and work where you must stay in the shadow go poorly.
The year wheel
Last: Mārtiņi
Next: Ziemassvētki, in 21 days
55% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♐︎ in Sagittarius, 9.7° fire
- Day of the solar month
- day 10
- Next turning point
- the winter solstice, in 21 days
- Day length
- 7.2 h · sunrise 08:36 · sunset 15:48
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
The day's voices pulled in different directions. The lunar count placed this in the serpent's stretch, a restless, self-indulgent span where restraint and plain food were counselled and new undertakings discouraged — a reading the full moon echoed in its own way, as a night of excess and exposure better suited to finishing than beginning. Latvian folk tradition, by contrast, offered only its old caution about sleeping under moonlight and keeping meat from its touch, while the moon's passage through Gemini suggested a talkative, suggestible mood, open to whatever was said. Friday's planetary rule leaned gently toward ease and company rather than vigorous effort, and the low winter sun in Sagittarius asked for inward fire more than outward activity. Together they suggested, where they agreed at all, a quieter pirts visit — simple, unhurried, not the occasion for ambition or confrontation.
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.