Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 3% 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 leopard
The day of the astral warrior. Passivity here was held to be not neutral but dangerous: the passive get hurt. Energy was to be discharged deliberately.
- + Martial arts, heavy exertion
- + Pirts
- + Work with metal, sharpening blades
- − Starting something wholly new
- − Drifting without aim
- − A sign: spilled oil — you have slid off the road
- Symbol
- a leopard before the leap
- Body
- the nape, the ears, the withers
- Stones
- carnelian, ruby, pyrite
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill on this day, recovery was thought to be hard. The weak points: the ears, the nape, the withers.
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: A warrior's day: martial arts, physical exertion.
epadomi.com: epadomi.com additionally calls it a good day for surgical operations; other sources do not mention it.
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 systemTuesday · Mars ♂︎. Action, sport, conflict, surgery. There is much energy and it wants an outlet: physical effort, repairs, the garden, casting off surplus. Whoever lies idle on their side today feels poorly by evening. A good day to stand your ground and to finish what needs pressure. A poor one for delicate talks and matters of love. The shadow side is quarrels, haste, injury.
Current planetary hour: Moon ☽︎ — hour 2 of the day.
Fertility, dreams, home, mood, memory. A good hour for inner and family matters, for water, sleep, and caring for others. A poor one for public steps and final decisions: mood and thought will still shift.
The year wheel
Last: Ziemassvētki
Next: Meteņi, in 19 days
59% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♑︎ in Capricorn, 26.5° earth
- Day of the solar month
- day 26
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 63 days
- Day length
- 7.5 h · sunrise 08:48 · sunset 16:18
The sun turned at its lowest in Capricorn, and the shortest day was kept as the year's true hinge — the cold was at its hardest, but so, tradition insisted, was the promise that light was about to grow again. Endurance, not comfort, was the virtue of this season; a fire lit now was lit in hope rather than in need alone. The body was told to bear with the cold rather than fight it.
The day, read as one
Four traditions, four independent readings, and on one point they converged plainly: both the lunar day of the leopard and Tuesday's restless Mars called for deliberate exertion over passivity, making the pirts itself — heat met with effort — well-favoured rather than a place for drifting. The waxing moon added its own note of gathering strength, though it warned that anything demanding deep recovery was better postponed, a caution echoed by the lunar day's own word that illness taken on now was slow to mend. Aquarius overhead turned the mood toward company and unusual company at that, suggesting a shared pirts over a solitary one, even as it cooled the appetite for anything more intimate. Capricorn's sun, meanwhile, stood apart from the day's urgency, counselling patient endurance of the season's cold rather than any particular action — a reminder that the year's deeper rhythm and the day's quicker ones did not always speak in one voice.
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.