Ask / request — August 2024
The best days to ask for a raise in August 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 August 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 Thu, Aug 15, 2:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, Aug 16, 4:00 PM EDT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1 | Thu | 42 | waning |
| Aug 2 | Fri | 42 | waning |
| Aug 3 | Sat | 41 | waningvoid Sat 6:31 AM – Sat 7:09 AM |
| Aug 4 | Sun | 53 | waningwaxing |
| Aug 5 | Mon | 36 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 7:24 PMwaxingvoid Mon 11:16 AM – Mon 5:16 PM |
| Aug 6 | Tue | 40 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Aug 7 | Wed | 40 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Aug 8 | Thu | 39 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Thu 4:40 AM – Thu 5:31 AM |
| Aug 9 | Fri | 34 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Fri 5:44 PM – Sat 6:33 PM |
| Aug 10 | Sat | 22 | Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 10:40 AMwaxingvoid Fri 5:44 PM – Sat 6:33 PM |
| Aug 11 | Sun | 44 | Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 10:40 AMwaxing |
| Aug 12 | Mon | 40 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Aug 13 | Tue | 33 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 3:33 AMwaxingvoid Tue 5:00 AM – Tue 6:00 AM |
| Aug 14 | Wed | 39 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 3:33 AMwaxing |
| Aug 15 | Thu | 45 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 3:08 PMwaxingvoid Thu 12:52 PM – Thu 1:51 PM |
| Aug 16 | Fri | 49 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 3:08 PMwaxing |
| Aug 17 | Sat | 39 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Sat 4:43 PM – Sat 5:44 PM |
| Aug 18 | Sun | 40 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Aug 19 | Mon | 27 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 2:43 AMwaningwaxingvoid Mon 2:25 PM – Mon 6:51 PM |
| Aug 20 | Tue | 12 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 2:43 AMwaning |
| Aug 21 | Wed | 20 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 2:43 AMwaningvoid Wed 5:53 PM – Wed 7:01 PM |
| Aug 22 | Thu | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Aug 23 | Fri | 13 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 3:03 PMwaningvoid Fri 8:44 AM – Fri 8:00 PM |
| Aug 24 | Sat | 38 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 3:03 PMwaning |
| Aug 25 | Sun | 31 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 3:03 PMwaningvoid Sun 9:40 PM – Sun 11:03 PM |
| Aug 26 | Mon | 16 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 1:50 AMwaning |
| Aug 27 | Tue | 16 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 1:50 AMwaning |
| Aug 28 | Wed | 27 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 1:50 AMwaningvoid Wed 3:13 AM – Wed 4:47 AM |
| Aug 29 | Thu | 42 | waning |
| Aug 30 | Fri | 41 | sextile Venus 4:10 PMwaningvoid Fri 11:24 AM – Fri 1:09 PM |
| Aug 31 | Sat | 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 August 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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