Ask / request — February 2026
The best days to ask for a raise in February 2026.
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 February 2026, 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 Tue, Feb 17, 10:00 AM EST and holds until Wed, Feb 18, 4:00 AM EST, scoring 70.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1 | Sun | 42 | opposition Venus 4:55 AMwaningwaxing |
| Feb 2 | Mon | 34 | opposition Venus 4:55 AMwaningvoid Mon 5:55 PM – Mon 10:21 PM |
| Feb 3 | Tue | 42 | waning |
| Feb 4 | Wed | 42 | waning |
| Feb 5 | Thu | 51 | trine Venus 6:59 AMwaningvoid Thu 2:49 AM – Thu 4:32 AM |
| Feb 6 | Fri | 56 | trine Venus 6:59 AMwaning |
| Feb 7 | Sat | 35 | square Venus 2:00 AMtrine Venus 6:59 AMwaningvoid Sat 6:59 AM – Sat 2:13 PM |
| Feb 8 | Sun | 34 | square Venus 2:00 AMwaning |
| Feb 9 | Mon | 34 | square Venus 2:00 AMwaning |
| Feb 10 | Tue | 41 | square Venus 2:00 AMwaning |
| Feb 11 | Wed | 42 | waning |
| Feb 12 | Thu | 44 | sextile Venus 9:22 PMwaning |
| Feb 13 | Fri | 42 | waning |
| Feb 14 | Sat | 39 | waningvoid Sat 8:31 PM – Sun 1:16 AM |
| Feb 15 | Sun | 40 | waningvoid Sat 8:31 PM – Sun 1:16 AM |
| Feb 16 | Mon | 42 | waning |
| Feb 17 | Tue | 58 | conjunction Venus 3:01 AMwaningwaxingvoid Tue 7:01 AM – Tue 9:09 AM |
| Feb 18 | Wed | 60 | conjunction Venus 3:01 AMwaxing |
| Feb 19 | Thu | 54 | waxingvoid Thu 10:22 AM – Thu 2:39 PM |
| Feb 20 | Fri | 58 | waxing |
| Feb 21 | Sat | 47 | sextile Venus 9:31 PMwaxingvoid Sat 6:11 AM – Sat 6:30 PM |
| Feb 22 | Sun | 65 | sextile Venus 9:31 PMwaxing |
| Feb 23 | Mon | 53 | square Venus 5:10 AMwaxingvoid Mon 5:28 PM – Mon 9:28 PM |
| Feb 24 | Tue | 50 | square Venus 5:10 AMwaxing |
| Feb 25 | Wed | 51 | square Venus 5:10 AMwaxingvoid Wed 6:00 PM – Thu 12:11 AM |
| Feb 26 | Thu | 54 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 12:59 PMwaxingvoid Wed 6:00 PM – Thu 12:11 AM |
| Feb 27 | Fri | 48 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 12:59 PMwaxing |
| Feb 28 | Sat | 36 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Fri 11:21 PM – Sat 3:16 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 February 2026. 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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