The butterfly
The sixteenth lunar day is one of the clean days, and it falls on or near the full Moon. Your local hours are below.
- Runs from the fifteenth 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 clean day. Keep yourself in order rather than try to achieve.
The short list gives the butterfly. Globa's book leads with the dove and adds Psyche, a palm and a ladder, and names the day one of the pure ones. The instruction is moderation with no exceptions: neither fast nor overeat, avoid extremes, and drop shouting, rudeness, malice and envy. Meat and mushrooms are out, birds are not to be killed, and sex is contraindicated, with the book noting that this applies to married couples too. The day's colours are white, silver and pale blue, and it is a day of washing and prayer.
Zaraev puts the full Moon here, which explains the register from a different direction. He says the aura is strongly amplified, creative and spiritual people can do their maximum, and passive people get pushed into a renewal they did not ask for, with the surplus energy turning into dissatisfaction or aggression when it has nowhere to go.
- 01Hold the middleNo fasting and no overeating; the day is about not going to either edge.
- 02Wash, and wear pale coloursWhite, silver and pale blue, with washing and prayer as the day's work.
- 03No meat, no mushrooms, no birdsThe food rules are specific, and killing a bird is ruled out.
Dirt on your clothes today is read as a sign of spiritual uncleanliness, and one line says blood clots poorly today, so surgery is unwise.
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 in trade, above all in cattle
Lucky, above all in trade and most of all in cattle. Dreams are truthful and children born today are long lived.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Good for travel and selling cattle
Vronsky keeps the market and adds the road: good for travel and for trading livestock, especially for selling, which he says can bring a large profit. The child has strong health and a long fruitful life, and dreams are valid but need correct interpretation.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
A pure day. Moderation in everything.
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
Full Moon, amplified, broadly favourable
Zaraev has the full Moon here and calls it broadly favourable, with the aura strongly amplified. Creative and spiritual people can do their maximum; the rest may find the surplus turning into aggression.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Globa's day of ascetic purity, no meat, no sex, no raised voices, is the medieval cattle market. Both texts are describing the same hours.
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 sixteenth 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.