The bat
The ninth lunar day is the first of the four the tradition calls satanic, and the day the authors disagree about most. The exact hours for your location are set out below.
- Runs from the eighth moonrise after the new Moon
- Satanic 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
Not a dangerous day in itself. A day of provocation and deception.
The symbol is a bat, and Globa's book uses two Russian words for it, one of them archaic. The school calls the day critical and treats it as defensive: start nothing, do routine work, do not fight to prove you are right. Do not look in a mirror, and breaking one today is held to be worse than on any other day. What the day is for is clearing up: hard physical exercise, and forgiving the people who wronged you.
The book gives a reason for the animal, and it is the most vivid passage in the whole set. A person may swallow something vile on this day, mistaking it for the spiritual food they were looking for, and then believe in it fiercely. They think they have grown wings and flown high. The wings are the leathery wings of a night flier, and black has stopped being distinguishable from white.
- 01Start nothingNo first steps, no agreements, nothing that has to hold afterwards.
- 02Stay away from mirrorsBreaking one today is held to be worse than on any other day.
- 03Forgive, and work the bodyHard physical exercise and forgiving someone are the two prescriptions.
A cactus coming into flower is the good sign; spilled milk is bad, and a pressing feeling in the chest is read as problems piling up.
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 unlucky at once
The medieval line calls it lucky and unlucky at the same time. Illnesses are difficult, dreams come true after a long delay, and infants born today are long lived.
The medieval lunary carried under his name. The attribution is traditional and not proven.
Sergei Vronsky
1915 to 1998
Sow, build, and enjoy the evening
Best for work already long under way, and specifically good for building, fertilising soil, sowing, planting and buying cattle. Good for love and for company. Work done today multiplies experience and money.
Classical Astrology, volume 4. His text is the old lunary in modern prose, and carries no symbols.
Pavel Globa
Born 1953
First satanic day. Defend, do not act.
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
Dissonant, but usable if you are steady
Zaraev calls it disharmonious: deceptions, delusions, complications with partners, poor health, and a pull to escape responsibility into sensual indulgence. He leaves one door open, saying spiritually disciplined people can drop old karmic programmes here.
His circulating texts carry no symbols and are pegged to the phase aspects instead.
Globa says the day is satanic. Vronsky says sow your field and enjoy your evening. Both belong to the tradition, and a calendar that prints only one of them is hiding something.
A distinction Globa's own book makes and English pages lose
Satanic, and not the same as dark
Two different sets of difficult days get mixed into one.
The satanic days are the ninth, the fifteenth, the twenty third and the twenty ninth, and this is one of them. The days of Hecate are a different set: the dark days around the new Moon, when the Moon is not in the sky at all. English pages use the two names as if they meant the same thing. The book does not.
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 ninth 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.