The eagle
The twentieth lunar day is the peak of the spiritual list in one tradition and the worst day of the month in another. The hours below are set for your location.
- Runs from the nineteenth 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 best day for insight in Globa, and Zaraev's worst day outright.
The book reads the eagle as spiritual feat, flight, knowing the law, self-knowledge and contemplation, and Globa's school makes this the best day of the month for insight and for contact with a teacher. The day is spent studying, fasting and working against doubt, and preferably at home, with family and with tradition. Pride, arrogance and grumbling are the targets. One prohibition stands out: do not do psychic healing today, because you can exhaust yourself doing it.
The other lines describe the same hours entirely differently, and two of them agree on one strange detail. Both Albertus and Vronsky call the twentieth lucky for undertakings and then say the child born on it is angry, quarrelsome and unyielding, something the parents must fight from the cradle. The same oddity in the same place in both texts is one of the clearest signs that one is derived from the other.
- 01Study and fastSpiritual texts, an empty stomach, and work against your own doubt.
- 02Stay in with the familyThe day is meant to be spent at home rather than out.
- 03Do no healing workPsychic healing today is said to drain the healer.
One line adds that a haircut on the twentieth leaves you with a lifelong disgust.
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, but an ill-natured child
Lucky for all undertakings. Illnesses are long, dreams unreliable, and children born today are ill-natured.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Good for anything, hard on the child
Vronsky calls it good and even happy, and says anything started will succeed. An illness starting today can drag on a very long time, dreams sometimes come true and sometimes not, and fate may give the child an angry, quarrelsome and unyielding character.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
The best day of the month for insight.
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
His worst day. Sign nothing.
Zaraev makes the twentieth his single worst day of the month. Ill-will, envy and slander block progress, creative and group work are obstructed, the risk of deception is high, and he says avoid all undertakings, obligations and contracts. He names it a day of karmic testing.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Globa's best spiritual day of the month is Zaraev's worst day of the month, flatly. Albertus and Vronsky ignore both readings and call it lucky for business and bad for the baby.
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 twentieth 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.