The black lotus, or the white
The twenty-eighth lunar day has two different symbols and two different verdicts, and which one applies depends on how long this lunar month runs. The calculation, and your local hours, are below.
- Runs from the twenty seventh moonrise after the new Moon
- Black or white lotus
- 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
Black lotus or white, depending on whether the month reaches thirty days.
This is the one day in Globa's book whose symbol is conditional, and the condition is astronomy. If the lunar month runs to twenty-nine days, the twenty-eighth is the first day of Hecate, it is critical, and its symbol is the black lotus. If the month reaches thirty days, it is a clean, bright white lotus day. This site computes the length of the current lunation and prints the version that actually applies, which no English page does. Either way the day is read as beneficial for grasping higher truths and for what the tradition calls the alchemy of the soul.
The instructions split between the very abstract and the very ordinary. Work with dreams, clairvoyance and the chakras, and the tradition claims you can see past lives that way. Then buy a house, do repairs, plant useful plants. The prohibitions are all about cutting: do not fell trees, do not cut flowers and do not give them, and one line extends it to killing an insect. The eyes are held to be vulnerable, so bright light and screens are discouraged.
- 01Cut nothing livingNo felling, no cut flowers, and one line includes insects.
- 02Do the earthly things tooBuying a house, repairs and planting all belong to this day.
- 03Rest your eyesBright light and long hours at a screen are both advised against.
Being given cut flowers today is read as a bad sign, which follows from the ban on cutting them.
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, and a lazy child
A lucky day, and children born today are lazy.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Good for important beginnings
Vronsky calls it good for starting new and important ventures. Illnesses are neither dangerous nor long, dreams should not be taken seriously, and the child will be provided for all its life while being an incorrigible idler.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Black lotus or white, by the calendar.
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
Risky first half, reflective second
Zaraev's first half he calls fraught with dangers, injuries and major problems, with a risk of accidents, weakened health and blows of fate, so he says do not overstrain. His second half is better: the past can be rethought, and a partner's advice can warn you off trouble.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Albertus and Vronsky agree on a lucky day and a lazy child. Zaraev calls the first half of the same day fraught with injuries and blows of fate. Globa's own verdict is not fixed at all, it depends on whether this month has a thirtieth day.
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 eighth 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.