The rooster
The seventh lunar day is a day of words, where what is said is held to carry more weight than usual. Your local hours are below.
- Runs from the 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
A day of words. Prayer, verbal magic, and easy provocation.
The short list gives the rooster and dedicates the day to Sraosha, an Avestan divinity. Globa's book leads with something else: a cluster of the magic staff or sceptre, the compass rose, a weathervane, the weathervane rooster, and the golden harp of Aeolus, all of them things that turn with the wind or catch it. The instructions are verbal. Do not lie and do not gossip, do not tear paper, do not break dishes, and use the day to drop filler words and verbal habits. Chicken and eggs are off the menu, and a tooth should not be pulled.
This is the one day where the Avestan claim is explicit, so it is the natural place to test it. Sraosha is a genuine Zoroastrian figure and the cock is genuinely his bird. That is a single point of contact, not a calendar, and the Zoroastrian calendar itself is solar. It is also worth noticing that a staff turns up twice in Globa, here and again on the twenty-seventh.
- 01Watch every wordNo lying and no gossip, and a good day to drop filler words.
- 02Break nothing, tear nothingTorn paper and broken dishes are both specifically ruled out.
- 03Take only same-day workVronsky's rule: start only what can be finished before the day ends.
A fighting cock in a dream is read as a warning of catastrophe for you or your family, and eating chicken or eggs on the rooster's own day is forbidden.
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 bloodletting
Lucky, and a good day for bloodletting. Illnesses are not dangerous and dreams come true, but children born today are short lived.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Good for quick work and for surgery
Vronsky restricts the day to what finishes quickly and warns off anything that can drag. He makes it good for dealing with officials, excellent for surgery, and successful wherever justice, nobility and generosity are kept. Very unlucky for thieves and murderers. The child has robust health.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
Speak carefully. The day is listening.
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
Patrons early, scattered later
Zaraev's first half finishes what the sixth day started and brings new patrons and partners in. The second half he calls fussy and disjointed.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Albertus recommends bloodletting and Vronsky recommends surgery on the same day Globa spends telling you not to raise your voice. That bloodletting line is the clearest fingerprint of the old lunary genre anywhere in the table.
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 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.