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Ask / request — December 2025

The best days to ask for a raise in December 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.

This month has passed. The current month is ask for a raise in September 2026.

You’ve got the raise on the calendar. Here is December 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 Mon, Dec 29, 7:00 AM EST and holds until Mon, Dec 29, 7:00 PM EST, scoring 72.

Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

DateDayScoreThe computed sky
Dec 1Mon49waxingvoid Mon 1:14 PM – Mon 10:12 PM
Dec 2Tue58waxing
Dec 3Wed56opposition Venus 4:49 AMwaxingvoid Wed 8:50 PM – Wed 9:48 PM
Dec 4Thu52opposition Venus 4:49 AMwaningwaxing
Dec 5Fri41waningvoid Fri 7:55 PM – Fri 8:54 PM
Dec 6Sat42waning
Dec 7Sun42trine Venus 2:55 PMwaningvoid Sun 8:44 PM – Sun 9:48 PM
Dec 8Mon51trine Venus 2:55 PMwaning
Dec 9Tue42waning
Dec 10Wed32square Venus 2:46 AMwaningvoid Tue 11:56 PM – Wed 2:20 AM
Dec 11Thu41square Venus 2:46 AMwaning
Dec 12Fri44sextile Venus 7:53 PMwaningvoid Fri 9:50 AM – Fri 11:04 AM
Dec 13Sat49sextile Venus 7:53 PMwaning
Dec 14Sun42waning
Dec 15Mon42waning
Dec 16Tue42waning
Dec 17Wed47conjunction Venus 11:18 AMwaningvoid Wed 10:24 AM – Wed 11:38 AM
Dec 18Thu54conjunction Venus 11:18 AMwaning
Dec 19Fri49conjunction Venus 11:18 AMwaningwaxingvoid Fri 10:40 PM – Fri 11:52 PM
Dec 20Sat58waxing
Dec 21Sun58waxing
Dec 22Mon57waxingvoid Mon 9:43 AM – Mon 10:51 AM
Dec 23Tue58waxing
Dec 24Wed54sextile Venus 9:05 PMwaxingvoid Wed 4:41 PM – Wed 8:08 PM
Dec 25Thu58waxing
Dec 26Fri58waxing
Dec 27Sat55square Venus 9:33 AMwaxingvoid Sat 2:03 AM – Sat 3:01 AM
Dec 28Sun56waxingvoid Sun 9:13 PM – Mon 6:57 AM
Dec 29Mon58trine Venus 6:03 PMwaxingvoid Sun 9:13 PM – Mon 6:57 AM
Dec 30Tue58waxing
Dec 31Wed57waxingvoid Wed 7:24 AM – Wed 8:13 AM

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 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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