Ask / request — April 2025
The best days to ask for a raise in April 2025.
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 April 2025, 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, Apr 27, 4:00 PM EDT and holds until Tue, Apr 29, 2:00 AM EDT, scoring 66.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1 | Tue | 39 | Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 11:54 AMsquare Venus 12:36 PMwaxingvoid Tue 1:42 PM – Tue 4:25 PM |
| Apr 2 | Wed | 32 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 12:36 PMwaxing |
| Apr 3 | Thu | 34 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 12:36 PMtrine Venus 4:35 PMwaxingvoid Thu 2:26 PM – Thu 6:50 PM |
| Apr 4 | Fri | 54 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 4:35 PMwaxing |
| Apr 5 | Sat | 45 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 4:35 PMwaxingvoid Sat 6:54 PM – Sun 12:34 AM |
| Apr 6 | Sun | 39 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Sat 6:54 PM – Sun 12:34 AM |
| Apr 7 | Mon | 52 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Apr 8 | Tue | 42 | opposition Venus 10:38 AMwaxingvoid Tue 12:08 AM – Tue 9:39 AM |
| Apr 9 | Wed | 46 | opposition Venus 10:38 AMwaxing |
| Apr 10 | Thu | 46 | opposition Venus 10:38 AMwaxingvoid Thu 3:48 PM – Thu 9:11 PM |
| Apr 11 | Fri | 58 | waxing |
| Apr 12 | Sat | 56 | waningwaxing |
| Apr 13 | Sun | 47 | trine Venus 12:03 PMwaningvoid Sun 6:00 AM – Sun 9:54 AM |
| Apr 14 | Mon | 56 | trine Venus 12:03 PMwaning |
| Apr 15 | Tue | 49 | square Venus 12:40 AMtrine Venus 12:03 PMwaning |
| Apr 16 | Wed | 34 | square Venus 12:40 AMwaning |
| Apr 17 | Thu | 34 | square Venus 12:40 AMwaning |
| Apr 18 | Fri | 43 | sextile Venus 11:23 AMsquare Venus 12:40 AMwaningvoid Fri 7:37 AM – Fri 10:12 AM |
| Apr 19 | Sat | 50 | sextile Venus 11:23 AMwaning |
| Apr 20 | Sun | 40 | sextile Venus 11:23 AMwaningvoid Sun 1:20 PM – Sun 7:21 PM |
| Apr 21 | Mon | 42 | waning |
| Apr 22 | Tue | 36 | waningvoid Tue 5:55 PM – Wed 1:06 AM |
| Apr 23 | Wed | 51 | conjunction Venus 10:57 PMwaningvoid Tue 5:55 PM – Wed 1:06 AM |
| Apr 24 | Thu | 52 | conjunction Venus 10:57 PMwaningvoid Thu 10:57 PM – Fri 3:23 AM |
| Apr 25 | Fri | 38 | waningvoid Thu 10:57 PM – Fri 3:23 AM |
| Apr 26 | Sat | 31 | waningvoid Sat 12:18 PM – Sun 3:16 AM |
| Apr 27 | Sun | 50 | sextile Venus 1:17 AMwaningwaxingvoid Sat 12:18 PM – Sun 3:16 AM |
| Apr 28 | Mon | 66 | sextile Venus 1:17 AMwaxing |
| Apr 29 | Tue | 58 | sextile Venus 1:17 AMwaxingvoid Tue 1:17 AM – Tue 2:34 AM |
| Apr 30 | Wed | 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 April 2025. 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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