When is the best day to ask for a raise in December 2023?

The month's best stretch opens Sun, Dec 17, 3:00 PM EST and holds until Mon, Dec 18, 8:00 PM EST, scoring 54 against a base of 50, computed in America/New York (Eastern Time). Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

How are these scores computed?

Every hour is rated on four factors — the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon's phase, and its next applying aspect for this kind of decision — then averaged per local day under a versioned config. These pages stop there, because a page has no location; the app adds a fifth factor, the Moon's house, once it knows where you are, which is what lets it name an hour rather than a day. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

What does void-of-course mean?

The Moon has made its last exact aspect in a sign and is coasting until it enters the next. The classical read: finish things, don't start them.

Ask / request — December 2023

The best days to ask for a raise in December 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 December 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 Sun, Dec 17, 3:00 PM EST and holds until Mon, Dec 18, 8:00 PM EST, scoring 54.

Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

Date	Day	Score	The computed sky
Dec 1	Fri	42	sextile Venus 9:11 PMsquare Venus 3:08 AMwaningvoid Fri 8:06 AM – Fri 11:00 AM
Dec 2	Sat	50	sextile Venus 9:11 PMwaning
Dec 3	Sun	48	sextile Venus 9:11 PMwaningvoid Sun 9:11 PM – Sun 10:50 PM
Dec 4	Mon	42	waning
Dec 5	Tue	42	waning
Dec 6	Wed	39	waningvoid Wed 8:50 AM – Wed 11:34 AM
Dec 7	Thu	42	waning
Dec 8	Fri	40	conjunction Venus 9:23 AMwaningvoid Fri 8:05 PM – Fri 10:34 PM
Dec 9	Sat	47	conjunction Venus 9:23 AMwaning
Dec 10	Sun	42	waning
Dec 11	Mon	39	waningvoid Mon 3:57 AM – Mon 6:10 AM
Dec 12	Tue	45	waningwaxing
Dec 13	Wed	37	Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 5:55 AMwaxingvoid Wed 1:48 AM – Wed 10:31 AM
Dec 14	Thu	42	Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 5:55 AMwaxing
Dec 15	Fri	35	Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 12:32 PMwaxingvoid Fri 11:03 AM – Fri 12:55 PM
Dec 16	Sat	36	Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 12:32 PMwaxing
Dec 17	Sun	38	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 7:29 PMwaxingvoid Sun 7:03 AM – Sun 2:58 PM
Dec 18	Mon	52	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 7:29 PMwaxing
Dec 19	Tue	39	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Tue 4:03 PM – Tue 5:46 PM
Dec 20	Wed	40	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 21	Thu	39	Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 2:03 PMwaxing
Dec 22	Fri	28	Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 2:03 PMwaxing
Dec 23	Sat	32	Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 2:03 PMwaxing
Dec 24	Sun	38	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Sun 1:39 AM – Sun 3:14 AM
Dec 25	Mon	40	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 26	Tue	37	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 5:12 PMwaningwaxingvoid Tue 2:55 AM – Tue 10:15 AM
Dec 27	Wed	38	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 5:12 PMwaning
Dec 28	Thu	32	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 5:12 PMwaningvoid Thu 5:57 PM – Thu 7:23 PM
Dec 29	Fri	24	Mercury retrogradewaning
Dec 30	Sat	24	Mercury retrogradewaning
Dec 31	Sun	16	Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 11:22 AMwaningvoid Sun 12:18 AM – Sun 6:53 AM

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 December 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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