Pirts day
Every layer is read at this time; sunrise and sunset are the chosen day's.
Waxing moon 57% 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 spring
Hidden springs — of energy, of knowledge, of karmic memory. The life force was to be turned toward home and family.
- + Working with the family tree, old photographs
- + Going to the pirts — the best day
- + Laying foundations, starting to build
- − Conflicts with relatives
- − Selfishness, superficiality
- − Operations on the vessels and eyes
- Symbol
- a spring, a fountain
- Body
- the bones of the ribcage
- Stones
- sardonyx, turquoise, amber
Health — a divinatory system, not medicine
If you fell ill, help was to be sought at once. Operations on the vessels, nerves and eyes were not advised. Misusing the day was linked to a weakening of immunity.
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- 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: Venus ♀︎ — hour 3 of the day.
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: Meteņi
Next: Lieldienas, in 26 days
42% through this eighth of the year
The sun
- Sign
- ♓︎ in Pisces, 4.0° water
- Day of the solar month
- day 4
- Next turning point
- the spring equinox, in 26 days
- Day length
- 10.1 h · sunrise 07:34 · sunset 17:40
With the sun in Pisces the cold began to loosen into damp and thaw, and the body was said to grow porous along with the ground — easily chilled, easily moved to feeling. It was held a poor season for firm decisions and a good one for rest before spring's demands began. Old lore warned against trusting the weather here more than the calendar.
The day, read as one
Several threads lean the same way today. The lunar corpus names this a spring-essence day turned toward home and roots, and calls it explicitly a fine one for the pirts, while the waxing moon and Latvian phase-lore agree it was a time favouring growth, gathering, and things begun rather than finished. Jupiter's Thursday adds its own weight toward generosity and long-view beginnings, though it warned against overreach and empty promises. The moon in Gemini brought restlessness and talkativeness, a lighter, more scattered note sitting somewhat apart from the day's deeper, homeward pull, while the sun in Pisces counseled against firm decisions and favoured rest — a gentler undertone rather than a contradiction. Taken together, tradition pointed toward a day well suited to the pirts and to quiet, rooted work, so long as haste, conflict, and heavy operations were set aside.
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.