Ask / request — May 2024
The best days to ask for a raise in May 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 May 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 Wed, May 15, 6:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, May 17, 4:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1 | Wed | 42 | waning |
| May 2 | Thu | 35 | sextile Venus 10:21 PMwaningvoid Thu 5:28 AM – Thu 2:51 PM |
| May 3 | Fri | 42 | waning |
| May 4 | Sat | 41 | waningvoid Sat 3:06 PM – Sat 4:40 PM |
| May 5 | Sun | 42 | waning |
| May 6 | Mon | 28 | conjunction Venus 10:04 AMwaningvoid Mon 1:57 AM – Mon 5:42 PM |
| May 7 | Tue | 48 | conjunction Venus 10:04 AMwaning |
| May 8 | Wed | 56 | waxingvoid Wed 5:55 PM – Wed 7:20 PM |
| May 9 | Thu | 58 | waxing |
| May 10 | Fri | 56 | waxingvoid Fri 9:48 PM – Fri 11:13 PM |
| May 11 | Sat | 66 | sextile Venus 3:57 AMwaxing |
| May 12 | Sun | 59 | sextile Venus 3:57 AMwaxing |
| May 13 | Mon | 51 | square Venus 7:47 PMwaxingvoid Mon 5:12 AM – Mon 6:36 AM |
| May 14 | Tue | 51 | square Venus 7:47 PMwaxing |
| May 15 | Wed | 56 | trine Venus 3:15 PMwaxingvoid Wed 12:41 PM – Wed 5:32 PM |
| May 16 | Thu | 72 | trine Venus 3:15 PMwaxing |
| May 17 | Fri | 67 | trine Venus 3:15 PMwaxing |
| May 18 | Sat | 57 | waxingvoid Sat 5:08 AM – Sat 6:22 AM |
| May 19 | Sun | 46 | waxingvoid Sun 11:48 AM – Mon 6:34 PM |
| May 20 | Mon | 36 | opposition Venus 3:06 AMwaxingvoid Sun 11:48 AM – Mon 6:34 PM |
| May 21 | Tue | 46 | opposition Venus 3:06 AMwaxing |
| May 22 | Wed | 46 | opposition Venus 3:06 AMwaxing |
| May 23 | Thu | 46 | opposition Venus 3:06 AMwaningwaxingvoid Thu 3:27 AM – Thu 4:24 AM |
| May 24 | Fri | 42 | waning |
| May 25 | Sat | 41 | waningvoid Sat 10:47 AM – Sat 11:35 AM |
| May 26 | Sun | 42 | waning |
| May 27 | Mon | 46 | trine Venus 2:10 AMwaning |
| May 28 | Tue | 44 | trine Venus 2:10 AMwaning |
| May 29 | Wed | 31 | square Venus 10:43 AMwaningvoid Wed 10:19 AM – Wed 8:32 PM |
| May 30 | Thu | 38 | square Venus 10:43 AMwaning |
| May 31 | Fri | 41 | waningvoid Fri 10:54 PM – Fri 11:28 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 May 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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