Ask / request — January 2024
The best days to ask for a raise in January 2024.
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 January 2024, 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 Tue, Jan 16, 12:00 AM EST and holds until Wed, Jan 17, 4:00 PM EST, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | Mon | 25 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Jan 2 | Tue | 42 | sextile Venus 7:15 AMwaningvoid Tue 6:36 PM – Tue 7:46 PM |
| Jan 3 | Wed | 45 | sextile Venus 7:15 AMwaning |
| Jan 4 | Thu | 42 | waning |
| Jan 5 | Fri | 41 | waningvoid Fri 6:40 AM – Fri 7:39 AM |
| Jan 6 | Sat | 42 | waning |
| Jan 7 | Sun | 44 | conjunction Venus 1:44 PMwaningvoid Sun 3:22 PM – Sun 4:08 PM |
| Jan 8 | Mon | 49 | conjunction Venus 1:44 PMwaning |
| Jan 9 | Tue | 35 | waningvoid Tue 1:24 PM – Tue 8:33 PM |
| Jan 10 | Wed | 42 | waning |
| Jan 11 | Thu | 53 | sextile Venus 2:31 AMwaningwaxingvoid Thu 9:33 PM – Thu 10:01 PM |
| Jan 12 | Fri | 66 | sextile Venus 2:31 AMwaxing |
| Jan 13 | Sat | 40 | sextile Venus 2:31 AMsquare Venus 7:47 AMwaxingvoid Sat 4:58 AM – Sat 10:29 PM |
| Jan 14 | Sun | 50 | square Venus 7:47 AMwaxing |
| Jan 15 | Mon | 55 | square Venus 7:47 AMwaxing |
| Jan 16 | Tue | 72 | trine Venus 3:22 PMwaxing |
| Jan 17 | Wed | 67 | trine Venus 3:22 PMwaxing |
| Jan 18 | Thu | 58 | waxing |
| Jan 19 | Fri | 58 | waxing |
| Jan 20 | Sat | 50 | opposition Venus 3:39 PMwaxing |
| Jan 21 | Sun | 46 | opposition Venus 3:39 PMwaxing |
| Jan 22 | Mon | 49 | opposition Venus 3:39 PMwaxingvoid Mon 3:39 PM – Mon 4:50 PM |
| Jan 23 | Tue | 58 | waxing |
| Jan 24 | Wed | 52 | waxingvoid Wed 5:58 PM – Thu 2:36 AM |
| Jan 25 | Thu | 48 | waningwaxingvoid Wed 5:58 PM – Thu 2:36 AM |
| Jan 26 | Fri | 35 | waningvoid Fri 4:19 PM – Sat 2:11 PM |
| Jan 27 | Sat | 32 | trine Venus 2:28 AMwaningvoid Fri 4:19 PM – Sat 2:11 PM |
| Jan 28 | Sun | 44 | trine Venus 2:28 AMwaning |
| Jan 29 | Mon | 37 | waningvoid Mon 6:19 PM – Tue 3:04 AM |
| Jan 30 | Tue | 32 | square Venus 10:33 PMwaningvoid Mon 6:19 PM – Tue 3:04 AM |
| Jan 31 | Wed | 42 | waning |
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 January 2024. 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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