The bell
The seventeenth lunar day is the best day in Globa's list for marrying, and the one day whose verdict elsewhere depends on which weekday it lands on. The hours below are computed for you.
- Runs from the sixteenth 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
Inner freedom, fertility and joy, and the best day to marry for love.
The short list gives a bell. Globa's book leads with a grape cluster, tied to intuitive knowledge, ecstasy and transfiguration, with a warning not to confuse any of that with possession or with being high. The day is for marrying, and the tradition says such a marriage rests on love. Conjugal relations, relaxation and the sublimation of sexual energy all belong here. Cold dry wine or warmed Cahors is recommended as a symbol of knowing eternity, with the limit stated plainly: do not get drunk and do not run riot.
The popular layer ties the day to the Greek Dionysia and recommends a feast, singing and performance, and says the work done today should be neither routine nor stressful. Not every line agrees. One English site rates the seventeenth extremely negative, which is a straight collision with Globa over the same hours.
- 01Marry, if you are going toThe tradition calls this the best day of the month for a marriage made from love.
- 02One glass, not the bottleCold dry wine or warmed Cahors is recommended; drunkenness is not.
- 03Do not spend it on routineWork today should be neither mechanical nor stressful.
Vronsky attaches a rule this site can calculate: the day is unlucky only when the seventeenth falls on a Saturday.
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
Unlucky, but the child is happy
Flatly unlucky. Undertake nothing, illnesses are severe, dreams come true in three days, and children born today are happy.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Good, unless it falls on a Saturday
Vronsky makes the whole verdict conditional on the weekday. On a Saturday the day hides real danger: take no medicines, avoid alcohol, absolutely no drugs, start nothing new, and an illness may be incurable. On any other weekday it is a good base for important beginnings, the child will be happy and prosperous, and dreams come true, as a rule on the third day.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
The wedding day of the month.
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
Illumination early, friction after
Zaraev's first half covers your own business, creativity, marital relations, sexual energy, intuition and states of illumination. His second half turns, and he warns that satiety breeds conflict between lovers.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Globa hands you a glass of wine and a wedding. Vronsky tells you to touch no alcohol and no medicine, but only when the seventeenth lands on a Saturday. That is a calculable disagreement, which is rare here.
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 seventeenth 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.