The crane
The sixth lunar day is a receiving day, and one of only two where all four author lines agree. The exact hours for your location are below.
- Runs from the fifth 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 receiving day: words, air and forgiveness come in rather than out.
Globa's table gives the crane, and the book calls it a sacred bird, noting that Russian well sweeps were built in its shape, a long neck dipping for water. The day is for mental and verbal work, for prophecy and for forgiveness, and it is listed as good for rejuvenation. Pankratov adds breathing exercises and says smells carry meaning today.
Both the medieval line and Vronsky attach the same odd rule to the sixth day: tell nobody your dreams. It sits inside an otherwise open, talkative day, and none of the texts explain it. Nina Strelkova hangs a rainbow and clouds beside the crane, and one English site prints Rainbow and drops the bird altogether.
- 01Talk, write, forgiveMental and verbal work is the assignment, and so is forgiving someone.
- 02Breathe on purposeBreathing exercises fit the day, and smells are said to carry meaning.
- 03Keep your dreams to yourselfTwo separate author lines say tell nobody what you dreamed.
A sky either completely clear or completely overcast is read as a sign there is no harmony in the world; thin scattered cloud with a chime somewhere is the good version.
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 lost things get found
Lucky for a great deal. Study succeeds, lost things are found, the sick soon get up, and children born today are long lived.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
A happy day, and good for research
Vronsky makes it a day of joy and, for many, of happiness: very good for science, experiment, and mental and spiritual work, and good for finding lost people, animals or things. The child lives a long fruitful life and leaves a real mark. A bad day for thieves.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Take in words and air. Forgive someone.
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
First sextile, very favourable
Zaraev has the first sextile here and calls it very favourable. Ideas materialise, intuition and foresight sharpen, and his only caution is against being pushy.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
There is no real disagreement on the sixth day, and that is worth saying out loud. Four author lines with different vocabularies land on the same verdict, which happens twice in the whole month.
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 sixth 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.