The fiery sword
The eleventh lunar day is described as the most powerful of the month, which in this tradition also makes it the easiest to mishandle. Local times are below.
- Runs from the tenth 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
The month's peak of force, and the day it is riskiest to be careless.
The short table gives a fiery sword. The book adds a crown, calls the day one of transmutation, and attaches a condition to both: sword and crown are symbols of great power for those who are worthy, and an impure person is destroyed by the sword rather than helped by it. The instructions are precautions. Do not pick up cutting tools, not even to cut bread. Do not touch insects and do not kill them. Finish whatever you start, and take on nothing serious in a field you do not know.
The popular layer leads with a different image, the labyrinth, sometimes with the Minotaur in it, and Nina Strelkova adds a winged dragon and a crown. The labyrinth explains the warning better than the sword does: the danger is not force, it is walking confidently into a structure whose shape you do not know.
- 01Put the knife downNo cutting tools today, and the ban extends to cutting bread.
- 02Leave insects aloneDo not touch them and do not kill them.
- 03Finish, and stay in your fieldComplete what you begin, and start nothing serious in unfamiliar work.
Falling knives and forks are the day's danger sign, and Nina Strelkova adds that UFO sightings are likeliest today, a late twentieth century motif sitting inside a supposedly ancient list.
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, and good for moving house
Lucky for moving house. Dreams often come true, and children born today are witty and long lived.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Victory and immortality, good for travel
Vronsky calls it the day of victory and immortality, and says whoever dies today will be long remembered by their people or by all humanity. Good for setting out on a journey. The child has good mental ability and a happy, fruitful life to deep old age. Illness is dangerous mainly for women and slight for men.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Great power, and a sword that cuts back.
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
First trine, one of the best days
Zaraev has the first trine here and calls it one of the best lunar days of all: everything positive in the month can materialise, and earlier negatives are neutralised.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Zaraev calls the eleventh one of the best days of the whole month. The Pankratov layer calls it a day of continuous setbacks in trade, unpredictable behaviour and high injury risk. Globa sits between them and says the power is real but conditional.
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 eleventh 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.