The horse
The twenty-first lunar day is the most consistently positive of the thirty, which in this material is unusual. Your local times are below.
- Runs from the twentieth 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
Courage, company and voluntary sacrifice. Every line likes this day.
The short list gives a horse. The book is far more specific: the white winged horses of Mithra with golden manes and hooves, the horses of the dawn, Pegasus, centaurs, a chariot. Group work is useful today and an oath of loyalty given now is said to hold. The day is for starting a journey, changing job, water treatments, exercise and being outdoors. The conditions attached are honesty, and not rushing blindly at the goal.
This is one of the few days where Globa's Avestan vocabulary is genuinely Avestan. Mithra is a real Zoroastrian figure, the light before sunrise, with a chariot drawn by four white horses, and Globa links the horses' hooves to the lunar nodes. Real vocabulary is still not a real calendar, but the borrowing here is at least accurate.
- 01Work with other peopleGroup work suits the day, and an oath given today is said to hold.
- 02Go outside and moveJourneys, exercise, water treatments and open air.
- 03Be fair about itHonesty is the condition, and rushing blindly at the goal is not allowed.
Pankratov recommends cold dousing, and drinks made from cranberry, carrot, rowan, pomegranate and beetroot.
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 for company and the household
Lucky for entertainment and household matters. Lost things are soon found, illnesses are not dangerous, dreams mean nothing, and children born today are hard working.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Good for trade and travel, by land only
Vronsky makes it good for trips and moving house, but only by land transport, and good for buying, selling, trade, risky business and laying in food. Searches for lost people, things or animals succeed. The child is hard working, patient and self-possessed. Illness is not dangerous but needs attentive nursing, and thieves get caught quickly.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Courage, company, a promise that holds.
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
Last trine, favourable
Zaraev has the last trine here and calls it favourable. Rivals' schemes can be overcome, and he says contacts with foreigners can improve your finances.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
There is almost nothing to argue about here, which happens twice in the month. The one oddity is Vronsky's rule that the travel be by land transport, a medieval instruction that survived into a 2004 textbook without anyone updating it for aircraft.
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 twenty first 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.