Ask / request — September 2023
The best days to ask for a raise in September 2023.
Computed in America/New York (Eastern Time); every interval prints its UTC offset. A different timezone shifts the day boundaries — the sky doesn’t change, but the local days it lands in can.
You’ve got the raise on the calendar. Here is September 2023, scored for asking: every hour rated on the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon’s phase, and its next applying aspect for this decision — then averaged per day. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.
The month’s best stretch opens Wed, Sep 20, 11:00 AM EDT and holds until Thu, Sep 21, 7:00 PM EDT, scoring 72.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | Fri | 29 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 5:19 AMwaningvoid Fri 6:35 AM – Fri 9:24 AM |
| Sep 2 | Sat | 28 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 5:19 AMwaning |
| Sep 3 | Sun | 17 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 8:08 AMwaningvoid Sun 7:56 AM – Sun 10:59 AM |
| Sep 4 | Mon | 21 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 8:08 AMwaning |
| Sep 5 | Tue | 22 | Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 3:06 PMwaningvoid Tue 12:45 PM – Tue 4:06 PM |
| Sep 6 | Wed | 29 | Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 3:06 PMwaning |
| Sep 7 | Thu | 19 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Thu 6:21 PM – Fri 12:59 AM |
| Sep 8 | Fri | 23 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Thu 6:21 PM – Fri 12:59 AM |
| Sep 9 | Sat | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Sep 10 | Sun | 25 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 3:31 PMwaningvoid Sun 8:47 AM – Sun 12:36 PM |
| Sep 11 | Mon | 32 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 3:31 PMwaning |
| Sep 12 | Tue | 12 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Tue 11:05 AM – Wed 1:18 AM |
| Sep 13 | Wed | 22 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Tue 11:05 AM – Wed 1:18 AM |
| Sep 14 | Thu | 25 | Mercury retrogradewaningwaxing |
| Sep 15 | Fri | 44 | Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 7:57 PMwaxingvoid Fri 9:49 AM – Fri 1:44 PM |
| Sep 16 | Sat | 65 | sextile Venus 7:57 PMwaxing |
| Sep 17 | Sun | 56 | waxingvoid Sun 9:06 PM – Mon 12:58 AM |
| Sep 18 | Mon | 49 | square Venus 8:29 AMwaxingvoid Sun 9:06 PM – Mon 12:58 AM |
| Sep 19 | Tue | 55 | square Venus 8:29 AMwaxing |
| Sep 20 | Wed | 61 | trine Venus 6:25 PMwaxingvoid Wed 6:21 AM – Wed 10:05 AM |
| Sep 21 | Thu | 69 | trine Venus 6:25 PMwaxing |
| Sep 22 | Fri | 57 | waxingvoid Fri 3:31 PM – Fri 4:20 PM |
| Sep 23 | Sat | 58 | waxing |
| Sep 24 | Sun | 53 | opposition Venus 4:47 AMwaxingvoid Sun 4:05 PM – Sun 7:29 PM |
| Sep 25 | Mon | 46 | opposition Venus 4:47 AMwaxing |
| Sep 26 | Tue | 43 | opposition Venus 4:47 AMwaxingvoid Tue 8:38 AM – Tue 8:18 PM |
| Sep 27 | Wed | 58 | waxing |
| Sep 28 | Thu | 56 | trine Venus 10:08 AMwaxingvoid Thu 4:57 PM – Thu 8:17 PM |
| Sep 29 | Fri | 60 | trine Venus 10:08 AMwaningwaxing |
| Sep 30 | Sat | 44 | square Venus 4:06 PMtrine Venus 10:08 AMwaningvoid Sat 5:49 PM – Sat 9:18 PM |
How to read this
Void-of-course— after the Moon’s last exact aspect in a sign, before it enters the next. The classical read: finish things; don’t start them. Exact times are in the void calendar for September 2023. Mercury retrograde — the traditional caution for messages, deals, and signatures; station times to the second are in the retrograde dates. Waxing / waning — growing favors starts, thinning favors finishing. The applying aspect— the Moon’s next exact contact with this decision’s planet, easy angles helping, hard angles dragging. The full rulebook — which conventions Orrery follows and which it refuses — is in Method.
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