Two vessels
The twenty-fifth lunar day is a listening day, passive and turned inward. Your exact local hours are below.
- Runs from the twenty fourth 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 day for solitude, and for listening to what is already inside.
The short list gives two vessels, one of living water and one of dead. The book leads with the tortoise and the shell: the tortoise as the stability of the world and a wise keeper of information, the pattern on its shell read as a reflection of the sky, and the spiral sea shell as coiled time that still holds the sound of the sea. The full Russian set adds an urn of ashes beside the two vessels. The day is for therapeutic fasting and cleansing, for listening to your own inner voice, and for not hurrying.
One prohibition is unusually specific: do nothing at all to the ears, no piercing and no treatment. The ears are the body part attached to the day, alongside the knees, which is why the shell and the sound held inside it sit at the centre of the symbol cluster. Pankratov adds going to water, even a swimming pool, and washing in cold running water in the morning after a bad dream.
- 01Leave your ears aloneNo piercing and no ear treatment on the twenty-fifth.
- 02Fast and listenTherapeutic fasting, cleansing, and attention to your own inner voice.
- 03Do not hurryHaste is named as the thing that spoils the day.
Hearing voices today is read not as a gift but as a sign of slavish dependence on somebody.
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, and an unhappy child
Unlucky. Illnesses are dangerous, and the child born today will have an unhappy life.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Lucky, and good for a court case
This is where Vronsky departs furthest from his own medieval source. He makes it good for starting trips and moving house, good for commerce, business and court cases, and good for sleep and rest. The child becomes a favourite of Fortune and luck follows them to the grave. The sick, though, face death without timely help.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Sit still and listen inward.
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
Heavy first half, recoverable second
Zaraev's first half is unfavourable, with lethargy and chronic illness flaring as the residue of everything spent earlier. His second half is favourable, intuition sharpens, superiors support you, and earlier bad events can be turned around.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Albertus gives the twenty-fifth an unlucky day and an unhappy child. Vronsky, who otherwise copies him closely, turns it into a favourite of Fortune with luck to the grave. It is the clearest place in the month where the modern text breaks from the old one.
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 fifth 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.