The tree of knowledge
The fourth lunar day is a day of choice, and the first one Globa's school marks as unfavourable. The hours below are calculated for where you are.
- Runs from the third moonrise after the new Moon
- First unfavourable day
- 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 of choice, and the first day the school marks unfavourable.
The short table gives the Tree of Knowledge and the choice between good and evil. The book widens it: the tree is the person, roots in tradition and in the ground, branches in the upper world, and it is also the family tree, so the day belongs to ancestors and to the house. The instruction is to spend it alone and to think ten times before deciding anything. Spinning thread, walking in the forest and unravelling knitting all fit. Picking flowers, cutting trees and group work do not.
The tree also explains what is hung on the day lower down: the larynx and the pharynx as the body part, and the popular layer's addition that the day is good for the voice, for singing and recitation, and bad for travel. The book adds that people born on the fourth day should not leave the region they came from.
- 01Decide nothing quicklyThink it through ten times, and do it alone rather than in a group.
- 02Handle thread, not flowersSpinning and unravelling fit the day; cutting trees and picking flowers do not.
- 03Use your voiceSinging and reciting suit the day, and travel is advised against.
Thread or tangled hair in last night's dream is read as the instruction to drop the plan, and a clear fourth day is said to mean a clear month.
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 good for finding lost things
Lucky for every undertaking and especially for finding lost things. Good dreams come true and bad ones do not. The infant born today is ill-natured.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Happy for beginnings, hard on the parents
Vronsky calls it a happy day for beginnings, above all for searching for lost things or lost people, and good for anything involving water. Illness turns dangerous if it is neglected, and dreams come true, colour ones especially. The child may grow into a great egotist or worse, and the parents will have work to do.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
First of the unfavourable days. Go slow.
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 trade early, diplomacy after
Zaraev's first half is favourable, emotionally level, good for trade and even for a risky venture. The second half brakes it, and he says only diplomacy keeps rivals' schemes off you.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Globa opens his unfavourable list with this day and tells you to stay alone and decide nothing. Albertus and Vronsky both call it lucky for undertakings, and Vronsky sends you out to look for what you lost.
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 fourth 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.