Ask / request — May 2026
The best days to ask for a raise in May 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 May 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 Wed, May 27, 9:00 PM EDT and holds until Thu, May 28, 9:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1 | Fri | 51 | waningwaxing |
| May 2 | Sat | 22 | waningvoid Sat 4:47 AM – Sun 2:33 AM |
| May 3 | Sun | 28 | opposition Venus 3:16 AMwaningvoid Sat 4:47 AM – Sun 2:33 AM |
| May 4 | Mon | 34 | opposition Venus 3:16 AMwaningvoid Mon 5:33 PM – Tue 3:06 PM |
| May 5 | Tue | 25 | waningvoid Mon 5:33 PM – Tue 3:06 PM |
| May 6 | Wed | 42 | waning |
| May 7 | Thu | 28 | waningvoid Thu 10:18 AM – Fri 3:27 AM |
| May 8 | Fri | 50 | trine Venus 4:39 PMwaningvoid Thu 10:18 AM – Fri 3:27 AM |
| May 9 | Sat | 52 | trine Venus 4:39 PMwaning |
| May 10 | Sun | 26 | square Venus 6:04 AMwaningvoid Sun 1:08 AM – Sun 1:39 PM |
| May 11 | Mon | 34 | square Venus 6:04 AMwaning |
| May 12 | Tue | 26 | sextile Venus 2:06 PMsquare Venus 6:04 AMwaningvoid Tue 6:04 AM – Tue 8:03 PM |
| May 13 | Wed | 50 | sextile Venus 2:06 PMwaning |
| May 14 | Thu | 42 | sextile Venus 2:06 PMwaningvoid Thu 5:32 PM – Thu 10:31 PM |
| May 15 | Fri | 42 | waning |
| May 16 | Sat | 46 | waningwaxingvoid Sat 9:02 PM – Sat 10:22 PM |
| May 17 | Sun | 50 | waxingvoid Sun 3:35 PM – Mon 9:46 PM |
| May 18 | Mon | 35 | waxingvoid Sun 3:35 PM – Mon 9:46 PM |
| May 19 | Tue | 58 | waxing |
| May 20 | Wed | 44 | waxingvoid Wed 9:26 AM – Wed 10:47 PM |
| May 21 | Thu | 53 | waxingvoid Thu 6:05 PM – Sat 2:57 AM |
| May 22 | Fri | 33 | waxingvoid Thu 6:05 PM – Sat 2:57 AM |
| May 23 | Sat | 59 | sextile Venus 1:00 PMwaxingvoid Thu 6:05 PM – Sat 2:57 AM |
| May 24 | Sun | 55 | waxingvoid Sun 8:54 PM – Mon 10:34 AM |
| May 25 | Mon | 42 | square Venus 3:08 AMwaxingvoid Sun 8:54 PM – Mon 10:34 AM |
| May 26 | Tue | 57 | square Venus 3:08 AMwaxing |
| May 27 | Wed | 46 | trine Venus 8:25 PMwaxingvoid Wed 7:32 AM – Wed 8:52 PM |
| May 28 | Thu | 70 | trine Venus 8:25 PMwaxing |
| May 29 | Fri | 55 | waxingvoid Fri 8:04 PM – Sat 8:44 AM |
| May 30 | Sat | 49 | waxingvoid Fri 8:04 PM – Sat 8:44 AM |
| May 31 | Sun | 31 | waningwaxingvoid Sun 9:21 AM – Mon 9:19 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 May 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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