Ask / request — October 2023
The best days to ask for a raise in October 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 October 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 Thu, Oct 19, 10:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, Oct 20, 5:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 | Sun | 34 | square Venus 4:06 PMwaning |
| Oct 2 | Mon | 34 | square Venus 4:06 PMwaningvoid Mon 9:19 PM – Tue 1:03 AM |
| Oct 3 | Tue | 47 | sextile Venus 2:34 AMwaningvoid Mon 9:19 PM – Tue 1:03 AM |
| Oct 4 | Wed | 50 | sextile Venus 2:34 AMwaning |
| Oct 5 | Thu | 37 | sextile Venus 2:34 AMwaningvoid Thu 2:34 AM – Thu 8:31 AM |
| Oct 6 | Fri | 42 | waning |
| Oct 7 | Sat | 38 | waningvoid Sat 3:11 PM – Sat 7:24 PM |
| Oct 8 | Sun | 42 | waning |
| Oct 9 | Mon | 42 | waning |
| Oct 10 | Tue | 40 | conjunction Venus 10:45 AMwaningvoid Tue 5:36 AM – Tue 8:01 AM |
| Oct 11 | Wed | 42 | waning |
| Oct 12 | Thu | 38 | waningvoid Thu 4:10 PM – Thu 8:22 PM |
| Oct 13 | Fri | 42 | waning |
| Oct 14 | Sat | 49 | waningwaxing |
| Oct 15 | Sun | 58 | sextile Venus 6:50 PMwaxingvoid Sun 3:01 AM – Sun 7:04 AM |
| Oct 16 | Mon | 58 | waxing |
| Oct 17 | Tue | 51 | square Venus 7:15 AMwaxingvoid Tue 11:43 AM – Tue 3:36 PM |
| Oct 18 | Wed | 55 | square Venus 7:15 AMwaxing |
| Oct 19 | Thu | 53 | trine Venus 4:59 PMwaxingvoid Thu 3:02 PM – Thu 9:54 PM |
| Oct 20 | Fri | 68 | trine Venus 4:59 PMwaxing |
| Oct 21 | Sat | 58 | waxing |
| Oct 22 | Sun | 58 | waxing |
| Oct 23 | Mon | 50 | waxingvoid Mon 3:04 PM – Tue 4:32 AM |
| Oct 24 | Tue | 43 | opposition Venus 5:51 AMwaxingvoid Mon 3:04 PM – Tue 4:32 AM |
| Oct 25 | Wed | 55 | opposition Venus 5:51 AMwaxing |
| Oct 26 | Thu | 54 | waxingvoid Thu 2:39 AM – Thu 6:01 AM |
| Oct 27 | Fri | 58 | waxing |
| Oct 28 | Sat | 60 | trine Venus 5:32 PMwaningwaxingvoid Sat 4:19 AM – Sat 7:44 AM |
| Oct 29 | Sun | 52 | trine Venus 5:32 PMwaning |
| Oct 30 | Mon | 34 | square Venus 3:25 AMwaningvoid Mon 7:35 AM – Mon 11:07 AM |
| Oct 31 | Tue | 34 | square Venus 3:25 AMwaning |
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 October 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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