The staff
The twenty-seventh lunar day is one of the few every line rates positive, and the one where the book's symbol is furthest from the short list. The hours below are calculated for you.
- Runs from the twenty sixth 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
Hidden knowledge arrives through intuition rather than through effort.
The short list gives a staff or wand. Globa's book gives a whole sea: a lighthouse, an island, a ship, an anchor, Neptune's trident, and Scylla and Charybdis, the moving rocks a ship had to slip between without being crushed. The day is about mastering hidden Neptunian forces, and the voyage over a stormy sea stands for mystical searching and spiritual wandering. Meditation, prayer, healing and deliberate use of words all belong here, and travel is encouraged, sea travel in particular. Mirrors are better avoided, alcohol is out, and so are illusions of every kind.
Scylla and Charybdis in a calendar presented as Avestan is a clean, citable example of how mixed the sources are. The same pages that use real Zoroastrian vocabulary also reach for Greek sea monsters, Egyptian Anubis, Hindu Ganesha and Russian folk tales. The popular layer adds its own bans: no X-rays, no blood donation, no chemical medicines, no cemetery visits, no potatoes, no citrus and no wedding.
- 01Go towards waterTravel is encouraged and sea travel is singled out.
- 02Nothing that clouds youNo alcohol, no hypnotists, and no mirrors.
- 03Use words deliberatelyMeditation, prayer and healing are the day's named work.
Vronsky adds one concrete instruction that fits the rest of the day: it is good for talking with older people.
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 everything
Lucky for everything. Dreams come true and children born today are beautiful.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Lucky for everything, and for sowing
Vronsky calls it lucky for everything, good for sowing and planting, and good for talking with older people. Illnesses are neither dangerous nor long and dreams may or may not come true. The child may be lucky and happy, or too soft and weak-willed, so he tells the parents to build the will early.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Knowledge arrives. Do not chase it.
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
Good news early, do not sign later
Zaraev's first half brings a new view of old problems and good news from old partners, though he advises against new ventures. His second half turns: energy drained by enviers and rivals, conflict among close relatives, and danger in signing documents, starting a business, taking a risk or driving fast.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
There is very little to argue about on the twenty-seventh, which is worth saying. The only real conflict is travel: Globa sends you out to sea, and Zaraev's second half tells you not to drive fast.
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 seventh 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.