When is the best day to ask for a raise in October 2026?

The month's best stretch opens Sun, Oct 11, 12:00 PM EDT and holds until Mon, Oct 12, 1:00 AM EDT, scoring 70 against a base of 50, computed in America/New York (Eastern Time). Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

How are these scores computed?

Every hour is rated on four factors — the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon's phase, and its next applying aspect for this kind of decision — then averaged per local day under a versioned config. These pages stop there, because a page has no location; the app adds a fifth factor, the Moon's house, once it knows where you are, which is what lets it name an hour rather than a day. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

What does void-of-course mean?

The Moon has made its last exact aspect in a sign and is coasting until it enters the next. The classical read: finish things, don't start them.

Ask / request — October 2026

The best days to ask for a raise in October 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 October 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 Sun, Oct 11, 12:00 PM EDT and holds until Mon, Oct 12, 1:00 AM EDT, 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
Oct 1	Thu	41	waningvoid Thu 10:41 PM – Fri 3:54 PM
Oct 2	Fri	30	trine Venus 6:15 AMwaningvoid Thu 10:41 PM – Fri 3:54 PM
Oct 3	Sat	34	trine Venus 6:15 AMwaningvoid Sat 11:08 AM – Sun 6:54 PM
Oct 4	Sun	21	square Venus 9:19 AMwaningvoid Sat 11:08 AM – Sun 6:54 PM
Oct 5	Mon	39	square Venus 9:19 AMwaning
Oct 6	Tue	26	sextile Venus 1:08 PMwaningvoid Tue 6:22 AM – Tue 10:52 PM
Oct 7	Wed	37	sextile Venus 1:08 PMwaningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM
Oct 8	Thu	17	waningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM
Oct 9	Fri	37	waningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM
Oct 10	Sat	46	waningwaxingvoid Sat 7:07 PM – Sun 11:21 AM
Oct 11	Sun	52	conjunction Venus 12:26 AMwaxingvoid Sat 7:07 PM – Sun 11:21 AM
Oct 12	Mon	58	conjunction Venus 12:26 AMwaxing
Oct 13	Tue	41	waxingvoid Tue 4:45 AM – Tue 8:59 PM
Oct 14	Wed	58	waxing
Oct 15	Thu	52	waxingvoid Thu 5:55 PM – Fri 8:57 AM
Oct 16	Fri	52	sextile Venus 6:51 PMwaxingvoid Thu 5:55 PM – Fri 8:57 AM
Oct 17	Sat	58	waxing
Oct 18	Sun	48	square Venus 4:52 AMwaxingvoid Sun 12:12 PM – Sun 9:39 PM
Oct 19	Mon	56	square Venus 4:52 AMwaxing
Oct 20	Tue	58	waxing
Oct 21	Wed	56	trine Venus 12:51 PMwaxingvoid Wed 4:42 AM – Wed 8:35 AM
Oct 22	Thu	58	waxing
Oct 23	Fri	37	opposition Venus 6:59 PMwaxingvoid Thu 11:31 PM – Fri 3:53 PM
Oct 24	Sat	31	Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 6:59 PMwaxing
Oct 25	Sun	29	Mercury retrogradeopposition Venus 6:59 PMwaxingvoid Sun 6:59 PM – Sun 7:34 PM
Oct 26	Mon	25	Mercury retrogradewaningwaxing
Oct 27	Tue	14	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 5:43 PMwaningvoid Tue 10:51 AM – Tue 9:01 PM
Oct 28	Wed	38	Mercury retrogradetrine Venus 5:43 PMwaning
Oct 29	Thu	29	Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 5:59 PMtrine Venus 5:43 PMwaningvoid Thu 5:43 PM – Thu 10:05 PM
Oct 30	Fri	16	Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 5:59 PMwaning
Oct 31	Sat	12	Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 5:59 PMwaningvoid Sat 5:59 PM – Sun 12:18 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 October 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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