The fountain
The tenth lunar day is the recovery day after the ninth, and it turns towards family and the house. The hours below are computed for your location.
- Runs from the ninth moonrise after the new Moon
- Right now, lunar day
P. Globa, Avestan Lunar Calendar, and the short table that circulates from it. Tradition, not a measured effect.
What Globa says
A roots day. Rest, family, and the memory a family carries.
Globa's table gives a fountain and a water source, with a crab added in the book. The day is for the family tree, for thinking about your own history, and for strengthening the house. Building can be started and a steam bath is recommended. Being self-serving or superficial is what the day catches. Pankratov adds the practical version: do not fast, drink more, do not spend the day alone, and do not set out on a journey.
The book attaches a hard warning to the fountain image. People of this day are said to carry a strong sexual pull, and using it for gain is said to wreck the body that carries it. It is an odd note to find on a day otherwise given over to relatives and the bath house.
- 01Sit with the familyThe day wants relatives, the house and the family tree, not solitude.
- 02Take a steam bathA bath house is named directly, and building can be started today.
- 03Drink, do not fastMore liquid, no fasting, and no setting out on a journey.
One line says a marriage made today brings many children, and another that a haircut today pulls illness towards you.
Named openly, because a gap is more useful than filler
Where the sources are thin
This is one of the five days the older lines barely cover.
Globa's entry for day 10 is short, and Vronsky adds little beyond a single line about illness, so this page rests on fewer sentences than most.
This page stays short rather than filling the gap. Inventing is the thing this site exists not to do.
Where the sources disagree
Four author lines stand behind the lunar days and they are not one tradition. They run left to right in the order they were written, oldest first, and each one carries its date. This site names which line it is quoting every time.
Albertus Magnus
Medieval, before 1500
Lucky for everything, dreams empty
Lucky for all undertakings. Dreams mean nothing, troubles pass quickly, and those born today incline to travel.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Good for beginnings, bad to fall ill
Vronsky makes it very good for any beginning, large or trivial, and says sorrow that starts today is short lived. The child has a quick mind, skilful hands and a love of travel. His one hard line: anyone who falls ill today can die without immediate help.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Rest, family, and the bath house.
The reading above is his. The thirty symbols, the satanic days, the stones and the omens all come from this line.
Avestan Lunar Calendar, and the school that follows it.
Alexander Zaraev
Born 1954
Favourable, and open to a change of form
Zaraev calls it favourable and says you can change the form of any activity on it. Professional success, love and spiritual searching all work.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
The popular layer tells you not to travel today. Albertus and Vronsky make travel the day's signature, and Vronsky gives the child born on it a love of the road.
Set out in full on the sources page
How old is this
Old in part, and much younger than it is said to be.
Books of lunar days circulated in Europe from the twelfth century, and the Albertus and Vronsky lines sit in that tradition. The thirty symbols in their present form, and the satanic days, are a twentieth century Russian arrangement presented as ancient Persian. That claim is asserted and not documented.
Calculated in your browser, and true to the minute for the city at the top
How the day is counted
Lunar days are not equal, and they do not begin at midnight.
The first runs from the exact moment of the new Moon to the next moonrise where you are, and is usually short. Every day after that runs from one moonrise to the next, about twenty four hours and fifty minutes. A lunation holds twenty nine or thirty of them.
Because moonrise depends on where you stand, the lunar day is the one figure on this site that genuinely differs between two cities on the same evening.
The next four tenth lunar days
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All thirty lunar days
The hours of this lunar day come from the new Moon and from the moonrises in the city named at the top, worked out in your browser with an open astronomy library.
The lunary attributed to Albertus Magnus; S. Vronsky, Classical Astrology, volume 4; P. Globa, Avestan Lunar Calendar; A. Zaraev. Every claim on this page carries the author it comes from.
None of the readings is a measured effect, and where the authors disagree this site says so rather than choosing for you.