When is the best day to ask for a raise in December 2024?

The month's best stretch opens Sun, Dec 22, 3:00 PM EST and holds until Tue, Dec 24, 6:00 AM EST, scoring 56 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 2024

The best days to ask for a raise in December 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 December 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 Sun, Dec 22, 3:00 PM EST and holds until Tue, Dec 24, 6:00 AM EST, scoring 56.

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	Sun	39	Mercury retrogradewaningwaxing
Dec 2	Mon	37	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 6:34 PMwaxingvoid Mon 10:47 AM – Mon 4:09 PM
Dec 3	Tue	52	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 6:34 PMwaxing
Dec 4	Wed	44	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 6:34 PMwaxingvoid Wed 6:34 PM – Wed 11:21 PM
Dec 5	Thu	40	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 6	Fri	36	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Fri 7:01 PM – Sat 4:48 AM
Dec 7	Sat	35	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Fri 7:01 PM – Sat 4:48 AM
Dec 8	Sun	40	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 9	Mon	36	Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 1:32 PMwaxingvoid Mon 3:44 AM – Mon 8:37 AM
Dec 10	Tue	34	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Tue 5:13 PM – Wed 10:54 AM
Dec 11	Wed	25	Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 8:01 PMwaxingvoid Tue 5:13 PM – Wed 10:54 AM
Dec 12	Thu	40	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 13	Fri	41	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 1:39 AMwaxingvoid Fri 7:39 AM – Fri 12:21 PM
Dec 14	Sat	41	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 1:39 AMwaxing
Dec 15	Sun	28	Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Sun 9:31 AM – Sun 2:21 PM
Dec 16	Mon	42	waning
Dec 17	Tue	34	opposition Venus 7:10 PMwaningvoid Tue 1:33 PM – Tue 6:39 PM
Dec 18	Wed	32	opposition Venus 7:10 PMwaning
Dec 19	Thu	42	waning
Dec 20	Fri	40	waningvoid Fri 12:19 AM – Fri 2:36 AM
Dec 21	Sat	42	waning
Dec 22	Sun	41	trine Venus 5:43 AMwaningvoid Sun 8:27 AM – Sun 2:07 PM
Dec 23	Mon	56	trine Venus 5:43 AMwaning
Dec 24	Tue	27	trine Venus 5:43 AMwaningvoid Tue 5:43 AM – Wed 3:06 AM
Dec 25	Wed	31	square Venus 12:08 AMwaningvoid Tue 5:43 AM – Wed 3:06 AM
Dec 26	Thu	34	square Venus 12:08 AMwaning
Dec 27	Fri	39	sextile Venus 3:03 PMsquare Venus 12:08 AMwaningvoid Fri 9:23 AM – Fri 2:46 PM
Dec 28	Sat	50	sextile Venus 3:03 PMwaning
Dec 29	Sun	42	sextile Venus 3:03 PMwaningvoid Sun 6:34 PM – Sun 11:37 PM
Dec 30	Mon	46	waningwaxing
Dec 31	Tue	58	waxing

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 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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