The trumpet
The fourteenth lunar day is the call to act, and the one day the tradition says liquid itself pollutes. Local start and end times are below.
- Runs from the thirteenth 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 call. Begin the important thing, and answer what is asked of you.
The symbol is a trumpet, with a second trumpet and a horn added in the wider Russian sets. Globa's day is for beginning the important thing: work with sacred texts, do physical work, pray but without strain. Magic is barred, and so is straining the eyes, wearing perfume and looking in a mirror. The strangest instruction in the thirty days sits here: any liquid is said to pollute today, so the fast is a dry one and the food is salty.
Melancholy and contact with other worlds are treated as expected on the fourteenth rather than as a warning sign. The popular layer adds a detail that fits a day named for a sound: overheard phrases and headlines can swing events today, and dreams cannot be trusted.
- 01Begin the important thingThis is the day reserved for the real start, not a symbolic one.
- 02Fast dryLiquid is said to pollute today, so the food is salty and the fast has no water in it.
- 03No magic and no mirrorsRitual work, perfume, strained eyes and mirrors are all ruled out.
One line holds that a sentence you overhear today can turn an event that was going the other way.
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 the sick recover
Lucky. The sick recover, dreams are doubtful, and infants born today are perfect in every way.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Lucky. Think it over, walk, then sign
Vronsky calls it lucky and even happy, and gives a procedure: think the contract through, talk it over on a walk, then sign it. Fate favours the child, all illnesses pass quickly and easily, and dreams are doubtful.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Answer the call. Eat salt, drink nothing.
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
Strong first half, wasteful second
Zaraev's first half is favourable: take your proposals to a new level, and family ties strengthen. His second half drags you into needless business, overeating and wasted sexual energy.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Globa bars magic and effortful prayer on the fourteenth. The Pankratov layer calls the same day the most powerful of the month and tells you to make the decisive move. Vronsky quietly agrees with Pankratov and hands you a contract.
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 fourteenth 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.