Ask / request — March 2026
The best days to ask for a raise in March 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 March 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 Fri, Mar 27, 11:00 AM EDT and holds until Sun, Mar 29, 2:00 PM EDT, scoring 72.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1 | Sun | 40 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Mar 2 | Mon | 32 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 9:41 AMwaxing |
| Mar 3 | Tue | 17 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 9:41 AMwaningwaxing |
| Mar 4 | Wed | 15 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 9:41 AMwaningvoid Wed 9:53 AM – Wed 1:55 PM |
| Mar 5 | Thu | 19 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Thu 6:22 PM – Fri 11:01 PM |
| Mar 6 | Fri | 0 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Thu 6:22 PM – Fri 11:01 PM |
| Mar 7 | Sat | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Mar 8 | Sun | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Mar 9 | Mon | 25 | Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 8:34 PMwaningvoid Mon 7:28 AM – Mon 11:36 AM |
| Mar 10 | Tue | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Mar 11 | Wed | 5 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Wed 5:38 AM – Thu 12:07 AM |
| Mar 12 | Thu | 18 | Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 3:58 PMwaningvoid Wed 5:38 AM – Thu 12:07 AM |
| Mar 13 | Fri | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Mar 14 | Sat | 24 | Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 8:42 AMwaningvoid Sat 7:33 AM – Sat 11:13 AM |
| Mar 15 | Sun | 27 | Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 8:42 AMwaning |
| Mar 16 | Mon | 20 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Mon 3:56 PM – Mon 7:15 PM |
| Mar 17 | Tue | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Mar 18 | Wed | 23 | Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Wed 9:23 PM – Thu 12:02 AM |
| Mar 19 | Thu | 50 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 5:23 AMwaxingvoid Wed 9:23 PM – Thu 12:02 AM |
| Mar 20 | Fri | 30 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 5:23 AMwaxingvoid Fri 5:23 AM – Sat 2:35 AM |
| Mar 21 | Sat | 55 | waxingvoid Fri 5:23 AM – Sat 2:35 AM |
| Mar 22 | Sun | 58 | waxing |
| Mar 23 | Mon | 61 | sextile Venus 6:37 PMwaxingvoid Mon 1:39 AM – Mon 4:18 AM |
| Mar 24 | Tue | 59 | sextile Venus 6:37 PMwaxingvoid Tue 6:37 PM – Wed 6:32 AM |
| Mar 25 | Wed | 45 | square Venus 2:53 AMwaxingvoid Tue 6:37 PM – Wed 6:32 AM |
| Mar 26 | Thu | 50 | square Venus 2:53 AMwaxing |
| Mar 27 | Fri | 61 | square Venus 2:53 AMtrine Venus 1:27 PMwaxingvoid Fri 7:40 AM – Fri 10:10 AM |
| Mar 28 | Sat | 72 | trine Venus 1:27 PMwaxing |
| Mar 29 | Sun | 64 | trine Venus 1:27 PMwaxingvoid Sun 1:27 PM – Sun 3:33 PM |
| Mar 30 | Mon | 58 | waxing |
| Mar 31 | Tue | 56 | waxingvoid Tue 8:31 PM – Tue 10:50 PM |
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 March 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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